In case you didn't know, that link does work for some people. (Me, for instance. I ended up at your profile.)
It might be a regional thing. Or they might have fixed a bug.
The link works for me too.
It works now! :D
I can't bring myself to honestly post "+1", but my vanity URL does the same thing sadly.
gplus.to seems to have nothing to do with Google, other than someone set up a g+-specific url shortener.
and they're quietly collecting people's google id's.
Google IDs are not private information.
Doesn't mean I'll make it easy for them to get mine.
Especially for a url that will loose its value the day google implments the functionality, a temporary vanity url is of little use (to me.)
Nice, though I'm assuming that Google will provide some sort of vanity URLs like fb did.
It's odd, because pre-G+, you could set your profile URL (as well as your Picasa albums URL). Now that G+ is active, that capability seems to be gone.
There's at least one google engineer in my extended circles that was surprised the ability to edit the URL in the profile editor was gone. The instructions on how to edit the url are still there but the element is missing from the new layout. So he's "looking into it."
I was surprised to see that Google+ doesn't have usable profile URLs like Twitter and Facebook, so this is great workaround for a nice simple URL to share. That long string of numbers does not look good.
I'm sure this is a feature they will roll out, but it isn't exactly a must-have for an MVP. Facebook didn't add their friendly URLs for many years.
For people who don't have invites yet, is it possible to determine what your Google+ ID will be and reserve a nick ahead of time?
sucks reading about google plus when you can't get an invite to g+