T-Mobile USA folks -- consider signing up for this beta program.
The odd things you find on Netflix.
The odd things you find on Netflix.... Searching for more info didn't bring up much except for this quote from a press release:
"`Nancy Drew' and `The Hardy Boys' will move smoothly into the modern age with great adventures and mysteries using modern day products like cell phones, CD-ROMs and modems to continue their young adult sleuthing."
Had to watch three episodes to fully appreciate how bad it was.
Embeds United!
I'm somewhat alarmed that there really isn't a "Life of a Widget/Embed" that has best practices on how to embed Google Content on third party sites.
Has anyone tackled this before? Obviously +1, adsense, youtube, maps, analytics and others all use their own mechanisms.
Is it time to consider deploying common infrastructure for these use cases? Especially for systems that require the ability to identify a Google user?
So here's my proposal.
* Use oauth2 semantics everywhere: tokens and api requests.
* Use a single bootstrap system to identify js domain, collect API keys as needed.
* Generate two new types of OAuth tokens that do not contain user info.
- 'Anonymous-by-domain'
- 'Anonymous-by-domain-by-api-key'
* Allow an account widget that can move you from anonymous -> identified -> authorized. (including multilogin, signin and account registration)
If all the various embeds used this common system we'd have a way to enable personalization on third party sites more easily and provide a clear way to go beyond.
Am I barking up the wrong tree?
#googplus
I highly recommend that everyone check out the rich snippets page.
I highly recommend that everyone check out the rich snippets page.
- Have a Google+ account? Try putting your other profile links in there to see if you have things all linked together. (See http://blog.inuus.com/vox/2012/01/social-search-part-1-connect-all-the-accounts.html for more on this...)
- Webmaster? See how Google parses your site. You'll also find some good examples of how you can markup your pages to be better represented in Google+ and in Google search results.
Happy to help webmasters implement this -- leave me a message on my profile.
Originally shared by Ade Oshineye
Have you tried: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets ?
What did you think of it?
BTW the help page is here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173839
.. random ES thought on content-based circle classifications..
Imagine if we could infer the type of circle based on either the content you post there (via NLP), the linguistic name, or user specification?
We could:
-- boost/dampen the volume of a post based on circle matching:
I have you in my _Photos_ circle, you share to your _heavy_metal_ circle == dampen.
-- You post your high scores to _public_ + _chess_, I follow you in a circle named _games_ == boost.
-- My wife posts to _family_, I have her in _family_ == boost
-- My wife posts to _Tennis_ and public, I don't have her in a sports circle == dampen.
The reason I've been thinking about this is another what-if --
-- what if Apps had a one-to-one relationship with a plus page?
-- When I add an App, it can circle me back.
-- If I perform an action on the third party site the app can plus-mention me, or it can group together users into relavant circles to send updates.
-- I can put noisy apps in a circle and lower the volume.
Note that App could be a Game (like Angry Birds), an App (like Remember the Milk) or even a web site (like 8tracks or Soundcloud..)
Maybe this is stretching the model too much, but it's certainly fun to ponder!
#googplus
Until everything in the world is in the cloud this works well for getting the bits from the linux file server in the...
Until everything in the world is in the cloud this works well for getting the bits from the linux file server in the garage to the Google TV in the living room.
Plus it uses freebase.com data to enhance your content in new and interesting ways.
Anyone looking into this? On your radar @103217625524699361065 ?
Oh and can someone tell Danny Sullivan that he should properly link his accounts on his profile?
http://searchengineland.com/dont-be-evil-tool-google-108971
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Breezy day at the market. Parking meters are now $4.25/hr.
Breezy day at the market. Parking meters are now $4.25/hr.
Bumped into Benjamin Trott which was nice.
These are not the Guava you're looking for..
[fun stuff from the interests pipeline]
Otherwise pretty accurate, if a bit heavy on my youtube viewing history...
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/guava
#googplus
Confirm receipt?
Confirm receipt?
Hi Evan -- pinging you here just in case you didn't see my note about starting on SPYW...
Some good thoughts from James about the standards process.
Some good thoughts from James about the standards process.
(Oh BTW, I have opened an issue to get full Activity Streams conformity.. Mostly this was just a disconnect of developing the APIs while the standard was baking..)
Originally shared by James Snell
Just some basic thoughts on standards development...
Really happy to see IBM moving forward with this!
Really happy to see IBM moving forward with this!
I just updated my profile link to Google+ so authorship annotations can work.
http://t.co/uB6kFxc6
I wonder if there's a professional version of this? Interesting idea..
I wonder if there's a professional version of this? Interesting idea..
Originally shared by Guy Kawasaki
(Wed04) Was getting in touch with my metrosexual side on Pinterest and came across this pin:
http://pinterest.com/pin/248823948131916417/
Which lead me to this:
http://www.dwell.com/articles/bialetti-pasta-pot.html
Which is something to buy for sure! You can get it here for $34.95, but all the colors are sold out except purple.
Just have to share this page since this is the first instance of a company putting a link to their plus page in an...
Just have to share this page since this is the first instance of a company putting a link to their plus page in an email that I've seen. They said:
We'd sure appreciate a +1! Click here to see what we're talking about.
Oh and they do make some pretty nice doors too...
Decided to dust of my Typepad Blog for a post on how to help make your Social Search experience even more awesome.
Decided to dust of my Typepad Blog for a post on how to help make your Social Search experience even more awesome.
For part 1 I focus on linking your accounts together. This is key to being able to personalize content that does not live in Google+.
If you have a deep link to a site settings page that offers a way to link to Google+ let me know here or over on the blog.
Watching the live stream for Search, plus your world:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/search%2C%20plus%20your%20world
https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/search%2C%20plus%20your%20world
#googplus
And we must give credit to Amit Singhal who shared this first!
And we must give credit to Amit Singhal who shared this first!
Stay tuned, I'll have some tips on how to make sure your content gets included in social search later today.
Originally shared by Amit Singhal
Today we are introducing Search plus Your World, a new Google search experience centered around people. For the first time ever, you will be able to find personal results from your world -- your photos, your friends, your stuff -- in search.
It's rolling out today and should be available in the US for all signed in Google users over the next few days.
Social Search is getting a huge upgrade today! Your +1s, your posts and your content now matter more than ever.
Social Search is getting a huge upgrade today! Your +1s, your posts and your content now matter more than ever.
After almost a month our Flume MR is finally running again. The mystery of the broken shard has been finally solved!
*shard (n.)*
a piece of broken ceramic, metal, glass or rock typically having sharp edges.
*sharding (v.)*
dunno… but you will likely wound yourself and you get to keep all the pieces.
— Theo Schlossnagle
#googplus
Social Search Part 1 - Connect All the Accounts
Do you create content on the web? Do you want to make that content eligible for inclusion in Google's new social search? Of course you do!
Read on for the first part in my series of tips and tricks on how to make social search work better for your content.
1: Connect All the Accounts.
Social search uses your Google identity plus your extended social graph to help you find personalized content. The extended social graph is found via links everyone adds to their Google+ profile. More links means more personalized data.
Connect and Verify the accounts you use across the web on the Connected Accounts settings page. Then add these and other profile links on your Google+ profile. Remember to add links to accounts across the web, places where you actually create content: your postings, comments, photos, videos and so on.
The best results come from two-way links so consider adding links back to your Google+ profile. For best results paste in your Google+ profile and remove the /u/# and suffixes. Your profile link should look like this:
https://plus.google.com/117259934788907243749
I recently added links to my Google+ profile on these sites. I've included the direct link so you can too. I'd love to know about more, just leave the site name and link in the comments!
- Twitter
https://twitter.com/settings/profile - Facebook (add to Website setting)
http://www.facebook.com/editprofile.php?sk=contact - Wordpress / Gravatar
https://en.gravatar.com/profiles/edit/?noclose#verified-services - Typepad (use Other for your Google+ profile)
https://www.typepad.com/secure/account/profile/accounts - Windows Live
https://profile.live.com/Services/?productid=connectedtoprofile - Livejournal (edit Website)
http://www.livejournal.com/manage/profile/ - Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/profile_edit.gne - Soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/settings/advanced - 8tracks - (select profile settings, add as Website)
- Last.fm (edit Homepage)
http://www.last.fm/settings (homepage) - identi.ca
http://identi.ca/settings/profile - Klout http://klout.com/#/edit-settings/networks
And for those of you self-hosting your own blog or site you can manually put a link back to your Google+ profile by editing your HTML markup to include a link to your Google+ profile. Here's a simple example:
<a rel="me" href="https://plus.google.com/117259934788907243749">
My Google+ Profile
</a>
The important part is the rel="me" That tells Google that the linked page is your profile.
That wraps it up for Part 1 -- stay tuned for Part 2 where I go over how to mark up authorship for your content! Thanks for plussing!
soundcloud.com -- now with rel="me" on profile links. It's a start!
http://soundcloud.com/plindner
#googplus
It's one of those "You have to spit to see the shine days"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It9a8MuGv1Y
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Social 2012
Here are my new years thoughts on the social web platforms. I've been pondering what the world can do to get ourselves out of this one man/one graph/one api situation we find ourselves in and what Google can do to help.
Facebook the product and Facebook Connect/APIs have sucked up most of the social web oxygen. Open efforts have largely failed -- the Google-led consortium OpenSocial has been relegated to niche usage like enterprise or contextual gadgets, OpenID use is declining, Webfinger never took off, oEmbed has murky IP, even RSS and Atom are use is declining.
In particular OpenSocial is now paralleling a different OSF -- the _Open Software Foundation_. Remember that? DEC/IBM/etal banded together to fight off a common enemy (Solaris/AT&T or Windows). There was some decent output from it (I loved me some Tru64 OSF/1 Unix) but in the end it was Linux that disrupted and became the server standard while Windows claimed the defacto client standard. Today both OSFs are in decline and don't define the market.
So what to do? Here are a few of my ideas, what about yours?
* Obviously getting market share for Google+ the product and Google+ the platform helps, it provides an alternative. However if we're not careful we end up with a Coke/Pepsi duopoly, since much of our growth will come at the expense of the wider ecosystem before it starts to take from Facebook.
* Try to build on open standards where it sees broad based usage. OAuth 2.0 is something that everyone (including FB) has actually implemented. Activity Streams and schema.org are ascending. Add social to these where it makes sense.
* Try to nurture the next disruptor and be prepared to jump on it when it comes. Any technology that Google promotes as "open" will likely meet the similar fate as OpenSocial. (And I hope schema.org is the exception here...)
* Do something about the Terms of Service encumbered internet that's slowly taking off.
Hopefully sometime in 2012 there can be a way for everyone to work together on social. I hope to live to see the day that Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and a hundeds of smaller players can do something that lifts all our boats and benefits users.
Roo update..
Roo update..
No problems, she's been on plenty of long walks in the area parks and can now claim to have visited Rockridge, Sibley Park, Jack London Square, Sausalito and parts of Berkeley.
People still keep asking what her mix is...
Hope everything is going well in Texas and we'll see you sometime friday morning..
Round Top Sunset..
Round Top Sunset..
Caught this reflection in the water tank while walking the dogs in the Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve. (http://www.ebparks.org/parks/sibley)
Round Top, one of the area's highest peaks, is made up of lava and volcanic debris left over from a 10-million-year-old volcano. During the past 10 million years, massive tectonic forces on the Hayward and Moraga earthquake faults uplifted the Berkeley hills, folding bedrock formations and tilting the Round Top volcano complex on its side.
Gift of the magi.com?
Gift of the magi.com?
Did everyone else get a nice letter from Karthik about hi5 shares? I suppose I should resign myself that my few thousand shares of hi5 are not going to be worth the hassle.
The odd thing is magi.com is registered to some place in Canada:
Registrant:
Uniserve Communications Corp.
610 6th ST
Suite 200
New Westminster, British Columbia V3L 3C2
Canada
Both Amazon and iTunes are failing Dr Who fans.
Both Amazon and iTunes are failing Dr Who fans. Neither of them has posted the Christmas episode. Normally they have these the following day. To make matters worse Amazon screwed up and made the 2 minute prequel a paid download which resulted in everyone who had a season pass getting charged.
After seeing a few episodes on BBC America I know that I can never go back to watching these episodes with commercial interruptions. It's just too jarring to switch from Cybermen to M&M ads.