Introducing Kupa!

In our quest to learn more about the Semantic web, we’ve found that there is lots and lots of non-South African sites and blogs that publishes content in microformats, but very little sites that actually utilises these formats. Technorati Kitchen is utilising it, but I think its only experimental. (I actually pinged them with two hCalendar formatted posts yesterday and it did not index it. The microformats do validate, so there is nothing wrong with them. Maybe its a bug?). If you know of some sites, we’d appreciate it if you’d let us know. There might be more, but if so, they are not being promoted very well. So me and Charl decided we’d like to remedy that. As Charl so eloquently put “we’re doing what Google is not“.

Now please take note that it is not our intention to be better than Google, Grabble, Gargoyle or any other non-microformat service. Our mission is to get you guys to start using and implementing microformats and to produce kick-ass and relevant search results based on those microformats you implement. No other content will be indexed. ONLY microformatted pages will be indexed. When the time comes, we’ll help all of you to adopt these formats and publish them in a series of guidelines we’ll publish. We’re even planning to develop some tools to make it easier, but that would happen much later. Oh, and if you develop web sites, it would be a good thing to consider implementing some formats in all your future endeavors!

Introducing Kupa. We’ve set up a blog for you to keep track of what is happening, how far the development process is and when it will go live. Go to http://kupa.co.za/blog/

Currently we are in the pre-alpha stages. We are still busy documenting the project still so it will be a while before we can start coding and releasing the project. Once we’ve determined the first milestone, we’ll stick it up on the blog with a (possible - its a labour of love project ) release date, so keep your eyes peeled!

technorati tags:kupa, microformats, rdf, searchengine, semanticweb

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5 Comments to "Introducing Kupa!"

• Justin Hartman said: On 03/20/2007 at 10:02 am

  I’m interested to find out more… I must say you’re dangling a carrot here and I want/need/haveto/gotta know more!!!!

• Miguel dos Santos said: On 03/20/2007 at 4:10 pm

  Sweet! You got me interested.
  What does Kupa mean?

• Miguel dos Santos said: On 03/20/2007 at 4:10 pm

  Sweet! You got me interested.

• Miguel dos Santos said: On 03/20/2007 at 4:22 pm

  Ah! sorry for the duplicate entry.
  I was loading the kupa blog and posting this comment at the same time, and when I saw that you posted kupa meant on the blog I tried to stop the posting of the comment and remove the one line.
  Obviously it didn’t work.

• Stii said: On 03/21/2007 at 7:28 am

  Heh, as they say: “Patience is a virgin” or something like that! Justin, we would just like to get our roadmaps and milestones and the basics in place and you would be welcome to contribute. Its a GPLed project and we’d love to get more people involved in various aspects. Super-cool developers like you and Miguel would always be a great treasure to such a project!

Spit it out!

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