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Nestoria hListing support

Fellow Nestoris!

For some time now momentum on the internet has slowly been building for microformats and the semantic web.

More and more these data formats and technologies are moving from theory to reality, with recent adoption from internet giants like Yahoo! to innovative start ups like London-based Retangle (still invite only). The most recent beta version of popular internet browser Firefox supports microformats and may be a key step on the path to much wider adoption.

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We here at Nestoria always have our eyes open for any possible new technology or technique that may help you find your next home more easily. Today we continue this tradition by rolling out support for the hListing microformat on our search result pages.

We should note, the format is still under proposal, and to our knowledge there’s only one known in-the-wild parser - so this is bleeding edge stuff that might be useful in the future rather than an amazing new functionality for property searchers today. Nevertheless, even the mightiest oak grows from the tiny acorn. No doubt future microformat application developers are grateful to find live examples. We look forward to playing our party in the future growth of the semantic web.

If interested, read about our other efforts to support open standards and the open source development community.