Here's why microformats are useful
I wrote this post a while back. The content can still be relevant but the information I've linked to may not be available.
Here's a cool use of microformats. Jeremy Keith has posted a video demo that shows how you can transfer microformatted event information from a webpage to a mobile phone with one click. The process uses a bluetooth version of the Tails plug-in for Firefox. Neat.
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