July 2009
2 posts
Semantic Google
Marking up structured data
Google is finally starting to pay attention to semantic markup, starting with experimental support for review, product, and vcard microformats.
I’m looking forward to the day when they extend this to support rights metadata (Creative Commons) and some subset of the Dublin Core, but this is a great (late) start.
Publishers say e-books at $9 are unsustainable
“I’m thrilled that another major player is entering the fast-emerging e-book market,” [publisher] David Young said. “But I remain deeply concerned that our most valuable front-list titles are being sold at mass-market paperback prices.” — Barnes & Noble Plans an Extensive E-Bookstore, New York Times.
Here’s the problem in a nutshell, Mr. Young: readers will not pay full...