Being a big fan of Microformats as well as a relatively new Facebook user, I find it odd that Facebook has no Microformats support (at least non that I know of).
I’ve decided to remedy the situation a bit and created a small Facebook application which adds hCard support to your profile as a profile box. It is called the hCard application.
It features your Contact information (as much of it as it can) which include:
- You profile photo (thumb version)
- Your full name
- Link to your Facebook profile
- City, state and country (any combination of these 3)
Up until now (~8am Israel time) there are 38 users (and only 6 of them are my friends, so it’s quite nice 
).
As far as I could see from my friends’ profile, most of them didn’t add much information, and Facebook are doing a good job saving the privacy of their users by not exposing too much information. This means that the information exposes using the hCard only shows their profile photo and name. In some cases it shows their country and/or state.
All in all, its a good experiment so far, but you can make it better by adding it to your profile and invite your friends to add it as well 
If you have suggestion, comments or anything else about the application feel free to drop me something on my contact page here on this blog, or comment in the application’s discussion board on Facebook.
Wow… Now that is really useless. Why would anyone want their contact information showing up twice on their profile!? If it where done either silently in the background or by updating the existing tags it would be another matter. But just adding a duplicate with the proper markup? That does not work well at all. Facebook’s developers should be pushed to do a proper implementation instead.
Link | June 25th, 2007 at 5:42 am
Daniel,
The main reason I did it is to try and convince the Facebook developers to add it by default in their Contacts box.
I know my app is useless
I couldn’t do it without duplicating the information because that’s how Microforamts works. You can always collapse the application’s box in your profile and the various browser plugins will still be able to find it.
I could have “hidden” using CSS styles, but then no one would understand why they have a profile box with nothing inside of it.
Link | June 25th, 2007 at 8:31 am
microformatique - a blog about microformats and “data at the edges” : hCards at facebook wrote:
[...] a facebook account, you can now add hCards to your profile page courtesy of this Application from Eran Sandler (whose day job is at Yedda, which I mentioned a while back [...]
Link | February 1st, 2008 at 8:51 pm