Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a way of adding simple semantic meaning to human-readable content which is otherwise, from a machine's point of view, just plain text. Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging). [About]
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