Google Profiles gets pretty URLs

[brad]

Ugly URL:
http://www.google.com/s2/profiles/115863474911002159675

Pretty URL:
http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz

(I don't work on this, but am excited about pretty URLs....)

Comments

No spam please

[anonymous]

Now let's hope that spammers don't find a way to harvest these sort of URLs and figure out that http://www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz implies that bradfitz @ gmail dot com is a valid email account.

irony?

[d4b]

I so wanted to post in response that animated graphic (used to sell LJ rename tokens) that shows your LJ username as "worst username evar", but I just couldn't find it. :-(

Re: Photos

[brad]

Will do.

[askbjoernhansen]

hmn - I'm not too surprised it won't let me be "ask" (although it would be nice), but it says "askbjoernhansen" isn't available. Huh? :-)

- ask