Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web

Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web: "Though the term 'microformats' may not yet be mainstream, mainstream vendors have taken notice. Big names like Technorati, Mozilla, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Digg, and Yahoo among countless others are all at work trying to make microformats work. By some estimates there are already hundreds of millions of microformatted pieces of information online."

The Tech Lab: Bradley Horowitz

"Bradley Horowitz, responsible for novel technology development at search giant Yahoo, looks ahead to the 'internet of things'.

Imagine this scenario: I am in a supermarket and I pick up a can of tomatoes and I place it in the shopping trolley. Immediately my mobile phone flashes green to indicate to me that it is a good buy. I go down the aisle and choose a bottle of wine but this time my phone flashes red to suggest I reconsider.

This is only possible when we have a universal resolver for every entity in the world." Read more . . .

Microformats: Everyperson's Semantic Web, 06/15/07

"Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging). . . . [microformats are] a set of simple open data format standards that many are actively developing and implementing for more/better structured blogging and web microcontent publishing in general."

Check out the microformats blog. This article published in Smashing Magazine is full of interesting resources regarding microformats.