Google announced today:
In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we’ve built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings. Today, the Dashboard covers more than 20 products and services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, Latitude and many more. The scale and level of detail of the Dashboard is unprecedented, and we’re delighted to be the first Internet company to offer this — and we hope it will become the standard. Watch this quick video to learn more and then try it out for yourself at www.google.com/dashboard.
Mashable’s unimpressed, because it offers nothing more than what already was acceptable via the individuals Google products. SearchEngineLand has a detailed look at the product before concluding:
In September, Google announced its Data Liberation Front – a team focused on making it easy for users to move data in and out of Google products. The Google Dashboard is a sister and almost a prequel to that effort — one that helps users see and manage the data Google that Google has about them. It represents a step toward appeasing some of its critics and preventing some of these privacy clashes. The question is … will Google’s critics feel that it’s a big enough step?
Danny Sullivan points out that John Batelle suggested this early in 2006.