Ever heard of Schema? The definition is:
A representation of a plan or theory in the form of an outline or model
As such Google, Bing, and Yahoo have put together a site called Schema.org to help develop a microformat standard. I thought I would give my hand a try to help get more pictures of myself on the web. Part of my test here is to see if this information at all effects listings in search results. Specifically pictures.
This was from my visit to New York City for my anniversary.
Here is the markup for based off of Schema.org.
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div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
span itemprop="name">Derek Hanson
What will be interesting to see is how this effects organic ranking factors for search results. Microdata has been around for a while but what makes interesting is that mobile devices access this data. A lot of buzz has come out about publishers using this for the author tag. Makes since if you are PR person or a blogger. But there is so much more from using for your resume to product description.
You can learn more about the markup from schema.org.