Microformats Podcast
Microformats Podcast
Here's a great podcast for you. All about microformats...
Joining me are Tantek Çelik, Dan Connolly and Rohit Khare. I think it's safe to say these guys know a thing or two about the web and microformats.
As usual, show notes and link to download below.
Enjoy.
Background
Last week I met with Tantek Çelik and the Mix06 event in Las Vegas where he, Marc Canter and Joshua Allen organized a Structured Blogging and Microformats 'birds of a feather' non-official event after the main sessions were over.
Tantek and I met up the next day and agreed we should get a podcast together on the topic of microformats. I asked him to invite a couple of others along for the call and he arranged for Dan Connolly and Rohit Khare to were kind enough to join us, two people who have also been intimately involved with the development of this exciting new area of microformats.
The Guests
Tantek Çelik is CTO at Technorati. Prior to his current role, Tantek was representative to the W3C for Microsoft where he also helped lead the development of Internet Explorer for Macintosh. He also spent four year at Apple and has been instrumental (along with others) in making microformats what is today.
Dan Connolly is Technical Staff at W3C, where he edited the HTML 2.0 specification with Tim Berners-Lee, was chair of the W3C Working Group that produced HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 and collaborated with Jon Bosak to form the W3C XML Working Group and produce the W3C XML 1.0 Recommendation. Dan is also very involved with the W3C's Semantic Web initiatives (RDF, OWL and SPARQL). Dan blogs too.
Rohit Khare is Director of CommerceNet Labs, a non-profit investigating and promoting decentralized electronic commerce. Rohit started KnowNow in 2000 after working at the W3C during the 90's and is today working with the microformats folks as part of his work at CommereNet Labs.
Huge thanks to Tantek, Dan and Rohit for their time.
So, on to the podcast (under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License)...
Download
Microformats Podcast - (51 mins, .mp3, 12mb)
Show Notes
- Introduction
- What are microformats and history? (5:30)
- The 'we' in microformats: microformats community, wiki, mailing lists (10:30)
- Why bother? What's in it for whom? What do we have to gain with microformats? (13:30)
- Less effort, more benefits
- Scenarios - the soccer season (21:00)
- The schema design philosophy - Microformats are based on real world examples (26:50)
- The evolution of microformats (30:00)
- Interop with other formats (34:00)
- Ray Ozzie's Live Clipboard demo (screencasts) and microformats - the cut and paste (semantic) web (37:00)
- Getting the semantic web. What does it mean? What does it enable? (46:00)
- Microformats - an onramp onto the semantic web future
- Final thoughts (48:30)
- End (51:00)
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