Ever thought about using your RSS reader as a calendar. Why not? MarkThisDate.com now
provides you the option to export your favourite calendars to your favourite rss readers including Bloglines, Google Reader, Google Homepage, My AOL, My Yahoo, My MSN, Rojo, Pageflakes, Newsgator, Netvibes and Windows Live.
Any other requests?
Microformats……… anyone heard of them. I recently did and I must say: interesting
concept!
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
Although accurate this definition screams for an example:
Say you have a website and you have your contact details on there eg Donald Duck, Duckstreet 99, Ducktown. Only humans are able to understand that an address is ‘hidden’ in this text. Computers just see text. Now .. what if we put some code around these details so computers can recognize the address as being an address? We have created a hcard.
Now that the concept is clear the question what can you use it for. This is interesting. Not only addresses but also events, reviews, relations are good usable with the microformats.
The implementation of microformats took us about 4 hours. All our events are now individually importable in e.g. Google calendar by using this FF extension, the events are picked up by some searchengines and it is just a cool feature. For the exact programming details see the Microformats.org website.
Current browsers do not recognise the microformats. If you use Firefox and have the tail extension installed you are ready to go.