Oomph and Microformats Activity
Oct 16, 2009 In News By Karsten JanuszewskiThere's a lot going on these days with Oomph (our microformats toolkit) and microformats in general. Here's the latest:
Oomph-land
Oomph2 is now in the IE Add-ons gallery. As you might suspect, you can find nifty add-ons for Internet Explorer there. If you're looking to submit something and having trouble, let us know—we now know all about the process.
Oomph is now also part of http://twtmycard.com, a website that takes advantage of Twitter's support for hCard. If you're curious: the developer of the app, Kevin Marshall, writes about the Oomph integration here.
Microformats-ville
There's always a lot going on with microformats. On the adoption front, it's great to see MySpace incorporating hCard in its Profile 2.0 work. With MySpace joining the party, the latest count of hCards out there numbers 1.45 billion, according to Yahoo's Search Monkey.
The Food Network has also started using microformats, adopting the hRecipe spec in its pages. (This could be a very interesting extension to Oomph.)
There's also stuff happening with applications that consume microformats. The most interesting project to emerge of late is Glenn Jones' Ident Engine, a javascript library that uses YQL, Google's Social Graph API and Glenn's own ufxtract Microformats parser (written in .NET!) to find and aggregate profiles across the web. There a number of cool demos that show the power of what Glenn's built up at http://identengine.com. Pretty amazing stuff.
And on the design front, there are some nicely formatted hCards out right now, some of which were called out recently on the microformats blog:
Go microformats!






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