Technorati has a new service up, the Contacts Feed Service, essentially this simple service will scrap a website, and pull out any hCards, and turn them into vCards for address book insertion. Very cool. How do you use such a service? Easy! Just pass it the URL of the screen to scrape, and away you go. For instance, to get my address book entry, just click on this link:

http://feeds.technorati.com/contacts/http://portfolio.jonnay.net/contact/

It is a very simple web service. A simple GET request returns a piece of data. It by virtue of its simplicity is RESTful. This is what REST web services really are all about.