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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Nigel Parker's Outside Line : Microformats</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/tags/Microformats/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Microformats</description><dc:language>en-NZ</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/archive/2008/10/30/oomph-a-microformats-toolkit.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:09:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9023285</guid><dc:creator>nparker</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/comments/9023285.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9023285</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9023285</wfw:comment><description>&lt;P&gt;The &lt;A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC55/" mce_href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC55/"&gt;Oomph A Microformats Toolkit session&lt;/A&gt; is taking place right now at PDC.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;With the momentum of Microformats burgeoning, we decided to build &lt;A href="http://visitmix.com/lab/oomph" mce_href="http://visitmix.com/lab/oomph"&gt;Oomph: A Microformat Toolkit&lt;/A&gt;. Our main goal with Oomph is to make Microformats more accessible for developers and designers.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Microformats&lt;/STRONG&gt; are about enhancing the web, representing data in HTML and moving that data around. Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit is for web developers, designers and users, making it easier to create, consume, and style Microformats. In short, Oomph makes consuming and producing content for the web just a little easier, more efficient, more fun.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://tr.im/spiderking" mce_href="http://tr.im/spiderking"&gt;Thomas Lewis&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A href="http://tr.im/karstenj" mce_href="http://tr.im/karstenj"&gt;Karsten Januszewski&lt;/A&gt; are behind this initiative and this comes hot on the tail of our recent announcements to &lt;A href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/jQueryToShipWithASPNETMVCAndVisualStudio.aspx" mce_href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/jQueryToShipWithASPNETMVCAndVisualStudio.aspx"&gt;make jQuery part of the official Visual Studio dev platform.&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I also took Oomph for a test drive and used the Live Writer plugin to add my hCard below.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;DIV class=vcard&gt;&lt;IMG style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN-RIGHT: 4px" class=photo alt="photo of Nigel Parker" src="http://mysilverlight.members.winisp.net/nigelparker_sml.JPG"&gt;&lt;SPAN class="fn n"&gt;&lt;SPAN class=given-name&gt;Nigel&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=given-family&gt;Parker&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;DIV class=org&gt;Microsoft&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;DIV class=adr&gt;&lt;SPAN class=street-address&gt;Level 5, 22 Viaduct Harbour Ave&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=locality&gt;Auckland&lt;/SPAN&gt;, &lt;SPAN class=postal-code&gt;1150&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;SPAN class=country-name&gt;New Zealand&lt;/SPAN&gt; 
&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;A class=url href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/nigel&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Check out Karsten's soapbox video on Oomph below&lt;/P&gt;&lt;EMBED id=cn71289r height=364 type=application/x-shockwave-flash pluginspage=http://macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer width=432 src=http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf mce_src="http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf" flashvars="c=v&amp;amp;v=b205ba06-8956-423c-adf2-4d25c959afa1&amp;amp;ifs=true&amp;amp;fr=msnvideo&amp;amp;mkt=en-US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/EMBED&gt; 
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