Here's the Google Glass video I mentioned.

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A damn fine first post on Google+

And quite a storm we had last night too!

Originally shared by Phil McGrew

My first upload/comment on Google+. Honestly, I'm not sure how this works but wanted to share a lucky photo I caught this evening.

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Do you have a Panoramio account?

Consider adding a link your Google+ profile here http://www.panoramio.com/settings/

Then add your Panoramio account to your Google+ profile (in the Other Profiles section). When linked both ways it will enable people in your circles to find your Panoramio content in personalized search.

[Note: This works for most sites supporting authorship that include profile pages.]

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This is just so amazing.

Originally shared by Google Glass

We think technology should work for you—to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t.

A group of us from Google[x] started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment. We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input. So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do.

Please follow along as we share some of our ideas and stories. We’d love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?

Babak Parviz Steve Lee Sebastian Thrun

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Some more La Roux to start out your Wednesday. I didn't think the Kanye remix added much, but the rest are deserving of the word Gold.

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Thanks for the birthday wishes (and for not pranking me, like Google does every year!) The shorts have already been worn a fair bit and are really nice. Happy to hear that John's trip is going well and can't wait to have you out here in Oakland!

-- paul

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Maybe next year we can get Google maps for C64 character graphics :)

Originally shared by Ken Norton

Finally.

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If you liked the video you'll like the album even more. At the very least give In for the Kill a listen.

And I see that La Roux has a page here but they haven't done much with it. Consider circling and they might start posting here in addition to twitter/facebook.

[And if you're a musician or rep one I'd be interested in knowing what G+ can do better for you!]

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Would people be interested in a periodic hangout where me and my weekly Google guest makeover your web site with Googley features? We'd have a special guest each time and go over things like authorship markup, security, performance, APIs, widgets etc?

+1 this post if you're interested. Feel free to nominate your favorite site you'd like me to put under the microscope in the comments...

[nifty CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 photo from flickr user spike55151]

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A design icon. Who'll be next?

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So you want to go to Google I/O this year? Last year it sold out in one hour, so you'll want to be prepared. Register for Google Wallet and Google+ before 7AM PDT March 27.

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Anyone want to help Adam find ways to use Google+ more effectively? I added a few tips on making yourself more findable and increasing engagement.

comments on the original...

Originally shared by Adam Rifkin

It's March 2012 and I'm still not sure what to use Google+ for.

Private sharing still seems best handled by email.

Public sharing still seems best handled by my Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook.

Maybe Google+ is for people who want to share publicly but don't have Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, or Facebook?

It's also unclear how to get more followers on Google+. Will my follower count always be smaller here than on Twitter and Facebook? Is that by design?

Feel free not to answer; I'm just thinking out loud.

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We've got work to do.

I just spent a week in the Palm Springs area attending the Indian Wells tennis tourney while using our products. It was good to get outside the bubble for while, but it was frustrating -- especially since I know we can do much better. Issues I encountered:

* Public Google+ shares are rare. This might be expected with the demographics of the area (>50 year old golfers) -- however looking at my G+ nearby view I was the only person to publicly post the winner of the Tennis final (and that stadium holds 16k people...) Nearby stream was depressingly too -- only a handful of posts. Also I think the nearby view should expand distance in "sprawl-like" areas like this. When I was in Palm Springs I didn't see any nearby posts in the nearby towns.

* During the rain delay you had to look at the Facebook Tournament page to find out when play resumed. On-site they had a big 'Check-in with Facebook' ad on the changeable displays. On the 'Follow Us' screen they did at least have Youtube next to FB/twitter.

* Maps is really borked in this area. I commented on this earlier, but there are many businesses that are not there, or are located in the wrong place. MapMaker edits in the area are in queue for weeks it appears too. Navigation worked fairly well, however I encountered areas where nav got really confused -- not sure if the root cause is Mountains blocking GPS, plain crappy samsung GPS or that road info is not accurate.

* There are some weird Business names that must have been collected by Street View. For example _Elmer's Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner_ which is a literal reading of the road sign.

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5722007384962904001/5722007386027464434

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8tracks now works on Google TV. Well played indeed.

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Just invited to littlemonsters.com. Decided I'd sign up via Facebook Connect (since most people will)

Interesting things:
* popup affordances on the home page guide you to features
* Facebook connect used but only to bootstrap your account.
* Sets up an email forwarding address for you that uses your Facebook primary email.
* Has a link to mail.google.com on your profile to read your email (and a gmail logo)
* No public profiles (as of yet..)
* System posts supported (my profile creation has already gotten one "Like")
* Has +1 buttons!
* Very pinterest style for posts -- big page full of posts. None of this single-column vertical scroll.
* has up and down votes.
* "Fan" instead of following.
* Friend finder not there.
* Sorted list of "New" users.
* Chat rooms.
* "t" button for notifications.
* and holy smokes! -- actually they're provisioning a new mailbox for each user on the GA+ domain littlemonsters.com.

plenty more, happy to demo.

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Hey Paul Wyatt - glad to see you here! I work at Google now so feel free to send me your questions...

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/private to you..

Daria plays Google+ well. You can learn from her, maybe try to make contact at SXSW... Hangouts are the new VIP lounge..

Originally shared by Daria Musk

PLAY WITH ME!

Hey G+niuses! Look at these killer guitar picks Moritz Tolxdorff made! Bump into either of us anywhere at SXSW and we'll give ya one! And Scheme to win new a Taylor Guitar to play with 'em!

SCHEME + PLAY

♥ Scheme for a guitar pick: http://bit.ly/zHbrKH

♥ Win a brand new Taylor Guitars to play with your pick: http://bit.ly/xpAIPj

♥ Need a Schemer invite?: http://bit.ly/wewPo7

Whether you'll be in Austin TX for SXSW or somewhere else in the world I'll be bringing you G+ys with us for the ride via Hangouts and these crazy give-aways! :)

Look Out For SXSW Round-Up Post

In the morning announcing our first HANGOUT CONCERT LIVE FROM SXSW! ((Ahem)) Thanks Samsung USA for making it possible!

Cannot wait to see HIP (Hangout In Person) and Hangout on G+ with everyone!

Your G+rl Fo'evs,

D

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Anyone want to help Danny?

Originally shared by Paul Lindner

I just claimed my Google Scholar profile. If you create one of these profiles you should consider doing the following:

- Add it to the Other profiles section of your profile (https://plus.google.com/me/about)

- Link back to your Google+ profile (edit Homepage and link back to your profile)

Also note that that really old paper was for Gopher+, not Google+.

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I just claimed my Google Scholar profile. If you create one of these profiles you should consider doing the following:

- Add it to the Other profiles section of your profile (https://plus.google.com/me/about)

- Link back to your Google+ profile (edit Homepage and link back to your profile)

Also note that that really old paper was for Gopher+, not Google+.

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So many things to do and I get sucked into doing map edits. It's impressive -- edits go live extremely quickly. I added some trailhead parking lots and restrooms, reservoirs, and walking trails..

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Nice long walk in Sibley Regional Park.

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=216375860650465931580.0004b95aba885cda4623b

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Please welcome Baron von Luxxury to Google+! Add him to your music or DJ circles today and check out his new album which you can snag for free for one week only. (though it's definitely worth paying for..)

Dubbed the "Post-Post-Synthpop King" by the LA Weekly, Baron Von Luxxury seeks to erase the lines between high and low art by merging elements of innovative dance music with the idiot immediacy of classic pop.

I had the good fortune to work with him at Red Hat before he became famous. Some day I'll tell some stories about hairnet banner ads and psychic web-sites trying to go legit by offering linux phone support. (yes! really!)

Originally shared by Baron von Luxxury

Happy Day After Valentines Day, My Darlings!

Please download my new album The Last Seduction. For Free. It just came out today. And for 1 week only you can download it for any price you want, including $0. I honestly don't care how much or even if you pay, I just want you to have the music! Please. Just take it.

http://baronvonluxxury.bandcamp.com

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Google+ has made it all the way to the CS department of my alma mater.. Amazing.

I wonder whatever happened the the Sequent that ran cs.umn.edu way back when?

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T-Mobile USA folks -- consider signing up for this beta program.

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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

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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