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Social Clouds, XML 10 Years Old, and Honourable Mentions

The Social Cloud Kevin Marks is a software engineer at Google, was principal engineer for Technorati and one of the founders of Microformats . In this video Kevin talks about the big picture re: the phenomenon of online social networks in a presentation called The Social Cloud . Great backgrounder to...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-12-2008
The Web Standards Fluster Cuck

Clucking bell, Molly Holzshlag really has kicked the web standards beehive with a blog post expressing her great discontent with the W3C and WaSP . Ridiculously Inadequate Backgrounder Now, before you head off and read the post and the 60+ comments, here's a bit of background on why I find this post...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-13-2007
Google Maps API support for the hCard microformat to Google Maps results - jolly good!

The Google Maps API blog has announced support for the hCard microformat to Google Maps results. I won't go into why I think this is cool right now (no time!), but it is cool. If you haven't heard of microformats or understand why the standard is getting attention from a huge player like Google, then...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-31-2007
Microsummaries are NOT microformats (yet?)

Skimming through R/WW's review of Firefox 2, Microsummaries caught my eye. What are Microsummaries ? "Microsummaries are regularly-updated short summaries of web pages. When you bookmark a web page that has a microsummary, you can choose to display the microsummary as the title of the bookmark...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-18-2006
microformats everywhere + live data web

Good to see Conor O'Neill is pretty excited with the realization that this Event plugin enables WIndows Live Writer to publish hCalendar formatted events. hCalendar is one of the microformats . "Create your own events or find existing events through intergrated search of the Eventful.com website...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-04-2006
Moving my blog

OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er, new blog .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-02-2006
Search & Enjoy! (Podcast) The Power of Search and Recommendation

"Speakers from Microsoft, Blinkx and Last.fm discussed issues of content regarding search, recommendation, the semantic web and the ownership of data in the Web 2.o era at Content 2.0 on 6th June 2006." I was on the panel with Matthew Ogle of LastFM and Surunga Chandratillake of Blinx TV ,...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by admin on 06-28-2006
OPML Podcast

Here's an OPMLish podcast for you, recorded tonight with me , Joshua Porter , Adam Green and John Tropea . It's all about the draft OPML 2.0 spec and a few other things thrown in such as structured blogging, OPML tools, namespaces and microformats. We had Adam along today as he's been experimenting...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by admin on 03-10-2006
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...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by admin on 03-10-2006
Structured Blogging Podcast with Marc Canter and Joe Reger

You might have heard of the Structured Blogging initiative announced earlier this week by Marc Canter and others...there was certainly plenty of buzz and reaction to the news , but not all the reaction was rosy . So Joshua Porter and I thought we'd give Marc Canter and Joe Reger a chance to respond...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by admin on 12-16-2005

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