Oh no I forgot about that event!

So you just spent weeks putting together an even that your site is sponsoring, it took tons of work and people are aware but wouldnt it be nice if you could sink all of the events information to the users outlook or his google calendar? Or even better a google map that syncs with his google calendar and then that syncs with his personal organizer! Wow that would be the best…well guess what you can do that, its called Microformats.

What the heck is a Microformat? Well the simple definition is its a way to format data in xml so that it is readable by all sorts of devices and services. Heres an example of a hCard microformat

<div class=”vcard”>
   <div class=”fn”>Joe Doe</div>
   <div class=”org”>The Example Company</div>
   <div class=”tel”>604-555-1234</div>
   <a class=”url” href=”http://example.com/”>http://example.com/</a>
 </div>

So as you can see its really simple and overly helpful you can check out more information on the following sites.

Microformats.org
Wikipedias Microformats Article
Wikipedias hCard article

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