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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.

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

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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I an open letter seventeen managers of open source companies (e.g. John Powell – CEO Alfresco, Don Klaiss – CEO Compiere, Brian Gentile, CEO Jaspersoft, Ross Mason – CTO MuleSource) appeal to U.S. President Obama to include open source software in the future more often in technically-oriented government initiatives.

YES, I do support this – being myself dedicated to of open (web) standards and the open source community…

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Couldn’t agree more to the essence of the following great metaphor that I stumbled upon while reading the post Deconstructing Rich Internet Applications by Matthew Gertner:

“Think of the web, of the Internet itself, as water. Proprietary platforms based on the web are ice cubes. They can, for a time, suspend themselves above the web at large. But over time, they only ever melt into the water. And maybe they make it better when they do.“

(Via : Anil Dash: Blackbird, Rainman, Facebook and the Watery Web.)

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