Category hformat

The hformat is defined at hformat.org. It is a method for embedding MicroContent Items in XHTML.

30 Jui 2008

NetNewsWire Drops Microformats Support

NetNewsWire drops support for microformat. I am afraid that is a right decision. NJobody seems to use microformats within feeds/blog posts. So deleting this code will speed up NNW, which is of greater importance.

 

[Inspiration Chris Casciano]

Categories/tags: MicroContent • client • application • format • hformat • type • blog , netnewswire
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09 Nov 2006

Lyrics aggregation service missing

I have been playing a bit with lyrics of the music I play. The metadata in iTunes have a field that allow to store data. The ID3v2 tagging system of MP3's allows to store these lyrics.

Unfortunately when you rip a CD, download it or buy it from the ITMS one does not get these lyrics. This implies that one has retreive these from the Internet, via a search engine. I came across a widget, Harmonic, that retrieves the lyrics of songs that are playing and paste them automatically into the right iTunes field. It works pretty well, but I have to do the search by hand quite often (European issue?).

This brings me to two things. We really need a lyrics aggregation service with a good API. I have the impression that the data is out there, but is not aggregated. And probably a microformat to go with it. And why do we not get all this information when we get something from Internet. Publisher should pay attention to the metadata of music. (there is a similar problem with CD covers).

And why are the lyrics so hidden. I would like to see the lyrics moving by while the music is playing. I assume that this is partly due to the use of MP3 and other formats that do not allow this. And the applications do not allow this either.

Categories/tags: MicroContent • format • hformat • type • audio
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26 Aou 2006

Techcrunch UK supports microformats

Nice, Techcrunch UK added events as microformats in their feeds.
Categories/tags: MicroContent • format • hformat
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18 Jui 2006

My hCard

Time to publish my hcard on my blog:
Next step is to embed it in my templates. The formatting of the card is lousy, so I have to work on that.
Categories/tags: MicroContent • format • hformat
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17 Jui 2006

Extract Microformats Script For NNW

Chris Casciano created a script for extracting micformattd items from blog postings for NetNewsWire. This is great, this will make it easy to save hcards and hevents into your local applications. I tried it out, but had some trouble getting it to work. I pinged Chris. I hope he can clarify it for me. Update: I got it working now. The microformats.org scripts did not work (at least for me) and I had to find alternative ones. I also adapted the AppleScript in order to extract cards and events from an Omniweb-page.
Categories/tags: MicroContent • format • hformat • mashing
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23 Juin 2006

Yahoo Local adds support for Microformats

The blogosphere is buzzing with the announcement of Yahoo that they will support microformats in Yahoo Local.

A great announcement, I hope that others will follow. And the the Microformat Aggregators may come.

[Inspiration Kimbro Staken]

Categories/tags: MicroContent • client • service • format • hformat , Kimbro Staken
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