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[Bboy AJ]

The Google Profile URL only corresponds with your Gmail user name if you have changed it to do that. By default it's some random string of numbers, just like Google+ profile URLs.

I changed it a long, long time ago. Who knew at the time this would be an issue, with profiles now becoming public?

 

[RoadHazard]

Does anyone ever actually type in or look at the ''vanity links'' on facebook? It's funny for a bit, but I never ever look at it or use it to go on someone's profile. Doesn't add much to the experience at all.

Not really, but if for some reason you want to link to your Facebook profile page it looks a bit nicer.

I changed it a long, long time ago. Who knew at the time this would be an issue, with profiles now becoming public?

Yeah, me too. Not really an issue for me, but it's a bit annoying that it can't be changed back once you're a Google+ user (trying to change your Google Profile settings just takes you to your Google+ profile).

 

[RoadHazard]

EDIT: DP

 

[kehs]

You could technically just erase your G+ profile, and then make a new one, that would clear your vanity url.

 

[sooperkool]

I do see the google plus profile urls are random numbers . mmmm hopefully they update Google profiles to be the same way.

My reasoning is say some random person searches for me. They could find out my email. But if they randomize the profile url with numbers, then it's a non-issue.

Anyway... carry on.

You can remove yourself from searches. Its right there in the profile options.

 

[RoadHazard]

You could technically just erase your G+ profile, and then make a new one, that would clear your vanity url.

Would that also erase your Google Profile? We're talking about Google Profile vanity URLs, not Google+ vanity URLs (as far as I know, they don't exist yet).

 

[kehs]

Would that also erase your Google Profile? We're talking about Google Profile vanity URLs, not Google+ vanity URLs (as far as I know, they don't exist yet).

Your Google Profile is what you see in "profile" when you see it through Google+.

 

[xBerserker]

The Google Profile URL only corresponds to your Gmail user name if you have changed it to do that. By default it's some random string of numbers, just like Google+ profile URLs.

Your partially correct.

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=144414

It may have been available at some point to change it to whatever you want if your a gmail user. But now you can't, so I've never made my profile public to searches.

On my profile it has this:

Profile URL

To make it easier for people to find your profile, you can customize your URL with your Google email username. (Note this can make your Google email address publicly discoverable.) This unique name will also be used in other links to your content on Google. To help others discover your profile, in some Google services contacts who know your email address will see a link to your profile.

Your profile URL is
http://www.google.com/profiles/mygmailusername

 

[Gary Whitta]

FYI this is me on Google+, feel free to add:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114522811866073303399/

 

[SimleuqiR]

FYI this is me on Google+, feel free to add:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114522811866073303399/

I can't tell if Zuckerberg is doing a product announcement or a dramatic reading of "Go the F**k to Sleep".

Dude! You are brutal!

 

[Freki]

Does somebody have any invites left?

 

[Enco]

Does somebody have any invites left?

Invites have been closed for a while now.

 

[kehs]

They should re-announce Hangouts right now and open up invites.

 

[rabhw]

I wish there was a way to include a personal message when you add someone to one of your circles.

I understand the viewpoint of "if you don't recognize someone by name, why are you being friends with them".

...But I'm getting a bunch of people adding me to circles and I have no idea who they are, so as of now I'm simply assuming they are from GAF, and adding them to my GAF circle.

At least with the short message, someone could say "Hey it's rabhw from GAF".

 

[andycapps]

They should re-announce Hangouts right now and open up invites.

It would be pretty brilliant if they would just open up the beta right now. That's providing that they have the infrastructure ramped up for such an increase in a short amount of time.

 

[Billen]

Does somebody have any invites left?

You can´t get in anyway. They are filled up to their googly brim.

 

[gcubed]

It would be pretty brilliant if they would just open up the beta right now. That's providing that they have the infrastructure ramped up for such an increase in a short amount of time.

im sure they have the infrastructure, but i'm also sure they have a shit load of bugs and features that they got from a result of the first wave of invites to work through before they want to unleash it on everyone

 

[kehs]

I wish there was a way to include a personal message when you add someone to one of your circles.

I understand the viewpoint of "if you don't recognize someone by name, why are you being friends with them".

...But I'm getting a bunch of people adding me to circles and I have no idea who they are, so as of now I'm simply assuming they are from GAF, and adding them to my GAF circle.

At least with the short message, someone could say "Hey it's rabhw from GAF".

You could always send them a message.

First thing I do is look at who they have in their circles. If alot of them are from gaf, chances are they are from gaf. You can narrow down how/if you know them easily with this method.

Also, if they added the ability to display an alias to a circle, then you'll see their screen name in the about portion of their profile.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

Google+ is actually a little buggy. It is pretty common for me to bring down the notification pane and have it not work or just act really weird.

 

[andycapps]

im sure they have the infrastructure, but i'm also sure they have a shit load of bugs and features that they got from a result of the first wave of invites to work through before they want to unleash it on everyone

True, the amount of bugs they're getting now is probably very sufficient to work through to resolve. Plus, the people that went through the trouble to get into the beta now are probably a lot more gracious about those bugs being fixed than the general public.

The best thing that I've seen about it thus far is that Google has been pretty upfront in talking about new features and fixes that are coming, as well as updating their Android app once or twice already.

 

[kkaabboomm]

any way to NOT alert someone if you add them to a circle? or is that always public knowledge?

and anyone frustrated that if you tag someone in one photo, they get access to the ENTIRE ALBUM?

 

[Garryk]

Got quite a few GAFers in my circle, but could always use more!

http://gplus.to/garryk

 

[tirminyl]

and anyone frustrated that if you tag someone in one photo, they get access to the ENTIRE ALBUM?

Didn't know that. Hopefully, you already submitted this as feedback?

 

[kehs]

any way to NOT alert someone if you add them to a circle? or is that always public knowledge?

It was explained as being "creepy", so I don't think it's going anywhere.

 

[Enco]

It was explained as being "creepy", so I don't think it's going anywhere.

Sure is.

 

[kkaabboomm]

Sure is.

that was my feeling on the subject, i just wanted to know that i'd know it when people were following me. i know in theory they could just look up my name and read whatever i write 'publicly', but yeah.

 

[Dartastic]

Where the heck do I go to find my actual URL?

 

[Enco]

that was my feeling on the subject, i just wanted to know that i'd know it when people were following me. i know in theory they could just look up my name and read whatever i write 'publicly', but yeah.

Always good to have anti-stalker features

That tagging and viewing whole albums thing sounds pretty iffy.

 

[kkaabboomm]

That tagging and viewing whole albums thing sounds pretty iffy.

heres a link to the google+ group discussion -- apparently currently picasa only has album-level security settings, and google will discuss w/the team doing picture level security (per Brian from google)...

 

[Enco]

Good to hear they're looking into it.

I like how they're responding to feedback.

 

[kkaabboomm]

next question: in my photos tab on g+, it just shows the most recent 4 albums time/date wise, with a text link to see all my albums and/or go to the next 'page' of albums. any way to re-order them to the ones you want to showcase are first displayed, even if they are older?

also: any way to NOT have it 'post' when you tag someone in a photo? like in my main stream or whatnot? oddly enough, when i click 'limited' on the post to see who it's shared with...no one is listed. no circles, not public, no one....weird.

 

[goober]

Add me please.

http://gplus.to/goober

 

[The Friendly Monster]

Just tried my luck and managed to get in.

Invites are at least partially open.

Now to try this out.

 

[AstroLad]

Anyone who knows me on gaf feel free to pm me your profile and I will add you.

 

[Dr. Malik]

Where the heck do I go to find my actual URL?

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[The Friendly Monster]

About to go travelling so this is perfect time for me, going to try and use this as my blog, google whore that I am.

 

[RoadHazard]

Your Google Profile is what you see in "profile" when you see it through Google+.

Well, in the same way that Picasa = Google+ Photos, I guess. Same data, two different interfaces. If you're not a Google+ member, your Google Profile is a seperate thing, on its own site (profiles.google.com). Once you become a Google+ member, these are merged, and your Google Profile URL redirects to your Google+ profile.

The problem is that the Google Profile page has settings which are not available in the Google+ profile settings, such as the ability to change your public profile URL to your Gmail user name or back to the random number string.

EDIT: Here's a screen showing this (using an account I made for a character sharing site, so I don't mind showing it):

(Yes, I know it's in Swedish, but you get the idea.)

This setting does not exist in the Google+ profile settings, and can't be reached since trying to view your Google Profile redirects you to your Google+ profile. This account isn't a Google+ member, and therefore I can reach and change this setting. With my real account, I can't. So, whatever you set this to before you join Google+, you're then stuck with.

Your partially correct.

What I meant was "if you have changed your Google Profile URL from the default string of numbers to your Gmail user name".

Where the heck do I go to find my actual URL?

Just go to your profile page. There it is.

 

[kehs]

Well, in the same way that Picasa = Google+ Photos, I guess. Same data, two different interfaces. If you're not a Google+ member, your Google Profile is a seperate thing, on its own site (profiles.google.com). Once you become a Google+ member, these are merged, and your Google Profile URL redirects to your Google+ profile.

The problem is that the Google Profile page has settings which are not available in the Google+ profile settings, such as the ability to change your public profile URL to your Gmail user name or back to the random number string.

EDIT: Here's a screen showing this (using an account I made for a character sharing site, so I don't mind showing it):

http://i.imgur.com/sbcik.png

(Yes, I know it's in Swedish, but you get the idea.)

This setting does not exist in the Google+ profile settings, and can't be reached since trying to view your Google Profile redirects you to your Google+ profile. This account isn't a Google+ member, and therefore I can reach and change this setting. With my real account, I can't.



What I meant was "if you have changed your Google Profile URL from the default string of numbers to your Gmail user name".



Just go to your profile page. There it is.

I see what you mean, but once you do switch over to your G+, your profile URL will be a number URL, the vanity will never show unless someone types it in manually.

 

[RoadHazard]

I see what you mean, but once you do switch over to your G+, your profile URL will be a number URL, the vanity will never show unless someone types it in manually.

My Google Profile vanity URL shows up if I search my name, so that's not entirely true.

 

[kaching]

Just tried my luck and managed to get in.

Invites are at least partially open.

Now to try this out.

Yes, looks like you can sign up, if you go to google.com/plus

 

[kehs]

My Google Profile vanity URL shows up if I search my name, so that's not entirely true.

Shows up where?

I haven't seen my vanity url anywhere, and I had my profile setup to use it.

 

[RoadHazard]

Shows up where?

I haven't seen my vanity url anywhere, and I had my profile setup to use it.

In Google's search results. If I search "[my name] google" it's the first result in the list. Then comes my Google+ profile.

 

[Technosteve]

is there a neogaf mega group?

 

[kehs]

In Google's search results. If I search "[my name] google" it's the first result in the list. Then comes my Google+ profile.

Ah okay, I see what you mean now. You can't really deduce that added portion is the email address, because at one point Google allowed you to crate a custom vanity url.

 

[Battersea Power Station]

Sorry, dunno if this has been posted, but it seems that Google+ for Google Apps for Your Domain is on its way. There's some evidence that it's being tested:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/116070746143818505850/posts/WatUnsHeLTD

 

[Kinitari]

The Google+ feature suggestion page is pretty nice, it looks like a lot of the stuff I want is a lot of stuff other people want as well.

For example!

Being able to select multiple circles for default stream, but not all of them - I know some people in this thread were saying there was 'no need' - but I mean, wouldn't it be better if the feature was available?

Also, Google docs/mail/etc mixing in with G+ would be fantastic. Having a circle work on a shared document is great, emailing people in a circle is fantastic, things like this.

I would like to see some desktop support for huddles.

 

[RoadHazard]

Ah okay, I see what you mean now. You can't really deduce that added portion is the email address, because at one point Google allowed you to crate a custom vanity url.

They only ever allowed that for Google accounts without Gmail addresses, I believe.

is there a neogaf mega group?

There are no groups. There are just circles, and those are private to each user.

 

[kehs]

The Google+ feature suggestion page is pretty nice, it looks like a lot of the stuff I want is a lot of stuff other people want as well.

For example!

Being able to select multiple circles for default stream, but not all of them - I know some people in this thread were saying there was 'no need' - but I mean, wouldn't it be better if the feature was available?

Also, Google docs/mail/etc mixing in with G+ would be fantastic. Having a circle work on a shared document is great, emailing people in a circle is fantastic, things like this.

I would like to see some desktop support for huddles.

I was one of those people, and I see the error of my ways. The streams desperately needs boolean options as well as custom streams. Good thing is that they've apparently listened and are working on it.

 

[Kinitari]

I wish I knew where I could hear about any Google+ news from G+ staffers. Like a twitter account, or even a G+ person I could add for updates. I like to be in the know .

 

[Kosmo]

Was just able to join. Going to poke around, but not sure I'll get anyone from Facebook to migrate.