Today we released the latest version of Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit.

Microformats 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. Oomph makes consuming and producing content for the web just a little easier, more efficient, more fun. Now featuring Oomph2!

Microformats are easy to use and have the potential for use in interesting ways, such as Oomph, allowing us to find certain kinds of information such as events, contacts, locations, video, audio, and images, to name a few.  By simply using certain, specified classes in your HTML, you enable microformats, and therefore let web-browsers know that there is specific information there, that may be consumed or styled in interesting ways.

I worked mostly on the User-Interface, while my friend and co-worker, Karsten Januszewski did all of the heaving-lifting with the development work. As for UI changes, I cleaned up a lot of the unused space in the previous version, as well as moved the Windows Live Map to the forefront, removing the need to click to access it. Additionally, we added hMedia functionality, which makes video, audio, and images tagged with the hMedia tag show up in the Oomph UI.