14 DAY TRIAL // Google recently introduced a new Profile layout which puts a greater emphasis on photos and enables the user to provide more detailed information. Now, you can add even more context with the help of Picasa Web Albums, by adding it as a permanent tab on your Profile page.
"Recently we updated Google Profiles to help you decide what the world sees when it searches for you," Dave Cohen, Engineer Google Photos, wrote.
"Your profile and scrapbook photos already make it easier for people to get to know you, but we want to do more to help you showcase your favorite pics," he added.
"Now you can add Picasa Web Albums to your Google profiles. By choosing to show the 'PicasaWeb' tab, you will enable visitors to see your public albums. Private albums will remain visible to only the people you’ve shared them with directly," he announced.
The Google Profile page is designed to be just that, a public profile for whoever may be searching for you online. It can contain all manner of biographical data, but, since the revamp, there are also a lot more photos.
Along with the larger profile photo and the scrapbook displayed on top, you can now add a Picasa Web tab as well which will be populated with your public albums. If a picture really is worth a thousand words, then this should make your profile a lot more informative.
The Picasa Web tab joins the About and Buzz tabs, but it is starting to look like a trend. Google has said that it is looking to create a social layer to unite all of its products, and Profiles may very well be at the center of it.
By integrating Google various products and having them all linked from one place, Profiles could start to take shape and be more than just a static page.
It's easy to imagine a YouTube tab or even a Blogger one, many of the elements are there, Google just has to put them together in a way that makes sense and appeals to users.