Microformat tools

December 11th, 2008

Over at Sitepoint Meitar Moscovitz writes up “4 Easy-to-Use Microformat Tools to Beef Up Your Site” using minimal effort, including my favorite, Mapanui. ;-)

To get us in the Christmas spirit, over at 24 Ways, Elliot Jay Stocks shows us how to set up an Christmas hCard in “A Christmas hCard From Me To You“. If you’re looking for a simpler (non-chrismas-y) walk-through, revisit John Allsopp’s “Styling hCards with CSS” from 2006.

If you want to enable the Microsoft Oomph microformats framework in Firefox on any site supporting hCard/hCalendar, you can with Pascal’s Oomph Greasemonkey script. But take note of the notice though, the Microsoft hosted script can track your click stream…

Category: Microformats, Semantic Web

Author: JJ Halans

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Top 10 of Semantic Web 2008

December 7th, 2008

ReadWriteWeb has published their Top 10 for 2008 of Semantic Web products. The list includes Yahoo SearchMonkey, Open Calais, Powerset,…

Looking at the list, I’m not too impressed. Searchmonkey is cool, but all the others are rather gimmicky. They are all semantic web for semantic webs sake. When will we see integrated solutions, like SearchMonkey?

Category: Semantic Web

Author: JJ Halans