Couple Grammes of Soma

I gave a talk about Microformats at BarCampOrlando this year. Overall things went OK, however I’d like to see a lot of improvement in my presentations over the next few.

First things first:

microformats talk slides

In my talk I covered some reason why it would be wise to start implementing microformats across the gamut of disciplines in the areas they apply. This means that if you are a designer, developer, front-end developer or marketer you should pay attention the microformats space and add it to our tool-kit. Especially since the bar to entry is about an hour worth of reading and 9-30 extra characters in your mark-up. I mean c’mon, that’s just too easy.

Semantic Search

• Yahoo! Micro Search (was returning a proxy error as of this posting.)
• Yahoo! Open Search, 1st announcement
• Google Social Graph API (uses XFN)

Browser Support

• Firefox 3 support
• Safari Microformats Plugin
• IE 8 will support Microformats (Chris’ blog is good reading in general if you don’t already read it, smart guy)
• Flock supports them

Getting Started

• Microformats Wiki
• hCard hCard Creator
• XHTML Friends Network (XFN) XFN Creator

Design Patterns (these are neat!)

• Include Pattern read the feedback

Presentations that are way better than mine

• presentation by Tantek Çelik Video
• Microformats for Developers by John Allsopp
• Microformats for Designers by Dan Cederholm

Thanks very much to everyone that came and participated in the talk and in barcamporlando this year. I had a great time meeting people and sharing ideas (and sarcastic comments). Feel free get in touch with me if you have any questions or just want to say “Hi”.