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Feedback from my wife who doesn't follow many people.

- didn't like having followers show up in the list of people.  She had created circles for design/art/music but they were not set to 'Following'.  I think we should ask users to check this on startup.  (I'm assuming that following-only circles are not used for hangouts)

- She saw someone she didn't recognize and from a following circle.  Her first choice was to remove the person from her circles.  That did not remove the person from the chat roster. How does Babel sync circle members and the chat roster?  ANything I can tell her? (She reloaded, logged-out, logged-in) etc...









 

chromebook with verizon 3g is the only thing that has decent ping @I/O.











 

 

Have to give props to the people that go through all the effort to place ads on our site.

Finicky finicky.  Or is just that we internally outbid everything with the word 'google' in it?


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5877650856094579745/5877650856940352498?...






 

Somewhat surprised that Adwords doesn't use Google Wallet.....









 

 

Leafletting a Googler parking lot for low-end android phones?

Hope they're not on commission.


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5876404909126848705/5876404927437279234?...






 

 

 

Animated GIF of a webpage with animated GIFs, which will go into a slides preso that will be recorded on Youtube.

I'm all out of encapsulations..


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5875959129896111745/5875959136286702114?...






 

My I/O talk authorship document (pending legal approval)  Improvements welcome.

*Like an H6*

Popping nodes in the dom, like a blizzard
When we code we do it right gettin slizzard
Sippin sizzurp in my box, like 6 px
Now I'm feeling so small like a H6
Like a H6, Like a H6
Now I'm feeling so small like a H6
Like a H6, Like a H6
Now I'm feeling so small like a H6

Gimme that See-SeeEssEss
Gimme that Duh-Duh-OM
Browsers love my style, and my tables gettin wild
Get them browsers scaling, we get that class and that prop
Now give me 2 more nodes cause you know it don't stop









 

Looks like Vimeo embeds are working correctly in v2 now!


http://vimeo.com/64783605#cols






 

Compiler experts:

The JS style guide mentions that UPPER_CASE implies @const-- however when I try compiling this code using


  /**  @type{number}
   *@const*/
  var FOO = 1;
  FOO = 2;

it fails, but

  /**@type{number} */
  var FOO = 1;
  FOO = 2;

succeeds

Oddly enough this succeeds as well, which I would expect to work..
  /**@type{number}@const*/
  var FOO = 1;
  FOO = 2;

Any ideas?  These tests were done with http://closure-compiler.appspot.com -- I have not tested using google3 (yet)  Just wanted to make sure that the style guide meshes with the way the compiler treats things..


http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home






 

Achievement Unlocked - deleted top-level google3 directory.

I think we need a code janitors badge on moma.  Suggested inspiration below:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toxic_Avenger_(film)






 

Salon.com needs to learn
- that they have a http://google.com/+salon URL
- use rel="publisher" in their page markup instead of using http://gplus.to/Salon

Anyone have time to reach out?


https://plus.google.com/+salon






 

 

@111466602600743594987 for the homebrew fork/follow buttons

Everyone else for the font loading technique and IE support

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/css/font-awesome.css


http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/






 

 

Can we get Google+ comments activated for the Google+ developers blog?

http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com









 

Achievement unlocked -- a bug I filed make the Wonder Bug list.

https://b.corp.google.com/hotlist?id=36442









 

Can you guess the theme of this playlist which ranges from pop to metalcore?

Also this contains a song that is not in Google Play (Erykah Badu)  What do you see?  Is it playable?  (Hope not, that would put us on par with Grooveshark...)

https://play.google.com/music/listen?view=%2Fshpl%2FAMaBXykOdnDKHEIVjgwH6O0ujIrbAdS18q7_kOp1_rJ-mb1z...









 

Anyone have contacts in Argentina? Teleshow (http://teleshow.infobae.com)  is sending about 3m malformed +1 button requests/day.  They just need to change

  annotation="medium "

to

  annotation="bubble"

I'll personally send the person that helps fixes this a Google+ t-shirt and a kudo.


http://teleshow.infobae.com






 

Haven't used chrome jank tools for a while, wow.  Loving the paint and compositing feedback.

Replacing goog-inline-block with 'display: inline-block' is helping.  Removing useless positioning helps too.  Have a few CLs out to get rid of some of the boxes below...


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5870835452260302369/5870835458212547922?...






 

Appengine naked domains still not supported?  Comments disabled too?

<sadface/>

Going to have to host my I/O examples elsewhere -- the extra _www._ makes a difference..


https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine






 

Looks like we're not quite   for image filtering.

TL;DR -- SIte displays porn content from freebase/knowledge graph that violates AdSense ToS.


_A quite strange thing happened recently. I have a news website and I'm using Freebase API to provide readers for more in depth information about the content of news articles.  The site runs Google's AdSense ads._

_Following the publication of a local news, on the sidebar containing text and images downloaded through Freebase API, an image of a woman with her bare breasts was displayed._

_Well, that image, made available by Freebase, which is a Google product, was considered obscene by the team of AdSense (also a Google product), which decided to suspend the service. A sort of vicious circle of Google, exercising a censorship on itself._

_Given the impossibility to make Google people understand that the visualization of such kind of images was occasional and not intentional, I'd prefer to avoid such problems in the future. Hence, I'd like to know whether there's some way, when using Freebase API, to filter out images considered obscene by the AdSense team._









 

Is there anything we can do to help hacked Wordpress installations that have pharma ads?  As you can see below it's impacting sharing to G+:

http://presidiosocialclub.com/
https://spore.corp.google.com/#!s=d070e83cd3d49444

This has been going on for *years*, I've personally had to burn down and rebuild many WP blogs for friends.  (and multiple times due to backdoors).   (Read more about it at http://blog.aw-snap.info/2011/02/pharmacy-hack.html)

What can we do?  Are we still running netagent to detect spam cloaking?  Can we detect spammy links/text and refetch?  Should Google+ ignore spore and just refetch using it's own user-agent (ick!)?


http://salelevitrawithoutperscriptionusa.org/






 

Can GFEs do more than basic redirects?  Like mod_rewrite?  It seems like it'd be super useful.  For example:

  https://www.google.com/buzz/post?url=xxx&hl=l

could be redirected to

  https://plus.google.com/share?url=xxx&hl=l

It appears the the path_redirects only allow for path->absolute redirections..  Happy to be proven wrong.









 

Someone needs to convert to Google+ sign-in...


http://www.youtube.com/user/coachella






 

 

It's the _green_ room show room.

Check out those snazzy animate-in effects...


http://www.miauk.com/default.aspx






 

Social Score pipeline visualization.  I think Alexandria is the slow draining bathtub...


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5864984843083818913/5864984851081260994?...






 

Need this:
@DevelopedByIntern("Q42012")









 

 

 

Sadly it appears we may need to add (like facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+https://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)

to our fetch requests...


https://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)






 

The first thing I thought of when I saw today's doodle?  The stupid people who think it's really _Hugo Chavez_.

Begs the question --  do we have the guts to put on an Isaac Newton doodle for Christmas?









 

Spring MVC - beans - xml - docs + protobuf + guice == apps-framework?









 

Google House

"Google should just buy stuff for me" -- Sergey at a TGIF a while back.

... or Takeout for subscription services

Think about Spotify, Rdio, Netflix, HBO and other content subscription services.  Once you stop paying you have nothing left.  Takeout is nothing more than references to a paywall.

A way to disrupt this might be to structure systems to reward you with ownership of a portion of the catalog each month.  Examples:
- Your most listened song or TV show.
- The ebook you shared the most.
- etc.

Then when your subscription period ends you get to keep the fruits of this relationship.

In many ways this is like the Columbia House[1] or BMG music club.  You get a free thing each month by default.  You can sample the entire catalog, or get more if you want.  But you're always *owning* something new and interesting each month.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_House

 

Speaking of code janitorial tasks..  My CLs to remove the bulk of Java GFS finally landed today. That should shave 12k LoC off of many java binaries..

Thanks to @113930769093822119546 for the inspiration.









 

Should a search for -M- (a french musician of some note) work?

I had to actually search for M disambiguation to find this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-M-


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-M-






 

Can we get the former hello.com folks on +Platform?









 

 

So go/babble exists.. It's basically "Readability" for English (and I'm glad there's no such requirement..)

I did learn a little bit, specifically the source of "do the needful".


https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmKkMysgMoKBcGIwdHJyZ2J1ajMwVHVhdEtMWnNIWV...






 

_This is just like when they cancelled Firefly!_

said someone in a Reader-related comment thread.

So have hope.  Veronica Mars is returning and Cougar Town was picked up by TBS -- Dollhouse?  sorry, can't help you there.









 

 

Another shuttle ride close-call!  ... and my most strenuous exercise of the day.


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5854265973024213873/5854265978831781730?...






 

How many Nexus 7 ads did you see today?

I wish our advertisements could be (anti-)targeted based on what devices I own.

Of course that might mean that we'd start seeing "Your nexus 7 sucks, upgrade to Windows Surface!" ads..









 

New term *Asbestos Code*

Works fine if you leave it alone.  Takes a ton of effort to clean up if you have to mess with it.

Also see *Knob and Tube* code.









 

New widgets refactor code-name: Sprockets

Your widgets have become tiresome.

It evokes SNL, the Jetsons, and a tooth'd gear.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQ6olQjebg






 

Thinking of posting this externally....  Already left as a comment on a post.  I think it might help people understand what's at stake..  I just need to find a creative commons image of dollars in a mattress :)

---


Keeping all your data on your own hard drive?  Do you keep your money in your mattress?

Just like most of us keep our money in a bank/credit union, most of us should keep our data in a trusted place and only carry around what we need at a given moment.