I missed the ‘Decentralizing Data’ session at Supernova unfortunately (still on NZ time and so slept through my alarm this morn!), but Dan Farber has the story about Yahoo Local‘s new support for microformats. I spoke briefly to Andy Baio afterwards, so I plan to write a more in-depth post later on this news. Here’s Dan’s coverage:
“In the quest to make the Web more structured, Yahoo Local now supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews, said Yahoo’s Andy Baio (below) during a workshop on decentralizing data at Supernova. […]”
Am now in the ‘Engaged Markets’ workshop at Supernova and will blog that soon.
Update: I wrote up some thoughts regarding the microformat news on my ZDNet blog, in a post entitled Yahoo and Microsoft support microformats – what chance Google?.
