{"id":922,"date":"2009-11-30T22:11:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T05:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=922"},"modified":"2010-01-10T22:11:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T05:11:50","slug":"google-profile-tips-openid-delegate-resetting-profile-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"Google Profile tips: OpenID delegate, resetting profile photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been more and more interested in having Google manage, store, and maintain my entire life. Not just my digital life, but my real life. Needless to say, I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/profiles\/\">Google Profiles<\/a> and have come up with a few neat tips.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Google Profile photo being reset all the time<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Some people have noticed their profile photo being reset frequently. I learned that if you use a client such as Pidgin or Adium to login to Google Chat (with the same account as your profile) then it sets your profile photo to, well, nothing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Simply add your profile photo in your client to the image you want to use across your Google services (chat, contacts, etc.) and it will stick. I added an profile image to Adium and haven&#8217;t seen it reset in 48 hours.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Google Profile as an OpenID delegate<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>I was excited when Google Profiles became an OpenID provider but the domain sucked. Now you can use your profile URL (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/profiles\/devin.reams\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/profiles\/devin.reams<\/a>) as the OpenID endpoint.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Even better, you can use your own domain (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/devinr.com\">devinr.com<\/a>) and delegate it to Google. In other words, I can now login to all my OpenID-enabled sites using my own domain but using the secure authentication at Google.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/factoryjoe\/4134418702\/\">Chris Messina<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/dewitt\/b9ad7eff\/picture-of-me-signed-in-to-js-kit-with-my-openid\">DeWitt Clinton<\/a> for the following:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p><span style=\"font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap; \"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&lt;link href=&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/accounts\/o8\/ud<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8221; rel=&#8221;openid2.provider&#8221; \/&gt;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap; \"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&lt;link href=&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/profiles\/<\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">{PROFILE ID}<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8221; rel=&#8221;openid2.local_id&#8221; \/&gt; &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap; \"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&lt;link href=&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/accounts\/o8\/ud<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8221; rel=&#8221;openid.server&#8221; \/&gt;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap; \"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&lt;link href=&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/profiles\/<\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">{PROFILE ID}<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8221; rel=&#8221;openid.delegate&#8221; \/&gt;<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been more and more interested in having Google manage, store, and maintain my entire life. Not just my digital life, but my real life. Needless to say, I&#8217;ve been using Google Profiles and have come up with a few neat tips. Google Profile photo being reset all the time Some people have noticed their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}