This page lists various presentations, sessions, papers and posters which have provided explanations and discusions of both microformats in general, and specific microformats. Check out microformats events for upcoming presentations. See also microformats podcasts and screencasts for audio/video presentations and discussions.
Note: This page is missing a lot of presentation links. More presentation links can be found by going through specific events pages.
2007-10-31 Microformats - The What, Where, Why and How This is a recording of a presentation given by Mark Meeker on Microformats. Mark is an Architect on the UI Engineering team at Orbitz Worldwide. OrbitzTech talk Chicago Il.
June 8, Pete Prodoehl presented Microformats to the Milwaukee Web Design Meetup Group
May 30, NetSquaredConference, 4:15pm-5:10pm: : A web more woven - the alchemy and practicalities of Mashups. Tantek Çelik, Taylor McKnight and Chris Messina will discuss the core utility of microformats to publish and share data for/with mashups and other applications. Location: Jordan room, Cisco Systems' Vineyard Conference Center, 260 E. Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA.
May 25, Brian Suda and Ryan King presented Practical Microformats at WWW 2006 (Molly Holzschlag was orginally scheduled to give this talk, we filled in at the last minute with our slides from XTech)
March 1, W3C Technical Plenary Day, Hotel Sofitel Cannes Mandelieu Royal Casino, main auditorium, 605 avenuedu Général de Gaulle, BP 49, MANDELIEU LA NAPOULE CEDEX, 06212 MANDELIEU LA NAPOULE, FRANCE
"I'm very excited about microformats. What I really want is to get all the data out of databases and expressed as part of the Semantic Web." - Tim Berners-Lee. (emphasis added)
"Services and the Web" by Mark Nottingham (Yahoo), 12:05pm-12:10pm.
Request to W3T/W3M: Go After The "Real" Web: Apache, PHP, Mozilla, Intermediaries and Caches, Microformats, JSON... (emphasis added)
Attendees voted the "Microformats" session the best session of the Plenary Day. 6:17pm.
February 24, Yahoo Speakers Series, Yahoo Mission College Campus, 2nd floor conference room, 2821 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054
March 15: "Decentralized Social Networks", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 17AB, Austin TX
March 14: "How to Trick-Out Your Blog", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 16B, Austin TX
March 13
"Emergent Semantics", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 15, Austin TX
"Leveraging Tags", as part of the "How to Leverage Solipsism" panel, South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 18A, Austin TX
September 11: "Attention.XML", O'Reilly Media Foo Camp 2004, O'Reilly Campus, Appaloosa room, Sebastopol CA
September 10: "Simple Semantic Formats", O'Reilly Media Foo Camp 2004, O'Reilly Campus, Camel room, Sebastopol CA
March 15: "Ridiculously Easy Social Software", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2004, Austin Convention Center Room 17B, Austin TX
February 11th: "real world semantics", O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) 2004 Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA. This presentation was the first public discussion and introduction of the terms "microformat" and "lowercase semantic web". Reprised as a five-minute lightning talk at ConCon, Rx Gallery, San Francisco CA (16 February 2004).
