The Potential of Microformats

Eric A. Meyer

Complex Spiral Consulting

The Potential Is...

The Strength of Microformats

Case Study: hReview

Some Existing Microformats

Case Study: Metrolling

  1. Publish a list of people you met at WWW2005, with a link to each person's personal site
  2. Add rel="met" to each link
    <a href="http://meyerweb.com/" 
       rel="met">Eric Meyer</a>
  3. Ping an XFN spider service with your site's URL
  4. There is no step 4: you're done!

Identity Consolidation

In Summary

This Afternoon