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Semantic Dreamer goes ‘Oomph’

I just incorporated a cross-browser HTML overlay to aggregate the Microformats used on my blog.

The overlay is triggered by YOU clicking on the little (gleaming on page load) button in the upper left corner of the site.

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The overlay will “light up” Microformats used throught the site, aggregate and map the content (using Microsoft Virtual Earth) as well as provid options to export the data, e.g. hCalendar to Outlook, Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar and Apple’s iCal or hCard to Yahoo!, Outlook and Apple’s Addressbook.

The overlay is built using JQuery and is part of the Consume track of Microsoft’s Oomph toolkit.

About Oomph

Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit is for web developers, designers and users, making it easier to create, consume, and style Microformats. In short, Oomph makes consuming and producing content for the web just a little easier, more efficient, more fun.
(Source: visitmix.com/lab/oomph)

Especially in case your operating system is Windows you might want to check out the other features of the toolkit:

  • an Internet Explorer Add-in that finds Microformats on a page
  • a Windows Live Writer plug-in written in WinForms for inserting hCards

The Oomph’s source code is available from the project site hosted on Microsoft’s CodePlex: oomph.codeplex.com

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Safari Microformats plugin

The Safari Microformats plugin (Mac OS X Leopard 10.5+ only) notifies you when the author of the website has published Microformats and allows you to easily import hCards and hCalendars in Address Book and iCal.

How it works

When a hCard or hCalendar is present in the website you visit, the Microformats logo will be shown in the address bar.

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Click on the logo, and a sheet opens, showing you all the Microformats. You can add them individually, or all at once.

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At the bottom of the sheet, you can choose in which iCal calendar and Address Book group you wish to import the Microformats data. If you have installed Growl , a notification will be shown when you import data. Click the notification and iCal or Address Book will launch.

(Via Safari Microformats plugin.)

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