Microformats Emerge
I was really pleased to see that Technorati is introducing new features to their indexing service - specifically in the domain of microformat indexing. Today, Tantek has announced two new services that are in the testing phase:
Tantek also has a nice description of why this move is important (for everyone):
Microformats enable any site to easily publish common data types such as tags, licenses, contacts, events, reviews, listings, etc. on any page on the Web, with only minor edits to their HTML. For me personally, this has meant enabling millions of people to take control of their own data, publish and update it wherever they want, whenever they want, and move it freely among services, without having it locked up behind a walled garden or trapped in a "roach motel".Technorati believes in the voice of the individual, and their right to own and control their data.
Source: Technorati Weblog, “Introducing Microformats Search and Pingerati”
You can say that again! We haven’t unveiled our plans for microformats too widely yet, though I’ll tell anyone that asks me directly. I can definitely say we’ll be doing quite a bit of pinging in the very near future - we were just working on our microformat parser last night ;)