about time!

Microformats Blog: Facebook Adds hCalendar and hCard Microformats to Millions of Events

Tips for event promoters with websites:

If you are going to publish public events on your own website

make your markup meaningful! ... make it clear to both machines and humans what is what... - use this:

http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar

anywhere you publish your events.

... or post your events somewhere that does it for you.

Event listings on spraci.com are marked up in hCalendar (they have been for years), and spraci's feed aggregator can read hCalendar

For spraci listings you should also specity what city it is in - use "geo" and "hCard" under "location".

You may have noticed some new features on spraci. Blogs are now themeable (you can change the look of your blog easily - go to "blog design" to change your blog settings). New admin page There is a new "Dashboard" page to help you manage your own content on spraci which shows your most recent blog posts, events and forum posts with links to all the forms where you can post and edit your content. User Groups have been added. You can now create a group which other people can join with its own forum and a combined blog of all group members' blogs. (with rss feed)

If you are the moderator of a group (you are the moderator of any group you create), you can set the forum to be "open" (anyone can view it, users who are logged in can post, like on the other forums)

or "closed" (only people who have joined your group can view its forum or post to it)

Look for the "Groups" link in the forums section or go to http://www.spraci.com/groups to sta

You will soon have some new methods for adding your events to listings sites like spraci.com thanks to the use of

microformats /

I've had a look at the wordpress plugin.

I think I could set it up so that when an event is posted to a blog via this plugin it is recognised as an event and posted to the event listings under the correct date, categories, city, etc.

In simple terms:

The use of microformats like hcalendar could provide lots of interesting ways for people to syndicate data such as event details, locations, contact details, etc to to other sites using standard blogging software while still keeping the data in seperate machine-useable fields.

Learn how to use hCalendar basic markup to help you with your Google search engine placement. hCalendar is a microformat and not the only one being used by search engines.

Inside Facebook

Facebook Roundup: President Obama, Vitrue, Messages, Places, Photos, Events ...

Inside Facebook

Facebook Changes Events Format - Microformats leader Tantek Celik has announced that that Facebook has changed the way it marks up events to add an hCalendar microformat, marking up venues with an hCard, too. Microformats are a set of open data formats ...

and more »

microformats momentum: Last week Facebook + hCalendar, today Google cooks up hRecipe: http://j.mp/goreci How to: microformats.org/wiki/hrecipe, announcement: googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/slice-and-dice-your-recipe-search.html and ...

Microformats are a way to slip computer-readable information into HTML, so it's "semantically" marked-up, not just visually marked up. With hCalendar, for example, when you advertise a big event on your Web page, it's not only ...

As of today, Facebook has marked up all events with the hCalendar microformat including marking up their venues with hCard as well. According to a simple Google search, that’s millions of public events now with microformats (if anyone knows a more precise number for the total number of Facebook events including private ones, or how ...

Facebook's hCalendar microformats have the wrong timezones. They asked me to help fix them. Here's how.

Does Facebook Hold Key To LBS Revolution?

MediaPost Publications

Citing an announcement by microformats community leader Tantek elik, the tech resource notes that Facebook now publishes its millions of user-generated event listings according to the standardized microformats hCalendar and hCard. Translation? ...

Guida ad HTML5: microdata (1/4)

Programmazione.it

e dai compound microformats (hCard, hCalendar, hReview, ecc.). Il formato RDFa invece una specifica del W3C, che permette di aggiungere attributi agli ...

The first quarter of this year has seen Google really make tracks with Rich Snippets, which they announced back in May of last year, with microformat implementions popping up in results for all manner of content. hCalendar One of the original, and certainly most obviously useful formats, hCalendar has made major head-roads in being adopted across ...