Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.


Basically its small snippets of HTML code that better organizes and identifies data like people, addresses, events and such.

About:
http://microformats.org/about/

hCard Microformat Creator:
http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator

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