In my recent post about Google Reader and Google Talk integration I mentioned that it would be nice to have a possibility to control friends’ names and pictures. Similar to the way I can do so in Gmail. Having things a bit more centralized would be nice.
Obviously, Google realizes that. They are some of the smartest people put together after all. Well, it looks like we’ll have something centralized in the near future. Web Worker Daily runs a post about Google Profile. Good news.
And while I was going through that stuff, I had a thought (yes, again). Google must have some really nice tools for its developers. Usually, companies try to maximize the utilization of available resources, boost code reuse, and minimize time spent on re-implementing things. Google shown a few decentralized bits over time. Like this contact management issue, for example. That probably means that creating something like Google Profile (simple, but very scalable application) has been made extremely easy. It’s like it is easy to make one rather than to decide if one is really needed and what are the alternatives and how to use those alternatives. That, or they have some a weak approach to code reuse – something that I find hard to believe. Either way, it’s interesting…