MicroFormats Enable Distributed Applications!

Exactly. Microformats could be as big an innovation as databases were.

If databases let us store information. Microformats let us access the world's databases. Potentially!

Yes, APIs do this too. But, microformats make the database (or data store) distributed. Not controlled by one entity.

This could be as big as "http".

If you don't get how microformats can change your business, prepare to be outdone.

Comments

[Greg]

My only quibble is that microformats require crawlers to wander around and collect the microformatted data - which favors entities with large capacity crawlers. Unless, of course, your service works with a pinger and gets easy-to-use pinging tools out there - but then you've got adoption issues to overcome.

[Peter Caputa]

Agreed.

I guess a big link in the chain are APIs to the crawled and indexed data.

OR:

Maybe crawling the web will be like opening a connection to a database, in the future. To continue with the database analogy.

Lots of different ways to skin a cat when data is distributed.

[Tantek]

Peter,

Thanks for the kind words! You're right, microformats are changing things quite quickly.

For reference here is the original microformats.org posting of the blog post you referenced.

Thanks,

Tantek

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