Microformats are definitely picking up the pace.

Remy Sharp now weighted in with this brilliant microformats bookmarklet . It allows you to discover common microformats on pages with a simple click of a button. Its great to see the grand vision of microformats edging closer to reality every day.

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What are microformats?

Microformats are essentially a guideline of how content designers should format common data. These “formats” are standardized and while not changing the appearance of this data it allows machines to parse it and extract these nuggets of data and process them further. In other words you will finally be able to drag drop a web page with contact information onto your Address software and it should “just work”.