What Are Microformats and What Do They Mean to Mobile?
Mobile Web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 ?
are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. I am a big fan of microformats and you can find them frequently in this blog. Before I write about what microformats mean to mobile, let me briefly explain, for those who are not familiar with them, what the buzz is all about and why you should use them…
What the heck? Why do we need microformats?
It might not seem so on the first glance, but computers are incredibly stupid, even though they can do impressive things like adding up all the data in your huge Excel file within a blink of an eye. However, those machines can only understand us if we provide them with exactly the input and commands they are expecting..
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How do microformats help?
Microformats are a forerunner of the Semantic Web, which some folks even call Web 3.0. The problem with the “real” Semantic Web is that the new standards are complicated and it takes lots of time and brainpower to use them. We still have to wait some years for the Semantic Web to happen, as this will be a major version change of the web. If we will switch to it at all..
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