ProgrammableWeb:
London’s Science Museum, founded in 1851, houses a number of historical innovations, including the oldest surviving steam locomotive, and a replica of Babbage’s Difference Engine. Now, with the rollout of a new API to provide (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Have you ever heard about microformats? If you still need someone to clearly explain what it is about, check out Joe Hall's post on development trends that will impact SEO.Microformats look for a new way to format markup lang (Read More)
Social Networking and Collaboration Feed:
Not too long ago, every new site you joined on the Web forced you to provide a daunting array of details about you in order to join. Full pages of pull-down menus asking about your date of birth, your marital status, your hom (Read More)
Submitted by SEO_Specialist
from blog:
Gary Eckstein asked: Google and Yahoo now index RDFa and Microformats data contained within Web pages. Yahoo has been indexing and using RDFa and Microformats meta data for a short while and Google has announced that they hav (Read More)
Hacker News:
This guest post comes from Daniel Jacobson, Director of Application Development for NPR. Daniel leads NPR’s content management solutions, is the creator of the NPR API and is a frequent contributor to the Inside NPR.org blog (Read More)
Search Engine Journal:
It’s been another week in the trenches and while it may have been a little slow out there, we did have some big news with Google Social Search. Question remains, will it really be a game changer or just another vertical? And (Read More)
webmonkey:
A burning question that’s been tossed around for years — “Why isn’t Firefox on my phone?” — has finally been answered.Firefox will begin showing up on mobile devices at the end of this year. I got the chance to test a beta ve (Read More)
PDF CHM Books Catalogue:
In this book you'll Discover how to make use of CSS 2.1 alongside CSS3. Use CSS generated content to automatically number arbitrary elements and expose attribute metadata. Learn how to use CSS for print and mobile de (Read More)
Google Code Blog:
Custom Search themes make it easy for you to customize the look and feel of your search results pages. And if you want to take the customization gig further, you can also customize the result snippet—a small sample of content (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Earlier this year, the Associated Press, together with the Media Standards Trust, introduced hNews, a new microformat for describing news content. HNews allows publishers to easily attach machine-readable news semantics to co (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Online newspaper publisher TownNews.com has signed up as the first user of a new “microformat” for online news, designed to increase articles’ search ratings. The hNews format is built by AP and the UK-based Media Standards T (Read More)
Submitted by pfefferle
from blog:
All for one, one for all:Lots of citizens ask questions about microformats on Twitter. So in an attempt to be coordinated and useful, I’ve assembled a small league of superheroes to stand up for truth, justice and structured (Read More)
Yahoo! Developer Network blog:
Ever wonder how SearchMonkey generates all of this structured data for use in projects like Enhanced Results, Object Facets, Site Facets, BOSS, and ranking? Have you wondered what Yahoo envisions as "a web of concepts", or ho (Read More)
Digital Inspiration:
HTML5 is next major version of HTML and, though it is still a "work in progress", some of the new HTML5 specific tags are already natively supported in the latest builds of all popular browsers including Chrome, Safari, Firef (Read More)
FriendFeed hoffmann:
One repeatedly upcoming problem is what identifier a normal user would use for identifying his or her own user account. One approach is apparently OpenID in which case it is a HTTP URL. For the one or other reason though Open (Read More)
The Sun BabelFish Blog:
As I was in Berlin preparing to come to Paris, I wondered if I would be anywhere near as active in France as I had been in Germany. I had lived for 5 years in Fontainebleau, an hour from Paris, close but just too far to be in (Read More)
Submitted by pfefferle
from blog:
Endlich denkt beim Thema “Usability” auch mal jemand an die Entwickler Google hat über die letzten Wochen eine Usability-Studie zu Microdata durchgeführt und die Spezifikation wurde auch gleich entsprechend der Ergebnisse an (Read More)
SEO Book:
Steve Balmer on Search InnovationIn the above interview Steve Balmer states that search innovation has slowed down over the past 5 years compared to the 5 years prior. While committing to pouring billions of Dollars into the (Read More)
Yahoo! Developer Network blog:
Every Thursday is Tech Thursday where we share a random assortment of technical links we found and liked. This time this is posted live from Paris Web - may the wireless stay with me. Most of the YDN folks are already in NYC (Read More)
Submitted by matthewSBOC
from Google Reader:
Google Maps, local search engines, internet yellow pages and other online business directories often receive biz listing info from a great many sources and must merge it together (see my description of this in Eric Enge’s int (Read More)