Your Google+ profile ID is a horrifying string of meaningless numbers. For example, mine is 111203177111013925515. Gah! Here’s how to pretty it up.
That Google+ profile address looks like crap on the web, and even worse in an email signature. But if you want to share your profile, and make it easy to remember, head to Gplus.to. It’s an easy vanity URL shortener that will let you create a handy nickname that redirects to your Google+ account. So instead of user 111203177111013925515, I can just be Gplus.to/mth.
Act fast. The short handles will run out quickly.
Update: As Gizmodo reader ehed points out, if you already had a Google profile set up before the Google+ launch, that address (such as http: //profiles.google.com/yourusername) now points to your Google+ profile.
[Gplus via The Atlantic, Lifehacker]
altaluz
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 9:16 AMDont overtrust theese .to (Tonga) domains !
We have to bare in mind that we trust here the route to our social network to someone we dont know any reputation of. Like it happened with the .tk domains, later there can be added easily xxx adult advertisements or any other disturbing content.
As a programmer i advice you that for now google.tk uses a redirect to your g+ account, but when ever they decided so, they could use an so called “iframe” that adds whatever they wish to your g+ site.
I am really very surprised how much this Tonga URL is being recommended in serious articles.Even higher security risks like keylogging etc. would be no problem (How many of us use the same password everywhere…)
It does not make much sense anyhow, given the point that an “vanity”-url is meant to be added to the G+ URL by hand or to be found lateron in a googlesearch, and not be given verbally. (because if we talk about a link, then it wont make any difference if its twenty numbers or a nice word)I repeat here clearly google.to has nothing to do with the company Google, it is even hosted where legal restrictions are harder to be realized for consumer-protecting and governmental institutions.
So don´t waste time and even risk surprising your visitors with strange advertisements, and just wait until the real vanity-URL´s will be available by Google itself.