Domain name parking gets 2.0'ed

Interesting angle on building out a UGC empire behind parked domain names.

wehow.com and ehow.com already host a wealth of user-generated content. Now imagine millions of automatically branded and customized domains drawing from ehow’s content and allowing users to add their own material. Then add some social networking tools and some Web 2.0 “sprinkle”, and compare the end result to a traditional, ugly parked domain like, well, you know where to find them.

The Death of Domain Parking and the Birth of a New Vertical Web 2.0 Empire » Daily Domainer News

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Apollo Sounds Promising

I have heard from 3 different sources now about the promise of the Adobe Apollo platform.

So as entrepreneurs and developers, you need to be aware of the potential impact of Apollo. The desktop will see the same creative infusion that the web once did, but with more features and with the web’s most ubiquitous display formats (HTML, Flash and PDF). Early adopters to the platform have the potential to reap a bonanza and bring about the gold-rush like mentality that swept the web.

Adobe’s Apollo Provides New Ground For Entrepreneurs

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An XHTML Microformat for Questions and Answers

I am researching microformats and XHTML this morning. I want to define a structured format for HelpShare questions and answers to make HelpShare more crawlable, and also establish us as leaders in the area of discussion data portability. I am also interested in a format for product listings for another project.

The first question is - is a new microformat standard really necessary? There are some XHTML elements that I haven't used before that may be applicable (to questions and answers). My assumption was that there was a wider gap between what I could do with XHTML (or fewer choices) and what I want to do (nest answers with questions and cite the relevent asker or answerer).

Tantek Celik put together a good presentation on some of the more meaningful elements of XHTML.

The relevant ones to me were:

• dl, dt, dd


• blockquote/cite
  

Based on the presentation and a quick understanding of these elements, I'm contemplating markup that looks like this. Threaded discussions using XHTML:

This used up my time allocation for this morning. The next task is to figure out in more detail what distinguishes a microformat from standard XHTML markup. Is the above markup enough to transmit a question and answer? How should I include ratings and reward?