hCard vs. vcf

I am looking for some ammunition on making the case for
using hCard
over a standard .vcf file exported from Outlook for a static
contact
listing that will likely not change anytime in the future.

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On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Jeremy Flint wrote:

> I am looking for some ammunition on making the case for
using hCard
> over a standard .vcf file exported from Outlook for a
static contact
> listing that will likely not change anytime in the
future.


You're gonna do an HTML version of the information anyway,
right?

Do it with hCard, then say "look we get vcard for free
(http:// 
feeds.technorati.com/contacts/<your url>)!!!!"

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Well, we ended up not using a standard address output on the
actual
page. I had moved it all to a seperate page and just passed
that to
technorati.

Then got the "why not just use this vcf file"
line.

 - jeremy

On 8/30/06, Ryan King <ryantechnorati.com> wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Jeremy Flint wrote:
>
> > I am looking for some ammunition on making the
case for using hCard
> > over a standard .vcf file exported from Outlook
for a static contact
> > listing that will likely not change anytime in the
future.
>
>
> You're gonna do an HTML version of the information
anyway, right?
>
> Do it with hCard, then say "look we get vcard for
free (http://
> feeds.technorati.com/contacts/<your
url>)!!!!"
>
> -ryan
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Once you have the page marked-up you can easily convert it
to ANY
format, not just vCards. You can also submit the page to
sources like
kicthen.technorati.com and aggregate the data. It can
more-easily be
"mashed-up" with other data.

-brian

Jeremy Flint wrote:
> Well, we ended up not using a standard address output
on the actual
> page. I had moved it all to a seperate page and just
passed that to
> technorati.
>
> Then got the "why not just use this vcf
file" line.
>
> - jeremy
>
> On 8/30/06, Ryan King <ryantechnorati.com> wrote:
>> On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Jeremy Flint wrote:
>>
>> > I am looking for some ammunition on making the
case for using hCard
>> > over a standard .vcf file exported from
Outlook for a static contact
>> > listing that will likely not change anytime in
the future.
>>
>>
>> You're gonna do an HTML version of the information
anyway, right?
>>
>> Do it with hCard, then say "look we get vcard
for free (http://
>> feeds.technorati.com/contacts/<your
url>)!!!!"
>>
>> -ryan
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There are also efforts to make it possible to browser
hcard-based
Address Books on Bonjour networks (see Bonsoir --
http://www.tu
aw.com/2006/08/28/bonsoir/). If you want any
browsability, as was said, it makes it so much easier to be
able to
style hcards on a network than to convert vcf to hcard to
style...
Write once, style frequently... or something! ;)

Without knowing more about your app, it's hard to say
otherwise.

Chris

On 8/30/06, brian suda <brian.sudagmail.com> wrote:
> Once you have the page marked-up you can easily convert
it to ANY
> format, not just vCards. You can also submit the page
to sources like
> kicthen.technorati.com and aggregate the data. It can
more-easily be
> "mashed-up" with other data.
>
> -brian
>
> Jeremy Flint wrote:
> > Well, we ended up not using a standard address
output on the actual
> > page. I had moved it all to a seperate page and
just passed that to
> > technorati.
> >
> > Then got the "why not just use this vcf
file" line.
> >
> > - jeremy
> >
> > On 8/30/06, Ryan King <ryantechnorati.com> wrote:
> >> On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Jeremy Flint
wrote:
> >>
> >> > I am looking for some ammunition on
making the case for using hCard
> >> > over a standard .vcf file exported from
Outlook for a static contact
> >> > listing that will likely not change
anytime in the future.
> >>
> >>
> >> You're gonna do an HTML version of the
information anyway, right?
> >>
> >> Do it with hCard, then say "look we get
vcard for free (http://
> >> feeds.technorati.com/contacts/<your
url>)!!!!"
> >>
> >> -ryan
> >>
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Why did you end up not using standard address output?

I think that's probably at the core of the issue. If you
have a
separate page with an hCard that's only used to convert to
.vcf, the
"why not just use vcf" is a valid question.

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I think this is the best answer out there and the one with
the
greatest potential for forward-compatibility:
===============
Once you have the page marked-up you can easily convert it
to ANY
format, not just vCards. You can also submit the page to
sources like
kicthen.technorati.com and aggregate the data. It can
more-easily be
"mashed-up" with other data.
===============

Why put yourself into a set path if there's an equal path
with greater
flexibility and potential?

Pat

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