New Feature from MyBlogLog Builds Your Contact Manager
By NikNik · April 25, 2008
So, you just discovered a rockin’ new real estate blog and want to know more about the author. What about adding the author to your contact manager? If you are a MyBlogLog member, you are in luck! MyBlogLog recently added a new feature that allows you to easily add your favorite bloggers contact information to your address book via vCard and hCard.
vCards are commonly used in eSignatures or attached to business emails. They are standard electronic business card files that usually include an address, phone number, email, Website or blog URL, etc. vCards can be added to the Mac OS X Address Book, Microsoft Outlook, and other applications.
Now, I hadn’t heard of the hCard so this gave me a chance to learn more. Apparently an hCard is a microformat for publishing contact information, as well as for extracting details to be used in other applications or Websites and even within mapping tools (yes, Reggie….mapping).
Stan Shroeder from Mashable says, “If you’re lost on the concept of hCard, and are interested in all this dataportability/microformats stuff, you can start with Operator, a Firefox extension for handling several microformats including the hCard.”
If you are not already a member of MyBlogLog, you should join! It’s a great way to access the faces of your readers. And it gives you a visual identity on the Internet. Why is that a good thing? Well, when you visit other blogs who are also MBL members, your picture will appear in the Recent Visitor Widget. So as you cruise around the blogosphere your picture will be left behind to intrigue and entice others to learn more about you, as well as find your blog. MyBlogLog is fabulous way to expose more people to your blog and gain interested readers!
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Tags: electronic business card, mapping tools, firefox extension, contact manager, mashable, microsoft outlook
[...] NikNik wrote an interesting post today on MyBlogLog, here’s a quick excerpt, “If you’re lost on the concept of hCard, and are interested in all this dataportability/microformats stuff, you can start with Operator, a Firefox extension for handling several microformats including … [...]
[...] From the MyBlogLog Blog (try saying that one 3 times fast) — MyBlogLog hCard & vCard: More Microformats, More Portable Data. They are supporting the hCard format as well as the vCard format to enable you to download contact details directly to your address book. NikNik has more analysis over at MyTechOpinion. [...]