Posts Tagged ‘microformats’
Microformats come to Mahalo…
The human-powered search engine, Mahalo, has now introduced microformats in their profile section.
Chris Miller has a good breakdown of microformats employed in Mahalo on his blog.
Now they’ve had a taste of the kool-aid from Tantek, I’m looking forward to seeing these creep a little more into the result pages in the future.
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I like it when things just work…
…like seeing the microformats toolbar pop-up when I’m reading a blog post by Jeremy Keith, delivered by RSS to my Bloglines.
Technorati tags: microformats, operator, bloglines, rss
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Monday Links – 2007-08-13
- Social Network Portability – [sooner rather than later I hope]
- A CSS Framework – [this looks really interesting]
- Accessibility & podcast transcription
- Planet Semantic Focus – coming soon
- Steve Jobs presentations style & Keynote 08
Technorati tags: css, microformats, semantic web, presentations
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microformats getting bigger?
As most of my developer mates will attest I’ve drunk deep the microformats Kool-aid. I sometimes feel like a voice in the wilderness, especially when I get asked by a non-developer, to point out big name that is using them.
Well no longer.
Enter stage-left Google! That’s right, the big G has now rolled out hCard support in Google Maps. This is great news for everyone, not just us enthusiasts, but, here’s the thing. They don’t seem to work correctly. At least not for me.
The Google post suggests using Operator or Tails, both of which I have in my Firefox but neither work in the most recent version of Flock. No biggy, as I just found LeftLogic’s bookmarklet but when I test Google Maps with it I got this (see image)
– rubbish.
Okay. Lets try the suggested add-ons in Firefox. The same. Nothing of value could be exported to Outlook.
Now my initial feeling is great disappointment. Is it the extensions; my browser set-up or did Google not code these as they should? I don’t know. But if it’s the latter this could be a great blow to the adoption of these. If Google can’t get it right why should we (smaller development companies) bother?
I’m hoping this is a glitch. I’ll try tomorrow and look for more examples on blogs etc. but with adoption of microformats directly into the browsers around the corner I hope that it is just me. I’m 100% behind microformats but I still feel a little lonely.
Technorati tags: microformats, google, hCard, problem, errors, outlook
Digging into the meta…
Blaise Aguera y Arcas displayed Seadragon at the TED Conference. You can watch the talk below. There are some great take aways from this including the demo of Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs.
One of the things that struck me about this after hearing him speak (I’d already seen a demo of Photosynth last year) was about the 5 min mark where he pulls the images from Flickr. Tie this in with the social tagging that is becoming abundant, the Ambient Findability that Peter Morville is envisioning, semacodes or qr codes and microformats you can start to see the way that content and the web in general will be heading in the next few years.
Though the true semantic web is a long way off (if it ever comes), the building blocks are starting to fall into place for us to play around with.
Accessing information through any device, anywhere and then being able to dive in, manipulate it and create something new – it truly is an exciting prospect.