Destroying Walled Gardens - Microformats syndication and API’s

This weekend at Barcamp London 2 I did a talk on the more advanced ideas of how microformats can be used in web applications. The talk was based in part on the WebDD session I did, but this time I really tried pushing the concepts of portable social networking and the conscious development of microformat API’s.

As the hearts and minds battle to promote microformats is making ground. A lot of the people at these events are already aware of microformats, so I am moving more to talking about the next step: practical real world applications.

I have uploaded the slides which I have licenced under Creative Commons. To a certain extent, the slides will only make sense if viewed alongside some coherent notes of the talk. I have already written up some of my views on portable social networking and hoping to get around to writing about the other subjects soon.