Comments on: Portable Contacts and vCardDAV (IETF 74)

By: Jerseys

Jerseys — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:11:59 +0000

Nice post here. It does make senses, appreciate for sharing.

By: Pelle Wessman

Pelle Wessman — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:29:57 +0000

Nice to hear that it was such a nice experience! Exciting to see how different open stack components like poco and oauth is getting attention from the classic old standard bodies – seems like yet another step on getting the new social world to be a natural part of society.

By: Joseph Smarr

Joseph Smarr — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:40:34 +0000

Yeah, great seeing you there, and congrats on the amazing progress you're making with drizzle!

By: Mark Atwood

Mark Atwood — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:33:05 +0000

It was good to see you there. This has been my first IETF as well, and for the most part, a very positive experience.

By: Joseph Smarr

Joseph Smarr — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:02:22 +0000

Mike-they're complementary, and they play very well together. PoCo is an API with a contact info schema that's heavily based on vCard. And hCard is a way of embedding vCard data in web pages that don't otherwise have APIs. So for instance, if you have hCard for your contact info on your own blog, we can run that through technorati's hCard->vCard converter and then run that through our vCard->PoCo converter and voila--your home page is now effectively a Portable Contacts API for your own contact info (see for instance http://bit.ly/longpipe which does this with twitter).

By: Mike Gotta

Mike Gotta — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:42:55 +0000

Joseph, Any thoughts on how this approach compliements, extends, or provides an alternative to microformats such as hCard? Thanks…