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:
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
Browser Support
Getting Started
Presentations that are way better than mine
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”.
I’ve been doing a lot of research for a presentation I’m giving at BarCampOrlando2 in April. There is a ton of super interesting things going on in the Semantic Search space right now. Yahoo! just announced a new Yahoo! Search open platform which will have support for a number of semantic web standards.
Think of sites like LinkedIn that are loaded with microformats and now think of your search results loaded with that informations. Currently meta data provides some useful information to search engines about the content of a page. Semantic Web standards provide even richer information about the page contents and it’s relationship to other content.
Over the next year this space is going to become the focus of marketing departments that have tapped the potential of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and are looking for a new SEM (Search Engine Marketing) strategy. The need for experts with the technical expertise to understand semantic standards and how to implement them and at the same time are able to communicate effectively with marketing teams and understand their goals is grow tremendously. If you are the technical lead in a marketing team, you should pay attention to whats happening here.
While the above is really interesting I think I’m much more excited about the potential for mashups that do really handy stuff with all this semantic data. Woohoo!
I setup a google calendar of the schedule for barcampmiami
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=paa02dt1priqb2vne4io2tr0d0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
So finally after Sean, Elliot, and I did some hard work redesigning the site from the ground up, we have launched!
I personally am very excited about the new design and look forward to the continued improvements we have planned over the next few weeks.
Also the 2008 Future of Web Apps conference and BarCampMiami2008 are rapidly approaching, only one more day!
We are posting screencasts of the presentations we give at BarCampMiami on our personal blogs and at the Statiksoft Blog.
Topics we plan to cover include:
- Web Development and Distributed Revision Control - Elliot
- Optimizing MySQL Now! - Sean
- Introduction to ReviewBoard - Kevin
- Modding Ubuntu using PPA on Launchpad - Elliot
It’s hard to say what things are gonna be like 250+ are registered for BarCampMiami and there should be about 50 demos. I’m getting there early to make sure I get a spot.
We will be posting pictures from the two days of fun and code at Flickr so check them out.
On another important note BarCampOrlando2008 registration opens on Thursday Feb 28th. Don’t forget or you’ll be sorry. It’s going to top last year for sure with two days of mayhem in downtown Orlando. I know what I’m presenting on, do you?
See you in Miami…
I just signed up for both FOWA and BarCampMiami.
I plan on doing a presentation at BarCampMiami on either using OpenSource tools like GIMP/Inkscape to keep cost down, maybe just a tutorial type presentation on the two, or how to use KCacheGrind to with Django, PHP, and RoR. Or maybe something else. I’ll keep thinking about it. Anyhow after BarCampOrlando was so much fun I regretted that I didn’t do a presentation. So no I will not regret.
I also made this little badge from the logo, got the idea from the FOWA socialize page. Anyhow, use it if you want.
BarCampMiami Wiki
FOWA Website
