hCard demonstation
Although individual styling is a more personal thing, this visual representation of a virtual business card (hCard) does give you some idea of the sort of appropriate data that can be displayed.
Of course, our normal user profiles have much more data available but for the purpose of this demonstration, we have used only data which is supported by Googles microformat parser and of course, we are honoring user specific profile settings such 'hide email' in addition to any site wide settings, which is why my address cannot be seen by Google.
Remember; You do not have to 'present' hCard or vCard data like this example but it's a pretty way to do it. You could just as easily do something boring (but functional) like this in plain text..
John Haywood is a PHP Developer working for Code Authors in Kezmarok, Slovakia. His other interests are .... and can be contacted ....
John Haywooda.k.a - Guardian
Occupation: Web Developer
Org:
Please remember that the data that Google can see may/will be different to what you yourself see due to global site setting and/or profile settings. As an example, if a user has 'do not show email' turned on no email will be seen, unless the entered a 'fake' email in which case that one is shown.
If you have an account here and want to see yours, just add '&username=yourusername' to this url in your browser address bar.
For Ped:
(The suprise) you may be wondering why the avatar image for my hCard is showing a different image to the one in my profile used on these forums..
That is because I have included an option to allow for GRAVATARS.
If a registered user has used an email address set up with Gravatar, you can optionally show that instead. If the option is enabled but no Gravtar exists, it will fall back to the Forum Avatar :)
Of course this isn't the end of the story... Microformats lend themselves nicely to adding additional associations (unfortunately none are yet supported by *Nuke) such as using rel="me", rel="friend" and rel="contact" etc for social profiling.
If you read it as far as here then, to see a hCard without ANY user account profile restriction, Clicky I have also provided a link on that page to Googles parser for that profile to see what Google REALLY see's
