some time now, I’ve wanted to increase my understanding of microformats. If you’re unfamilar with the term or want to understand the basic purpose of this technology better, I suggest reading Phil Windley’s Microformats: Paving the Cowpaths. I read
Technorati has been a strong supporter of open microformats standards for quite some time. We launched the first implementation that indexes and searches posts tagged with rel-tag. We support XOXO for lists and outlines throughout the site, our member's f
Microformats are (officially) a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards that are designed for humans first and machines second. ...Microformats are about using the standards we all know and love to convey as much
So, what are you waiting for?The network effect tells us that the value of a technology increases the more it is used. Microformats are rapidly experiencing the benefits of this effect. Innovative publishers are publishing microformats, while innovative
microformats are, just as importantly, defined by what they are not: not a new language; not infinitely extensible and open-ended; not an attempt to get everyone to change their behavior and rewrite their tools; not a whole new approach that throw
Microformats are small and gentle syntactic touchups for your web pages.They have one major purpose: to make your data readable by both man and machine...The machine-readable-data (and thus the microformat) concept is not new; it has a very recent fo