Microformats talk @ barcamporlando2008
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
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”.
