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Doing my best to make the world a little better every day.
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Interesting take on Email based sharing for photos.
.. rewind : we were talking with Yahoo about supporting this use case a few years ago. Not much came of it.
https://plus.google.com/
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"Hot in the news" indeed.
http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2014/09/ancient-campfires-led-rise-storytelling
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Search the html, not the content. I can think of a bunch of ways that this is useful...
http://nerdydata.com/
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IMO we need *Public* to be different from *Publicized*. There are people that want stuff to be out there, but not promoted. Give the user a choice here..
We've been through this hell many times. User thinks their audience is small. We blow it up big time:
- Google+ Shares of Youtube videos
- Photos on a Map
- next?
I've told this story many times, but when I was at hi5 we analyzed why people deleted their accounts. A big percentage were people with photos that appeared in the hi5 version of 'What's Hot'.
http://www.allisonwoodruff.com/publications/2014-Woodruff-CHI2014-ReputationManagement.pdf
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Heard most of this on the drive home yesterday on KZSU. A great discussion of how technology mediated experiences affects our humanity.
Sometimes the bridge traffic backups are good for something.
http://www.hearsayculture.com/?p=1301
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*This is how Googlebot fetched the page*
So my #perfcrastination with SEO got the shout out, so I guess I should tell you more... I learned a few things about driving search traffic at some startups and at LinkedIn which really mastered the practice. When Authorship was unlaunched I noticed that we did quite poorly in this area.
So I got our sites verified on Google Webmaster tools and started going through a few checklists. Bushels of low hanging fruit. Many issues have been fixed, but there are many more to go. I'm collecting resources on this sites page:
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/oz/oz-documentation/seo
And here's a cover bug that lists many of the problems found:
https://b2.corp.google.com/issues/17438991
Also if you're interested in these issues I can add you to the webmaster tools sites. You can see what people are searching for and what your pages look like to Googlebot. And hopefully it's not like the /explore page (which is fixed in http://cr/75340820)
[we now return you to your I release code freeze scramble]
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6058268239207694881/6058268240831870450
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*going to mow the new kia*
Hangouts/GV needs a share button...
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Anyone on photos team working with twitpic to get their stuff into G+ photos?
Would be interesting to create an appengine application that could serve twitpic.com and redirect and keep those permalinks active.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/twitpic-to-shut-down-picture-sharing-service-after-tradem...
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Reported the dumped tires. You can vote it up if you want.
FYI - Search is unlaunching social features today:
https://ariane.googleplex.com/launch/121162 (Authorship)
https://ariane.googleplex.com/launch/120045 (SpYW)
This is a reactive release, so no explicit comms will go out. If anyone asks you should escalate through PR. There will be a public post about some of this by John Mueller.
Sad to see it go, but I do understand the reasons why.
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I hope you can update Mark with authorship changes the same way you treat Search Engine Land.... He's going to lose some major credibility.
Originally shared by Mark Traphagen
Interview with Me About Google Authorship
Andre Alpar of OMReport.de interviewed me last June at SMX Advanced in Seattle about Google Authorship and the changes we had seen from the beginning of the year up to that point.
Please note that this interview was conducted before Google removed all author photos from regular search, but Authorship still works, and I believe the principles I discuss here are still valid.
You can now donate and gift-match via payroll deductions.
https://support.google.com/googlersgive/answer/3381180
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*One simple trick that simplifies JS Loading!*
@103532563190745371016 has delved deep into script loading and found that it's better to just use a regular script tag to load many resources. The key is to use the async and defer attributes.
It turns out that preload scanners work better than the gobs of script-tag-injecting js code, even on older mobile browsers.
If you're targeting IE9 and above you can also use the _onload_ attribute on your script tag to trigger execution when the script is async loaded.
Work is ongoing to update our docs and existing uses in google3.
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1vOKlHN3VI9nlJYbkCIXSZiP_T9QimGvaoh48qR9BKI8/edit?_e...
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Worth re-reading every now and again...
And since this was in 7/2012 many new folks may have never seen it..
http://go/escalation-manifesto
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Gaia engineers, avert your gaze.
Imagine the logic needed to implement that...
Nebraska: age 19 (or upon marriage) huh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_majority
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Google Health... For dogs
Just had to deal with medical records for my dog's chemo treatments. Very suboptimal. I was able to get PDFs (instead of fax) and some digital x-rays.
However to make sense of this I had to manually plug in blood test results into a sheet. Each of these data points had differing error-ranges. etc.
There's a long history of animal based science being applied to humans. If we could solve the Vet problem we could move on to Humans.....
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I don't think that's what we meant by "name shaped".
@102143528674197588447 @103643500382916616176
https://plus.google.com/
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This following comment makes me wonder... when will HTML not make up the majority of our search corpus?
_They've already been using their ranking system to encourage HTTP and HTML. Think of all the poor BBSs and gopher servers they've been discriminating against!_
http://search-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/08/07/1556204/google-will-give-a-search-edge-to-websites-th...
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Big congrats to the G+ signin team for getting integrated with mixi. Wow.
http://mixi.co.jp/press/2014/0804/12248/
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_"embedded restaurants and taxis"_
This is why I think we need to do more, not less with live content, especially on mobile....
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/8/1/app-unbundling-search-and-discovery
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John Hjelmstad / Jonathan Beri - same deal as sign in button... let's incorporate it...
Originally shared by Gerwin Sturm
As you might have noticed I invested quite some time in Polymer recently. What I like about web components is that they make a lot of things a lot easier, except...
Normally adding a +1 button (or any other Google+ plugin) to a website is just about the easiest thing you can do.
1. Take the code snippet from the docs, e.g.
2. Paste it in your code at the appropriate place.
3. Done.
Unfortunately the gapi JS library doesn't like to work with the Shadow DOM. Even if you pass in a direct reference to an element inside of your element it won't work.
The () works around this issue by adding an element to the light DOM, telling gapi to render the button there, then snatching the element and sending it to the shadow realm dom.
Since there are a lot more widgets to choose from, I took this idea and started by creating a generic element that takes `type` and `data` as attributes to render the appropriate plugin, using the same idea as the hangout-button.
So for the default +1 button you could just use
Or for a profile badge you would use
<google-plugin type='person' data='{"href": ""}'>
From there I started to create specific elements, that have the relevant attributes for each plugin.
For now there are only two but others are easy to add:
(the profile attribute will be used to build the href attribute needed by the profile widget)
The plugins still aren't really happy inside of the shadow dom, displaying some errors in the console, and not all interaction seems to be working correctly.
I have some other ideas I will test to improve this, but maybe the gapi team will eventually support Shadow DOM properly ;)
For now these elements work better than not working at all :)
Randy Merrill is working on this
I'm really curious to see the performance of a plugin with native web components + svg in Chrome.
Correct but I believe Paul Lindner experimented with svg for at least the +1 button.
That png is fuzzy on a retina display. It'd be really easy to replace the "G" with inline svg -- especially since this component doesn't care about IE8
We do. Talk to Paul and Michael Hermanto offline to discuss.
Putting servers under a "microscope"?
At -= 2 we had a special set of prod machines called microscopes. These machines ran fully instrumented binaries with full logging and oodles of extra instrumentation.
For read-only services without side effects a small chunk of traffic was mirrored to the microscopes. For mutable requests a %age was sent there.
I don't expect we'll let engineers connect Yourkit to running production code, but I would have to expect that something like this exists, right? right?
http://faizscientific.com/faizhtml/images/hello-kitty-microscope.jpg
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What is this Messenger app in L???
Will Hangouts still be default? What about Gmessage?
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6041918966800660241/6041918960428142274?...
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Bookmark this for when your Hangout/GVC loses audio and the other side doesn't care/know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSQcqhJl9rM
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Avoid the shuttle delay. Add this calendar today!
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/shoreline-amphitheatre-schedule/home
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/shoreline-amphitheatre-schedule/home
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A gem of a performance.
I've found that a search for {BANDNAME} {YEAR} live where year is early on yields some amazing finds. That's how I found this superb performance.
Realized that many people don't know about this nicely curated news blast that's put out every morning. Subscribe today!
https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/forum/#!forum/morningnews
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Read this behind the scenes article about Project Boswell with Brett Lider and Joseph Smarr who toiled long and hard to deliver an awesome feature.
This article also showcases how sometimes you have to throw away the first few concepts before you get it right. Happy that I had a small part at the beginning of the project and props to the many folks that invested time and effort to get this out the door.
Thanks! Yeah he nicely captured both the history of the project and why it turned out to be surprisingly challenging.
Very interesting - the article describes a design process that's almost the opposite of how I had imagined this came around!
There's a whole load of CV research based on story-telling from photos / video - somehow the idea of G+ stories developing from an observed user need rather than pure academia (as I'd imagined) really wraps this up nicely :-)
Yeah the core stories team had no background in CV, tho we later found some internal google GV tools we could use for scoring photos, recognizing landmarks etc
There is significant existing academic work on generating a "story" from those elements as well using various approaches - e.g. the papers from a search for [Computer Vision video summarization].
Really nice product release btw :-)
Nifty new auto screenshot sharing in Ingres. Play Games should offer this as "Screenshot as a Service". I wish that they used Deep Links and Calypso...
Intel report for #Ingress Portal "Jordan Residence" -- Ace Arch.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6031938915992521697/6031938918283855778?...
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Originally shared by Tim O'Reilly
Fundraiser for Libby Schaaf for Mayor of Oakland at the BlueSprout industrial co working space. Oakland is a Maker city. Libby will be a Maker - friendly mayor. But she is most of all a doer who will help city government to work for its citizens!
Going to be using hashtags in CLs a lot more now that Critique shows them as links to a search landing page:
https://critique.corp.google.com/#search/&q=tag:socialefficiency&type=cl
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Grant funded. Ready in 2 years...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/business/media/new-york-times-and-washington-post-to-develop-platf...
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The OpenSocial zombie is tough to kill. Instead of braaaains it mutters _unified architecture document._.....
http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/social-activity-proposal.html
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Big anti-hangouts article from Microsoft.
_Google+ Hangouts is Google’s attempt at a Universal Communications solution, but is designed primarily for consumers rather than information workers. It relies on third-party applications for many key voice capabilities, and has other significant limitations that make it a poor choice for business. Lync, which is easy to use and easy to manage, offers the flexible yet comprehensive UC solution that both enterprises and end users need—a solution that Google can’t match._
http://blogs.office.com/2014/06/09/microsoft-drives-the-universal-communications-revolution/
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Idea: *bandwidth meter on shuttle*
or a data based way to stop data hogs.
- Install network monitoring on the router. Use sflow or something like http://www.pmacct.net/ Also gather interface stats (up/down/max bw, etc)
- display results for everyone to see
- use built-in TV/video out (if available)
- or use an led sign like the one below..
Messages that could be displayed:
- Bandwidth warning 75% reduce usage.
- No 3G/4G service. Hang tight!
- Warning. Video usage @35%
- Display stats for the current ride
BW used this ride 420M
- Or even better:
BW used this ride: 56
- Or sillier:
BW use this ride: .05 milli-SWE
Of course a programmable sign could be used for other things too.
Next Stop: West Oakland Park & Ride
Some interesting google-wide metrics (and not the stock price, please...)
http://www.amazon.com/NEOPlex-Programmable-Scrolling-Software-Keyboard/dp/B00B90LY7I/ref=pd_sim_sbs_...
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This crazy "gothic" house near my home in Oakland can be yours for $869k.
Bonus: it's an Ingress portal. Not sure if that'll be in the disclosures...
Photo tour here:
Very cute. I hope he gets a regular desk.
David Hixson, Sep 05 2014 on 1500wordmtu.com