Microformats Get Another Vote of Confidence

Last night, I attended the 1-year anniversary party for microformats. Luckily, I got to catch up with a few people I hadn’t seen in a while, especially Rohit (I love that guy). Anthony rolled down with me and came through in a pinch to lead the music for the first hour and a half - serious thanks to him for setting the tone.

Today - why not yesterday? - Yahoo! has announced that they are now even more broadly supporting microformats throughout the Yahoo! Local site.

Starting today, we’re happy to announce Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews. There are a few reasons behind this change, which for now, will be transparent to almost everyone.

Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog » Blog Archive » We Now Support Microformats

Admittedly, microformats are still pretty geeky in nature and we haven't really seen serious movement in collecting them and leveraging them (for good and evil undoubtedly), but it will happen. SocialRoots will have microformats everywhere we can put them - I can promise that much right now and make good on it in a few days ;)

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