To date, Yahoo! have definitely been the biggest champion of microformats among high profile large web companies. As commented here many times, they implement microformats in many of their properties, and their new SearchMonkey search platform even indexes microformatted content, and makes this index available to search application developers.
We’ve also seen quite some interest […]
In a similar vein to Optimus, and a number of other microformats parser is Cognition, by Toby Inkster. Congition goes beyond parsing just microformats -
Cognition is a parser for both “upper case Semantic Web” (RDF, RDFa) and “lower case semantic web” (microformats) technologies. It includes modules for exporting parsed data in a variety of […]
A short introduction to microformats at the Yahoo! Developer Network blog.
Yahoo! has shown significant interest in publishing (as detailed in my book) and now indexing microformatted content (to be discussed in an upcoming post). Here’s hoping they reap the benefits of their investment in them.
Wouldn’t it be nice if smart browsers could recognize addresses, dates, and other structured data on web pages, even when it’s not structured (like Apple’s Mail.app recognizes dates and times and provides an interface for doing things like adding them to a calendar).
Well, with monkeyformats, by Albert de Klein, that just got one step closer.
Monkeyformats […]
Hard on the heels of Yahoo!’s recent release of microformatted search results, human powered search engine Maholo has announced their support for microformats where relevant in search results.
There’s a detailed blog post by Sean Percival at Maholo, and quite a bit of coverage round the webs. Exciting stuff.
What excited me about this is by exposing […]
In a similar vein to Optimus, and a number of other microformats parser is Cognition, by Toby Inkster. Congition goes beyond parsing just microformats -
Cognition is a parser for both “upper case Semantic Web” (RDF, RDFa) and “lower case semantic web” (microformats) technologies. It includes modules for exporting parsed data in a variety of […]
Dmitry Baranovskiy has updated his marvelous Optimus microformats transformer to version 0.51
Optimus parses microformatted content from any page, and returns the content in JSON, XML or RSS, ready for your apps to consume. It also works as a debugger, letting you debug your microformats before publishing.
Optimus is available as a web service hosted right here […]
Here’s an interesting looking half hour presentation on Microformats by Mark Meeker, UI architecture at Orbitz.
Michael Kaply’s must have firefox extension, Operator has reached 0.9.
Get it while it’s hot!
According to Michael, this version features
Songbird support!
Fixes to make sure things work in Firefox 3
Menus no longer magically disappear on some pages
hCards supports nested menus to access actions (more logical than trying to use adr for multiple addresses)
adr is no longer on […]
Michael Kaply, developer of the excellent Firefox extension, Operator, has released version 0.9g, a release candidate for 0.9.
For those who don’t know Operator - it’s a toolbar which provides lots of functionality for extracting and viewing microformatted content on web pages.
A must have Firefox Extension.
My book on Microformats, out now, at Amazon at 33% off
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