{"id":10983,"date":"2007-12-17T00:14:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T21:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/17\/google-profile-coming-up\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T00:14:38","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T21:14:38","slug":"google-profile-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/17\/google-profile-coming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Profile coming up"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/16\/google-reader-and-google-talk-integrated-sort-of\/\" title=\"Google Reader and Google Talk integrated. Sort of.\">my recent post<\/a> about Google Reader and Google Talk integration I mentioned that it would be nice to have a possibility to control friends&#8217; names and pictures.\u00c2\u00a0 Similar to the way I can do so in Gmail.\u00c2\u00a0 Having things a bit more centralized would be nice.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Google realizes that.\u00c2\u00a0 They are some of the smartest people put together after all. Well, it looks like we&#8217;ll have something centralized in the near future.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/webworkerdaily.com\/\">Web Worker Daily<\/a> runs <a href=\"http:\/\/webworkerdaily.com\/2007\/12\/16\/google-sneaks-up-on-identity-management\/\">a post about Google Profile<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Good news.<\/p>\n<p>And while I was going through that stuff, I had a thought (yes, again).\u00c2\u00a0 Google must have some really nice tools for its developers. 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