hcard

In the event that no definitive hcard is discovered, the relationship can be recorded until later when the observing agent can piece together who owns the URL by analyzing secondary clues (rel-me or other hcards that point to the URL and claim it).

Scoping XFN and identifying authoritative hcards | FactoryCity 2007

Read about Ma. gnolia’s addition of rel-me. hCard: marking up personal profiles in hcard means that if I add personal contact details, people can click a link to add me to their address book without any extra typing.

On open letter to Blogger | FactoryCity 2006

(Bonus: both Facebook and Google public profiles support the hcard microformat!)

Google Profiles, namespace lock-in & social search | FactoryCity 2009

I even have a starter hcard waiting for you, with all the contact information I care to publicly expose.

It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers | FactoryCity 2008

Better yet: why not just send * actual* vcf or hcard data in response to the API, instead of custom XML/ATOM/RSS/JSON?

Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh) | FactoryCity 2008

I even have a starter hcard waiting for you, with all the contact information I care to publicly expose.

It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers | FactoryCity 2008

Eventually that might be the case for sites that are designed as services — by supporting OpenID, allowing people to pull in their data using OAuth, allowing them to subscribe to their remote hcard-based profiles.

Thoughts on DataPortability | FactoryCity 2008

Sure enough, in her case, the hcard on horsepigcow. com does represent Tara.

Scoping XFN and identifying authoritative hcards | FactoryCity 2007

Therefore, to create a definitive an authoritative hcard on any page, simply follow this example markup (note the self-referencing use of rel-me for good measure):

Scoping XFN and identifying authoritative hcards | FactoryCity 2007

OpenID: meanwhile, consider adding OpenID identity services to your application or service — and support hcard and XFN data syncing.

Getting back to POSH (Plain ol’ Semantic HTML) | FactoryCity 2007