Comments on: MicroReader Firefox Add-On http://www.mediaslate.org/wp/2007/03/20/microreader-firefox-add-on/ The world is changing every day... it's like waking up each morning to a blank slate. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:14:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: john allsopp http://www.mediaslate.org/wp/2007/03/20/microreader-firefox-add-on/#comment-8 john allsopp Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:48:11 +0000 http://www.mediaslate.org/wp/2007/03/20/microreader-firefox-add-on/#comment-8 Trent, your wish is answered. There are in fact several such plug ins. If I put links in the comment will probably get blocked, so you can look for Operator WebCards Tails Tails Export Al of which provide this kind of funtionaity, in different ways. The guys behind WebCards and Operator also have or are going to open source their client side microformat parser, so anyoen can build on top of that, or help improve it. John Trent,

your wish is answered. There are in fact several such plug ins. If I put links in the comment will probably get blocked, so you can look for

Operator
WebCards
Tails
Tails Export

Al of which provide this kind of funtionaity, in different ways.

The guys behind WebCards and Operator also have or are going to open source their client side microformat parser, so anyoen can build on top of that, or help improve it.

John

]]> By: Yihong Ding http://www.mediaslate.org/wp/2007/03/20/microreader-firefox-add-on/#comment-24 Yihong Ding Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:30:07 +0000 http://www.mediaslate.org/wp/2007/03/20/microreader-firefox-add-on/#comment-24 John, When Trent talked with me about this “MicroReader,” I believed that it was not only about viewing the content in Microformats. I am not a really Microformat person so far (though I am very interested in this technique and am willing to contribute to it). But I am sure that there must have been several of this type of tools that can read content within Microformats since this term has already become so popular now. I think the main point in the talk between Trent and me is about the use of Microformats on the realm of Web 2.0. It seems to me that right now the Microformat community has more cooperation to the Semantic Web community than to the Web 2.0 community. Though myself does more research on Semantic Web Web 2.0, I believe that Microformat fits better to the Web 2.0 than Semantic Web. I have read several posts about comparing Microformat with RDF or even OWL. Certainly they share quite a few common features, or maybe the idea of Microformat was initiated to simplify RDF and OWL. But I believe the main contribution of Microformat is not about specifying shallow semantics, which RDF may do much better than Microformat. In contrast, Microformat allows creating HTML-compatible, portable data units that can be uniformly distributed on the web without complex logic supports. Until now, this is what RDF and OWL cannot do easily. This technique fits much better on the realm of Web 2.0 because AJAX faciliates the update of pieces of web resources. Until now, web widgets are the service pieces that have been leveraged by AJAX. And I believe that Microformats are the data pieces that can be leveraged by AJAX. Yihong John,

When Trent talked with me about this “MicroReader,” I believed that it was not only about viewing the content in Microformats. I am not a really Microformat person so far (though I am very interested in this technique and am willing to contribute to it). But I am sure that there must have been several of this type of tools that can read content within Microformats since this term has already become so popular now.

I think the main point in the talk between Trent and me is about the use of Microformats on the realm of Web 2.0. It seems to me that right now the Microformat community has more cooperation to the Semantic Web community than to the Web 2.0 community. Though myself does more research on Semantic Web Web 2.0, I believe that Microformat fits better to the Web 2.0 than Semantic Web.

I have read several posts about comparing Microformat with RDF or even OWL. Certainly they share quite a few common features, or maybe the idea of Microformat was initiated to simplify RDF and OWL. But I believe the main contribution of Microformat is not about specifying shallow semantics, which RDF may do much better than Microformat. In contrast, Microformat allows creating HTML-compatible, portable data units that can be uniformly distributed on the web without complex logic supports. Until now, this is what RDF and OWL cannot do easily. This technique fits much better on the realm of Web 2.0 because AJAX faciliates the update of pieces of web resources. Until now, web widgets are the service pieces that have been leveraged by AJAX. And I believe that Microformats are the data pieces that can be leveraged by AJAX.

Yihong

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