Google profile cards

I feel I need to blog here more (I feel bad seeing this blog so empty), so to start I'm going to reveal something that I've been thinking about for a while.

Google profile cards!



These things are actually official, Google uses them in many of their products like Google Books, Google Reader, and even when you hover over names on the new Google Groups. It automatically displays some information from your Google Profile and even says if you're verified or not (though I'm not sure if that's the verified feature from Google+, Google Knol or both), and if the user viewing the card happens to be your friend on Google Talk, your GTalk status shows up there too.

So this trick doesn't require some ridiculous hack or use of any API, just an iframe.

The code looks like this:

<iframe frameborder="no" align="center" src="http://www.google.com/s2/u/0/widgets/ProfileCard?uid=[[LALALA]]" style="width: 325px; height: 122px; border: none;" width="325px" height="122px"></iframe>


and all you have to do is replace where it says "[[LALALA]]" with your Google profile UID (in your URL it's the number or screenname after "plus.google.com/" or "profiles.google.com/").

also, if you want to remove that border around your card (maybe to replace it with one of your own), just add "&bc=0" after your UID in the URL.



And there you have it. I'm sure someone will want to embed this on their blog somewhere or on their profile on some forum.
I'm surprised that Google hasn't officially pushed this out to be used by 3rd parties, it seems pretty complete for such a use case (somebody annoy someone at Google to make this official).

A You And Me Thing Tumblr

ayouandmething.tumblr.com

Small site from us, not really a full design, plan to do more later.

EDIT (1/15/12): Never mind, it's been changed to something else.

DeShayliens

www.deshayliens.com

Designed by us.

Artwork by KevB

Click on the images to enlarge them.







A close friend of mine, Kevin Brown (he's guest posted on here before) had started a blog earlier this year to promote his artwork and skill, so just because I feel this dude deserves more attention for his art I've made this post (I was supposed to post this way earlier, but I'm a procrastinator).

(His blog)
(This was cross posted from bastard central)

TAT

_{(This has been sitting in here since December 30, 2009)}





Posting, I'll forever procrastinate on such a task...

A You & Me Thing - The Breakup

Since I've been neglecting this blog and I'm bored, I think it's time for some new music (well, new as long as you haven't been on the Acrylic Style site).

A rapper friend of mine teamed up with a singer I met not too long ago to make a group called A You & Me Thing, here's the first song from this project.

Like them on Facebook:

More fun with iFrames

Some thing that I've known for a while is that Google Buzz, Google Reader and any good RSS reader supports iframes, it's how I figured out how to embed a Google Wave within a Buzz post.

I've always thought it'd make a cool unofficial application platform in Google Buzz if the trick was mixed with Google Gadgets and Open Social but I never knew if it would work or not, mainly because I haven't tried, so here's my first attempt.

Regular Gadget


Social Gadget


(To see the social gadget test in action you must have people in your friends list in your Google contacts)

Of course this is all useless as Buzz users are Gmail users and if they wanted to run Apps/Games they could just use the feature in Gmail Labs, especially since it supports social gadgets and a canvas mode.

Maybe Google will integrate Buzz with the Gadgets feature in the future with these "GoogleMe" rumors going around.