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Events
parties, conferences..
Why? would you do it?
My answer why not?
It's not like you need signoff.
You don't even need to tell anyone you did it.
Just go ahead to do it
Don't convince them just do it.
Using CSS is a lot trickier but this is so easy to do.
Discovery
You are making your information easier to discover.
Contact details. Then the whole point is easy to discover. Anything to make the information easier. If your goal is easier. Then it makes sense. Upcoming.org for the microformats. Get the information out there.
Help your users.
I’ve got microformats in there there i sa little icon.
I’ve got a plugin “tails” it detects microformats. If you click on that then it pulls the data.
Jon Hiks uses a stylesheet. Great idea to use stylesheets.
Style microformats.. Easy.
Discovery is made easier.
Technorati kitchen you can search for a string.
contacts view events
It is using the extra information.
Discovery is one thing. What about taking one thing?
Contact details.
Extraction
These bits of information get out there too.
Bookmark that someone wrote. Javascript.
Written by microsuda?
Vcard and iCard (not confused with iCal)
universal formats. Xhtml to downloads it.
If I do that it’ll help you add into your vcard.
You can sync it with your ipod too.
ics events and add it to application of choice.
Portability, you want people to add it. You are allowed to do it in one step.
one click…
Every event is a talk. We are putting it in there anyway.
We threw in a couple of class names and subscribe to this.
Click on that and get it imported into their calendar application.
If I change/update it, will be updated.
The two day schedule, Jon Hicks created one for @media when there wasn’t one.
Mashups: if you are making your data more explicit….
going to sxsw next year and the parties we were going to…
I took the information.
Location information: location means maps, maps are cool
Looked at place.
How far they had to go to change parties
Maps are great for contact
So by giving extra richness
Cork’d
but because they use microformats
you can do cool stuff. Extract the hreviews and dan had no idea what he
was talking about. People can do the clever stuff
Oblivious development.. let people do what they want.
That’s why people publish APIs. Making it available.
Human readable way. People first, Machine Second
I redid the thing for dConstruct.
All over this stuff I did the events.
tools
If you want to get started it isn’t that hard.
hCard-o-matic
microformats.org/code/hCalendar/creator
it spits out the detail.
There is a plugin for wordpress
There is a cheat sheet for microformats split in elemental formats.
PDF
Community
There are tools out there. Talk to people.
IRC channel microformats
wiki examples are shown, if it is wrong go in there and edit it
mailing list microformats there is some really good discussions, back and forth just to listen in.
Process
Made by a community
there is no one up high
People are interested in microformats and we end up with hundreds…
just micro. Just little bits of data not entire pages. Microstuff
It would be really cool if there was this…
documenting what people are already doing.
Cowpath
The cowpath to the olive garden and the embassy suites
What is the best place to put the path because people are already going.
Paving the cowpath.
How are students walking across the grass? Then just look where people are walking already and build the path there. When hCard , blogrolls, well let’s just standardize the existing stuff.
Creating
If you want to create one then document.
Even information. Where possible reuse, steal.
What is the perfect way.. what makes it easy for people.
What do people publish with today?
html
the most common language.
Changing people’s behavior is the hardest thing to do.
“The future…?”
We’ve barely had anything to do.
The future?
What’s the first thing to do…
Chicken and the egg situation.
Who bought the first fax machine?
Kind of geeky stuff it is going to get better.
Toolbar that is extracted
http://flickr.com/photos/drewm/297963658
We need microformats…
In the future it is going to get even bigger.
Adactio.com/extras/gettingmicroformats
Microformats make it easier for bots and spammers
Its not the format you publish. It is the fact that you are publishing.
It’s kind of irevelant. The content is spammable.
If you are worried about spam/bots then don’t publish it.
Couple of authoring tools…
I’ve got my cheat sheet. Is there an automation.
There is a couple of tools.
Drew M has written plugins for dreamweaver.
It’s just class names.
Have you seen a content management?
Plugin for content? wordpress.
Little wizard. Open source content management first…
Expect to see more but see more and more.
Look for implementation in the wiki.
Class and CSS class selectors
Questions
Do you have a standard when you are looking at a set?
personal preference. start the string with microformats or the css class selector.
your preference.
The rel license do you need the rdf comments?
the spider will already be coding.
Why not XML?
People first machines second
XML not as easy
Everyone is already in HTML
class names is really powerful.
Again just too technical. For the average user to use.
Good for machines….
Tidy but then it is well formed by dave r
XML overkill for this.. lowest common denominator
If you want to write a parser. Doesn’t matter what order, how you want to do it yourself. If you want to write a parser it is harder..
microformats what is easy.. what is already to be lazy.
Would it help your google page ranking?
I don’t think so.. the google dance is always updating.
They aren’t yet.. but they will start looking.
It’s a no brainer for them.
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