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on 2007-02-07 by kurtmathiesen

vCard and vCalendar

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vCard logo  and  vCalendar

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vCard logo vCard: Your Electronic Business Card

vCard automates the exchange of personal information typically found on a traditional business card. vCard is used in applications such as Internet mail, voice mail, Web browsers, telephony applications, call centers, video conferencing, PIMs (Personal Information Managers), PDAs (Personal Data Assistants), pagers, fax, office equipment, and smart cards. vCard information goes way beyond simple text, and includes elements like pictures, company logos, live Web addresses, and so on.

vCard version 3 is defined in two parts:

  • RFC 2425, MIME Content-Type for Directory Information
  • RFC 2426, vCard MIME Directory Profile
IMC hopes that all vCard developers take advantage of these new open standards and make their software compatible with both vCard v2.1 and vCard v3.0.

There is a microformat, "hCard", that enables (X)HTML to be marked up, using just a set of class-names, so that vCards can be extracted from it. See the hcard site for more information.

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