Toolness » Blog Archive » A HTML Microformat for Open Badges
http://www.toolness.com/wp/2013/07/a-html-microformat-for-open-badges/
But what if a badge were just a Web page, formatted in a consistent way that made it easy for machines to read? What if issuing a badge was as easy as filling out a form, copying out a resulting HTML snippet and pasting it into your blog or website?
Toolness » Blog Archive » A HTML Microformat for Open Badges
http://www.toolness.com/wp/2013/07/a-html-microformat-for-open-badges
But what if a badge were just a Web page, formatted in a consistent way that made it easy for machines to read? What if issuing a badge was as easy as filling out a form, copying out a resulting HTML snippet and pasting it into your blog or website?
microformats 2 · Microformats Wiki
http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats-2
Microformats 2 improves ease of use and implementation for both authors (publishers) and developers (parser implementers)
Ident Engine
http://identengine.com
"Without much conscious thought, most of us have built identities across the web. We've filled in profiles, uploaded photos, videos, reviews and bookmarks. The Ident Engine uses semantic web API’s to bring together these web footprints."
getluky.net » A Warning About the Real Cost of Microformats
http://getluky.net/2009/01/08/a-warning-about-the-real-cost-of-microformats
"Anyway, here’s the question I want to put into the reader’s mind: should one spend time and effort making a frontend into an informal API through microformats, or to instead spend it on building a fully supported API or data publishing system that exists and operates separately? I think my stance is clear - i’m not against the theory of microformats, but i’m certainly going to differ with anyone who thinks it’s practical."
poshformats - Microformats
http://microformats.org/wiki/poshformats
haudio - Microformats
http://microformats.org/wiki/haudio
"hAudio is a simple, open, distributed format, suitable for embedding information about audio recordings in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML"
hCard for OpenID Simple Registration and Attribute Exchange | FactoryCity
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/11/01/hcard-for-openid-simple-registration-and-attribute-exchange
I've kinda wondered why OpenID didn't just allow for scanning a page served up at the identity URL for hCard and other microformats.
danwebb.net - Sumo! A Generic Microformats Parser For JavaScript
http://www.danwebb.net/2007/2/9/sumo-a-generic-microformats-parser-for-javascript
"a generic microformats parser for JavaScript. Yes, there are a few things about but they all tend to be tied to a single format and I wanted to build a framework that would allow any microformat to be defined using a JSON-like definition so it could be u
Viddler.com - Chris Messina talks about hAtomic - Uploaded by cdevroe
http://www.viddler.com/explore/cdevroe/videos/133
"Chris Messina of Citizen Agency explains a mashroom Web2Open project called hAtomic."
Scraping Well-Constructed Web Domains (Like Ficlets) | dev.aol.com
http://dev.aol.com/blog/kevinfarnham/2007/04/scraping-well-constructed-web-domains-like-ficlets
"Is there a Ficlets API? A Ficlets web service? No. Yet, the very construction of the pages creates an API, that can be queried and read, "scraped" if you will... But scraped with a difference."
Fear of XSLT | dev.aol.com
http://dev.aol.com/blog/kevinfarnham/2007/04/fear-of-xslt
"XSLT has always amazed me. And to see that it can be used to scrape Ficlets.com -- which indeed was intentionally designed to enable its web pages to be an API -- makes me realize that XSLT could become an incredibly valuable tool in the Web's future."
Mircoformats and portable social network
http://www.glennjones.net/Post/820/Mircoformatsandportablesocialnetwork.htm
"What we need is not only a way to prefill social networking information, but also to dynamically and automatically transfer data between systems."
Ma.gnolia Blog: JSON, HTML, and Microformats. Oh, My!
http://ma.gnolia.com/blog/2006/11/14/json-html-and-microformats-oh-my
"These feeds are bare-bones Microformatted html documents with support for looking at our bookmarks in several different ways: as plain bookmarks in xFolk, as blog entries in hAtom, as reviews in hReview, and as all of the above combined."
err.the_blog.find_by_title('Me and uFormats')
http://errtheblog.com/post/37
"Remember when everyone realized that HTTP was really good at what it did and since we already knew it, we should just use it and stop going crazy with proprietary / complex / lesser known protocols?"
Don’t Forget to Plant It! - Tails Scripts
http://blog.codeeg.com/tails-firefox-extension-03/tails-scripts
"A Tails Scripts is a piece of JavaScript that allows you to perform certain actions on the microformats found on a web page."
Don’t Forget to Plant It! - Tails Firefox Extension 0.3
http://blog.codeeg.com/tails-firefox-extension-03
"The Tails Firefox Extension allows you to view microformats embedded on a web page, and perform customizable actions on the microformats via Tails Scripts."
Apple embraces microformats in new .Mac webmail at FactoryCity
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/10/28/apple-embraces-microformats-in-new-mac-webmail
"Given the source code that I’ve been provided, I can confirm that Apple has indeed added support for hCard in .Mac webmail, though not without a few errors (notably the ‘n’ optmization)."
xfolk - Microformats
http://microformats.org/wiki/xfolk
"xFolk is a simple and open format for publishing collections of bookmarks. It better enables services for improving user experience and sharing data in web-based bookmarking software."
More Like This WebLog The State of Screen Scraping
http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/2006/08/08/the-state-of-screen-scraping
"During all this recent excitement about using hAtom to generate feeds, I’d forgotten that I wrote about the concept nearly three years ago when I was getting ready to talk about syndication at Seybold SF."
More Like This WebLog Sandbox and Strangelove: hAtom in Wordpress
http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/2006/08/07/sandbox-and-strangelove-hatom-in-wordpress
"I hung out in the back of the hall at Wordcamp, adding hAtom support to the default Wordpress theme."
Sandbox ‽ plaintxt.org
http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox
"The Sandbox is a theme for themers. It has the ability to be easily skinned... More experienced themers will drool at the rich semantic markup and profusion of classes, dynamically generated by a few functions."
Ruby/MicroformatParser - Labnotes
http://trac.labnotes.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/Ruby/MicroformatParser
"A Ruby library for creating parsers that can be used to extract microcontent from (X)HTML documents in a variety of microformats."
Tantek ‽elik and Rohit Khare: The Progress and the Promise of Microformats - Knowledge@Wharton
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1526&specialid=55
"You just see, "Oh, it's got a picture," "It's got a contact," "It's got an event," and those somehow indicate that you can copy and paste them as an entirety into another web site or another desktop application."
Inspirational Technology » Blog Archive » Microformats and Structured Blogging are not competitors
http://www.kstaken.com/archives/46_microformats-and-structured-blogging-are-not-competitors.html
"Tools and formats are not the same thing. These projects are fully in line with each other and both efforts are necessary."
Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog - Blog Archive We Now Support Microformats
http://ylocalblog.com/blog/2006/06/21/we-now-support-microformats
"Starting today, we're happy to announce Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews."
SimpleBits | Pairing Wine and Microformats
http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2006/06/10/wineformats.html
"don't let microformat markup (or semantically rich markup in general) scare you off from turning that structure into something visually attractive."
MicroContent Musings
http://www.sivas.com/microcontent/musings/blog/microformats_are_not_microcontent
"Frederick Giasson laments that microformats do not have an URI."
all in the head hCalendar in Endo
http://allinthehead.com/retro/288/hcalendar-in-endo
"Endo has built in support for the hCalendar microformat for marking up events."
JasonKolb.com: Cutting Out the Middleware
http://jasonkolb.typepad.com/weblog/2006/05/cutting_out_the.html
"The Live Clipboard vision gives users the ability to transfer data without having to rely on software."
Alex Barnett blog : Go and microformat stuff! ('cause it's going to happen anyway)
http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2006/05/12/595899.aspx
"The microformats + RSS + clipboard (mRc) combo isn't just about copy and pasting static structured data into microformat-aware webpages and clients (though this on its own would pretty powerful stuff)."
[uf-discuss] hAtom handheld CSS..?
http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-March/003428.html
"Could be a good inroad for hAtom: use this profile, get handheld support for free (via Zen Gardenesque CSS libs)."
Epeus' epigone - Kevin Marks weblog - AjaxWrite - a huge missed opportunity
http://epeus.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_epeus_archive.html#114324430693800469
Sean McGrath, CTO, Propylon - Semantic Steganography
http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/2005_04_17_seanmcgrath_archive.html#111373018875397589
"The future of semantic markup is the tunnelling of semantics, unseen, inside harmless looking, presentation-oriented XHTML."
Sean McGrath, CTO, Propylon
http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/archives/2006_03_19_seanmcgrath_archive.html#114301889699453423
"The future of structured content in my opinion is content tunnelled inside human readable content. *Not* machine readable content that can be converted/published for human readability."
xoxo-sample-code - Microformats
http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo-sample-code
"A whole bunch of open source (CC-by-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), Apache 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)) sample code to read and write xoxo files in Python and Java (with Perl, PHP, ... to follow)."
bobdc.blog: XHTML 2 for storing content?
http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2006/03/xhtml_2_for_storing_content.html
"Structurally, XHTML 1 wasn't enough for some content applications, and DocBook—even DocBook Lite—was often too much. XHTML 2 will hit a sweet spot for a lot of applications"
RDF/A Primer 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060310
Looks like a microformat / RDF mashup: "This document introduces the RDF/A syntax for expressing RDF metadata within XHTML."
hatom - Microformats
http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom
"hAtom is a microformat for content that can be syndicated, primarily but not exclusively weblog postings."
API - Lucene Web Service - Trac
http://dev.lucene-ws.net/wiki/API
"The core of Lucene Web Service API is primarily based on the Atom Publishing Protocol, with a few extensions."
Lucene Web Service API | 2006-02-24 | BitWorking
http://bitworking.org/news/Lucene_Web_Service_API
"The Lucene Web Service API is based on the Atom Publishing Protocol."
My 'Future of Web Apps' slides... (plasticbag.org)
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/02/my_future_of_web_apps_slides.shtml
Tom's Future of Web Apps, Translated for Product Managers (by Jeremy Zawodny)
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006323.html
And even with my recent push on the tools front, data and APIs are nonetheless still essential
Raw » Prediction - 7 reasons 2006 will be a big year for HTML
http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/12/03/prediction
"(with apologies to Alex Barnett)"
comments-formats - Microformats
http://microformats.org/wiki/comments-formats
"This page serves to document the current list of comment schemas, formats, and efforts as background for the design of a simple comments MicroFormat."
geobloggers: Advanced Tagging and TripleTags
http://geobloggers.blogspot.com/2006/01/advanced-tagging-and-tripletags.html
Embedding advanced metadata in tagging conventions / microformats
[uf-discuss] Universal Feed Parser 4.2 will support microformats
http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-January/002648.html
"I just checked support for basic microformat parsing into feedparser.py CVS."
ongoing · Don’t Invent XML Languages
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/01/08/No-New-XML-Languages
"Here’s a radical idea: don’t even think of making your own language until you’re sure that you can’t do the job using one of the Big Five: XHTML, DocBook, ODF, UBL, and Atom."
[uf-discuss] Almost Universal Microformat Parser: source code
http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-December/002528.html
"The AUMFP provides Python (2.3) classes for extracting microformat content from HTML documents, and includes classes for hCard, hCalendar, xFolk, and rel-tag."
[uf-discuss] Microformat Base
http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-December/002202.html
This is hot: "I thought I'd go ahead and play around with a microformat-based alternative to Google Base."
philwilson.org: Microformats (ab)used -
http://philwilson.org/blog/2005/11/microformats-abused.html
"The output from Person Finder, the University of Bath's staff and student directory is now marked up with hCard."
hAtom to/from Atom
http://lukearno.com/projects/hAtom
"Convert hAtom XHTML to Atom and Atom to hAtom XHTML." hAtom is a relatively new microformat which encodes the semantics of Atom feeds in XHTML.
rest/ahah - Microformats
http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/ahah
"AHAH is a very simple technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript. It involves using XMLHTTPRequest to retrieve (X)HTML fragments which are then inserted directly into the web page, whence they can be styled using CSS."
[uf-discuss] XOXO eye for an XML guy
http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-November/001954.html
"Because it is not clear that Attention.xml qualifies as a microformat."
faqs-for-rdf - Microformats
http://microformats.org/wiki/faqs-for-rdf
"with the help of the GRDDL mechanism, it is possible to view microformats as domain-specific RDF serializations."
The Zen of Microformats [@lesscode.org]
http://lesscode.org/2005/10/28/microformats-zen
"the core values, the Zen, these guys are carving out have very strong parallels to those of the less code movement, I think."
For GRDDL-heads: XSLT+Tidy from Mark Nottingham on 2005-10-19 (semantic-web@w3.org from October 2005)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2005Oct/0175.html
"Let the scraping begin..."
Wikidata - Meta
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata
"Wikidata is a proposed wiki-like database for various types of content."
The Elements of Meaningful XHTML
http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/09/elements-of-xhtml
Deeper into semantic XHTML
HubLog: Extracting microcontent (XSLT, GRDDL, RDF)
http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001187.html
"This script adds an item to Firefox's menu ('Extract Microcontent', under Tools>User Script Commands) which, when selected, will look in the current page for a link."
NodeWeb (WebSeitz/wikilog)
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/NodeWeb
"Imagine doing Structured Writing. Each Information Block is an "item" in the Data Store. It has a label, bodytext (in Smart Ascii), one or more images (blobs) as properties."
Extending Entry Collections [Long]
http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/mail-archive/msg01245.html
About feed extensions: "The problem is that those extensions require boiling the ocean."
Tantek's Thoughts - Principles of visibility and human friendliness
http://tantek.com/log/2005/06.html#d03t2359
"I'm looking at the technology I've built and/or am working on, first to see where I may be making such mistakes and correcting them, and second to build structured data systems that use visible data, instead of invisible metadata."
hReview in RDF
http://pragmatron.org/docs/misc/hreview.html
"Make hReview format data available to Semantic Web"
Sean McGrath, CTO, Propylon - The biggest shock to received wisdom since the irrational human acceptance of the 404
http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/archives/2005_05_22_seanmcgrath_archive.html#111676629258192707
"Good arguments all. Simple, elegant and wrong. Every one of them."
MiXTaPe » Strong XHTML
http://mxtp.org/?p=10
"The view that XHTML is a necessary and sufficient container for microformats. This is opposed to the weak XHTML view."
Danny Ayers, Raw Blog - Semantic Reviews
http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/05/19/semantic-reviews
"I’m documenting as I go along: Expressing hReview Data in RDF and here’s the latest hreview2rdfxml.xsl."
Eric's Archived Thoughts: Getting Onto The Calendar
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/05/18/getting-onto-the-calendar
"What’s happening there is you’re pouring the home page of complexspiral.com through an XSLT recipe called X2V written by Brian Suda."
Ken MacLeod 15 05 2005 - Steal this idea: Browser-based microformat plugins
http://bitsko.slc.ut.us/blog/2005/05/15#uformat-plugins
I wonder if I could hack together a Greasemonkey script or bookmarklet that would turn a given textarea into a structured microformat editor, dynamically?
Danny Ayers, Raw Blog - MicroFormats again
http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/05/13/microformats-again
"Micro formats like small continents. And then lazy isn’t necessarily easier, often the opposite. Worse is worse, but bad can be better than nothing."
Voidstar - The right place for data in your feed - 0xDECAFBAD
http://www.voidstar.com/node.php?id=2349
"It's all very well coming up with a neat new metadata standard but without implementations at both ends (publisher *and* subscriber) it's just academic wanking."
the ryan king » Blog Archive » Better XHTML vs. Web Services
http://theryanking.com/blog/archives/2005/05/04/better-xhtml-vs-web-services
"In the process of developing microformats, what we’re really doing is making the Web more scrape-able."
The Community Engine Blog: xFolk Archives
http://thecommunityengine.com/home/archives/xfolk/index.html
"xFolk is an xhtml microformat that allows people to apply tags to links in web articles and even whole articles themselves."
Developers Wiki - hReview
http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/hReview
"hReview is a simple distributed review format suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML."