Showing posts with label google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google. Show all posts

May 18, 2010

Google trashed my Google Site's Content

When I forked Regen2 from Funtoo over a year ago I created a web page for it on sites.google.com. The hosting and uptime were both right for what I needed. The dns has long expired but I went to sites today to find a public link to the content, only to find that at some point they upgraded sites and completely trashed all the content I had put on there. Sure they have a revision control on there now... but it doesn't contain ANY of the content I had left. WTF Google? I'm sure someone is going to say 'backups' but honestly, I killed the project, whatever was there wasn't really important to me anymore. But I didn't expect that it would get trashed in some Google update.

Feb 14, 2010

Can't Find Google's OpenID

I think that Google's (not Blogger's) OpenID is a failure. It's not memorable and you can't find it. I've been trying to figure out where google has my OpenID listed for 30 minutes now. This is not the first time I've had to do this. I usually use Blogger's because it uses my blog's url, but it's currently error-ing with a typepad blog. Why can't google use something like google.com/username ? something we could remember. Why isn't it listed in an obvious place in my account details? Why is it when I search "google openid" it talks about the announcements all over the place, but never how to find out what your url is.

UPDATE:
Found it on lenni.info

UPDATE:
it's this https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id