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Lazytagging, Lazynotes
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- 10/28 5:58 PM
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I'm off to LA for the weekend, unable to attend TagCamp this weekend (starting tonight!). If you're in the San Francisco bay area, I strongly recommend you check it out.
This is my contribution in absentia to TagCamp.
First there was the lazyweb. Then lazychatting. Introducing the next logical step for the Web 2.0 world:
Lazytagging.
Too busy to tag your own photos on Flickr? Don't know everyone in the photo and want to explicitly invite your social network to label themselves (and those they know) in your photos? Then try lazytagging and lazynotes. Here's how:
As the lazytagger:
- Upload your photos, adding what tags you have time to think of.
- Now add the tags "needstags" and "needsnotes" to explicitly invite folks to add tags and/or notes respectively. Wait a while and check back on recent comments/tags/notes on your photos
- When your photos gather sufficient tags/notes, go ahead and delete the needstags and needsnotes tags.
As the compulsive annotator contact of a lazytagger:
- While viewing your contact's photo stream, if you see a photo with tag needstags, go for it and add whatever tags you think are relevant to the photo, e.g. the names of people, places, or interesting objects in the photo.
- Or just browse all photos tagged with needstags and do the same.
- Similarly if you see the needsnotes tag on a photo, add notes identifying the people, places, or interesting objects in the photo.
- Or go straight to browsing all photos tagged with needsnotes and do the same.
And that's it.
Wanna give it a try? I've opened up my flickr stream to notes and tags from any logged in Flickr user. Check out my photos tagged needstags and my photos tagged needsnotes and see what you have to add.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
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Web 2.0 Conference speakers with hCard, schedule with hCalendar
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- 10/6 5:33 PM
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The last demos I showed at the Web 2.0 panel were very topical to the audience at hand.
I tooka few minutes the night before the panel to add hCard to the Web 2.0 conference speakers page and hCalendar to the schedule page .
You'll note that with a single click, you can add all the Web 2.0 speakers to your Address Book, and subscribe to the Web 2.0 program in your calendaring program (e.g. Apple iCal or Mozilla Sunbird).
It's important to point out that microformats work with the data already on the page. There's no invisible metadata here folks. No hidden phone numbers or email addresses. The only info about the speakers that is made available in your address book is the information the speakers themselves sent to the conference organizers to be published publicly on the Web 2.0 conference website. This is very important aspect of the microformats philosophy. rather than asking you to go enter a bunch of additional personal information which may be hidden somewhere in some separate metadata file, microformats merely make the information that you're already publishing more visible and accessible to search engines, local applications (like address books and calendars), etc.
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Web Essentials 05 first conference to adopt hCard and hCalendar
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- 10/6 5:20 PM
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Another example from my presentation, which I should have mentioned last week.
Congratulations to Web Essentials 05 and the great folks who put on and ran the conference for being the first conference to fully adopt hCard and hCalendar on their conference web site.
All Web Essentials 05 presenters are marked up with hCard, making it trivial to add them to your Address Book using a favelet. In addition, the entire conference program was marked up with hCalendar, making it trivial to copy it to your Calendaring program, again, using a favelet.
Well done folks!
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40000+ Avon hCards
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- 10/6 5:03 PM
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One of my favorite recent examples of organic microformats adoption in the wild was Avon. Yes, that Avon.
As of a few weeks ago, all 40000+ Avon representatives have their own home page with their hCard contact info.
I checked several zip codes and found all women representatives so I don't think it is too much of a reach to conclude that the vast majority (if not nearly all) of those 40000 are women, which would make hCard perhaps the first contact information publication standard (and open standard at that) to have far more women represented than than men.
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Amazon Web API + hReview = G-Tools
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- 10/6 3:37 PM
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One great mashup I found recently (and showed on the panel) was a mix of Amazon's web services APIs with hReview called G-Tools. It's simple:
- Search for the product you want to review
- Click on the green 'Review' link to the right of the product in the list.
- Click the hRview tab on the top right.
- Enter your review, summary/title, review text, name, and click "Create HTML" down at the bottom of the page.
- Copy and paste the generated hReview into your favorite blogging tool and post.
And you're done! It's that easy to post an hReview of any Amazon.com product. They have versions for the Amazon UK and Amazon Japan sites as well for folks using those versions.
I can only imagine how this could be made even more seamless with some DHTML/AJAX, and then, perhaps bundling directly into a blogging tool or plugin.
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Microformats Examples slides and key points
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Here are my slides from the Open Source Infrastructure panel.
Some key points:
- Most important Web 2.0 theme: "You control your own data"
- Truly open standards must be free of IP restrictions (royalty free patent policy), and in this day and age, freely viewable and downloadable from the Web.
- microformats design principles
- microformats community principles:
- by and for the doers rather than the talkers
- open communications (blogs, tags, email archives, anonymously editable wiki, irc)
- open from the start (research, brainstorming, drafts)
- getting real: question emperors without clothing, dismiss "XML" zealots/pundits who publish invalid content themselves
- "Those who ignore standards are doomed to reinvent them."
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Web 2.0 Conference Open Source / Microformats workshop
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- 10/5 5:25 PM
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Immediately after the aforementioned tagging panel, Marc Canter led a workshop on open standards, open source, decentralized infrastructure that included Matt Mullenweg, Tony Schneider, Brian Dear, and myself as panelists. I think overall the content of the panel was quite good. I liked what Brian had to say about everybody publishing events on their own servers in such a way that they could all be discovered, agregated etc. Matt made some great points about how Ping-o-matic addressed scaling problems through a community effort. Tony spoke about how Yahoo is adopting open formats, and why it's important and advantageous for big companies to do so. Take a look at this excellent coverage for more details:
- http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/002027.php
- http://texasvc.weblogswork.com/?p=271
- http://ext337.org/article/web-20-open-source-infrastructure
- http://www.jonathanboutelle.com/mt/archives/2005/10/open_source_inf.html
- http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=6138cb85-7de6-4957-8eff-307f53658dfd
- http://silkworm.talis.com/blog/archives/2005/10/web_20_conferen_5.html
- http://www.mathies.com/weblog/?p=10
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Web 2.0 Conference Tagging Workshop
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Joshua Schachter, creator of del.icio.us led a great panel that included Caterina Fake of Flickr, Jeff Veen of Adaptive Path, Tony Stubblebine of O'Reilly Media, and myself (though 15 late minutes due to a series of unfortunate events that consumed what time buffer I had set aside. sigh. I'm just going to have to start planning to get to events like this an hour in advance or something. apologies to my fellow panelists and the audience).
We covered a broad swath of questions and topics ranging from the state of tagging and overviews of various services that allow tagging, to the different aspects of tags, to a good discussion of how tags a quite different from meta keywords (e.g. tags are visible rather than invisible metadata). Check out these excellent posts about the panel for more:
- http://www.debris.com/journal/1362
- http://www.yardley.ca/blog/index.php/archives/2005/10/05/web-20-whats-in-a-tag/
- http://davenetics.com/newsmonger/2005/10/05/web-20-tagging/
- http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/10/05/web-20-tagging/
- http://silkworm.talis.com/blog/archives/2005/10/web_20_conferen.html
- http://silkworm.talis.com/blog/archives/2005/10/web_20_conferen_1.html
- http://silkworm.talis.com/blog/archives/2005/10/web_20_conferen_2.html
- http://silkworm.talis.com/blog/archives/2005/10/web_20_conferen_3.html
- http://silkworm.talis.com/blog/archives/2005/10/web_20_conferen_4.html
- http://ext337.org/article/web-20-whats-in-a-tag
- http://www.engineeredthoughts.net/content/view/99/
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OSAF Microformats talk slides
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I've posted my slides from yesterday's Microformats talk at the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF). Thanks again to Mitch and Lisa and everyone else at OSAF for the opportunity. I had a great time, and the OSAF folks had some very well thought out questions that made for a very good discussion. I'm looking forward to seeing microformats support in Chandler!
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Congrats to Yahoo and Upcoming.org!
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- 10/4 10:25 PM
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Congrats to Yahoo on their acquisition of Upcoming.org. I can just see the synergies between Flickr and Upcoming.org now, starting with photos from events being associated with the canonical record of the event itself.
See Jeremy's post for more.
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Microformats talk at OSAF on 10/4
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I'll be giving a one hour talk on microformats at the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) on Tuesday 10/4 at noon, at the OSAF offices in San Francisco (located at 543 Howard St., Suite 500).
The talk is open to the public but RSVP is required. Please RSVP with Lisa Dusseault. Hope to see you then!
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WE05 Day 2: Breakfast and microformats evolving the Web
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I had a wonderful second day as well at Web Essentials. It started with a very nice breakfast with about 80 people (87 according to Maxine) where I shared a bunch of stories from my days at Apple, 6prime, and Microsoft. In particular, I shared what I thought were my biggest mistakes and challenges at each of those companies, what I learned, how I worked around several management obstacles, and what I could have done better, in the hopes that those in attendance could perhaps use those lessons while avoiding the first-hand pains. There were some great questions, especially about my perspective since I had worked for two companies that people in this industry are perhaps the most passionate about. Maybe some day I'll blog some those stories.
In afternoon I had the privilege of giving the second-to-last talk of the conference: Microformats: Evolving the Web. I've posted the slides online as well.
Thanks to Ryan for blogging the podcasts on microformats.org. While reading the presentation slides, be sure to check out the podcasts as well: Web Essential 05 podcasts. I've licensed the podcasts of my sessions under the same Creative Commons Attribution (by) 2.0 license as the hypertext of my presentations.
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Thanks very much for the kind words Thomas! I'm very happy you enjoyed the talk.
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- Abdelrahman
Thanks very much for your kind words Abdelrahman. I'm honored that you chose Microformats: Evolving the Web as your Pick of the Speeches 2005.
- Shane Shepherd
Glad to hear that you liked the podcast! Looking forward to seeing what you implement in your future projects.
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