From Chris Messina comes a link to an article by Uche Ogbuji which is fairly critical of microformats. Uche seems to favour W3C technology so it’s unsurprising that he’d be able to pick holes with micromats. It’ll be interesting to see the response from microformat supporters.

Mike Butcher meanwhile reports on Freebase and it’s aim to monetise via API services. Freebase in their own words is:

“Freebase.com is home to a global knowledge base: a structured, searchable, writeable and editable database built by a community of contributors, and open to everyone. It could be described as a data commons. Freebase.com is enabled by the technology of Metaweb, which is described at www.metaweb.com.”

Mike mentions an article by Tim O’Reilly which is also worth visiting.