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Tantek announces microformats search and ping multiplexer at Technorati. Bravo! Very cool.

A quick search for " semantic web" on the hCard-derived Contacts search gives a moderately convincing result: two Dan Connollys (linked to his homepage) and one Yves Lafon (linked to the Tech Plenary Day Agenda..!?).

Must confess I was rather hoping the first uF search would have been a SemWeb effort - the tools are pretty much all avalaible off the shelf, a few days spent wiring should have done it.

I'm a little unsure about the use of HTTP GET for pings - it is trivially simple to use, but still it seems a misuse, it's not getting data it's posting it. Pragmatically though I guess it makes sense. I'm puzzled why the results aren't microformatted, maybe that's on the list for later. It would make the system a nice (low-REST, lower-case semweb) service.

Whatever, the Technorati setup looks to be a useful set of tools, and provides a nice bit of motivation for people to put machine-readable data on the Web. Marvellous.

PS. seeAlso Before Microformats Search There Was Microformat Base, Ruby Microformat Parser, and X2V