I didn’t want to let today go by without a post acknowledging the 2nd birthday of Microformats.org and the related community.

Thought the first year was huge for microformats, the second one has seen additional growth in all areas from format maturity, to huge growth in the community and sites using various markup constructs, to greater support from application vendors.

Here’s a recap of a few recent news items or tidbits incase you missed them.

• John Allsopp’s book on Microformats was published
• NetNewsWire 3.0 is supporting microformats thus avoiding the need for one of my earlier hacks
• Other applications like Firefox are promising support in future releases
• Sites keep adopting various formats — from new sites like Twitter [hCard, XFN & hAtom] to older standbys like LinkedIn with 9million+ hResume based profiles!

Today, June 20th, marks the 1 year anniversary of the launch of the microformats community. There’s a party planned and everything, but I’m on the wrong coast as usual so I’ll have to partake via IRC. More on the wiki.

A lot has taken place in the last year, lots of interesting ideas surfaced, a bunch of great tools, and along the way I’ve even found time to contribute something a few things to the mix.

Still don’t know what this microformats thing is all about? Take some time spin through some of the microformats presentations or podcasts that people have shared.