2:00pm - The Growth and Evolution of Microformats Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)

Rough Panel Notes:

History of microformats through tshirts - 2003 sxsw

XFN - semantics to blogrolls to mark up

supported immediately by:
blo.gs
wordpress

2005 microformats for people, events:

eventful

done on a wiki on technorati. So made made microformats.org in 2005

microformats.org/wiki/

flickr - added microformats to profiles, and geotags

added to technorati

ode began to support for songs, playlists, etc.

2006 - event sites marked up in them

Stanford univesity - base of all their pages for contact information.

Mike - extention for firefox - operator. lets you work with microformats information.

danda.videntity.org

backnetwork - formats work for relationships, reviews, rss feeds.

glennjones.net - tear apart his site to code mine with microformats

hcard, xfn, other profiles on other sites. xfn - rel=me

creating new microformats - there's a process managed by the community environment on micrformats.org - and people are able to present their ideas. - based on the scientific method, doing research on the web into how people are out there marking things up with classes.

Questions
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does it use existing semantic web efforts and ontologies - yes, they make people look at and do research on what's existing.

Developing search engines on just formats -

kitchen.technorati.com - search for microformats, events, reviews, hcards

listings - edgeio will aggregate hcard listings - and you can ping them to get your information entered.

alexa crawls looking of hcards.

dogs that need to be adopted - dogster

Mobile - are mobile browsers finding microformatting.

jeremy keith - demo of microformats

Microformats & accessibility - a couple assesibility experts are pursuing how it can help and avoid becoming a challenge.

Restricted connet - not yet, but they asked her to get involved and develop these things.

Hcard and openID - openID 2.0 are working on all converging this -

searh for hcard creator - dreamweaver has it, so does movable type.