Hi folks --
After the SDForum microformats panel last month, I had a propitious
conversation with Assaf Arkin and a few other folks about reviving
discussion of a listings microformat. About two weeks ago, Craig
Donato of Oodle encouraged me with an insight about the similarity to
hReview:
> If hReview is about what you *think* of something, hListing is
what you want to *do* with it: buy, sell, trade, ...
Based on that conversation, we admit we had a few rounds of private
back-and-forth discussions about what such a spec might look like;
and we used the upcoming SDForum Search SIG meeting on classified ad
startups as a rallying point. I've just posted the resulting
documents to the wiki at:
http://microformats.org/wiki/hlisting-proposal
http://microformats.org/wiki/hlisting-feedback
This is only a proposal, with lots of holes and unfinished issues to
debate, but at least it's a proof of concept driven by some early
code: a wizard for posting listings to one's blog, and (just perhaps)
a rev of the Miffy bookmarklet for extracting and indexing them in
real-time.
If you'd like to see more innovation in this area, please don't
hesitate to post to this list, contact any of us directly, or come by
the session tomorrow night: (there's still space available -- I just
signed up)
http://searchsig.wordpress.com/2006/01/21/feb-8th-search-sig/
Thanks,
Rohit Khare
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