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What is vcard ?
A vCard, also known as a virtual contact file or virtual
business card, is a file format standard for electronic business
cards. You can think of it as the digital equivalent of
exchanging paper business cards.
Format:
A vCard can be attached to email messages, sent via Multimedia
Messaging Service (MMS), shared on the World Wide Web,
transmitted through instant messaging, or even encoded into QR
codes.
Content:
A vCard contains various pieces of contact information, such as:
Name and address
Phone numbers
Email addresses
Website URLs
Logos
Photographs
Audio clips
Usage:
Smartphones:
vCards are
commonly used as a data interchange format in smartphone
contacts, personal digital assistants (PDAs), personal
information managers (PIMs), and customer relationship
management systems (CRMs).
Variants:
There are other
“vCard variants” proposed for specific niches, including XML
representation, JSON representation, and web pages.
So, next time you want to share your contact information
digitally, consider using a vCard! |