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A card in the context of the indieweb are small information summaries—often summaries of specific, external web pages.

IndieWeb Examples

For the moment, current indieweb work is focusing on developing a simpler alternative to all the silo-specific card approaches. See:

indiecard

Silo Examples

Apple Passbook

Apple

(Apple Passbook API/format reference needed)

Facebook

Facebook uses OGP and other markup on a page to parse data to shows summaries of pages linked to in Facebook posts in a "card" like presentation.

Examples of Facebook "cards" displays:

link-preview for the first URL in a post
hovercard shown when hovering the mouse pointer over someone's name, including face, name, friendship status, etc.
...

Google now

Main article: Google now

Google now uses cards as a method of display of various information - see the Google now page for more overall, and http://www.google.com/landing/now/#cards for examples. Some of Google now's cards appear to be produced from recommendation engines.

Twitter Cards

Main article: Twitter Cards

Twitter uses OGP and their own proprietary meta tags to provide Twitter Cards functionality in tweets.

Proxies

Embedly

Embedly has a card embedding service at http://embed.ly/cards that parses other sites, and generates a card that you can embed, using a variant of oEmbed.