Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Microformats -- Standards by Any Other Name

From WebMonkey (via Wired).

Apparently early reports from Mozilla suggested that Firefox 3 would support MicroFormatting--the ability for your favorite calendar, contacts, and other programs to read data from websites. Unfortunately there appear to be no standards (metadata or otherwise) for this yet, so no one is sure how to make it happen.

All I can say is please. This should be so awesome when it happens (presuming it is opt-in, and companies can only mine the data with permission).

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