As previously mentioned I would do a review of the brand new Firefox plugin “Operator” by Michael Kaply. Instead, I felt this article at the Mozilla Labs Blog did a better job than I ever could at describing the functionality of Operator.
There are a few highlights I would still like to cover though. First there are two modes to the plugin: Actions and Microformats. The former is where you get the real functionality out of the plugin; You can export contacts to your defualt email application (Outlook, Mail.app, etc.), add events to your Google Calendar, find a location on Google Maps, and look up tags at flickr, del.icio.us, technorati, and upcoming.org. The latter shows you the microformat type being used on the page and can be used for writing/debuging your own microformats.
Anyways, check out the plugin and read the article to discover the potential that microformats have.


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