http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/06/03/go-google-yourself-2/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:37:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/06/03/go-google-yourself-2/#comment-4393 Tantek Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:39:27 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/06/03/go-google-yourself-2/#comment-4393 Many merchants already publish their contact information, location etc. as part of the HTML of their websites. Even easier than publishing a vCard (which is invisible to users of the Web, and would simply unnecessarily duplicate most of that information), is to markup that existing HTML contact information with <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard">hCard</a>, a 1:1 translation of vCard into HTML. The restaurant can then easily "publish" their vCard by simply linking to a <a href="http://feeds.technorati.com/contact/">converter</a> that turns their contact page's hCard into a vCard. Many folks have done this, and in fact, you can find a simple example of this at the <a href="http://tantek.com/#hcard">bottom of my blog</a>. Many merchants already publish their contact information, location etc. as part of the HTML of their websites. Even easier than publishing a vCard (which is invisible to users of the Web, and would simply unnecessarily duplicate most of that information), is to markup that existing HTML contact information with hCard, a 1:1 translation of vCard into HTML. The restaurant can then easily “publish” their vCard by simply linking to a converter that turns their contact page’s hCard into a vCard. Many folks have done this, and in fact, you can find a simple example of this at the bottom of my blog.

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