XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people

hCard is a simple, open, distributed contact information format for people, companies, and organizations, which is suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. hCard is a 1:1 representation of the vCard standard (RFC2426) in XHTML, one

hCalendar is a simple open, distributed calendaring and events format, based on the iCalendar standard (RFC2445), suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. hCalendar is one of several open microformat standards.

Greasemonkey user script that will find hCalendar events and provide a link to import them into any calendar program that supports the iCalendar format - see an event on the web that has hCalendar information, click a link and it'll be added to your calen

Upcoming.org is a social event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site.

brimming with Aqua-beauty and a rich, dynamic user experience. It's also dead-simple to understand and use. The kitchen sink is deliberately not included in NewsFire - it snubs complexity for a minimalist interface that is intuitive, unobtrusive, and a to

PulpFiction is a next-generation, easy-to-use, powerful RSS/Atom feed reader. Featuring a familiar Mail-like interface, PulpFiction will fetch, organize, and display news and articles from thousands of weblogs and websites.

Everyone's talking about RSS feeds these days, but sometimes it's unclear how you can use RSS to do anything useful. I've been experimenting with RSS for quite some time, and I've discovered an interesting combination of tools that let you become producti

a branch of the nonprofit Creative Commons, devoted to easing unnecessary barriers to the flow of scientific knowledge and technical information. We work to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and enterprises

reconstructs a hierarchic ordering for your del.icio.us links using set theory [ Note: We're back up. If you are using this on a regular basis, why don't you drop us a mail, saying thank you ? After all, it's free !

a list [currently 700] of essential web-sites, tutorials, references and examples (related to CSS Navigation Menus, CSS- & HTML-Techniques, Layouts, Accessibility, Usability, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) etc.), which make the life of web developers ea

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[note they propose contact sharing format standard] RSSContact has been developed as an easy-to-use service to overcome this problem of lost connections to whom you desire to stay connected. Now simply and securely you can stay connected with these indivi

Use LookLeap to convert long, unwieldy web links into short, friendly links. Our short links are friendly because they show the long link's host name. That makes them easier to organize and eliminates surprises.

aggregates several blogs on the open-source SchoolTool project (plone-based schools admin)