Google Profile

Google Profile, if you have not made use of it yet, is a service where you can easily maintain information about yourself. Think of it as the Google version of your about page per se. There also is a Social Graph API where you can do more interesting things with this data. All of this is free to use with minimal effort to setup and maintain. Here is my profile as an example.

The other benefit is that when people search for your name, your Google Profile will show up the search along with your avatar picture. Although, at the moment, your profile info only shows up at bottom of search results. Bummer. I would think this should be the very first things you see in Google search results but maybe they’ll correct this soon.

So deactivate your Facebook account and kick LinkedIn to the curb, Google Profile seems like the better solution for representing yourself and improving your connections.

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