Google Starts Rolling Out Centralized Profiles

Google ruling the earth, there’s certain truth to it

OMG FACEBOOK IS DEAD!!!111ONE

This is a logical step - adding social networking to their services

Also this will help finetune advertising

Perhaps their will be a Google version of MySpace

Unimaginatively named? I would think that with a product like this, there are only so many names you can give it. Can you think of a better one Duncan? You should turn this into a nice promotion, best Google product name gets $1000 from Arrington. Hey, it’s not your money right?

Oh man, imagine when they integrate gmail & orkut… every gmail user would then potentially be on orkut:

that would make orkut instantly much larger than facebook, myspace, or any other social network; combined!

Kelli
lighten up…and it is a boring name, practical but boring

There’s some good points and bad points, good thing they’ve added some controls on how you share your profiles.

Nhick
http://www.itrush.com

The rationalising of logins is well overdue and very welcome…

Duncan, please dig into what profile info would be displayed publicly, and whether users would have any control over what is displayed. Any mis-step here would be bad news for Google and its users (and big news for TC).

Thanks

I welcome the total destruction of myspace. Myspace crashes on me all the time.

I’m gonna fine tune my photo for my profile on google. I luv photoshop. I’m really a 300 lb man. Can you believe it?

sincerely,

angela hayden
art goddess

According to the link in Duncan’s post, ie., http://www.google.com/help/profile/ Google claimed that -
You control what goes into your Google Profile, sharing as much (or as little) as you’d like.

Now we just need Google to roll out OpenID support so we can better protect our logons. A two factor authentication system sure would be nice Google!

@8 and @12, There is still big time chaos with Google Accounts… I wished they fixed that before adding any other features:-(

And when do our AdSense checks start rolling in for Google placing ads along side all of our “private” information?

My monthly click through rate is worth at least $1.05.

/sarcasm

12. Russell.

I just read on google blog that they are now accepting OpenID. Your dream come true.

14. JasonH

my click through rate is worth at least $1.06

sincerely,

angela hayden
art goddess

Maybe it’s a lesson that repeats again and again (take MS Passport for example ): If you do plan to take over the world with your web apps - make a centralized login system from the very start.

Hey Duncan, I think I’ve seen this before.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-.....63320.aspx

Oh wait I did. I think human nature goes against this type of centralization. It’s like sanding against the grain. It’s like people that have drivers licenses in several states or countries.

People WANT disparate local identities. People go AGAINST centralization. Especially on a world order of magnitude.

Thing with OpenID is that is not large enough to make much a difference in the world, GOogle is

The Soviet Union tried a lot of “centralized” shit, too, and look where it got them!

Everyday its google… with something new… .. its marketing team is definitely working on a strategy here, to outnumber others. If you follow everyday, google releases something new everyday since beginning of December How will others find coverage, just no space at all. As i have written before ” Google on Mission - Search & Destroy Microsoft”
http://www.sharmavishal.com/20.....stroy.html
They are hurting Microsoft big time and I do believe until Christmas we might be getting more announcements on features and blogosphere going nuts.

Vishal

“The Soviet Union tried a lot of “centralized” shit, too, and look where it got them!”

I fscking hate commies.

Hmmm… Epic 2015?

I think, what’s going wrong with these profile/unique identity approaches is that they focus to one person (body) is one identity. But actually one person is not “one identity” but rather a set of roles: Me to my girlfriend, me to my daughter, me to my neighbour, me to any strange in public, and so on.

If there’s the chance to set up only a single profile, that original idea gets screwed up: What I reveal to my girlfriend I don’t want to reveal to my daughter in complete. What I reveal to my daughter, I simply don’t want to be in the public. So, I think, the common we provide a one-body-one-profile “passport” idea needs some rework to cover such roles as well.

…and the mantra is ‘no evil’? WS nails it.

“…and the mantra is ‘no evil’? WS nails it.”

Do you know how many people from Microsoft they hired at Google? There’s like 20 MS managers there now. It’s not Sergey and Larry in the garage anymore. They’re the evil empire of the decade.

@wrs is very correct.. with cardspace (and very soon with many other id services) and if for login auth, the user logging in can select among the predefined set of ids (as owner of the ids).. for viewers (from the public as well as from friends permitted to view), the presentation becomes pretty interesting, and requires some social graph elements for an intelligent presentation.

Certainly would be very interesting to see how Google does it. We’re also looking into the subject with particular focus on the applications of OpenID v2 and OpenSocial, and developing a service along the line as an IDP (Identity Provider)… /ac.

Unrelated but an interesting find on something Mike said.

techcrunch.com/2007/12/11/edgeio-bids-start-at-250000/

“Alex - you clearly don’t understand how these things work. My equity has been wiped out, and it would take something like a $10+ million sale before any money came to the common. This sale is to pay back creditors, and anything else will go to the venture guys. I have no financial interest in Edgeio moving forward.”

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo.....amp;size=o

Why is it still on your server then?

Suspiciously like our 30 Boxes Buddy Cards which have been out for a long while.

We actually gave some folks at Google the perfect name for this product — Google Me. Product marketing has never been their forte.

http://www.crunchboard.com/ite.....-Architect
crunchboard.com

Mike, what gives? These companies paid you $200 to post an advert for a job and the site has been down for hours and hours now. I’m going to send you a resume just in case you want to hire somebody to keep your servers up. I had a netra T4 so I am very familiar with Solaris 10 and utlraSPARC. The resume is on it’s way.

squid cache http response headers threw me off, you’re using Red Hat. My point still stands though.

they have integrated this into orkut also now so virtually every user in your gmail account has a orkut profile now
it is a shame that yahoo can’t innovate even though they have all the components they are falling behind because they cant blend them together properly
well till they get their act together google is marching forward I guess towards world domination

btw…techcrunch forums are officially in the deadpool. if you are not going to check it once a month and police the spam - remove the link in your header. makes tc look terrible.

They should name it Google “Oogle” - I mean, most people go to facebook to “ogle” people anyway - imagine the branding! Like, just as people say I’m going to Google that “thing”, they will be saying that chick is hot, lets “Oogle” her - as pronounced ewgle not awgle.

I’ll take my $1000 now?

Profile sounds nice, but first can’t I just get my Adsense and Adwords logins to be one?

“A sampling of lyrics, do a Google search, leave a tip in the jar,
it’s ugly but efficient, makes the ASCAP boys work a little bit harder…”

(First use of “Google” in a pop song -
“We’re Comin’ Inside” - Dfactor, Rapid Pop Thrills, 2002
http://www.cdbaby.com/apw)

does this have anything to with a national i.d. card …… yet?

crunchboard.com has been down for several hours now.

http://www.edgeio.com is down too.

Google ruleeeeeeeeeeeeeees the internet http://www.vhxn.com

Google sucks.

“The Soviet Union tried a lot of “centralized” shit, too, and look where it got them!”
“I fscking hate commies.”

@Chris R.: That’s such a shame as I hear that they’re rather fond of you.

snooore

More Google control freak behavior!

fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

“You control what goes into your Google Profile, sharing as much (or as little) as you’d like.” Ah, not quite. Google gets to track HOW you use their services. We have no control over that. For Google, it is trivial for them to correlate all sorts of data and determine far more about a person than they could provide on nice and tidy forms.

So that folksy way of trying to convince us that we are in control hides some massive powers. I don’t think I trust Google’s people to strictly follow standards of ethics and I suspect that they will have no problem altering their ethical standards as they see fit. All of this “everything is relative” that has been pushed onto our culture applies to the people at Google - and it affects all of us.

Well, google is not really your enemy.. you don’t have to use their service..
but try to tell that to the google fans…

So, in this You-centric era, you are your own enemy.

When people use our service, they’re always subliminally reminded of that…
imemymine.com… or, another way put, immienemy, or, i-m-m(y)-enemy… now tell me who is your enemy?

And, we already know you won’t admit, and you won’t listen… Right, that’s the bloody truth, of and about oneself.

That’s what Google knows well, too. and that’s why Gmail gets more and more popluar day after day.

But, after all, there’s only one truth.. everybody dies just in couple tens of years.. why, be so obsessive… just relax.

Check our Page Brin Gates and Jobs dancing!!!

http://towerone.com/2007/12/17/titans-of-tech/

Next coming: Google Visiting cards

yea, its like virtual visiting card at the moment.