This is pretty cool.
The images marked for 7th & Howard match some of the photographs currently hanging in Lighthouse Lofts.
Originally shared by Dan Vanderkam
Raven Keller and I just launched oldsf.org. Check it out! 13,000 historical photos of San Francisco on a Google Map.
A few fun ones:
- Dolores Park as a refugee camp: http://bit.ly/rbJxl2
- The second Cliff House: http://bit.ly/r29Dlh
- Woodward's Gardens: http://bit.ly/r9RdMA
I just linked my MySpace account. Hadn't logged in there for a while. Found out I qualify for the Old School badge, plus I can see Tom Anderson over there too!
Link your account in the usual place:
http://t.co/qJCYUhu -- 150 G+ invites up for grabs. #in
If you do let me know how well we bootstrap your social graph...
The alumni magazine from my Alma Mater: Inventing Tomorrow....
Article in the latest issue: Inventing Tomorrow, Today!
Motto of Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems from Buckaroo Banzai -- Where the future begins tomorrow!
:)
With great snark comes great responsibility....
Not going to be specific, but an external google marketing campaign just deep-sixed a potential partner deal we've been working to consumate. The partner in question was very pissed off that we insulted their product.
Please remember that we compete with *and* partner with most of the tech world out there the next time you want to have a little "fun".
Signed,
That crazy guy that wants to enable Google to call APIs on non-Google sites...
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Interesting post on the trough of despair. Also shows adoption curves of Chrome, Wave, etc.
ES fits this in many ways -- everyone had their own internal expectations about what a Google social product might be like, and it's almost impossible to make something that works for all people.
Rolling thunder should help us blow past that trough...
http://www.stephenp.net/2010/06/02/gartner-hype-cycle-meets-google-insights/
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Just found out that Netflix has the 1981 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy up for streaming. Highly recommended. What's your latest streaming video gem?
Nobody knows why the DMV is cutting down dozens of old growth trees...
Hi current/former hi5ers -- what do you think of the new Google+ games?
Of course anil dharni had a hand in one game, and justin kruger is working for another partner.
Small world!
private to you.
I am not engaging in RN discussions in public and probably won't be doing much of it inside Google due to the mischaracterization of my views on this subject which are not as black and white as some people might think.
Thread hijackiing is pretty rude too you know.
Remember Netiquette?
Back in 1990 I was a postmaster for a lab at the University of Minnesota. In addition to rerouting misaddressed email (this was pre-spam days) I once had to deal with someone sending offensive email to a mailing list. Long story short -- the student was hauled into the Deans office, counseled and subsequently apologized for their actions.
After that new accounts in my lab were required to read some basic netiquette info before going online (plus some legal verbiage about the "Minnesota Computer Crime Act")
In that environment actions had consequences and there were resources to help people learn how to use online tools appropriately. Today, it seems like there is much less accountability and bad behavior is tolerated, or even celebrated. Only the concept of the KILL file remains.
In any case here's Virginia Shea's internet classic - Netiquette including a forward from Guy Kawasaki
I used to think that network etiquette meant sticking a few smileys in your messages. I wish I had written Netiquette. It should be bundled with every modem. It should be mandatory reading for new users of the Internet. I wouldn't print my Internet address here without it.
Social Networks + epidemiology/memetics is a topic way deeper than I realized. I realize I need to do more research to properly understand the concepts. I haven't read the Selfish Gene, and Thought Contagion sounds interesting. Anyone else have suggestions in this topic area?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465084672/
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Big props to Andrew Davis, Mark W. and the rest of the Opensocial community for getting this done! Major accomplishment.
Originally shared by Evan Prodromou
Voting has started for the new OpenSocial 2.0 specification. If you're not already involved, and you're interested in open apps, this is a great time to get activated. The steps:
1. Sign up here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?key=0Aki8A6bvOtZNcGNXZXY1cUtjMk9DQXhvUjNBYlpjWl... Participation in OpenSocial is free and open to all.
2. When you receive notification that you've been added, vote on this revision: http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-resources/source/detail?r=1520
OpenSocial 2.0 is a huge step forward for the specification, incorporating many of the systems (like ActivityStreams and OAuth) that we use on the modern social web. I'm excited by this push -- let's get it released!
Now upgrading Fedora memcached to 1.4.6. I really do like the fedpkg system -- so much better than the old CVS based build system.
Here's the ugly sign and a funny writeup...
Originally shared by Louis Gray
Does the big thumbs up button outside Facebook's new headquarters in Menlo Park mean:
1) Like our Campus on Facebook!
2) Good luck to all who enter here?
3) Good luck getting your data back out of the site?
4) Trust us - seriously!
5) I'm hitchhiking - please give me a ride across the Dumbarton to the East Bay.
Of note, for those not native to the Bay Area, or unfamiliar, Facebook's new HQ in Menlo Park takes over the campus from Sun Microsystems, now part of Oracle. The buildings are on Network Circle, appropriate for Sun, but if you're a tech dork like me who checked in at the new HQ on Foursquare, you'll see they call the street "Hacker Way". I wonder if they are going to get the name officially changed with the city?
Good luck! Thumbs up!
A big freaking Facebook thumbs-up is has now replaced the Sun sign at the new Facebook Menlo Campus. Shuttle was moving faster than I could get my camera out. (Will get a shot tomorrow...)
Like an ant caught in amber the blue-on-blue thumb already feels like an artifact of a previous era.
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More weird Dr Who stuff found via Sparks...
Google has life-size Tardis too, however I couldn't find it last time I looked. (Maybe it dematerialized??)
Crazy stuff here at Google...
Originally shared by Frances Haugen
And I thought my heart couldn't be melted by Google magic anymore... Today the Google+ team was surprised at our weekly All Hands meeting to find out we were having a surprise beach party right outside our building! Check out the wave pool they installed in the parking lot and various Googlers surfing!
Want to help Google+ and Google's social efforts succeed but don't know how? Do you use other social sites on the web?
Here's one way you can help -- no coding required!
Pick a site from this list:
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvPwfdG5fY41dE1KTk9TZGh0Wl9yaVVCNlFld3g5V1...
And fill out details on this form:
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGg0aFpOLW9JVWpCa0t3d...
Once this is done we can add support for these sites in iGraph -- this will help social suggestions, social search, the authorship effort and more. Please feel free to reach out to me if you need more information or have questions.
Thanks!
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGg0aFpOLW9JVWpCa0t3d...
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I'm locked out of corp gmail for Unusual Usage :(
Looks like when I logged into an appengine app it messed up my multilogin cookies, then one of my three gmail windows started going into a big redirect loop between corp/consumer..
Hope that the counter granularity is somewhat low....
Anyone know if this is buganizer worthy?
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Google+ had a whole bunch of widely shared posts about this too. I noticed it bubbling all over the place on rumormill the other day. Here's a link to one of the remaining top shares:
http://rumormill.prom.corp.google.com/details?docid=2RCXflaW8pHq6M&ref=news
I'd also *really* appreciate any help adding the Weibo sites in iGraph. Let me know if you've used these sites and can help classifying the URL structure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/world/asia/29china.html
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I've always loved naming machines. Starting out as a sysadmin it was one way you could have fun, especially when setting up large clusters. Here's my fun names through the years:
A Sun 3/80 lab named after japanese authors - kimitake, mishima, yukio, (can't remember the rest)
30 X Terminals named after creatures in the B52s Rock Lobster song. (Sea-Robin, Bikini-Whale)
I'm sure some people can guess what this set of NeXT machines were named after: hafnhaf, ashpool, mrfrosty, tessier.
Prod backend hosts at hi5 were named after the Simpsons (moe, bart, etc.) We ended up having so many we had to name machines after the guest-stars. ssh'ing into lindaronstandt or michellepfeiffer at 3am was a real spelling test.
Currently at Google I have machines named arcwelder and huskerdu for my dev purposes. Other musical acts that have had the honor of their own machine name over my career include mudhoney, danzig, and even... anthrax.
Originally shared by Paul Lindner
What's the most creative name you've ever give to your computer?
#qotd is my occasional "Question of the Day" non-feature feature. At some point it will become a way for people to connect on diverse topics across their circles. Reshare or comment, just use #qotd
Here's another dev tools success story that I just had to share!
Oz is a big binary. It's so big that it can't get enough disk I/O to start up in some data centers. So it was decided: slim down Oz.
Since I hang around the demolition-derby mailing list I thought I'd give it a try. I started by applying some strict_java_deps to our backends and found a few small things.
Then.. I saw _Linguini_ by @110803933729866443698 -- what an awesome tool. It helped by narrowing down a bunch of bad dependencies. A quick posting to oz-eng and I had help -- @114507985003245977880 jumped in and trimmed focus backend. Then the taco-cabana team jumped in: @111311211176505375030 trimmed deps on mapreduce and others. (Yay, no more compiled in mysql!) We were down 4k deps!
Some more quality time with Linguini revealed that we were still dependent on bigtable and colossus. These were coming from multiple places -- _apps/people/activity_, _gdata_ etc.. I started cleaning up these and ran the CL through the new TAP multi-project submit queue from my overlayfs client. Glorious! 2k tests run and passed.
Next up: _//java/com/google/focus/util:util_ had a dependency on _gdata_, which linked to a generic filesystem dep that pulled in the kitchen sink.
Global Submit Queue to the rescue! I was able to run my CL through a massive amount of tests and actually caught an issue. Fixed it and submitted -- Oz and the 7000 other targets that depend on focus/util:util benefit.
Oz is now down to *50933* deps according to the stats that @118060091464830878219 is tracking. Once a few more transitive dependencies are cleaned up we'll be able to slice off another 2k deps too.
Thanks to everyone for the great tools. I feel my productivity rising already :)
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Did someone say music mondays? Here's some of the best music to come out of minnesota since tapes n' tapes...
Now this is interesting.... Found this while investigating mail.ru integration:
http://www.openmailformat.org/en/specification.html
http://www.openmailformat.org/en/specification.html
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Using the Employer field for the hovercard is going to really really mess with the quality of that data now that users have figured this out...
https://plus.google.com/u/2/112657790571355014050/posts/5VYTZ9tY2JV
https://plus.google.com/u/2/112657790571355014050/posts/5VYTZ9tY2JV
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PHP / HTML5 / Openweb hackers.. Heres how you can help Wikipedia support our Authorship initiative:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29968
See the linked bugs for HTML5 issues.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29968
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Have an Address Book? Want to invite some friends? We have the solution for you. You can now upload contacts on the Find and Invite page by clicking on the Upload address book button :
https://plus.google.com/circles/find
You'll need an address book file on your computer. Get one by performing any of the following actions:
Outlook -
Select File > Import/Export > Export from the main menu
Choose Comma Separated Values (Windows) > Select "Contacts" > Save exported file
Outlook Express -
Select File > Export > Address Book from the main menu.
Select Text File (Comma Separated Values).
Click Export.
Your Other Gmail account -
See https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=24911
Apple Address Book -
Open the Address Book application on your Mac. Click on the 'all group' of your contacts. Select File > Export Vcards.
Thunderbird -
Click Addressbook, Select Personal Address Book. Click Tools, then Export. Save as *.csv.
Others -
Most other contact managers or email systems support contact export in VCard/VCF/CSV format. Consult your local help system to find out how. Leave a comment if you want to share you exporting experience.
-- If you have problems please feel free to click on the 'Send Feedback' link in the lower right.
Happy Inviting!
Oh Jeff...
So I guess that means you wouldn't mind inking a deal that would let us call your APIs then....
http://www.businessinsider.com/ari-emanuel-and-jeff-weiner-2011-7
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A totally different type of Gopher than what I'm known for :)
Going to have to pick one of these up tomorrow at the Google Store...
Originally shared by Peng Ying
I wish this wasn't 11.95.. what the crap man
Newest article on techmeme.com
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2011/07/how-to-transfer-facebook-friends-to-google-bu...
Can't wait to get daily-3 pushed so we can turn on the import in CSV feature
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2011/07/how-to-transfer-facebook-friends-to-google-bu...
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Contact Upload now on sandbox.
https://plus.sandbox.google.com/circles/find
Try it out!
https://plus.sandbox.google.com/circles/find
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