Tag Archives: technologies

Namespaces, Microformats, RDFa, HTML, XHTML

By Rob Linton on September 19, 2008

We were recently at Yahoo’s Hack Day and one of the presentations I attended was by the SearchMonkey guys.  What piqued my interest here was that the teaser paragraph talked about augmenting search results with the semantic web — e.g. Microformats, XSLT, RDFa, et al. Hmmm, sounds applicable…

Posted in Events, Microformat and Mark-up, RDFa, Semantic Web

Ubiquity Illustrates Impressive Thinking and the Need for Attribution Microformat

By David Gratton on August 27, 2008

The net was a buzz with with Aza Raskin’s post on Ubiquity: An experiment into connecting the Web with language.

Posted in Events, Licensing & Attribution, Microformat and Mark-up, Technology Innovation

Microformats for the Masses

By Rob Linton on August 18, 2008

“If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.”
- Sir Issac Newton
Where we’re at
Throughout history our progress has come by building on the work of those that came before.  It’s been taken for granted that ideas will be copied, tinkered with, and improved for the greater good.  This approach has [...]

Posted in Microformat and Mark-up
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