Drew McLellan has done a short movie showing how to go from subscribing to someone’s RSS feed which contains hCalendar events using a microformat-aware reader to importing that into iCal with just a few clicks. And of course it doesn’t just have to be into iCal. Simple, powerful.
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The buzz surrounding microformats and how they can be used to create new and better services is getting louder and louder. In the past month there have been some eye-opening blog postings and articles on them.
Here are just a few to whet the appetite:
Phil Haack has the best introduction to microformats I have read.
Alex [...]

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The Web 2.0 Conference in Dublin was a big success and was well worth attending. It was great to finally put faces to a lot of names in the Irish tech world and beyond. I went out the previous night to an informal meet-up arranged by Robert Smith. The layout of the place unfortunately was [...]

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I’ve been thinking about how we can move microformats and structured blogging from the realm of interesting but niche to ubiquity. There are four obvious steps that most technologies go through before they gain widespread acceptance.
[1] Initial concept - The microformat guys have the core concepts and standards nailed. The SB guys rightly use standards [...]

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hCard is one of the two main microformats that one sees mentioned (the other being hCalendar). There was an interesting discussion on it in the second Talkcrunch podcast. Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn.com was asked why they did not support hCard. He made the simple point that they only implement features on the site which give [...]

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It is very disappointing that there is a “vs” in the title of this post instead of a “supports”. Google Calendar does not have any support for microformats (uF) but this is pretty much standard behaviour for them recently. Given the resources available to them and the great applications that could be built on [...]

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On my personal blog, I discuss structured blogging and microformats quite a bit, but usually in the context of things like food. However, the opportunities being presented by microformats apply in many different spheres. It is surprising how few startups seem to be building compelling applications using them.
To take one example, online calendars are now [...]

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