Alex Faaborg

Yesterday Sherman Dickman, Myk Melez and I met with Tantek Çelik and Ryan King at the Technorati office in San Francisco to discuss potential support for microformats in future versions of Firefox.
Topics Discussed:

They have created a Web service to convert hCard and hCalendar microformats to their binary equivalents, called X2V.
Demo of Operator
The reason Yahoo! has [...]

Previously
Part 0: Introduction to Microformats
Part 1: Structured Data Chaos
Part 2: The Fundamental Types
Introducing Operator, a Microformat Detection Extension for Firefox 2
Today Mozilla Labs is releasing Operator, a microformat detection extension developed by Michael Kaply at IBM. Operator demonstrates the usefulness of semantic information on the Web, in real world scenarios.

Here are some examples of [...]

Previously
Part 0: Introduction to Microformats
Part 1: Structured Data Chaos
The Fundamental Types
If Firefox 3 is potentially going to ship with native support for microformat detection, then a very important initial question becomes “which ones?”
I spent a lot of time over the last month pondering this, and I thought about a variety of different things:

The basic types [...]

Previously
Part 0: Introduction

An Explosion of RSS Icons
On his blog, Ray Ozzie has a picture of the various types of buttons that have appeared on the Web to represent RSS feeds:

Several of these are truly bizarre. There seems to be an unusually high occurrence of coffee mugs and pills. I am not really sure [...]

Have you been over hearing people talk about microformats and thought to yourself “what are those?” In this post I provide a quick introduction, and discuss the various ways that microformats are changing the Web.

What are microformats?
Microformats can be explained in a number of ways, but the easiest way to explain them is to [...]

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Yesterday Justin Dolske and I spent the day attending a course by Edward Tufte called Presenting Data and Information.
Tufte is all about the high-resolution-high-bandwidth-multi-variable-insanely-complex-data-dump. At one point he stated that since people have a 150 megapixel visual system, it is technically impossible to overload them with complexity on a computer screen, since it simply [...]

Today Myk and I spent some time talking about the visual identity and user interface of Live Titles. I think I’ve come up with a way to streamline the bookmark UI in Firefox and I would love to get some feedback …