We Now Support Microformats
Starting today, we’re happy to announce Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews. There are a few reasons behind this change, which for now, will be transparent to almost everyone.
In less-techy terms, “microformats” are an open standard for structuring web page content in a meaningful and reusable way. At Yahoo, we’ve been big microformat fans — Yahoo! Tech uses the hReview microformat for all product reviews, Flickr supports XFN and hCard on all profile pages, and our own Upcoming.org was the first big hCalendar supporter.
We believe in giving you more control over your data and the user experience on Yahoo! Local. With our microformat support, we’ve opened up new data and new possibilities for the developer community to build upon, to make tools that will be genuinely useful to all our users.
For now, most of the tools are pretty geeky, but this will change as adoption grows. Some of our favorites:
- Tails Export for Firefox. This extension will detect and display microformats on any page and let you export them to Outlook, iCal, and more. hCalendar to Yahoo! Calendar.
- Yesterday, Gordon from Upcoming.org modified an open-source Greasemonkey user script to add any hCalendar event to Yahoo! Calendar. If you’re using Greasemonkey and Firefox, try it out.
- The Flocktails Extension for the Flock web browser detects microformats and shows how pretty they can be.
- Many, many more are available on the Microformats wiki.
If you find (or build) any other cool utilities or apps, let us know!
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and the Yahoo! Local Team
June 21st, 2006 at 6:11 pm
[…] As part of a very cool announcement on the part of Yahoo! Local, I ended up writing my first greasemonkey script yesterday. Local is now marking up events, business entities, and reviews with Microformats. This is an important announcement on Yahoo!’s part, not for the mere availability of the data (as it was always there), but instead because it means that development of third party applications for Yahoo! users can be accelerated. Such as, this GM script. Instead of copying-and-pasting, or hand-entering event info into your Y! Calendar, microformats make it simpler for the developer (me) to provide the end-user (you) with a bridge to move that info of interest around automatically. The general idea is that microformats are a catalyst for useful applications of data on the web, not as an end unto themselves. […]
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June 21st, 2006 at 9:48 pm
[…] From the Yahoo! Local blog (which is itself new), a massive announcement about Yahoo! support of microformats: Starting today, we’re happy to announce Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews. […]
June 21st, 2006 at 10:06 pm
[…] As announced in the Yahoo Local blog, Yahoo Local now supports microformats. Starting today, we’re happy to announce Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews. There are a few reasons behind this change, which for now, will be transparent to almost everyone. […]
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June 22nd, 2006 at 6:12 am
Tails Export for Firefox. This extension will detect and display microformats on any page and let you export them to Outlook, iCal, and more.
Not quite correct. Tails Export for Firefox is Windows only, so it doesn’t let you export them to iCal. Perhaps you meant *.ics?
June 22nd, 2006 at 6:48 am
[…] At the Supernova workshops today, Yahoo! Local announced that it now supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats "on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews." There will be a lot more aggregation services popping up to take advantage of microformatted data The main benefit of this is it makes Web data more structured, because microformats are a way to standardize on different types of data - events, listings, calendar, etc. Another benefit, as Dan Farber quoted Yahoo’s Andy Baio on, is that microformats will bring interoperability between the desktop and the Web. This is something I talked about yesterday, when I discussed Microsoft’s plan to integrate desktop and Web using Windows Live ID as one of the underpinnings (i.e. the digital identity part). […]
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:23 am
[…] Microformats and hCalendar are a key piece of the demo. Talking of microformats, Yahoo! Local have added their support to their listings service. Niall Kennedy and Dan Farber have more on that. […]
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:02 pm
[…] Yahoo! Local now full of Microformats: “As seen on the Yahoo! Local blog: Starting today, we’re happy to announce Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews. There are a few reasons behind this change, which for now, will be transparent to almost everyone. […]
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:59 pm
[…] Yahoo Local is now supporting microformats. Basically, a way to make markup human-readable/understandable…but the point people are missing is that they are structuring unstructured data and make it more machine readable as well. […]
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Ray: Tails Export works on the Mac, but the Firefox Extensions site incorrectly claims it’s Windows-only. Try installing it manually:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions/tails_export/tails_export-0.2.5-fx+fl-windows.xpi
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:06 pm
The new look sucks, basically. Please let us choose between the old and new. Meantime, where did the maps go?
June 23rd, 2006 at 5:12 am
Andy: Thanks for the pointer to the Mac version of Tails Export. I should have done more research before shooting of my comment.
After some light testing, there are a few problems with Tails Export on Mac, at least.
There seems to be a bug in the debugging code. Any time that I saw that a microformat was detected and I attempted to export it, the debugging message would pop up, but there wasn’t any way to make it go away short of restarting the browser. Turning off debug output seemed to clear this up.
There is also some oddity with tabs. Once you detect microformat data and open the pane to view it, there is a noticable pause when navigating to a second tab, whether that tab has microformat data or not. It seems like Tails Export doesn’t do any caching so each time you switch tabs, it has to rescan the new tab content.
This is makes it almost unusable on a microformat rich page like http://upcoming.org/metro/us/ca/sfba/
Finally, sometimes I would view a page and get the bright icon indicating that there was microformat data, but other times I would view the same page and get nothing. Here is an example: http://tinyurl.com/obsf3 That page is local.yahoo.com, so maybe you know if the data really is different from refresh to refresh. Unfortunately I didn’t check the page data at the time and of course I can’t repeat the problem now. It could also have been a side effect of the rescan problem.
These are complaints about Tails Export. Flock Tails seems to not have the same slow down for me on the same pages, but I didn’t do the most comprehensive test since I don’t use Flock that often and I only have a few tabs open.
As far as your Y! local announcement, congratulations. I have been waiting a lot, and working some, on getting the pieces of this microformat puzzle put together. Now you have done it and people can see where to work to make it better.
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June 23rd, 2006 at 6:22 pm
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June 24th, 2006 at 3:40 am
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June 28th, 2006 at 7:44 am
[…] Last June 21, Yahoo Local has announced that they’re now publishing their data in microformats and this includes hCards, hCalendars, and hReviews. There was even a party launched where a t-shirt of microformats is available at cheap prices in San Francisco California. there were also lots,of giveaways fresh codes, drinks dancing and micro-deserts. HaHaHahaAHa…. […]
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[…] I neglected to post on Yahoo! Local supporting microformats. Basically it makes it easier to organize and discover information because of standardization. Here’s more info. […]
July 14th, 2006 at 6:19 am
[…] http://ylocalblog.com/blog/2006/06/21/we-now-support-microformats/ […]
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[…] So, Yahoo! has started publicly supporting microformats, which is great, because they are the ones generating the pages. What if you want to make a microformat out of 3rd party XHTML without touching it? Here’s my questions. Feel free to comment below. I’m travelling, but I’ll try to moderate asap. […]
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