Apparently a conversation I had with Narendra at TechCrunch BBQ #5 convinced him to add microformats support to 30boxes. I suppose I'll forgive him for the pOPML reference, but in the meantime, if you're inclined, grab my 30boxes hCard.

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NoteMe · 2006-03-22 00:55:53

I think microformats does a terrible job to tell what they are to an average "Joe" like me. I even went to their home page and read in the "What are microformats?" and the clicked the "Learn more about microformats" link, and then even went to Wikipedia, before giving up on really understanding what the fuss is all about, and what we are supposed to use it for, and so on. It might just be me who is slow, but I need some sort of spoon in my mouth, with an introduction soon..:)

Dimitri Glazkov · 2006-03-22 04:34:42

NoteMe, you're not alone. But... we're working on it :)

30 Boxes: It’s Your Life » Blog Archive » 30 Boxes Supports Microformats - hcard and hcal · 2006-03-22 18:13:29

[...] Thanks to some encouragement from Chris Messina of Flock, we have added support for microformats within 30 Boxes.Â Microformats are “a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.”Â In our case, we are using xhtml to markup contact and calendar data so that it can be used and transformed by other applications.Â There is a slick Firefox extension called Tails which lets you detect any microformats present on a web page (including those written by javascript like 30 Boxes HTML Badges.) [...]