Yahoo! Support for Microformats

Jun 24, 2006 - 19:18

Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews.

-- Yahoo! Local: We Now Support Microformats

Microformats are simple, open data formats for structuring microcontent like events (hCalendar), contacts (hCard), and product reviews (hReview) for meaningful encapsulation and reusability.

It's a bore/chore to copy event details, piece-by-piece, from a web page to the fields in one's calendar. Why not wrap up the details of an event into a format that can be understood by calendars, event aggregators, and other applications? Same for contacts, etc.

Some Microformat support also exists in Yahoo-acquired web 2.0 heavy-hitters, Upcoming and Flickr.

Tantek Çelik has been steadily building steam for Microformats for awhile. Their success almost demands ubiquity. I'm glad to finally see strong adoption; CriticalMass/TippingPoint will be sufficiently semantically efficiently exciting.

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