Placelessness and the advance of micropublishing

Alex Faaborg of Mozilla talking microformats.

1- what are microformats

2- what is mozilla’s role

3- what’s the UI

(something else)

Talking microformats, hit microformats.org for extra information. Microformats book, tomorrow microformats talk, and another one on wednesday.

2- why does mozilla care?

Talking web browser history, from mosaic to mozilla.

2008 hits webbrowser to switchboard.

first, the web browser was a book, then a radio with RSS< and then with microformats it’ll become a switchboard.

Each state, web browsers have been trying to keep up and being reactive as opposed to proactive. For example, RSS there are a gajillion chicklets, and a reactive way web browsers let it go.

Microformats are kind of killing us right now similar to rss chicklets. Now, we need to create hCard geo, adr and hCalendar with associated buttons.

Operator is a plugin for interacting with microformats. Get it at labs.mozilla.org.

Also, microformats could be implemented in the regular ways (rss feed icon, sidebar, or menubar)

Bookmarks (sidenote, tagged bookmarks in ff3)

Should microformats be shown in the content area instead of browser UI? Modal intervaces suck. They heard that they shouldn’t change the content area.

Microformat creation? What if end users could create microformats. Right click say new event and create that easy inside of the browser.

Why should they use microformats?

1– open standards, please don’t hurt the web picture
2– human / computer interaction
3– cross polinating

Audience questions:how do we promote sites to take advantage of microformats?

Talking at w20 is ane say way. Adding a web browser implementation of microformats would help a lot to penetrate.

how do we support previous data entered?

try to detect, before adding structured information.

how to combat spam?

Not really helping yet, since microformats make it easier to understand what email addresses are email.