Google Profiles And Your Digital Identity Card

December 17, 2007

Google have developed an application called Google Profiles – which basically means that your personal data can be shared, if you wish, from one Google application to another. Google’s ‘unofficial blog’ Google System says that until now, you could create profiles in Blogger, orkut, Google Groups, Google Co-op and all of them could contain different information:

The new Google profiles are already available in Shared Stuff, Google Maps, Google Reader and will be added to other web applications. For example, in Google Maps you’ll find the link to your profile at the top of the page.

Profiles are public and contain basic information about yourself: a nickname (the real name is displayed only to your contacts), your occupation, your location, a list of links, a photo and a short description. They are embedded as iframes in pages that showcase user-generated content (personalized maps, shared bookmarks).

It’s not hard to see this identity application being used outside Google applications. Google’s OpenSocial is already trying to allow developers to create their own social applications using Google code and Google Profiles could be a simple way for people to log in to these third-party apps.

News of Google Profiles