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Microformats
Emerging syndication types
Tantek
Çelik
Chief Technologist
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Today's Syndication Content Types
- Blog posts: RSS, Atom
- Tags, Categories: rel-tag
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Emerging Syndication Content Types
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User Benefits of New Syndication Types
- RSS: peer to peer Blogging and Reading
- hCard: peer to peer Contact Sharing
- hCalendar: peer to peer Event Subscribing
- As with RSS, this depends on:
- Publishing tools
- And aggregating tools
- You may already have them
- Address Book & Calendar apps
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How do you use it today?
Demo
- Today Technorati is launching two new beta services
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Who is using it?
- Adoption is ramping fast
- EVDB/Eventful
- Upcoming.org
- ...100,000+ events and venues
- Beyond Technology Companies
- Avon - 40,000+ representatives
- University of Bath - thousands of contacts
- More: see microformats.org/wiki/implementations
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What next? Call to Action!
- Syndicate your contact info
- Use the hCard creator
- Or just ask your web designer
- Offer your vCard to your readers
- Similarly, syndicate your event list with hCalendar
- Join the open community at microformats.org
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Thanks!
