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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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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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.
[tags]hCalendar, iCal, Endo[/tags]

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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 [...]

Posted in Business, StructuredBlogging, Web20, microformats 17 Comments »

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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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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