Oakland Dollars for Sunday Papers. Montclair Farmer's Market.
Achievement Unlocked. Spouse obtains medical cannabis prescription on April 20th.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)#__sid=rd0
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*The Real Life Social Network* July 2010
by Paul Adams, UX researcher at Google. This had a huge influence on the design of Google+.
http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2
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*Hat Shopping*
Sadly, no matching towel.
http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/marc-by-marc-jacobs-dont-panic-hat/3902695
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Signal boost for http://go/secondopinion
I requested a 2nd opinion yesterday around 2pm, received form at 4pm, sent it in at 5pm, was called within 15 minutes to go over details.
<24h later a specialist doctor called us to discuss the case and started the process to get all the data needed for a diagnostic review.
Crazy good. Highly recommended.
Someone needs to add a link to
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/us-benefits/health-wellness
so this is more discoverable....
https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fgoogle.com%2F...
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Stage 4? Are you sure?
... was my response to Julie's oncologist giving us the bad news that she has breast cancer that has spread to her bone marrow. It certainly explains the bleeding, the bruising and the anemia which required multiple transfusions.
No treatment plan yet (tests, and more tests..), but it looks like my future will involve lots of WFH where H == hospital. I'm going to do whatever I can to improve the 1-2 year survival time odds.
I'm interested in hearing from you if:
- You have dealt with Kaiser's Cancer care and treatment. tips please!
- You have 2nd opinion referrals.
- You have a Caregiver story -- how did it impact you and your career?
Thanks again to everyone that's offered support and flexibility. Googlers are the best, most supportive people in the whole world. Proud to work for this company and with you all.
firstgoogleremail
I don't have my #firstgoogleremail - but I do have the email that started the ball rolling towards my eventual employment. Seven weeks later I started at Google.
*Date*: 8/7/10
*Subject*: Interesting moves
_I'm intrigued the recent social moves coming out of Google and wonder if there's some part for me in all of this, either from the inside or from the outside._
_Truth be told, I'm not getting my "change the internet for the better" satisfaction at the moment even with the independent time I spend on Opensocial/Shindig/OAuth._
_Would you like to have a short chat in the next week or two?_
Code Yellow == hazmat? Seems legit.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6136222398160596161/6136222399346749426?...
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Dealing with the _"Help me with my website"_ question...
When people find out you're a Googler they often ask _"can you help me with my site"_? I mostly give some simple advice and leave it at that. This time is different.
But first.. a story.
My wife, Julie, fears dentists due to unfortunate childhood events. While on vacation she had some gum bleeding. Using Google Search I found Maisy, an oral surgeon, and her husband, Amir, an anesthesiologist. Together they did the impossible and got Julie the dental care she needed. She went above and beyond in so many ways.
Alas, there were complications on discharge. Despite a blood test only 10 days earlier her levels had dropped really low. Maisy and I talked a lot while we waited for the transfusion to complete in the ER. We spoke about how she and her husband started their practice and how they wanted to grow it. Many questions about online marketing came up. I said I would see what I could do. After everything I'd walk over glass for Maisy.
So....
*What's the best way to help?* I'm no expert, but I am acquainted with some non-google consultants I could engage. Looking for any advice or referrals, especially for people that deal with local.
Oh and if you need a dentist, it's well worth the trip. Great people, dog friendly, pleasant surroundings, and the most advanced dental technology.
http://www.desertdentalspa.com/meet-the-doctors/dr-maisy-ibrahim/
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Thirteen Ways To Save Orkut
*Thirteen Ways To Save Orkut* February 2004
_With its integrated personal, social, and business functions, Orkut has an opportunity to outstrip it competitors—but only if its creators make smart choices that support the genuine needs of real people._
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/thirteen_ways_to_save_orkut/
*Earliest mention of Eden aka Orkut* October 2003
_I already started getting bug reports regarding eden so_
_it's time to add it the project list (:_
_Eden is a social networking tool under development. You_
_can visit http://eden/, sign up and check it out. Please_
_keep eden confidential._
....
https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/bugs/lA-IYLLpn3c/Ft-h3xqSjUgJ
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Postmortems...
*You might be a Googler if...*
You start writing a postmortem when you arrive at the ER.
So. Many. _Areas for Improvement_
#protip if you're going to need dental/medical treatment do it in an area where lots of old rich people live. #medicaltourism
Note: All is well now, we extended our stay and Julie is recovering.
A long, well written retrospective by the former Salon _Ask the Pilot_ columnist Patrick Smith.
A long, well written retrospective by the former Salon _Ask the Pilot_ columnist Patrick Smith.
h/t Rohit Khare
Many of these themes will seem familiar...
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2015/03/25/Grow-Your-App-By-Helping-People-Share/?_fb_nosc...
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So no more G+ by default on Android... (amongst other apps) Overall it's probably a good thing -- I'd prefer earned installs to default ones.
.oO(Should we start spending on app install adds?)
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6129912537119115681/6129912535696718466?...
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Collections
Some feedback on Collections after actually using them for realzies:
- The aspect ratio of the cover image is really hard to deal with. You can't crop regular images easily and you can't letterbox easily.
- I'd like to make a collection as 'Draft' so I can get it looking nice before I send it out to the world.
- I'd love to see a 'People mentioned this collection' in the sidebar. [and other aggregates, like places, hashtags, maybe a word cloud?]
- I wish I could back-date things. Or at least allow for manual ordering.
- What about Pinned/Hero Post for a Collection?
- Will public collections have non-obfuscated URLs?
- Do we filter these oddball urls for naughty words?
*Dodgeball vs Twitter (and Facebook)* March, 2007
via Techcrunch
Yes, at one time Dodgeball was neck and neck with Twitter and Facebook.
http://techcrunch.com/2007/03/19/sxsw-showdown-dodgeball-vs-twitter/#__sid=rd0
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*Tacotown, aka Buzz* August 2009
I binge watched TGIF videos when I joined Google. This one has a special place in my heart. So inspirational.
I'm happy that so many of the people you see below are still here -- still trying to deliver on this dream. [In fact too many to plus-mention.]
Source: https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/tgif-info/highlights/08-28-09
https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/1iIVuMoaWc1467f9-c2JGR99u7EO6aWpt6O3y94aUOznRMfKPWKSXAH...
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Ursquake
*Ursquake* March 2010
@113057531893316771155 states
_The social web is revolutionizing the world, and this is our chance to create what will be the most useful and most used set of socially connected products in the world, with the best user controls on privacy and data portability. We have an incredibly strong starting position. It’s rare that we’re being given an opportunity to have such a big impact in such a short time, so lets seize it!_
*Campfire One: Introducing OpenSocial* November 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOEbAZJTTk
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Interviewing PMs
Not sure where to get feedback for this so tossing into the ether...
I've been getting many PM interviews for Technical Hat; I wonder what others think of this line of questioning?
- We have a SMB with 1000 devices and 20 servers
- These machines generate log files (1st question, does candidate know what a log file is?)
- Your product needs to meet the needs of the following users
- Sysadmins need to be able to diagnose problems, do postmortems.
- Auditors need to enforce rules on system usage
- A security team wants to detect intrusions, malware etc.
I then ask the candidate to ask clarifying questions and try to get them to give me any/all of the following through progressive probing:
- Min viable features of the product
- Do they suggest graphs? notifications? email alerts?
- What about user provisioning? Admin features?
- What kind of UI? Web? Mobile? Command line?
- Search?
- A high level technical design showing how the we get from Logs -> UI
- Push vs pull?
- Where/when does parsing happen?
- Technical
- How do you store the data? How do you transform it? Batch?
- What database? How many QPS?
- Redundancy? Failover?
- On site / off site?
- Insights
- Does the candidate understand privacy/security concerns? (Mention wipeout, retention for the auditor use case)
So far I've gotten some decent responses, but most fall into the run reports on files and store those.
For the good candidates we are able to progress to phase II where we design for a multinational fortune 500 scenario.
So WDYT? Good question?
PMs? How do you think you'd do on my question?
*Fall Detection and Diversity*
Why not build fall detection into every phone? And why don't we have these kinds of features?
I recently had a scare where my wife passed out and hit her head while walking our dog. Luckily a neighbor noticed and helped her back to our house. It's highly unlikely she'd use a device like the one you see below, but I suspect an app on the phone would be acceptable (and more useful)
Which brings me back to product design. When was the last time you saw _elder_ or _person with medical condition_ as a target user outside of a11y bug? Having multiple points of view really matter. Without it we're blind to many use cases across the design spectrum.
http://www.tunstallhealthcare.com.au/solutions/iVi
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Hey -spaces- collections are back. So here's some heavy german #dailyinspiration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdFNafVwcqM
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For those of you not around back in 2010 we were working on this interests thing back then too.
In a serif font no less.
Finally cleaning up some of this stuff now...
https://critique.corp.google.com/#review/88781755
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I'd pay to get this cherry picked into LMP MR1..
https://b.corp.google.com/issues/18069309
signed,
Paul's Nexus 5 with 900+ MB of system memory used...
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Pour one out for Apache Wave. Everyone's moving to share.js
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-wave-dev/201503.mbox/%3C1426366328.3531989.240420...
Sad to see this happen, but somewhat expected given the complex code base and lack of institutional support.
Reminds me that I should push some Apache Shindig changes to keep that on life support...
http://sharejs.org
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Enjoying all the historical info I'm finding on oaklandwiki.org
Enjoying all the historical info I'm finding on oaklandwiki.org
Found my way there after researching the Sacramento Northern Railway...
What will it take to change this narrative:
_There are companies that do not get social and they never will. Apple’s one of them, Google is the other: they’ve failed with Google+. When your culture is engineering-focused, you do not understand social. Social is a very emotional experience. Engineers are not so much, in a lot of cases,_
It won't be facts, since any numbers we release are instantly dismissed. My guess is that we're going to have to move influentials over, one-by-one until the zeitgeist changes. People only see what's in their bubble, and Google's social efforts don't penetrate.... yet.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/myspace-what-went-wrong-sean-percival-spotify
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A new TPaaS vendor appears
http://fancy.com/things/719827939058782136/CLOUD-Toilet-Paper-Storage
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Today's #ukgarage inspirational tune. Sadly there's no vid for this..
https://play.google.com/music/m/Tpletfdxsiuhlkgtsxt4b244uti
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What's a collection of cards? Decks! so obvious it hurts...
Did you test that name Dmitry?
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/26/mobile-search-david-vs-googliath/
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What's up with Ad Planner? It now redirects to
https://awics.corp.google.com/um/ssoauth?dst=https://adsmediaplanner.googleplex.com/?ICS_AUTH_OK
and gives me a 403. Is there any way to get some baseline geo/demo data for publisher websites these days?
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Here are some 20% projects for Blogger:
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/blogger/blogger-jobs
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I contributed early on but didn't realize that Google contributed 16k as well. Happy to see things like this.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Blogger-hands-out-165-000-to-Mission-fire-victims-6104825.php?...
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I love it when things just f'ing work.
- I read an internal G+ post by @118054148122560925848 about bad snippets on http://grpc.io/
- Commented, said I'd ping folks.
- Pinged grpc TL @117058620747746997157 on hangouts
- He creates a group chat with @117889162726815756319
- I say here's my github id
- Added to project.
- I clone it and realize it's jekyll
- minimal yak shaving getting jekyll up and running
- in the meantime a new image is uploaded
- git fork, clone, edit, push
- create pull request
- merged.
- DONE
A big image for a big project and a descriptive snippet.
http://www.grpc.io/
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Today's inspiration. Some chill, yet uptempo chamber music. Great music for sharpening pitchforks, if that's your thing ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvp28IVUpa0
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I still think Ripples is awesome and needed more than ever in a interest based system. How else are you going to follow the entire chain?
Here's a link to the Tau post by Danielle
[and ugh, the metadata for sharing on those pages is awful...]
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=z12qtdmgdtmaj5oy304cjzjwttehc3bb4z40k
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It's so fast and smooth you might think you're using a native App.
It's so fast and smooth you might think you're using a native App.
Originally shared by Danielle Buckley
Today we’re excited to announce the new and improved Google+ experience for mobile web. We focused on making everything faster, more beautiful, and more intuitive. To check out all the new updates, visit plus.google.com on your phone or tablet’s browser.
As always, we’d love to hear what you think!
Google I need rain boots
Was discussing potential for location-based sharing and remembered this gem. Despite all the sucky things happening I'm still excited about what's possible in the future.
I find the Blogger decision baffling given the effort in Social for Project R
http://go/projectr
What's the story here? @103643500382916616176 or @106642279061626308531 can you weigh in?
I was hopeful that we'd offer a way for adults to have adult conversations around adult topics and content. Hell, sometimes I'd like to restrict my youtube comments to only adults (*yes* we have the ability in the ASBE backend to do this!)
I'm also sad that we're spending any amount of time to help Tobacco companies peddle their wares, which it seems is the main driver for a lot of this...
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