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Can we all use the same micro-formats please ?

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Published on April 24th, 2006 by Internet Infrastructure, Thoughts

I live-blogged the launch of the Structured Blogging initiative during the Syndicate conference in San Francisco, and I could not help noticing that not everyone seemed in its favor. Edgeio (Usual disclaimer: I am advisor, investor and landlord to the company) through co-founder Mike Arrington had pledged support to Structured Blogging and Micro-formats.

Google recently introduced a set of protocols for GoogleBase – GData, and unfortunately these RSS/Atom extensions don’t seem to be aligned with already established micro-formats. Richard Mc Manus raised the matter last week, and Edgeio’s Matt Kaufman has a good post on the issue, which will hopefully be solved quickly.

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  • http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_fi_19.php Read/WriteWeb

    Read/WriteWeb Filter

    - GData and Open Standards (Matt Kaufman from edgeio thinks Google could’ve done better to support existing open standards like Structured Blogging — via Jeff Clavier) -The Economist feature on new media (high level look at things like blogging …

  • http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/ Michael Fagan

    Things are not as bad as they seem.
    Firstly “GData” is basically an Atom Store ( http://bitworking.org/news/Google_Data_APIs_Protocol ), combining the Atom syndiciation format and publishing protocol, along with OpenSearch (which I think they should use more http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2006/04/20/783/ ). So *unlike* what Google usually does (just invent their own namespace such as for Google Base), they actually make use of existing open formats.
    On the other hand, along with GData, they also define some “kinds” of data ( http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/common-elements.html ), which like Google Base, they’ve gone with their own namespace instead of the common open formats. Unlike usual, however, it seems like they may be receptive to our input http://www.unto.net/unto/work/google-data-apis-and-opensearch/#comment-522 , so there’s hope :-)

  • http://alwaysuptodate.com/blog/2006/04/can_we_all_use_the_same_standa.html Social Infrastructure

    Can we all use the same standards please ?

    Cool lots of people are suggesting and rightfully so that we should all be using the same micro-formats and standards. While we will support GData it would have been nice if they used hCard and hCalendar (etc) where appropriate. Some…