The Session
Microformats: Can your website be your API?
Every time non-semantic markup is used, a piece of data dies. Data was born to be shared. Discover how the use of semantic markup and microformats can obsolete common read-heavy APIs and can be paired with identity protocols to provide casual APIs for the loosely coupled generation.
The Speaker
Drew McLellan is a web developer and author from just outside London, UK. With a broad background in all aspects of web design and development, Drew specialises in web applications. He spends his days working as a web developer for Yahoo Europe, and his nights writing technical books and articles. He maintains personal web sites, All in the Head, on the topics surrounding and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 Ways.
At the Web Standards Project, Drew has held the title of strategy lead as well as helping out with public relations and various other duties. He is the author of Dreamweaver MX Web Development for New Riders Publishing, and has had technical articles published by O'Reilly Media's XML.com, alistapart.com and Macromedia.com. When he grows up, he'd like to be a train driver.
