[uf-discuss] LinkedIn and Microformats

[Tantek Ç elik]

On 6/13/06 2:53 PM, "David Janes -- BlogMatrix" <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com>
wrote:

> Chris Casciano wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 13, 2006, at 5:18 PM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote:
>> 
>>> I was going to report the happy news that LinkedIn [1] is using
>>> hCards, as my little Greasemonkey script was showing an icon on the
>>> page. Alas, it's not to be -- here's what they're doing:
>>> 
>>> <p
>>>  class="vcard"><a
>>>  href="/addressBookExport?exportMemberVCard=&memberID=6172221"
>>>  name="_exportVCard">Download vCard</a></p>
>>> 
>>> D'oh -- they're using "vcard" to mark that there's, umm, a vcard at
>>> the other end of the link. If anyone knows anyone at LinkedIn, you may
>>> want to give them a nudge.
>>> 
>>> Regards, etc...
>>> David
>>> 
>>> [1] http://www.linkedin.com/
>> 
>> And?
> 
> And tell them about hCard and how cool and easy it would be if they used
> that instead?

Indeed.  The CEO of Linkedin knows about microformats.  We have it on tape
as they used to say:

 http://microformats.org/wiki/podcasts

Thanks,

Tantek