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Good, now please allow an API to get your avatar using your gmail address. While we're at it, allow me to get some public info via JSON too. ktxby.
Note that this will only work for users that have activated Buzz
I think this is a bit useless when we see the facebook Api, and you can find yourself in the searches.
Do you mind explaining more fully how this is useless? I'm sure there are many people who don't have a Facebook account who have a Google account. Such people could use this to create their own profile page. Also, while you can make your Facebook profile searchable if you wish to, Google profiles will likely be given special priority and placement. Not to mention the social search features Google is working on using…
Google Profiles don't seem to have much practical use to me besides being useful for standards compliant stuff. I really wish Buzz became popular in place of Twitter, its a much better (and more open) platform in my opinion.
http://www.google.com/profiles/; is showing the old style profile while https://profiles.google.com/; is in the new style. Bummer because, when editing my profile in the new style, it tells me that the correct URL is the first.
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Do you mind explaining more fully how this is useless? I'm sure there are many people who don't have a Facebook account who have a Google account. Such people could use this to create their own profile page. Also, while you can make your Facebook profile searchable if you wish to, Google profiles will likely be given special priority and placement. Not to mention the social search features Google is working on using…
I for one don't have a facebook and will never make one. I really welcome this change and will be using the google profiles.
That looks exactly like Facebook, even to the photo timeline thing at the top.
I think the reason profile pages tend to use the same layout is because it's an established design pattern now. People already know what to expect when they see a page with that layout. Edit: Also, Google profiles have had that photo timeline for a while. They added it months before Facebook added it.
P.S.: Looks like they invested in eye-candy. try changing your profile picture for an example.
What I still can't understand is why Google's top bar's style isn't consistent across pages. http://maps.google.com/ https://profiles.google.com/u/0/ https://groups.google.com/