Coming right off my post on Google continuing to pursue their world domination, I find out today that they’ve now launched Google profiles. Your Google profile is kind of like a personal billboard for yourself online. A place to bring together all of your business, personal and social network personas.
The information available reminds me of the type of site I configured for ClaimID awhile back (and I need to update!). You put together a collection of all the sites you’re active on, in coordination with your contact information and other details about you like where you’ve lived, where you live, who you’re working for and who you’ve worked for in the past.
Your contact information can be restricted to just your contacts in your Gmail address book, distribution groups in your address book, or independent groups you setup yourself through the site. I think they should also add the different groups you may be associated with in Google Groups.
There’s portions of it that also remind me of the types of information you’d share on both Facebook from a social/personal perspective; as well as the professional side you’d share on LinkedIn.
Given that it’s a Google page, you can bet it will be indexed well and come up in search results for the keywords you’ve used in your profile. Depending on the amount of information you share, you may get that Facebook effect of reconnecting with people you haven’t talked to or perhaps even though of in forever.
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