Posted on Thursday, January 04 2007 @ 9:25 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
The upcoming Firefox 3 browser will be turned in an "Information Broker" with the new microformats support:
"Much in the same way that operating systems currently associate particular file types with specific applications, future Web browsers are likely going to associate semantically marked up data you encounter on the Web with specific applications, either on your system or online. This means the contact information you see on a Web site will be associated with your favorite contacts application, events will be associated with your favorite calendar application, locations will be associated with your favorite mapping application, phone numbers will be associated with your favorite VOIP application, etc."
More details at
Read Write Web.
