Google Profiles: Your gInfo will go places

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Google Profiles: Your gInfo will go places

by Avatar	Stumble this!	December 17th 2007

Google recently announced that they will be rolling out a centralized user profile and that there will be a user profile card of such a thing, executed in a way that reminds me of the Gmail User card that will appear when you hover another gmail contact in your inbox with the added value that this will aggregate your gInfo (all the google services you use, along your name and description) as a card that will show it to others, you can consider it a Google Awareness profile.

this could bring other implications like having a second group of icons and links once Open Social finally takes of and maybe a impending Google Personal aggregator and considering google late moves that should be the case.

What this means to us?, another badge, another Google Gadget down the road, relevant enough to care to poast about it.

i take badge as already granted because the Google Profiles are nothing more than a embedded iframe right now, so that makes the usable as soon as they launch.

this besides the aggregation part is nothing new, there was a intention of a yahoo ID card sometime ago, maybe as a result of this announcement i will finally show up and the Live ID Card is something you can already see when you go to a Live Spaces and hover over the Picon (personal icon) of a profile gadget or in any of the Live contact listings. MS got the initiative of the Infocard, pbadge and Live ID card and it is said that a first integration of the last one will be announced or shown along the Wave 3 launches of the Live suite.