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Posts Tagged ‘Oomph’
"Oomph2: A Microformats Toolkit" Now Available
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 [...]
New Opinion: I <3 hMedia
One of the nice things about hMedia is that it spans multiple media, specifically audio, video, and images, which is what people produce and consume on the web. This fact makes it attractive and we think it has good chances for widespread adoption. One of the nice aspects of hMedia is how it plays well [...]
Oomph Added to MIX09 Site
We’ve added the Oomph Microformats Toolkit to the MIX09 conference site, to help users and conference goers. With the addition of Oomph, users can now directly export conference and speaker information to Outlook, Yahoo!, and many other service providers.
Before triggering Oomph:
After triggering Oomph, you see the overlay displaying the event and speaker information:
We [...]
Oomph for Firefox
Belgian developer Pascal Van Hecke put together a great Greasemonkey implementation for the MIX Online prototype, “Oomph.”
Inserting lines of JavaScript automatically in any page? That sounds like a Greasemonkey job, doesn’t it? Strangely enough, a search for Oomph and Greasemonkey didn’t result in anything useful. So that’s why I put this simple Greasemonkey userscript online2 [...]
PDC2008 Recap
I think it was interesting being the only designer in a sea of hardcore developers. In fact, some of the devs I spoke with were really surprised that Microsoft had people like me — Designers, people who care passionately about User Experience — actually worked here. The impression many had was we were 100% developer-focused, [...]
Oomph on DelicateGenius
Delicate Genius interviews Karstenj and Tim Aidlin on Oomph and Microformats
Oomph on IE Gallery
This morning we made Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit available on the Internet Explorer Gallery (beta). We’re hoping this makes it even easier for users to enjoy the great functionality that Oomph provides. Cheers to Joshua Allen for all his hard work on Oomph and for getting it on the gallery.
Designing With Microformats
With the recent re-boot of MIX Online, one of the new features was the publishing of comprehensive articles centered around a particular subject. For launch, the first subject we tackled was the technology of microformats. We were fortunate to get John Allsopp to write the first article, basically introducing the concept of Microformats. John Allsopp [...]
Microformats live writer plugin
I’ll make this post the official live test of the Oomph Microformats Windows Live Writer hCard generator plugin. Wow, that’s a lot of words. Here’s what it generates, using my contact information:
Tim Aidlin
Microsoft
taidlin@microsoft.com
1 Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 USA
425.706.7655
http://thunderkick.us
We soon will be releasing this plugin as well as some other great tools that will [...]