Written for GeekUp Liverpool Aug07

1. Thom Shannon – Glow New Media
microformats: what’s the point?

2. The Mash-Up
 More of our lives and data online
 Publishers can’t foresee the uses
 Mash-ups harness the power
Glow New Media – www.glow-internet.com – geekUp Liverpool 2007-08-30

3. hCard
<span class=quot;vcardquot;>
<a rel=quot;mequot; class=quot;url fn nquot; href=quot;http://ts0.com/quot;>
<span class=quot;given-namequot;>Thom</span>
<span class=quot;family-namequot;>Shannon</span></a>
<span class=quot;titlequot;>Technical Director
<span class=quot;orgquot;>Glow New Media
Glow New Media – www.glow-internet.com – geekUp Liverpool 2007-08-30

4. hCard
<address class=quot;vcardquot;>
<a rel=quot;mequot; class=quot;url fn nquot; href=quot;http://ts0.com/quot;>
<span class=quot;given-namequot;>Thom</span>
<span class=quot;family-namequot;>Shannon</span></a>
<span class=quot;titlequot;>Technical Director</span>
<span class=quot;orgquot;>Glow New Media</span>
</address>
Glow New Media – www.glow-internet.com – geekUp Liverpool 2007-08-30

5. hCard
<address class=quot;vcardquot;>
<a rel=quot;mequot; class=quot;url fn nquot; href=quot;http://ts0.com/quot;>
<span class=quot;given-namequot;>Thom</span>
<span class=quot;family-namequot;>Shannon</span></a>
<span class=quot;titlequot;>Technical Director</span>
<span class=quot;orgquot;>Glow New Media</span>
</address>
Glow New Media – www.glow-internet.com – geekUp Liverpool 2007-08-30

6. Accidental API - Brian Oberkirch
 Separate meta data goes stale
 Semantic mark-up
 Logical position within application
 Builds on HTML/HTTP and WYSIWYG
Glow New Media – www.glow-internet.com – geekUp Liverpool 2007-08-30

7. microformats
 hCard
 hCalendar
 rel-tag
 XFN
 hAtom
 VoteLinks
 rel-nofollow
 rel-license
 and lots more
Glow New Media – www.glow-internet.com – geekUp Liverpool 2007-08-30

8. Publishers
flickr last.fm Blogger ma.gnolia Technorati
Twitter Yahoo Local .mac Thomson dopplr
Upcoming.org backnetwork MapQuest
Wikipedia RadioTimes Yahoo movies
facebook MeetUp.com eventful Ten Word
Review 30boxes Multimap.com AOL News LinkedIn
Geekup.org!
Glow New Media – www.glow-internet.com – geekUp Liverpool 2007-08-30

9. Services
 Technorati
 Pingerati
 http://feeds.technorati.com/contacts/[url]
 webcal://feeds.technorati.com/events/[url]
 Portable social networks
 dopplr
Glow New Media – www.glow-internet.com – geekUp Liverpool 2007-08-30

10. Consumers
 Browser plugins
 Operator
 Tails
 Bookmarklets
 Firefox 3
 Internet Explorer 8
 Safari ?
Glow New Media – www.glow-internet.com – geekUp Liverpool 2007-08-30

11.  microformats.org
 irc.freenode.net #microformats
 Spread the word!
 Use them on your sites
Glow New Media – www.glow-internet.com – geekUp Liverpool 2007-08-30