January 3, 2007
Microformats
Firefox 3 and Microformats at iterating toward openness
In my last post, I joked about the re-designed a website I created over the holidays (Planetarium.Net) using the "2-dot-0" moniker (but I should have called it "4-dot-0" to get ahead of the hype).
David has a short but interesting post about what is really the next pragmatic step in the use of RSS feeds, perhaps as soon as Firefox 3, which will do more to personalize information. The key idea to me is that we are beginning to view information as more than just potential knowledge to be disseminated in various formats. Microformats begin to parse content as a means to accomplishing things other than providing a fire hose of continuous information to be consumed by a human brain.
The articles listed in David's original post are good places to start and I also found these sources helpful:
Microformats Primer
Where Microformats will Take Us
Microformats Wiki
Posted by Rovy at January 3, 2007 4:38 AM
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