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07 Jul 09

Google Search Options Supports RDFa And Microformats Including hReview, hCard And hProduct - KeywordIntent.com

  • Yesterday at the second Searchology event, Google announced the adoption of Microformats and RDFa, a structured format of data.  This is another game changer that search marketers need to be aware of.
23 Apr 08

Mahalo Adds Microformats - Sean Percival's Blog

  • At Mahalo we just rolled out rolled out Microformats for relevant search result pages. So what does this mean, and what are Microformats? Well, they are data classes that help machines and people identify and export information. Data such as contacts and address information is much easier to manage, search engines can also better catalog the info. Yes a little bit of the semantic web of tomorrow….today!
09 Apr 08

diso - Google Code

  • Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnected, and more distributed. Many of us in the web creation world are embracing and promoting web standards - both client-side and server-side. Microformats, standard apis, and open-source software are key building blocks of these technologies. This model can be described as having three sides/legs/arms/spokes - pick your connection: Information, Identity, and Interaction.

    DiSo (dee • zoh) is an umbrella project for a group of open source implementations of these distributed social networking concepts. or as Chris puts it: "to build a social network with its skin inside out".

    Our first target is Wordpress, bootstrapping on existing work and building out from there.

26 Mar 08

The Year Of Microformats - Yahoo! To Search The Semantic Web

  • Up until today only a few technologies supported certain standards, the Operator extension for Firefox supports microformats, as will Firefox 3 when it is released, but none of these are big enough or important enough for the mainstream. Adding semantics to a website is a lot of hard work if no-one is around to use it.
  • This is why Yahoo!’s announcement is so big. Now there are machines reading that data and using it and enriching the web with it, do you, as a developer or site owner, want to miss out on that? Yahoo!’s search is to use microformats initially, to improve their understanding of the data to return more relevant results (and, from the looks of their example with LinkedIn add more detail to their search results). So, will other search engines, I’m looking at Google and Microsoft here, want to miss out on the wealth of data that they aren’t collecting and Yahoo! is?
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Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry

  • What does all this mean? It means we can expect the web to get itself organized, in a hurry. At stake is a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo search, and anyone else that may choose to build applications on top of this data.
  • Yahoo’s support for semantic web standards like RDF and microformats is exactly the incentive websites need to adopt them. Instead of semantic silos scattered across the Web (think Twine), Yahoo will be pulling all the semantic information together when available, as a search engine should. Until now, there were few applications that demanded properly structured data from third parties. That changes today.

Microformats gain Yahoo’s support: New opps for e-publishers—and the P side, too

Yahoo to Begin Indexing Microformats [SearchEngineWatch]

  • Search Monkey will be the first use of structured data by Yahoo, but they could potentially be used to affect other parts of the search results or ranking algorithms in the future, according to Kumar. Yahoo will provide more details at an upcoming developer conference it's planning in the coming weeks.

Concerns Over Yahoo Search's New Microformats Support For Open Search

  • All very wonderful, right? Well, maybe not - as some SEOs and webmasters say. Their main concern is that by providing such a structured format of their content - content scrapers will need very little skill in stealing their content and repurposing it in a useful manner. SEOs and webmasters don't mind Yahoo getting this data from them, but they know that leaving this easy to use and structured format open to Yahoo will also give anyone else access to their data. Same issue with XML but this is even more fine tuned data, because webmasters can detail minute details about their content

Yahoo! Search Blog: The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem

  • A few weeks ago, we began talking about the new Yahoo! Search open platform. Today, we're releasing more details about two important components of the initiative -- the developer platform as well as our support of a number of semantic web standards.
  • By supporting semantic web standards, Yahoo! Search and site owners can bring a far richer and more useful search experience to consumers. For example, by marking up its profile pages with microformats, LinkedIn can allow Yahoo! Search and others to understand the semantic content and the relationships of the many components of its site. With a richer understanding of LinkedIn's structured data included in our index, we will be able to present users with more compelling and useful search results for their site. The benefit to LinkedIn is, of course, increased traffic quality and quantity from sites like Yahoo! Search that utilize its structured data.
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10 Mar 08

WebSlices can help popularize feed syndication « Jon Udell

  • WebSlices are something else again. They transform pieces of web pages into little feeds that you can subscribe to. For all its power and utility, feed syndication hasn’t yet really sunk into the consciousness of most people. I’m hoping that WebSlices, which are dead simple to create, will help bridge the gap.
  • I like this for a couple of reasons. First, because it will give microformats a big boost, and propel the data web forward. Second, because it will introduce many more people to the whole idea of subscribing to feeds. There’s a big conceptual barrier there that we haven’t yet brought most people across. I’m hoping that a new way of subscribing to a new kind of feed will also raise awareness about the old ways of subscribing to conventional feeds.
05 Feb 08

FOAF converter/editor/generator v0.3

  • Similar to the original FOAF-a-matic by Leigh Dodds, you can use this tool to comfortably batch convert an email address book, edit and manually add entries to compile them into a FOAF profile in 3 simple steps. Contacts can be imported as vCards and the LDIF file format. Most email clients can at least output one of these two.
23 Jan 08

MicroID - Small Decentralized Verifiable Identity

  • MicroID is a lightweight identity layer for the web, invented by Jeremie Miller (creator of Jabber). MicroID enables anyone to claim verifiable ownership over content hosted anywhere on the web (social networking sites, discussion forums, blogs, etc.). MicroID is not an authentication or single-sign-on service, just a straightforward method for identifying content ownership that complements existing technologies such as OpenID and microformats. The technology is radically simple and enables developers to build new and unique meta services with minimal effort. It's already being used by the likes of ClaimID, Last.fm, Ma.gnolia, Wikitravel, and Yedda.
22 Oct 07

Microformats vs. RDF: How Microformats Relate to the Semantic Web - Blog - Semantic Focus

  • Microformats are a wildly popular set of formats for embedding metadata within normal XHTML. The primary advantage Microformats offer over RDF (including its embedded serializations) is that you can embed metadata directly in the XHTML, reducing the amount of markup you need to write (e.g. you don't have to write XHTML and additional RDF). Many people have contended that Microformats are a possible replacement for RDF, however Microformats were not designed to cover the same scope as RDF was. While both Microformats and RDF make it possible to store data about data, they simply do not work to solve the same set of problems.
  • To me, Microformats are to RDF as HTML 5 is to XHTML; on the surface they both appear to be a solution to the same problem, but the former misses the point as to why the latter was created. On the very same about page I cited earlier there is a bullet point that suggests that Microformats will be part of the semantic web (note the lowercase letters, implying a semantic web, not the one envisioned by the W3C). I find that all competing Semantic Web development paths fall short of creating an entirely linked Semantic Web. The kind of Semantic Web that gives us a platform to stand on above the Web document layer. Microformats have their place, just not as a replacement to RDF.

From Microformats to RDF | Squio.blog

  • Bottom line: the semantic web has been lacking real world content for too long (not withstanding DBPedia and Freebase and such) and real world applications for the common man. Microformats can and will have a place in advocacy for this large target audience, people who grasp html and basic data constructs, but who are not interested in graph theory.
  • In the end it will just not matter, most content will be “good enough” to be useful for the semweb (through GRDDL transformations and screen scraping), just like today’s html is good enough to be rendered, in some way, in our web browsers. By that time we will have a load of other problems, like semantic spam, the need for provenance tracking and trust levels for semantic information. But that is another story…
03 Apr 07

Pulling in these decentralized standards « Put Together Quickly by Michael Biven

  • The thing is what has really got me thinking lately is a new “data” reader to support available microformats, attention data (APML) from feeds on remote sources and feeds created from local applications. Not only would you be able to pull in contacts or reviews from any rss feed, but if local applications were to create a local one for the information they store, then that could be easily pulled into this new “data” reader. These local apps could have native support or use some type of plug-in to create the feeds, and this would open up ways to better filter the information that we come in contact with.

» New members join the APML Workgroup | Office Evolution | ZDNet.com

  • As Chris wrote in his message, there is a undeniable need for a standard framework that gives us ownership and control over our Attention data. APML (Attention Profile Markup Language) is a significant undertaking to develop that framework.
  • I believe this is critical infrastructure work that needs to be supported. Having spent many years working in the info security world for an organization deeply immersed in standards development through the agency of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) working groups, I can attest to the benefits for end users and developers alike when open standards are developed and adopted to promote interoperability. We're all leaving these digital footprints and they quite obviously have value to companies that wish to track and target us. APML is an effort to put ownership and control of that data where it belongs.
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