"HNews allows publishers to easily attach machine-readable news semantics to content on the web. Today, the AP announced the completion of the first draft of hNews. In addition, TownNews, announced that is will support hNews in its BLOX content management system, which is being used by over 1,500 newspapers in the US."

"Allows you to enhance your Google search results by marking up web pages with Microformats or RDFa. Enter a web page URL to see how it may appear in search results."

Google has started looking for microformats and RDFa. Finally, something concrete to put in front of clients when arguing for microformats.

"Google announced that it was following in the footsteps of Yahoo’s SearchMonkey in indexing microformats and RDFa to display in search results. For now, it’s a subset of microformats—hCard and hReview—on a subset of websites, including the newly microformated Yelp. The list of approved sites will increase over time so if you’re already publishing structured contact and review information, let Google know about it. But the other new announcement is equally important. After a lot of hard work, the value class pattern is ready for use."

Interesting rant about microformats.

"A Microformats and CSS demonstration site by Andy Clarke, part of the For A Beautiful Web series of web design and development workshops launching in 2008."

"The developers at BBC Radio Labs announced today that they’ll be removing the hCalendar microformat from their programmes listing pages, pending further accessibility testing or the establishment of a more accessible alternative."

"A simple, open, distributed format, suitable for embedding information about audio recordings in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML". Can't believe I missed this microformat. To integrate.

"In the coming weeks, we'll be releasing more detailed specifications that will describe our support of semantic web standards. Initially, we plan to support a number of microformats, including hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom, and XFN." Rock on.

"We’ve just published 26,456,448 hListings on Kelkoo. [...] Alongside that gigantic number, we’ve also published 6500 hcards for the details of our merchants and stores; the companies listing the products on Kelkoo."

"This demo shows how compound microformats can be used to progressively enhance HTML with semantic meaning."

"What does all this mean? It means we can expect the web to get itself organized, in a hurry. At stake is a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo search, and anyone else that may choose to build applications on top of this data."

"How to use hCards to fill in forms". Not a new idea (implemented on getsatisfaction.com signup) but good to have some source to play with.

"In this post we look at how content owners can implement simple annotation strategies which can help the top-down tools and search engines to make the web more structured."

"Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors." Not sure how I missed this.

"Easily transform your microformatted content to nice, clean, easily digestible, XML, JSON or JSON-P."

"As Borges wrote reviews of non-existent books, I have notes for essays I'll never write. Here I've collected what's been on my mind the last couple of months."

"While it’s good to know that users of tools such as Tails and Operator will derive added value from your shiny semantics, it’s nice to be able to reuse that effort in your own code."

"Provides information on all current TV and radio programmes across the BBC."

"Places where microformats can be insterspersed in the flow of natural English sentences."

"This post is supposed to give you an idea, what Microformats actually mean, which advantages they have and how you can use them to enrich your content and make it more visible and understandable for search engines."

POSH encapsulates the best practices of using semantic HTML to author web pages. Semantic HTML is the subset of HTML 4.01 (or XHTML 1.0) elements and attributes that are semantic rather than presentational.

"Last Monday I had the opportunity to visit the Test Partners, after an invite by Steve Green, to attend an afternoon of screen reader demonstration. I’m exceptionally glad I went"

"A Microformat Detection Extension for Firefox 2"

"Make your own microformat icons and add them to the wiki with Wolfgang's excellent Icon DevKit. Contains both Photoshop and Illustrator vector content."

Big list of microformats resources

"We talk about how to design for a distributed Web, how individual sharing leads to the creation of social and business value, and also a bit about Yahoo’s Hackday and how they are trying to put social software, open APIs and microformats to work."

"An extension for Showing and Exporting Microformats."

"A very early iteration of a microformats cheat sheet. It lists the properties by format and also lists each format and the hierarchy. This includes elemental microformats, compound microformats and some of the standard design patterns used."

Microformat tools

"How are microformats faring a year or so after their coming-out party?"

"A quick look at what microformats are and aren’t, then we’ll look at some very significant organizations already using them. Then we’ll take a look at just how easy it is to use them."

"Here is a summary of 8 steps any web developer can take to improve their page code"

"A new community site, dedicated to the S5 Presentation software, originally developed by Eric Meyer."

"AHAH is a very simple technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript. It involves using XMLHTTPRequest to retrieve (X)HTML fragments which are then inserted directly into the web page, whence they can be styled using CSS"

"Regularly-updated succinct compilations of the most important information on web pages. They are compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and are regularly upda