{"id":39,"date":"2007-03-12T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T00:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=39"},"modified":"2007-03-13T00:21:10","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T06:21:10","slug":"the-growth-and-evolution-of-microformats-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"The Growth and Evolution of Microformats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, 12 March 2007 @ 1400<\/em><\/p>\n

Frances Berriman<\/a>, Volume<\/strong>
\nMichael Kaply<\/a>, IBM<\/strong> (backnetwork) (kaply.com\/weblog\/)
\nGlenn Jones<\/a>, Creative Dir<\/em>, Madgex<\/strong>
\nTantek \u00c7elik<\/a>, Chief Technologist<\/em>, Technorati<\/strong><\/p>\n

Microformats started at SXSW 2003 with xfn (the rel tag).
\nSite (http:\/\/microformats.org\/<\/a>) launched in 2005.<\/p>\n

Event sites have benefited greatly from microformats.
\nStanford has marked up everything with hcard and hcal.<\/p>\n

Firefox plug-in: Operator<\/strong> – exploits any found microformats on any page and connects them to upcoming.org, Google Calendar or Maps, etc. (This is so friggin’ cool!). Check out the debugging mode to peer into the DOM.<\/p>\n

backnetwork<\/p>\n

Tantek is folding his t-shirts during the presentation.<\/p>\n

Microformats do not have working groups like the W3C. The concern that this would lead to too many microformats has not happened. The process (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microformats) keeps this from happening.<\/p>\n

Microformats evolve in the real world of the web – describing real data rather than being prescribed.<\/p>\n

xmdp<\/a><\/p>\n

kitchen.technorati.com<\/a><\/p>\n

www.edgeio.com <\/a>– hosting\/aggregator for hlistings<\/p>\n

hcard crawler – alexa<\/a><\/p>\n

Who is Jeremy Keith<\/a> (guest panelist) (he later helped pay for free drinks for gobs of SXSWites at the Lava Lounge as part of the Boffins).<\/p>\n

Research:<\/p>\n