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a little more on use cases

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 * [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=11720648&query_format=advanced&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=Microformats&product=Toolkit open bugs for Firefox microformats support]
-== FirefoxOS ==
+== Use Cases ==
-microformats support in '''FirefoxOS ([[Gaia/System/Microformats]])''' will help users by automatically detecting venues, people, contacts, events, locations and integrating with built-in contacts, calendar, and mapping user interfaces.
+* Social Bookmarking: Microformats can be passed to share, bookmarking, read-it-later, etc. style services to enable [https://developers.pinterest.com/rich_pins_overview/ "rich pinning"] of objects in the page.
+* Shopping: Microformats such as [[hReview]], [[hProduct]], and [[hListing]] support rich markup of products, useful in shopping carts, watching products for updates, product comparison shopping, etc.
+* automatically detecting venues, people, contacts, events, locations and integrating with built-in contacts, calendar, and mapping user interfaces.
+** '''FirefoxOS ([[Gaia/System/Microformats]])'''
-== Share ==
+== Benefits ==
-microformats parsing can be used by Firefox to enhance the "Share" (paper airplane) button.
+* Better control by content producers
+* Easy manipulation of data by clients without server side involvement
-== Shopping ==
+* Accurate data collection by services
-microformats such as [[hReview]], [[hProduct]], and [[hListing]] provide an open way for merchants to publish their product information, items for sale, and for Firefox to help the user shop for things.
 == Firefox Implementation Introduction==