Posts with keyword: hcard


TwitterCards: Grabbing Contact Data from Twitter with Microformats

This morning @dberlind and @kevinmarks were tweeting about microformats in Twitter. David was positing something he called the "TwitterCard." Kevin points out that unbeknownest to me, and I suspect almost everyone else, Twitter supports the hCard microformat. If you'd like to make use of them, you need a client that supports microformats. Fortunately for Firefox users, Mike Kaply has an addon that does just that called Operator. Simply install operator, go to a Twitter page and use the handy pulldown menus under the toolbar to export any hCard data as a vCard. The OS X picked
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The Writable Web

Several interesting pieces on writable Web in the last few days: Tim Bray: Why would anyone want a word processor any more? Dan Bricklin releases WikiCalc Add these to things like hCards in Kwiki and Jot. That only scratches the surface, of course. The whole "writable web" thing includes wikis of all sorts and even blogs.
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