Robert Scoble wants to be able to tag his personal information in such a way the search engines can find it and make it available for people looking for him.
I’d just like to know why there is no way to indentify a phone number on a web page. There is the mailto: prefix for email, but why not a phone: prefix? Or an IM: (or AOL:, Yahoo:, MSN:, and Google:) prefix?
With the proliferation of VoIP and products like Skype and Gizmo, why can’t I just click to call somebody?
To be fair, it seems that microformats are the answer to this question, but it just seems like it has taken a long time to get there, and we aren’t there yet.
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1 TDavid // Jan 31, 2006 at 6:17 pm
You can with Skype using the callto:// protocol. See: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20030913/266/
2 Ntwiga // Feb 2, 2006 at 10:53 pm
These tags exist in beta:
On google, rphonebook gives you the residential phone book while bphonebook gives you the business phone book.
For example, in google type
“bphonebook:Bush george, washington dc”
without the quotes and see what comes back.
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