Microformats are still missing a cool application like Jyte is for OpenID
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Stéphane Gigandet
on May 13, 2007
Microformats have the same problem than OpenID: lots of providers, and very few consumers. We need something like Jyte for Microformats to spread.
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But what can you actually *do* with them besides fill your address book and calendar? I'd like to see some cross-site mashups... where the sum is great than the microparts!
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portability of social (and other) networks is a killer use of OpenIDtools for better data would seem to be a good one. You enter an id (say an openid) and you can complete the email address, the common name, the avatar, etc... just by auto-googling for all the microformatted pages with that id.
I can't actually think of an end user application where microformats *are* the end because they're just markup.
We should be conscious of our semantic markup as it is anyway. It's unfortunate that we need something to motivate us to do it.
i still haven't seen anythign that indicates that microformats aren't a buzzword as nebulous and fundamentalyl useless as "Web 2.0"
No way vynce. microformats have real concrete value. They're about codifying existing practices and giving software people, struggling to work with semantic applications, some quality data.
It costs very little to do microformats and it's kinda buzzy and cool so people do them. And that is of enormous benefit.
so you're saying it's a buzzword as nebulous but more useful than "Web 2.0"? if not nebulous, where can i get a definition that shows me something?
Well, check the implementations on the microformats.org page.
They're they have sites that are using this stuff in the wild. If you're in the business of data aggregation (or mashups as people like to say) as I sometimes am then you'll get a warm fuzzy feeling straight away.