Microformats

Well…. the day is finally here. I’m happy to finally announce the official alpha launch of COSL’s http://ozmozr.com/. It’s a microformat-aware aggregator / resource sharing / social site that I would love your feedback on. Of course, it’s alpha software, so expect the usual early lumps. One of the cool and, so far as I know, unique, things the site does is make use of microformatted information it finds in feeds or bookmarked pages in the following way: any event information found in feeds or on pages is pulled out, aggregated into a dynamically generated ICAL feed, and this can then be harvested into compliant applications. So right now, I have a calendar in my Google Calendar which is built dynamically out of the microformatted event data parsed from the hundreds of RSS feeds I subscribe to. Each individual event can also be added to Google Calendar individually, etc. ...

Looks like lots of excellent stuff is coming out of the Web 2.0 conference. Far and away the most interesting looking of the presentation notes online so far is Script-Tunnelling REST Using Microformats. Reading it was one of those holy-cow-why-hasn’t-someone-thought-of-this-before moments for me. Smart people are great… and it’s even better when they share. You should also see how to encode scripting data structures in XHTML microformats, which provides a real example using the XOXO (“shosho”) microformat. As an added bonus, if you call now, you can follow a link to Ian Davis’ notes about Less. ...