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  • 1. Aggregation Sites
  • 2. Sharing Information with a Specific Community
  • 3. Targeted Search
  • Learning more about microformats



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  • The Web Browser as an Information Broker (Firefox 3?)


    Much in the same way that operating systems currently associate particular file types with specific applications, future Web browsers are likely going to associate semantically marked up data you encounter on the Web with specific applications, either on your system or online. This means the contact information you see on a Web site will be associated with your favorite contacts application, events will be associated with your favorite calendar application, locations will be associated with your favorite mapping application, phone numbers will be associated with your favorite VOIP application, etc.


    This is going to change the way we interact with data on the Web, and it’s something that I am going to be blogging about all this week, stay tuned.

  • Another possibility is these sites are marking up their content using microformats as a means of making the site itself an API.
  • That’s what microformats are, adding semantics to markup to take it from being machine readable to being machine understandable.
  • 1. Aggregation Sites
  • The combination of blogging and microformats is now reversing this model. Now, your information remains in your blog, and the Web sites come to you.
  • 2. Sharing Information with a Specific Community
  • 3. Targeted Search
  • 4. The Web Browser as an Information Broker (Firefox 3?)
  • future Web browsers are likely going to associate semantically marked up data you encounter on the Web with specific applications, either on your system or online.
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