Better hCards
July 3rd, 2006 - Fred StutzmanWe’ve always been big fans of Microformats, particularly the hCard. Lots of you have told us you’re pleased that the hCard is a part of claimID - and we’ve always thought that’s cool. However, our implementation of hCard has always been a little, well, weak. In the past, your claimID hCard was just your name and URL - as of today, we’ve expanded this. If you’d like to expand your hCard to one that includes things like your company, address, phone number - just log in and edit your account settings.
As you can see, we’ve added a bunch of field that will automatically create a more robust hCard for you (including your picture, too). At the same time, we’ve also updated the hCard snippet so you can easily post this better hCard to your blog or website. We hope you enjoy!
Update: To compliment this improved hCard, we’ve added automatic pinging to the pingerati.net server. Pingerati is a neat service that enables Microformat search, and we’re happy to support it - while enabling you at the same time. Neat stuff.
Update 2: After some gentle prodding from Sebastian Küpers, we’ve added country to the hCard. Missed that one 
Update 3: More fun with Microformats. All claimID pages are now marked up with the xFolk microformat.
July 4th, 2006 at 6:54 am
[...] Gestern hat claimID auf seinem Blog bekanntgegeben, dass die hCard Unterstützng verbessert worden ist. Bisher war nur der Name und die URL zum eigenen claimID Profil ausgezeichnet worden. [...]
July 4th, 2006 at 7:31 am
It’s great to see you have added the extra hCard info but I think you’ve forgotten the rest of the world who neither live in a US state nor at a zip code. Any chance you could change it to state/province and add a country field? Love what you guys are doing btw!
July 4th, 2006 at 7:37 am
We don’t all live in the US!
A country box is needed.
July 4th, 2006 at 7:57 am
You might want to add a “country” field..
July 4th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Should the hCard not include country as well? Not everyone is in the USA
July 4th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Thx for the comments. I dropped the ball on that one
Country is in, and state is now state/province. Check out the updates to the blog post.
July 4th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Nice work. I’m gonna promote it in French
Very useful I’d love a way to build easily a blogroll with a xfn implementation ?
July 5th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
Excellent! After editign my hCard info I checked Technorati’s Microformat search and the results didn’t turn out as expected (shown below).
“michael biven
6 seconds ago
145 ? 145: true); border:1px solid #FFF;” /> michael biven Frankfort , …
”
There was one other hcard on there from claimID that had the same issues as mine, but there was another one that displayed fine with only there name.
Thanks,
July 6th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Michael…looks like our style is being interpreted…let me see if I can’t fix that.
July 6th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Oh, of course. It is because we are using an IE expression. This I must fix. UGH.
July 6th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Thanks Fred!
July 9th, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Ok we’ve fixed it.