Tantek Celik addresses a sea of laptops. Tantek Celik of Technorati and Microformats.org gave a presentation on open data formats for sharing personal contact information and calendar data. The best ...

Chris Messina advocates for an open Web. He works on the DiSo Project, is on the board of the OpenID Foundation, and helped create BarCamp. Last month, he joined the advisory board of Microsyntax.org.

Yahoo and Microsoft support microformats - what chance Google? At the Supernova workshops today, Yahoo! Local announced that it now supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats "on almost ...

The hCard is a one-to-one representation of the vCard in XHTML format. It is served to turn contact information into a semantically correct HTML, Atom, RSS or any arbitrary XML file. I won’t try to ...

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It's amazing what you can find bouncing around the Internet. I stumbled across microformats while looking for something else. Microformats are a way of embedding semantic information on a Web page.

Since /programmes first went live we've been working to ensure that programme data was accessible to people and machines alike. The API design was baked in at the application design stage. Similarly ...

Today at Searchology, Google has launched a search results enhancement called “rich snippets” that uses meta data from web pages (from microformats such as hCard, hCalendar, and RDF) to display ...

Les Microformats ont pour but d'améliorer la sémantique du code HTML, et en faciliter la lecture par les robots des moteurs de recherche, mais aussi par les humains Les Microformats 2 (ou µF 2) ont ...

One thing that always gets me and turns my world upside down and inside out, is when people talk about things as if they assume you know exactly what they are talking about. Ninety percent of the time ...