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35% of sites on the web now use a custom font. The +1 button's use of Roboto apparently added 8% to that statistic.
No worries, when we added Roboto we also converted the button to SVG. All those bytes from the sprite now are more effectively used to support highly cacheable font downloads.
http://httparchive.org/trends.php
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Mini postmortem on apache mod_fcgid.
Notable because it showed up as a Recommended post for me....
Originally shared by Tracy Hurley
We ran into some unexpected server load issues that I tracked down today involving apache 2.2 mod_fcgid. Yay, troubleshooting!
Roo Roo and Tommy (the dog) on yet another trip out. This morning was brunch at the Universal Cafe with a side trip to Blue Bottle coffee.
A good meal was had by all.
Great read. I'd also recommend listening to the latest "This American Life" which discusses how your destiny is predicted by where you live. The details on the creation of the fair housing act and riots in the 60s were especially eye opening.
And all of this is especially apropos with the recent Thanksgiving holiday.
Originally shared by Ade Oshineye
"There’s an old saying: ‘with great power comes great responsibility’. There’s a degree to which it’s true, and it certainly seems that the current lot of powerful people are thoroughly irresponsible. I’d like to add another – though it’s deeply wishful thinking. With great privilege should come great humility. Those of us who are privileged – like me, and like Boris – should be able to find that humility. To know that we really don’t know what it’s like to live without our privilege. We can try to imagine – but we’ll never really succeed. And we should know that we’ll never really succeed – and be far, far more willing to listen properly to those who do know it. Most of all, though, we should know when not to talk as though we had all the answers. We should know when to shut up."
Dramatic rays over the Eames House numbers at Heath Ceramics.
Bonus: 20% off this weekend on everything.
Here's a quick tip I posted to the Developing with Google+ community. Plenty more good stuff there for publishers and app developers.
Originally shared by Paul Lindner
Youtube and Google+ Embedded Posts
If you embed Youtube videos on your web site you might want to take second look at the Google+ Embedded Post feature:
Instead of using a direct Youtube embed try creating a Google+ post that includes the video and your commentary. Embed that post on your site by following the instructions linked above.
People can still play the video in the page, but now they can also +1, Follow, and Reply to it. This engagement will make your conversation stand out in the new Youtube.com comments section.
Youtube and Google+ Embedded Posts
If you embed Youtube videos on your web site you might want to take second look at the Google+ Embedded Post feature:
Instead of using a direct Youtube embed try creating a Google+ post that includes the video and your commentary. Embed that post on your site by following the instructions linked above.
People can still play the video in the page, but now they can also +1, Follow, and Reply to it. This engagement will make your conversation stand out in the new Youtube.com comments section.
I think this type of embedding is not really support Paul Lindner, right? ;)
https://plus.google.com/111487545374003509241/posts/DcD5awY3Jub
I was just thinking what my website really needs is a bunch of ascii penises and bobs army.
CircleCount - I should have checked your posts before writing mine! With all the great traffic on plus it's hard to keep up.
Note that this is not embedding the full comment stream into the page, this is embedding a single post. People can reply to that specific post by clicking on the comment icon.
Alex Sørlie Glomsaas -- this means that you won't get random youtube comments showing up on your page, and that it elevates your post above the others due to the engagement it receives on your site.
Paul Lindner don't worry, I didn't expected you to have seen my post ;)
You are right, what you have described here is the official way of embedding a post (including youtube-video and comments to the post).
Maybe what I have combined (embedding the video + embedding the unofficial comment stream to the video) could be an interesting option for embedding a youtube video by setting an option like "Show suggested videos when the video finishes"
In the meaning of officially supported by YouTube.
But I think since embedding comments wasn't an option before the integration of Google+ comments this won't get an option with the new comments, too.
Thanks for the feedback CircleCount - I'll pass along your feature request to the right people.
And everyone --Comment quality is much improved recently. No ascii-art and very little "Bob" showing up.
Sharing my personal tips for #bureaucracybusters
By using the tips below I'm down to 2 passwords and two gnubby touches per-day.
https://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MacRoadWarrior
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*Paul's Guide to Youtube spammers*
G+ uses a reputation system and it gets better if it's properly trained. Here's how to help.
1) Find a video you like.
2) Select *Newest First* Comments.
3) Find a spammer! Selling instagram followers, make money at home, PSN codes, ascii-"art", Home "remedies" etc.
4) Hover over the timestamp
- If it's a link to a video, you have a skinny page, report it inline.
5) If it's a G+ profile cmd-click into a new tab
6) On the opened tab click on the profile link in the left card.
7) Amaze at the series of spam posts
8) Report them as spam from the drop-down until you get bored
9) Block/Report the profile if you deem it appropriate
10) For particular nasty stuff or if you detect certain patterns escalate at
http://go/es-abuse
And follow the instructions in the bug template.
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Hi widget lovers. You may have noticed a new look for the +1 and +Share buttons that are consistent with the Follow and Badge widgets. We hope you like them.
You'll also notice that they scale up beautifully. All of our buttons are now using SVG to render the iconography, and the Roboto font for text. There's even some SMIL animations hiding in there too. All of this is perfect for your new high dpi laptop, tablet or phone. ‡
Please let us know if they're working for you and if you have any suggestions. Thanks for using Google+ widgets!
‡ results may vary on IE8 and Gingerbread browsers.
Matt Mastracci I'll look into it and let you know. Thanks!
They look ugly in my opinion... I prefer them being red with white text.
I prefer the old ones. But it would be awesome if we could customize the button as we want. That would be major advantage over every other Social Network.
Derrick Lambert thanks for the feedback. White text is difficult due to contrast issues.
Hafeed Elbekkaoui I'll see if we can offer a button without the sharing dialog. Can you give me an idea of the specific use cases where you think this would be better (feel free to send privately if you want..)
Vasilj Milosevic - Are there specific customizations you'd like to see?
Matt Mastracci - I've put in a request for a scalable Sign in button.
Thanks again everyone!
Paul Lindner
It would be awesome if we could use custom image, the less cool, but still cool would be color customization of the button itself :)
The size, roundness etc.
Thanks Vasilj Milosevic - I'll add this to our feedback for future releases.
Note that we do offer local customizations for the Google+ Signin button, so there is a precedent.
goooood
The vertical align of the numbers next to the +1 button in the bubble looks a little off, i.e. it doesn't look like it's exactly middle. Is this intended?
Masatake Wasa -- are you talking about the horizontal layout like this?
[g+1] < [22]
There might be something there that's not right - we'll take a look. Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, exactly, the horizontal bubble. It appears pushed down a little - if that makes sense - on Chrome and also on Safari.
[Edit / addition] For illustrative purposes: http://goo.gl/j00Hrx (just as a contrast, the Facebook Like button's vertical align seems to be exactly middle).
Daniel Baines Chrome Extension changes coming soon. Sadly you can't use SVG in the toolbar..
Paradigm shift. Post->Create, View->Search.
I think part of the YT problem is one of perception that reminds of the early days of Gmail. Remember when you 'put' messages in 'folders'? That's what people think of when they post. Instead you have 'Content' that is created that has certain attributes.
When you have content with attributes you can use search to surface it, rank it, and filter it.
So my minor suggestion for Youtube comments is to add a really simple thing: Add _Searching for Comments..._ to the loading indicator.
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Paging absentee Google-owned Youtube channel owners -- time to start policing your comments. If you're not going to moderate *and engage* just disable comments. Otherwise while you're away the partying teens will trash the place.
For sport and old-times-sake I spent time reporting porn/abuse/spam on popular videos and Google-owned channels. I saw the usual hideous garbage in "Newest First", but what I didn't see was any engagement from the channel owners.
So to repeat, own your channels. Moderate and engage. Moderate and engage. *Moderate and engage*.
[Also banning a few abusive individuals will go a long way towards eliminating the ascii-art genitalia until the ML algorithms catch up..]
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/ex-nfl-player-home-trashed-hundreds-partying-teens-articl...
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New SVG based Plusone Buttons going out to the world.
https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKqN3U0OdvXv0MiMQwSljmTmDspcCdRRosU-xYLTBvl6BL...
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The SNS space keeps shifting. Hyves is now moving from a general purpose social network to a gaming focused one.
I hope that works out better from them than it did for hi5.
http://hyves-corporate.pr.co/63596-hyves-transformeert-naar-online-gaming-portal
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Munchery delivers. Had a nice meal from them yesterday and noticed that they're also here on Google+.
Even if you can't get them in your area you can admire their fine food photography. This attention to detail pervades the rest of the experience, including thoughtful packaging, high quality ingredients, and artful presentation. Highly recommended.
Originally shared by Munchery
Heading to the park this weekend?
I have one invite left for purchasing Google Glass for the first person that wants it. Remember the requirements are:
- be a US resident
- be 18 years or older
- purchase Glass
- provide a U.S. based shipping address OR pick up the device in New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles
Originally shared by Google Glass
Wow, lots of questions! We'd rather "show" than "tell" so here you go: the mono earbud, and the Glass that Explorers will be getting when they swap later this year.
Edit: More questions! The earbud plugs into Glass, so you can choose whether to use it.
*Day of the Dead (code)*
Find dead build targets at http://deps/unused then do this:
blaze build devtools/janitor/terminator
sed 's/ .*//' |xargs -n 1 blaze-bin/devtools/janitor/terminator
** PASTE LINES FROM deps/unused **
^D
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I had to show this to a few people this weekend to help them understand my human cannonball t-shirt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSizGn8vbFQ
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One benefit of missing the shuttle is visiting the West Oakland McDonalds and observing the use of technology. Pretty much the opposite of Google demographics you can find anecdotal societal changes first hand at the WiFi watering hole.
Mobile first. Yes
Bluetooth headsets - more than you'd think.
Parents and kids on ancient wintel laptop.
Multiple IPads with keyboards.
Religious argument ended with "Look it up on YouTube!"
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5941325952242369169/5941325947220876290?...
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fyi
Originally shared by Pic Scanner app (iOS)
Earlier this week, the number of +1s on my G+ page suddenly and inexplicably dropped from around 5,000 to approx. 800. I complained to Google 2 days ago but so far those haven't been reinstated, and it seems Google doesn't know where they went.
Did the NSA steal those, too?
Fyi
Originally shared by E John Feig
Anyone else have this issue with Google+ badges? It cut off the last letter in my name! When I look at the source, I can see that the 'g' has been converted to some random unicode character. What's even more annoying is that when I go into my dashboard in tumblr to try to change this, it shows up correctly. The only place it seems not to work is when viewing the page. =/
The g is turned into some CJK letters. It looks ok to me now (not CJK'ed): https://plus.google.com/_/client/demo/badge.html?personid=+EJohnFeig
Whatever's on the barge in the bay better be good. Otherwise William Gibson and I will both be disappointed.
_"He's at Google CAZ. See the knuckle tats?" They all dress like 50s longshoremen, particularly the women._
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/395649357791248384
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Farewell iGoogle and your hundreds of quality Zombie gadgets.
For perspective Campfire 1 was 6 years ago on Nov 1st. At hi5 we wanted to create a Day of the Dead gadget but ran out of time (hi5 was super popular in south/central america, so it would have been a natural fit..)
https://plus.sandbox.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5940941643516135201/594094164049...
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Highly recommended. This is an electronic/noise remix of the P.O.S album We Don't Even Live Here by experimental group Marijuana Deathsquads.
The folks at Rhymesayers Entertainment are doing a great job showcasing the creative forces of the Midwest. Definitely worth following here on +
T-Mobile user with a grandfathered plan?
Install this before you upgrade to KitKat...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pdanet#body-content
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IE9 - the doughnut hole of web animation...
svg works well on all browsers except IE8, and Gingerbread
css3 animation works on IE10+
svg smil? everything with svg, but not on IE at all.
requestAnimationFrame? nope.
http://caniuse.com/
http://caniuse.com/
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Some good advice here.. auth-refresh is very handy..
https://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MacRoadWarrior
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What's the word? hideous, yes that's the word.
This is the new commenting system on sfgate. The trolls over there get the commenting system they deserve I guess....
http://viafoura.com/
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Bring on the #heirloomtechno from Information Society No autotune modified organisms here. I've been having a great time exploring the back catalog on Google Play including a superb live album that recently came out [1].
Then again I think I'm required to enjoy any group that puts out tracks like an actual data transmission in 300bps N, 8, I (Terminal Mode or ASCII Download) and the ode to TLAs in Where Would I be Without IBM [2]
[1]
Peace and Love, Inc. was the first track that I ever recorded to a mix tape. It was also the only track on that tape, so I listened to it about a billion times. It's kind of crazy how much this song permanently affected my musical tastes... Good tunes!
Play count's going high on this track for me too Evan Mezeske
Funny thing is that I missed out on them the first time around. I think I was busy going to metal and punk shows those days. My workstation hostname was danzig.micro.umn.edu after all...
IS was one of my favorite groups back in early high-school. Them and Queensryche
Tyson La Tourrette Someone needs to make the mashup Operation What's on your Mindcrime?
Paul Lindner
Hell no. What's wrong with you, son?
Bin packing is NP Hard....
1st time with Shopping express-extended. Oh the boxes!
Bottom box is 2ft ^3 -- toilet paper/paper towels.
Middle boxes contained misc things from other stores.
Top-one is 14" ^3 -- It contained a 4-pack of cucumber soda and enough bubble wrap to float a boat.
I'm saving the boxes and should be able to reuse the smaller ones. I did send feedback to team about this situation.
https://plus.sandbox.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5935415229161068849/593541523094...
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We really need to get your playlists supported as proper embeds. We're already working on this for Youtube....
/cc Leo Deegan John Panzer
Originally shared by Brandon Bilinski
It's new Tunesday! This week features no marquee hip-hop releases but has more indie-folk than you can shake a banjo at:
- Avett Bros, Head and the Heart, and Cass McCombs all twang it out a bit
- Solid week for metal: New Red Fang, Pelican and Trivium
- We also have some new jams from established players: Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam and Dismemberment Plan (which on first listen is pretty blah)
Enjoy!
Whiteboard mural preservation; Apiary edition.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5935066275097290433/5935066270001622498?...
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Information Society was way ahead of their time. Worth a listen just for the Star Trek samples and Koalapad-esque gfx.
One of my favorite songs from that era.
What?!
They were a year or two ahead of me in high school. I think I remember James Cassidy making platform shoes ala-Kiss in summer shop class, but I'm not 100% sure it was him. Kurt was unforgettable.
Dale Wyttenbach -- wow, what a small world.
Jim Leeds there's no Peel connection here. I'll just have to be happy with Arcwelder and Babes in Toyland representing Minnesota.
They NEVER play the beginning on the radio!
G+ Inspired UI at http://littlemonsters.com
- Sidebar with icons for apps
- Cards for posts and expanding comments
- Mole-based chat system.
- Header that collapses when you scroll down
- Big Red Buttons!
https://plus.sandbox.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5933274801685382769/593327480394...
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Found a few tips here. Color prompts, didn't realize that g4's -c flag would tab-complete.
Added a comment about setting the tmux title using
tmux rename-window
Now I have a decent set of titles instead of
1 bash 2 bash 3 bash 4 bash 5 bash 6 bash 7 python ...
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/presentation/d/1xh9sh8jtl36h_-Ys8DYQL2ddryjhr_jiObqT5Dl8k9Y/edi...
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This morning on KFJC (read in pirate voice).
Captain Jack: It takes a lot of chump change to run this station... and a lot of chumps -- donate now!
Sometimes you want down and to the right too... At least when it comes to Focus Query cost.
https://plus.sandbox.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5932436428764399185/593243642916...
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I call mine my "Macbook-C" Seriously awesome hardware.
Originally shared by Google Chrome
Introducing the HP Chromebook 11, designed and built in partnership with our friends at HP. It has all the speed, simplicity and security benefits you've come to expect from a Chromebook, with unique design elements that makes it easier to get stuff done. And all for $279.
Look for it starting today in the US at Best Buy , Amazon.com and Google Play and in the UK at Currys, PC World and more. It will also be coming to other countries in time for the holidays.
"It’s easy for the rich and well–connected to think they succeeded through merit." Indeed.
James Leeds, Nov 30 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com