Have you checked your Google Dashboard yet? This is not the iGoogle dashboard with widgets but the Google Dashboard which tells you what information Google has about each of your Google related accounts.

It is early days for the project and whilst the information is far from exhaustive it looks like a step in the right direction – especially when considered with Google’s Data Liberation project – the data liberation project aims are to make it easier to move your data into and out of Google.

A quick look down my Google Dashboard tells me I have 26 active Google Alerts, 19 Blogger entries on 1 old Blogger Blog , 2 Google Calendars, 310 Google Contacts, and a bunch of other information relating to Gmail, iGoogle, Latitude, Orkut, Picasa Web Albums, Profile, Reader, Talk, Tasks, Web History, You Tube and other products. A number of these information sources show the most recent entry associated with the service. When considering privacy issues alone it is quite an eye opener to see what little snippets of information you might have left lying around.

The site is split into appropriate sections with suitable management links, shortcuts, and help texts to make managing this information easier. Whilst you could probably extract this information by visiting each service manually it really is useful seeing all this information in one place and “at a glance” – perhaps other vendors will follow suit.

Visit Google Dashboard at http://www.google.com/dashboard/.

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