Roses blooming in the Oakland Hills.

Here's a photo uploaded directly via Eye-Fi. I'm still working out the best way to use this with G+, but so far I'm pretty impressed. The geotagging was pretty accurate and I'm always happy with the quality of the photos from the Lumix.

Currently I've just set this up to upload to the machine at home with iPhoto and also upload to Picasa. I've yet to experiment with the Android app and Wifi-Direct, but that seems a bit complicated -- I might just turn on wifi tethering when taking photos instead.

Anyone else using a setup like this? Any hints?

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Christmas eve lunch at Fish in Sausalito with Julie, Tommy and Roo.

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12/24/11

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Roo has found her favorite spot.

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Roo update day 2.

Everything is in order, she's eating her food, and getting along with Tommy.

Went on a nice long walk this morning. I was worried that those little legs couldn't make it up the hilly terrain, but she did fine.

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Christmas came early for me courtesy of T-Mobile!

They powered up a new cell tower a short way from my house. Now I can finally get rid of my erratic cell-boster, and I have decent coverage throughout the neighborhood (which is challenging given the hills and trees).

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Roo after a brisk walk with Tommy in the Oakland Hills. She's acclimating quickly.

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Roo is in her usual spot.

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Hi Remi, I work on site integration for the Google+ team here at Google.

If you're interested I have a number of recommendations that will help 8tracks perform better on Google+ and Google social search. Let me know if you're interested -- I can be plus'd here or you can email me at [email protected]

Thanks!

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It's #musicmonday and #mashupmonday

This just passed by my #mashup live stream. You get a years worth of pop music in six minutes. solid.

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I just filed http://b/issue?id=5777937

Google Offers needs it's own Google+ Page, and we should be promoting it in the daily emails we send. This twitter stuff is so last decade...

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Glad that we have the white hats keeping things safe. It's amazing the crazy things you have to do to securely pass data between sites.

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Okay, one more holiday song. Electric Six really captures the spirit of this song.

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Well now, that's different.

Though it brings to mind potential sequels. And Chester Arthur would make a great sidekick.

Originally shared by Laughing Squid

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Tommy at Android HQ. There was even a little left over snow.

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Tommy is in MTV-1900-204 today (sans hat). Stop by for a visit!

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http://status.twitter.com/ -- powered by Tumblr?

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Totally unexpected. Then again, hi5 is a much different place these days.

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A world where anyone can be a major broadcaster with the people that matter. (And face-tracking antlers)

#livinginthefuture

Originally shared by Vic Gundotra

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Google+ Hangouts: Going beyond the status update

One of the most intimate forms of human connection is eye contact. Our digital tools have given us new forms - text messages, email, status updates - but nothing compares to the richness and intensity of looking into someones eyes as they talk.

Our emphasis on face-to-face-face group video communication has lead to some amazing experiences. By giving this away for free, we've enabled people around the world to see into each others eyes and share discussion and laughter in new ways.

Today, we improve the service significantly.

1) We are enabling you to hangout on any post.

2) We've reached an important milestone for "Hangouts on Air". Hundreds of people (who we have whitelisted as part of our trial) can now broadcast their hangouts to the entire world for free completely self-service. Our goal is to enable this for everyone on the planet.

3) We are making it possible for you to start hangouts from messenger on Android or iPhone devices.

4) You can call any phone number in the world and conference in anyone.

5) We threw in a reindeer :-)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/google-hangouts-going-beyond-status.html

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It's not the holidays without The New Standards! They do a great set of live holiday shows every year and cover all the classics.

I like that this song brings to mind those lazy winter days when the snow plow couldn't get the job done. That and it's a seasonal song made in within the last decade. Hope you enjoy it.

[Oh and there's plenty more including a wicked xylophone version of Hey Ya at http://www.thenewstandards.com/]

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You didn't hear it from me, please share the original if you like.

Originally shared by Jhonx

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Gingerbread marmalade -- Just in time for the holidays! Highly recommended. Also check out Blue Chair's other flavors. They make the best artisanal jams and marmalades.

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I've been lucky enough to live through spikes like this. At Typepad we had cuteoverload, and gofugyourself, at hi5 we had the Romanian DJ phenomenon which resulted in 20% penetration in a months time...

In both cases the small teams had to scramble to deal with the load and focus on features was suspended.

I'm so stoked to see what we can do with the infrastructure of Google behind us.

http://asiajin.com/blog/2011/12/09/google-occupied-by-akb48-within-a-day-in-japan/

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Can you guess the top goog.require() calls in google3? Comment below (no peeking!) (props to @103827306991532885669 for the idea)
*Edit* - new list by using new custom closure gsearch
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9069 'goog.dom'
5440 'goog.array'
5364 'goog.events'
3887 'goog.style'
3762 'goog.string'
3337 'goog.dom.classes'
3119 'goog.events.EventType'
2661 'goog.debug.Logger'
2625 'goog.ui.Component'
2573 'goog.events.EventHandler'
2424 'goog.object'
2160 'goog.testing.asserts'
2113 'goog.testing.jsunit'
1968 'goog.events.EventTarget'
1929 'goog.asserts'
1920 'goog.testing.MockControl'
1845 'goog.Uri'
1717 'goog.Disposable'
1693 'goog.events.Event'
1657 'goog.json'
1460 'goog.userAgent'
1328 'goog.Timer'
1184 'goog.structs.Map'
1139 'goog.net.XhrIo'
1131 'fava.delegate.Delegate'
1028 'goog.dom.TagName'

909 'goog.ui.Dialog'
841 'fava.component.DomServices'
792 'goog.ui.Component.EventType'
791 'goog.testing.mockmatchers'
779 'fava.services'
749 'goog.events.KeyCodes'
715 'goog.testing.PropertyReplacer'
690 'goog.functions'
648 'goog.math.Size'
605 'goog.math.Coordinate'
596 'goog.testing.events'
588 'goog.async.Deferred'
557 'goog.structs.Set'

530 'goog.ui.MenuItem'
495 'goog.Uri.QueryData'
472 'goog.dom.DomHelper'
468 'goog.uri.utils'
468 'goog.math'
462 'goog.dom.forms'
453 'fava.extension'
423 'fava.AppContext'
421 'fava.dom.SoyRenderer'
408 'goog.string.StringBuffer'
399 'goog.math.Rect'
397 'goog.module.ModuleManager'
395 'goog.ui.Button'
378 'soy'
378 'goog.positioning.Corner'
372 'ga.Component'
364 'goog.i18n.DateTimeFormat'
353 'crm.testing'
349 'pinto.core.Url'
348 'ga.report.States'
337 'jfk.Button'
329 'goog.net.EventType'
322 'goog.debug'
320 'goog.ui.Dialog.ButtonSet'
319 'goog.math.Range'
316 'fava.data.DataServices'

306 'goog.ui.CustomButton'
301 'goog.testing.MockClock'
301 'goog.debug.LogManager'
Do it yourself:
/home/build/google3/javascript/closure/bin/gsearch goog.require | grep .js: out| ^Crl -pe 's/^.*\((.*)\).*$//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

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Have some Orkut photos that you'd like to have on Google+? Now you can import them in one easy step.

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I just realized how much working on Google+ has exposed me to popular culture. Youtube integration exposed me to todays pop music. Celebrity endorsements exposed me to the whole Kardashian thing (which I was blissfully unaware of!).

And now I get to understand how they do things in Japan.

Originally shared by Bradley Horowitz

Here's the big news... We're delighted to welcome the entirety of AKB48 onto Google+...

If you don't know AKB48, you don't live in Japan (or in fact, many other parts of Asia.) They are phenomenon that might be equivalent to the Beatles + American Idol + the Spice Girls + Justin Timberlake... They are a roster of more than 200 hand-selected performers who are the subject of huge media attention, and support from millions of devoted fans.

One of the philosophies around their stardom was to preserve meaningful interaction with, and access to their fans. They used to do "handshake events." As their stardom grew, this method of interaction wasn't scalable... Google+ is going to allow them to reconnect to their fans in an intimate, authentic way.

They'll be using Hangouts on Air to broadcast their concerts... they'll be regularly scheduling Hangouts to interact with their fans. Each of the stars will have their own profile, and AKB48 themselves will have a +Page...

I actually haven't yet heard them, and I'm apparently the only one presently in Japan now who hasn't. I can't yet say if AKB48 is personally for me... But I am thrilled at their adoption of our service, and they're committed to pushing the envelope of what is possible in terms of artist-fan relationship. And that's a plus.

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Granola and a latte in the brisk air almost makes up for the pain of missing the shuttle.

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I only recently found that Google Chat supports /me. If you type:

/me claps

It's rendered as

Paul claps

I wonder if there any other IRC features hidden in there?

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