You're right. I should also migrate my about page #about">there.
Interesting though that the combination of clear design and pre-existing trust makes me actually want to use this (instead of all the other services that offered a similar feature).
Ok, @jyri, cool. I've always loved how GA-for-your-domain let's the user mask the services with the user's selected dns. It would be great to have something similar here.
@alper I noticed that you pointed your photos link at your main flickr stream. Have you considered tagging all the photos of yourself and then just pointing it at that?
@jyri If they added a separate url that used base36 for the identifiers they could handle roughly 78 billion profiles with only 7 'digits.'
I think people would find a 7 digit alpha-numeric sequence much easier to remember and I rather like the idea of being able to tell someone to google a 7 digit sequence that's guaranteed to have my profile as the first hit.
It made me realise that just because I want and have an archive of everything I've ever produced doesn't mean that I should publish it all. Introducing a curator's sensibility so that I deliberately publish just the most significant items (in ways which are sensitive to the nature and value of the item) leads to a better experience for everybody. The people who follow your publication stream get a better signal to noise ratio and you as a producer get the satisfaction of making something worthwhile.
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Any plans for nicer URLs?
11 months, 2 weeks ago by tommi
Nice!
11 months, 2 weeks ago by aehn
@tommi I'm no longer PM of Profiles, but I know the team's aware that nicer urls are a much-requested feature.
11 months, 2 weeks ago by jyri
You're right. I should also migrate my about page #about">there.
Interesting though that the combination of clear design and pre-existing trust makes me actually want to use this (instead of all the other services that offered a similar feature).
11 months, 2 weeks ago by alper
Ok, @jyri, cool. I've always loved how GA-for-your-domain let's the user mask the services with the user's selected dns. It would be great to have something similar here.
11 months, 2 weeks ago by tommi
@alper I noticed that you pointed your photos link at your main flickr stream. Have you considered tagging all the photos of yourself and then just pointing it at that?
It works pretty well for me: http://www.google.com/s2/profiles/105037104815911535953
11 months, 2 weeks ago by adewale
@adewale It looks like the Flickr stream picker only catches sets not tags, so I'd have to add them to a set etc.
11 months, 2 weeks ago by alper
@jyri If they added a separate url that used base36 for the identifiers they could handle roughly 78 billion profiles with only 7 'digits.'
I think people would find a 7 digit alpha-numeric sequence much easier to remember and I rather like the idea of being able to tell someone to google a 7 digit sequence that's guaranteed to have my profile as the first hit.
11 months, 2 weeks ago by adewale
Really nice! I like the new layout. But instead of the photostream, wouldn't it be more natural to have a very clean lifestream?
11 months, 2 weeks ago by agaton
I used to be very fond of the whole idea of life streaming but reading this: http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2008/10/27/aggregation.php changed my mind.
It made me realise that just because I want and have an archive of everything I've ever produced doesn't mean that I should publish it all. Introducing a curator's sensibility so that I deliberately publish just the most significant items (in ways which are sensitive to the nature and value of the item) leads to a better experience for everybody. The people who follow your publication stream get a better signal to noise ratio and you as a producer get the satisfaction of making something worthwhile.
11 months, 2 weeks ago by adewale
Still, lifestreaming within Google Profiles wouldn't be a bad idea, they'd just have to give the choice of what to display to the user.
11 months, 1 week ago by lucid
@jyri @philgyford posted a follow-up to his "a format only robots could love article". It's at: http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2009/02/10/front_page.php
His new frontpage is at: http://www.gyford.com/
10 months, 2 weeks ago by adewale