When one of the most famous web design gurus on the planet, whose books we adore, says he likes something you’ve built, well it’s a damned nice feeling indeed.
So Dan Cederholm likes LouderTweets.

We’ve been getting LouderTweets from as far away as Japan and The Philippines. Keep them coming.
Just to give a sense of the variety [...]

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We announced LouderTweets recently, which are 140 character mini-reviews you can send to LouderVoice from Twitter without needing a LouderVoice account.
Last night we turned on LouderViesti which is the equivalent feature for the superb Jaiku. Jaiku is like Twitter but can do much much more. They are based in Finland and are adding great [...]

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After a few late nights we’re now ready to let you send reviews from Twitter to LouderVoice. We’re calling them LouderTweets and they are 140 character mini-reviews you can send using Web, SMS or IM via Twitter to LouderVoice.
An important point is that you don’t have to be a LouderVoice member to send LouderTweets [...]

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Last Wednesday we quietly unveiled LouderVoice. If you want a reviews site which takes a fundamentally different approach to everyone else then you’ll like what we have built.
Bloggers who write reviews now have a site which is built around enabling them to publish reviews to blogs in a widely accepted format. Everyone else now [...]

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I’m testing out Scott Allan Wallick’s blog.txt theme. I’m a huge fan of Sandbox and this is very impressive too. Minimalist but attractive. It is also highly configurable and has lots of hAtom and hCard goodness built-in. I prefer it to the old one we had here. Thoughts anyone?

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In one short year we’ve gone from building web-based datacenter management and planning tools for our customer’s customers to starting our own web application development and getting ready to launch it. If you’d asked me a year ago where we’d be today, I would probably have said “doing the same thing as now”. I love [...]

Posted in Argolon, Business, LouderVoice, Software Development, Web20, microformats 3 Comments »

Why are Microsoft and Eventful not shouting this from the rooftops?
You can now find an event in Eventful (e.g. this Divine Comedy one in Cork), right-click the Live Clipboard Icon, click copy, go to Windows Live Writer and do paste. Not only do you now have all that event information in your blog post, [...]

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It has been clear from the work being done by Ray Ozzie’s team on Live Clipboard that Microsoft were throwing their weight behind the microformats initiative but up until now it has just been in the technical demos of Live Clipboard.
This afternoon I was watching the interview Jon Udell did with Jack Ozzie and JJ [...]

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Phil Haack (greatest ever surname for a geek), has proposed some improvements to the XFN microformat including the most excellent fReNd-4-eVA.
He thinks he has serious issues with worrying about whether to mark someone as a friend or an acquaintance. What if you use “friend” but they use “acquaintance”? Rest assured that I have struggled with [...]

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d.Construct 2006
Event type: Conference
Date: 2006-09-08
Rating: 4 out of 5

Last Friday was dConstruct 2006 and I headed over not really knowing what to expect. The quality of speakers overall was excellent and I’m only disappointed that I didn’t get to meet more people - over 300 people in the room made [...]

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Chris has done us all a service by writing an open letter to Google to get them to include more support for microformats in the Blogger revamp. It gets a hear-hear from me and from John Allsopp.
On a related note, I’ve been playing with posting hCards to a bunch of different platforms and social networks. [...]

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Carson Systems’ Vitamin site continues to impress me every day. The rate of new content is just about right, in comparison to some sites whose RSS feed is just a non-stop torrent of not very useful information.
They have just published a very nice overview of microformats by John Allsopp which is a great introduction if [...]

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The SB site and mailing-list used to be hosted by PubSub which sadly gone to the big internet archive in the sky. The guys have now moved these over to Marc Canter’s BBM site and things are back up and running. Not only that but they’ve done a new code drop which I will be installing [...]

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If you need one reason, just one, why microformats are important, then you need to read Chris’ latest post about the hResume Wordpress plugin over at FactoryCity. His comments are not just specific to hResume, they are relevant for all microformat marked-up PCEK. PCEK (aka Peck) being a horrendous acronym I came up with about [...]

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I’ve been trying in vain to sign up to the Live Clipboard mailing list using the details provided on many sites and blogs. All of them say to head over to discuss.microsoft.com but it looks like this server is gone (or at least it has been offline for quite a while). I did some ferreting [...]

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Jason Kolb has put together a stunning example of how you can use microformats as opposed to just looking at them. First have a good read of his post and then try the following.
Head over to his MicroViewer demo and enter http://argolon.com/contact in the Source box and click “Load”. What appears is the Argolon Contact [...]

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If you need any more convincing that Yahoo are back in the game then this announcement should do it.
The Yahoo Local Blog wrote:

Starting today, we’re happy to announce Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews.

The trickle of data isn’t such a trickle [...]

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it@cork Web2.0 Conference
Event type: Conference
Date: 2006-06-08
Rating: 4 out of 5

I met Fergus for the first time at the EI Web 2.0 Conference back in April but his reputation far preceded him. He has been described as the consummate networker but I think this does him an injustice - he is [...]

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it@cork Web2.0 Conference
Event type: Conference
Date: 2006-06-08
Rating: 5 out of 5

Salim gave a suberb presentation which for me, as expected, was the highlight of the conference. I have heard chunks of the presentation on various Podcasts and it is still very focused on the ideas they built in PubSub despite the [...]

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Technorati microformats search
Category: Search engine
Topic: microformats
Year created: 2006
Overall rating: 4 out of 5

Content rating: 3 out of 5

Design rating: 4 out of 5

Navigation rating: 4 out of 5

I was supposed to attend a microformats dinner [...]

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