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  Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web 

  http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3701096

  September 21, 2007 Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web By Sean Michael Kerner In the beginning of the Internet revolution, being connected was all about the simple hyperlink. Like magic with one click ... a Web browser could be transported anywhere on the Internet that content lives. But what about context? What about connecting related information and content in a semantic context? The hyperlink of the early era isn't enough. Enter Microformats , which offer the promise of helping Web content owners enable users to connect the disparate dots that connect content in a semantic way. To be more precise and borrowing from the official Microformats.org definition, "Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags, etc. in Web pages." Though the term "microformats" may not yet be mainstream, mainstream vendors have taken notice. Big names like Technorati, Mozilla, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Digg, and Yahoo among countless others are all at work trying to make   [More...] [Less...]

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  scottberkun.com » #26 - The myth of discoverability 

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  #26 - The myth of discoverability By Scott Berkun , August 2003 Discoverability is often defined as the ability for a user of a design to locate something that they need, in order to complete a certain ... task. It’s common to hear programmers and designers utter the phrase “that won’t be discoverable”, while pointing to a specific command or link they believe users will fail to find. The trap, and the myth, of discoverability is that in any design, not everything can be discoverable. There are two flavors of the myth: the core myth, and its corollary. The myth of discoverability, in concise form : The belief that all good user interfaces make all things in the website or product utterly and extremely discoverable, and any design that makes an element (button, link, etc.) less than extremely discoverable, can’t possibly be very good, and should be thrown away, to the embarrassment of the designer. The corollary for large teams : In lieu of a truly good design, often people on the team will   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 18 March 2008, by: Suzy Pym  [Report as spam]

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