Microformats
Yahoo! Local announced support for microformats today. If you aren't already familiar with microformats, they're basically standard semantic markup for a lot of information people are already communicating over the Web. They don't represent an extension to XHTML, just a standard way of marking up information.
So, for example, if you were planning an Independence Day party on July 4th, publishing it as follow ensures that Yahoo! Local can pickup that information and make it searchable as a calendar event.
So, for example, if you were planning an Independence Day party on July 4th, publishing it as follow ensures that Yahoo! Local can pickup that information and make it searchable as a calendar event.
<div class="vevent">
<abbr class="dtstart" title="20060704T0700-0700">
July 4th, 7:00 PM
</abbr> -
<abbr class="dtend" title="20060704T1100-0700">
11:00 PM
</abbr> -
<span class="summary">
July 4th Party!
</span> - at
<span class="location">
Cool New Hang-out!
</span>
<div class="description">
Come see the fireworks.
</div>
</div>