Webfinger now available for Google public profiles

If you've seen ReadWriteWeb's "Email as Identity", you know that Brad just turned on Webfinger for anyone with a public Google profile.  What this means is that, if (and only if) you've enabled your public Google profile at http://www.google.com/profiles/{username}, you can now use Webfinger to look up information you've added to your profile.  Here's the one for john.panzer for example.  By default this exposes only generic service endpoints, not actual information about the user.  But you can link it to private or public feeds, services, or basically anything you want to associate with your online identity.

A next step for Salmon is to let users add a link to their public key from their Webfinger discovered info.  Then given an email address it will be trivial to look up their preferred public key.  It'd look something like this via the discovery tool:

links {
  rel: "magic-public-key"
  type: "application/magic-public-key"
  href: "data:application/magic-public-key;,RSA.mV...ww.AQAB"
}