An easy to remember PLU. #geekhumor

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Check out this place if you find yourself in Pacific Heights. Great pastries and Four Barrel coffee.

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Thanks to Dave Aiello I now know that Movable Type is ten years old today.

I'll always have a soft-spot for MT. I can still vividly remember Anil Dash copying MT binaries onto six USB thumb drives at a time when preparing for a big conference. Fun times!

And here's to Six Apart KK and the vibrant community that keeps MT (and Melody) going strong!

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Am I the only one that finds it odd that Say Media fedex'd me a notice that Kevin Sladeck is selling 200k shares?

I was assuming my stock was only useful as a fond memory.

Oh and TIL that secondmarket.com has social networking features, who knew!

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This one is for the Java programmers out there.

Originally shared by Kevin Bourrillion

At long last... Guava 10.0 has been released!

It's been a long wait since 9 (almost six months!), but I think you won't be disappointed; there's tons of new stuff in here. CacheBuilder/Cache, EventBus, Range and ContiguousSet, Optional, UnsignedLongs, MapJoiner and MapSplitter, the completion of Equivalence, many more new classes, dozens of new methods, and hundreds of smaller improvements scattered all over.

If this comes as good news to you, please join me in thanking the team:Charles Fry (release-master this time, took MANY bullets for us), Chris Povirk Kurt Alfred Kluever and our summer Deranged Intern Louis Wasserman. And as always, the number of other Googlers (and one non-Googler!) who contributed is too many to even list.

Please upgrade, and please help us spread the word!

Now back to work on 11.0 I go. :-)

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Another funny strip from Manu. Be sure to follow him for lots more geeky humor!

Originally shared by Manu Cornet

http://www.bonkersworld.net/well-timed-book-release/ (This probably won’t make any sense for those not obsessively up to date with IT news.)

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Interesting article about how Peets, the progenitor of Starbucks, is becoming more and more like them.

Luckily there's a plenty of alternatives brewing around here. Oakland's Blue Bottle Coffee is still tops for me. How about you? Have you seen places like Blue Bottle spring up in your area?

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Ouch. hi5 folks let me know if I can help you find your next gig.

I think the real reason they're able to get by with less hardware is because they now have a ton less traffic and the new site runs on newer hardware.

I also note that it appears that they're still running on tomcat + netscalers for now:

curl -v http://www.hi5.com/friend/displayHomePage.do 2>&1|egrep 'Server:|NSC'

< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

< Set-Cookie: NSC_bqq-tfswfst-ofxvj=e246bb343660;expires=Tue, 20-Sep-11 10:20:46 GMT;path=/

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Hi Qiwenm

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Add your other Accounts on the web to your profile:

1) Click on your profile https://plus.google.com/me

2) Click on "Edit Profile"

3) Click on "Other Profiles"

4) Add links!

If you have a Hotmail or Yahoo account don't forget to import your contacts here:

https://plus.google.com/circles/find

Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

https://plus.google.com/settings/connectedaccounts

Thanks again for using Google+!

Paul

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Hi Stephen!

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Add your other Accounts on the web to your profile:

1) Click on your profile https://plus.google.com/me

2) Click on "Edit Profile"

3) Click on "Other Profiles"

4) Add links!

If you have a Hotmail or Yahoo account don't forget to import your contacts here:

https://plus.google.com/circles/find

Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

https://plus.google.com/settings/connectedaccounts

Thanks again for using Google+!

Paul

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Hi Sana!

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Add your other Accounts on the web to your profile:

1) Click on your profile https://plus.google.com/me

2) Click on "Edit Profile"

3) Click on "Other Profiles"

4) Add links!

If you have a Hotmail or Yahoo account don't forget to import your contacts here:

https://plus.google.com/circles/find

Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

https://plus.google.com/settings/connectedaccounts

Thanks again for using Google+!

Paul

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Hi Fahad!

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Add your other accounts on the web to your profile:

1) Click on your profile https://plus.google.com/me

2) Click on "Edit Profile"

3) Click on "Other Profiles"

4) Add links!

If you have a Hotmail or Yahoo account don't forget to import your contacts here:

https://plus.google.com/circles/find

Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

https://plus.google.com/settings/connectedaccounts

Thanks again for using Google+!

Paul

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Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Add links to any other Accounts you have on the web to your profile:

1) Click on your profile https://plus.google.com/me

2) Click on "Edit Profile"

3) Click on "Other Profiles"

4) Add links!

If you have a Hotmail or Yahoo account don't forget to import your contacts here:

https://plus.google.com/circles/find

Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

https://plus.google.com/settings/connectedaccounts

Thanks again for using Google+!

Paul

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Hi Rohama,

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Be sure to add your other Accounts on the web to your profile!

1) Click on your profile https://plus.google.com/me

2) Click on "Edit Profile"

3) Click on "Other Profiles"

4) Add links!

If you have a Hotmail or Yahoo account don't forget to import your contacts here:

https://plus.google.com/circles/find

Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

https://plus.google.com/settings/connectedaccounts

Thanks again for using Google+!

Paul

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Hi Ferjani,

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Be sure to add your other accounts on the web to your profile!

1) Click on your profile https://plus.google.com/me

2) Click on "Edit Profile"

3) Click on "Other Profiles"

4) Add links!

If you have a Hotmail or Yahoo account don't forget to import your contacts here:

https://plus.google.com/circles/find

Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

https://plus.google.com/settings/connectedaccounts

Thanks again for using Google+!

Paul

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Hi Gourav,

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Be sure to add your other accounts on the web to your profile!

1) Click on your profile https://plus.google.com/me

2) Click on "Edit Profile"

3) Click on "Other Profiles"

4) Add links!

If you have a Hotmail or Yahoo account don't forget to import your contacts here:

https://plus.google.com/circles/find

Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

https://plus.google.com/settings/connectedaccounts

Thanks again for using Google+!

Paul

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Hi Hande,

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Be sure to add your other Accounts on the web to your profile!

1) Click on your profile https://plus.google.com/me

2) Click on "Edit Profile"

3) Click on "Other Profiles"

4) Add links!

If you have a Hotmail or Yahoo account don't forget to import your contacts here:

https://plus.google.com/circles/find

Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

https://plus.google.com/settings/connectedaccounts

Thanks again for using Google+!

Paul

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Best thing about the Emmys is Tim Goodman's snark on his live blog.. Hope we can get him over on G+

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/emmys-2011-live-blog-236098

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Blackwood Gin and Tonic. So delicious!

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Thanks for adding me Sage -- be sure to link your accounts on your profile for better friend suggestions!

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Thanks for adding me Stéphane. Be sure to link your accounts on your profile for better friend suggestions!

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Here's the start of the Google+ APIs. Read-only People and Activities

Opensocial folks shouldn't fret -- oauth2, json activity streams and poco all overlap nicely with the ongoing work for OpenSocial V2.

Originally shared by Chris Chabot

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao-tzu

I’m super excited about how the Google+ project brings the richness and nuance of real life sharing to software, and today we’re announcing our first step towards bringing this to your apps as well by launching the Google+ public data APIs.

These APIs allow you to retrieve the public profile information and public posts of the Google+ users, and they lay the foundation for us to build on together - Nothing great is ever built in a vacuum so I’m excited to start the conversation about what the Google+ platform should look like.

Please follow the link to the blog post to find out what exactly we’re launching and you can find the technical details on how to use this on our new developer site at http://developers.google.com/+

I’d also like to take a moment to introduce my team who will be joining me on working with our developer community (ie: you!) and answering any questions you may have about the Google+ platform on our discussion forums.

We’ll all also be doing a bunch of Hangouts over the next few days and beyond to talk to you directly and hear what you think of the +Platform as well as helping with any coding questions you may have, so make sure to add them to your Google+ developers circle!

Timothy Jordan

Jonathan Beri

Ade Oshineye

Will Norris

Jenny Murphy

Wolff Dobson

Now let's see lots of re-shares on this post & let's get this party started!

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Nerds in Mountain View.

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There's a hint of fall in the air. The tomato harvest is in and Julie has started freezing sauce for the rainy days ahead....

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My DynDNS secondary is up for renewal. $40/year seems a bit steep just to do 3-4 zone transfers per year. Anyone have alternate recommendations?

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Halloween displays are out early this year.

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The things you find in the incoming stream...

[not resharing since the original was to a limited audience...]

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Welcome to G+

Hope you have fun. Our mobile apps are top-notch :)

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Heath Ceramics moving their tile creation and showroom to 20,000 square feet at 18th & Florida.

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Reverse polarity -- fixed.

Using this handy testing tool I found eight outlets with reversed polarity this weekend. Fixing it was fairly straightforward -- cut the power and rewire the outlets so the hot and and neutral wires are connected properly.

If you live in an older house I'd highly recommend getting one of these since reversed polarity can harm sensitive electronics and creates a shock hazard.

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Tomato season is going slow this year. Only two varieties are available at the Verdure farm stand this week, lots more coming in next week.

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Another foggy Saturday.

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OpenSocial is heading to SXSW, but only if you vote for these panels!

Distributed Web Frameworks: The Future of Social

Link: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/10692

Revolution! Open Apps Will Change the Enterprise

Link: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/12817

Building Social Apps for Business Using Opensocial

Link: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/12187

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Guy Kawasaki's post on historical Apple logos brought to mind Beagle Brothers. Imagine a software company with Trader Joe's marketing -- all captured for posterity here:

http://stevenf.com/beagle/

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Just got an email that Plaxo is discontinuing bare OpenId support and only allowing Google/Yahoo/Hotmail/Facebook for login. Despite OpenId's shortcomings it's sad to see things regress.

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Hello from Plaxo,

In an effort to improve our login experience for users, Plaxo.com is simplifying and standardizing our sign in options. As such, Plaxo will discontinue support of generic OpenID logins as of 08/23/2011. Instead we're offering login via Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, or Facebook oAuth -- or you can, of course, create a Plaxo specific account.

How will this affect me?

If you use a Google, Yahoo, Hotmail or Facebook openid to login, just click the appropriate button when signing in. Plaxo will ask for permission to use your account credentials; click accept/grant and then go on using Plaxo as you normally would.

If you use any other openid to login, please visit our Forgot Password and follow the instructions for Reset Password, which will create you a Plaxo specific password.

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Don't forget Doctor Who this weekend. I'll be buying it off Amazon and watching on the Google TV instead of suffering through Comcast's SD and BBC America's commercial interruptions...

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