Comments on: MicroFormats for Reviews, What about Products? http://www.nextgenerationshopping.com/web-2-0/microformats/2006/05/16/microformats-for-reviews-what-about-products/ Shopping APIs and Evolving E-Commerce Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ja http://www.nextgenerationshopping.com/web-2-0/microformats/2006/05/16/microformats-for-reviews-what-about-products/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Ja Wed, 24 May 2006 00:29:50 +0000 http://www.nextgenerationshopping.com/web-20/microformats/2006/05/16/microformats-for-reviews-what-about-products/#comment-79 While I mostly agree with Mike and what was discussed in the mailing list, I doubt there's any harm in trying to get e-commerce site owners to come to an agreement on a pretty miniminal schema and just have scripts to interface with the different product providers to fill in the info. After a while I think the industry would start feeling the pressure to provide compliant feeds if they don't want to be left out but either way somewhere down the road I think that could make the basis for a microformat that would definitely plug in to a lot of hreviews and such. While I mostly agree with Mike and what was discussed in the mailing list, I doubt there’s any harm in trying to get e-commerce site owners to come to an agreement on a pretty miniminal schema and just have scripts to interface with the different product providers to fill in the info. After a while I think the industry would start feeling the pressure to provide compliant feeds if they don’t want to be left out but either way somewhere down the road I think that could make the basis for a microformat that would definitely plug in to a lot of hreviews and such.

]]> By: Marc Mezzacca http://www.nextgenerationshopping.com/web-2-0/microformats/2006/05/16/microformats-for-reviews-what-about-products/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Marc Mezzacca Wed, 17 May 2006 20:41:52 +0000 http://www.nextgenerationshopping.com/web-20/microformats/2006/05/16/microformats-for-reviews-what-about-products/#comment-78 Mike- Thanks for the feedback and discussion link. Some good points. But why then are companies still crawling results and getting them wrong? I'm not certain if you were talking about microformats in general or just the idea of a product-based microformats on the individual level, but I believe the hReview format may eventually prove useful not only for bloggers getting exposure for their reviews, but pairing the of products to reviews from around the Web. Siva- Great input about "soft products", which are often difficult to match together. Mike- Thanks for the feedback and discussion link. Some good points.
But why then are companies still crawling results and getting them wrong?

I’m not certain if you were talking about microformats in general or just the idea of a product-based microformats on the individual level, but I believe the hReview format may eventually prove useful not only for bloggers getting exposure for their reviews, but pairing the of products to reviews from around the Web.

Siva- Great input about “soft products”, which are often difficult to match together.

]]> By: Siva Kumar http://www.nextgenerationshopping.com/web-2-0/microformats/2006/05/16/microformats-for-reviews-what-about-products/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Siva Kumar Wed, 17 May 2006 15:04:31 +0000 http://www.nextgenerationshopping.com/web-20/microformats/2006/05/16/microformats-for-reviews-what-about-products/#comment-77 Great idea! One addition item on this wish list would be to add the URL for the product image. While images may not be critical for the comparison shopping staples like electronics and computers, they are absolutely essential for all of the "soft goods" categories like clothing, furnishings, shoes, luggage, jewelry and such. Great idea! One addition item on this wish list would be to add the URL for the product image. While images may not be critical for the comparison shopping staples like electronics and computers, they are absolutely essential for all of the “soft goods” categories like clothing, furnishings, shoes, luggage, jewelry and such.

]]> By: MikeD http://www.nextgenerationshopping.com/web-2-0/microformats/2006/05/16/microformats-for-reviews-what-about-products/comment-page-1/#comment-76 MikeD Wed, 17 May 2006 05:54:30 +0000 http://www.nextgenerationshopping.com/web-20/microformats/2006/05/16/microformats-for-reviews-what-about-products/#comment-76 There has been discussion of this already on the microformats forum: http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-March/003237.html I don't see microformats being useful to individuals and mid to large size companies with lots of product data would just spit out xml in a variety of schemas. There has been discussion of this already on the microformats forum: http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-March/003237.html

I don’t see microformats being useful to individuals and mid to large size companies with lots of product data would just spit out xml in a variety of schemas.

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