Friday round up – Digg Eaten | Yahoooooo | money is power

Oh yes welcome to another sarcastic Friday round up, this week has been a little farcical for many aspects of the web.

Digg Eats itself

Unless you have been sitting under a stone you can’t help but noticed that Digg community had a bit of a bad time last few days, you can read the full story on my own blog, though by far the best commentary is coming from Greywolf.
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Microformats for search a real possibility?

Microformats are a way of adding simple markup to human-readable data items such as events, contact details or locations, on web pages, so that the information in them can be extracted by software and indexed, searched for, saved, cross-referenced or combined. …Microformats.org

I’m a huge fan of microformats they provide a semantic structured approach to XHTML markup without the need for a new standard or anybody to learn something new. like folksonomies (tagging to you) its a very common sense approach to a complicated problem. We have discussed microformats in the past relating to search engines in the form of Geo Targeting when we discussed the adr and geo formats.
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