Monday 2pm - Growth of Microformats
An interesting talk about something I didn’t understand because it’s just too simple. I’ve always wondered: “Isn’t this just a pile of attributes on html elements?” and yes, that’s all it is. There’s nothing to understand, it’s that easy.
All that being said, it’s simply a way to publish information (that you already publish) in a machine readable way. Even if the data’s there you still need a client to handle it. Check out the”Operator” plugin for Firefox for some cool gadgets. If you run across a site with a hCalendar entry for an event the Operator plugin can toss that event over to google for you. It can also add contacts to various applications and with some help it could send someone’s number to your phone via bluetooth.
I’ll be adding my own hCard here soon.
Moderator: Tantek Çelik Chief Technologist, Technorati
Frances Berriman Volume
Michael Kaply IBM
Glenn Jones Creative Dir, Madgex
Tantek Çelik Chief Technologist, Technorati