“Why the BBC removed microformat DateTime patterns from bbc.co.uk and what we are doing to bring them back.”

Category: Microformats, Semantic Web

Author: JJ Halans

Ben Ward from Yahoo! Brickhouse writes about Portable Social Networks over at Digital Web Magazine.

It talks about Identity, Personality and Profile, using Microformats like XFN and hCard.

Category: Microformats

Author: JJ Halans

Tags: hCard, Microformats, Portable Social Networks, xfn

Short and sweet: HTML 5 offers custom data attributes on HTML elements, intended to store custom data, which can then be handled on-page by JavaScript, or off-page by other (web-)applications.

John Resig discusses a number of useful benefits.

Category: Javascript, Semantic Web

Author: JJ Halans

Tags: attributes, HTML, Javascript, semantic web, semweb, w3c

A couple of new, cool examples of SemWeb applications:

Pluribo, a Firefox plugin which creates instant summaries of Amazon user reviews. Some Amazon products have 10-100′s of reviews. Pluribo gives a summary by analyzing all these reviews. Currently only available for Amazon, you could see more, potential interactions with other web applications, think StructuredBlogging, or a summery of 100′s of comments on a blog post. Ars Technica has a nice overview.

HealthMap, a comprehensive mashup which ends up into a global disease alert map, on a country or province level. It filters disease news from Google News, the WHO and online discussion groups. Wired has more.

Category: Semantic Web

Author: JJ Halans

Tags: Google, web applications, World Health Organization