Paul Lindner

Human, Dustcake, Engineer

Doing my best to make the world a little better every day.

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Paul Lindner

Take heed developers. Structured data connected to users will soon improve search for everyone.

Take heed developers. Structured data connected to users will soon improve search for everyone.

Originally shared by Chris Messina

Today at #TCDisrupt , Seth Sternberg and Ardan Arac announced that we'll soon be integrating Google+ Platform app activities [1] into Google Search.

Soon, if you search for a site or app on Google.com (and that app has integrated with Google+ Sign-In app activities), you'll see popular and aggregate user activity next to search results. For example, searching for Fandango will show the top movies among Google+ users. And when you click on a movie, you’ll go directly to its page on Fandango.

Learn more here and be sure to follow Google+ Developers :

http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/2013/04/Bringing-App-Activities-to-Google-Search.html

[1] https://developers.google.com/+/features/app-activities

#googleplusplatformupdate #activitystreams

#activitystreams #googleplusplatformupdate #gplus #tcdisrupt

Paul Lindner

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

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

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Paul Lindner

Some power-pop-punk for your #musicmonday

Some power-pop-punk for your #musicmonday

Found via The Current's best new radio show "P.O.S is Ruining The Current" [1]

"Doomtree hip-hop collective co-founder Stefon Alexander, a.k.a. P.O.S, hosts this must-listen hour-long show highlighting his musical influences and favorites. It airs on Saturdays at 11 p.m."

[1] http://www.thecurrent.org/programs/pos-is-ruining-the-current

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i78cG0oPdjM

#musicmonday #gplus

Paul Lindner

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...

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Paul Lindner

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

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Paul Lindner

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?...

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Paul Lindner

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

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Paul Lindner

The Replacements are back in a special charity album for Slim Dunlap[1] Picked this up at 1-2-3-4 Go Records for...

The Replacements are back in a special charity album for Slim Dunlap[1] Picked this up at 1-2-3-4 Go Records for Record Store Day.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Dunlap

http://songsforslim.com/pages/releases/the-replacements-songs-for-slim-commercial-version

Paul Lindner

It's Record Store Day

It's Record Store Day

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They still have those?

Joseph Smarr, Apr 21 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com

Joseph Smarr, yes, but with a twist. 1-2-3-4 has it's own label, an in-store performance space and has regular events that bring together a community of like-minded folks.

Also these days you get an mp3 download code with your vinyl. So you get the digital experience and a beautiful totem.

Paul Lindner, Apr 21 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com

Love it! A real-world remix, if you will.

Joseph Smarr, Apr 21 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com

Paul Lindner

RTL Nieuws Hangouts

RTL Nieuws Hangouts

This is Paul Lindner from the Google+ Platform Team

I would like to report a problem with the +1 button on rtl.nl The value of the 'annotation' parameter is incorrect. This prevents the button from displaying.

Can you route to the appropriate technical contact?

An example page where this failure occurs follows:

Thank you!

http://www.rtl.nl/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/2013/04_april/16/binnenland/vleesverwerker-willy-selt...

http://www.rtl.nl/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/2013/04_april/16/binnenland/vleesverwerker-willy-selt...

Paul Lindner

Happy that this track is available on Google Music because I can share a free listen and I prefer 320k mp3s.

Happy that this track is available on Google Music because I can share a free listen and I prefer 320k mp3s.

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/?id=Bf3k2d4l7emjnyso7ayhwe7llxq&pcampaignid=music_prev...

Paul Lindner

You betcha

You betcha

[For those outside Minnesota, a hotdish is a casserole.]

http://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=hot_topic&id=2345

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And Taconite is a low-grade form of iron-ore. A Taconite Tater-tot sounds scary..

Paul Lindner, Apr 19 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com

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Looks like we're not quite #onegoogle 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._

#googplus

Paul Lindner

Google Now served up this article as Breaking News yesterday.

Google Now served up this article as Breaking News yesterday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/daft-punk-get-lucky-leaked-full-song-pharrell-williams_n_31...

Paul Lindner

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/

#googplus

Paul Lindner

Sometimes you just want a peanut burrito...

Sometimes you just want a peanut burrito...

Originally shared by David Barnett

Pass the salsa! We noticed a squirrel in our back yard eating something huge. It turned out to be an entire tortilla.

Paul Lindner

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.

#googplus

Paul Lindner

Am I the only one seeing server errors on http://tv.tunein.com/ ?

Am I the only one seeing server errors on http://tv.tunein.com/ ?

http://tv.tunein.com/

Paul Lindner

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

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

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Paul Lindner

food for thought...

food for thought...

http://www.jeffalytics.com/establish-google-plus-authority/

Paul Lindner

Just found my next cleanup

https://cs.corp.google.com/#search/&q=@Nullable.*Present%5C%3C&type=cs&m=100&det=mat

@Nullable Present<T> means nothing...

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Paul Lindner

It's the _green_ room show room.

Check out those snazzy animate-in effects...

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

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Paul Lindner

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

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

#googplus

Paul Lindner

Ever wonder what the "brick circles" are in San Francisco? Wonder no more.

Ever wonder what the "brick circles" are in San Francisco? Wonder no more.

For more technical details you can read this writeup which goes into the various failsafe mechanisms involved:

http://www.sfmuseum.org/quake/awss2.html

Though I wonder if they're still using a SCADA system connected to a VAX 4000 to run their pumps?

http://untappedcities.com/2012/06/29/cisterns/

Paul Lindner

Need this:
@DevelopedByIntern("Q42012")

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Paul Lindner

36 days until Google I/O? Hurried man indeed.

36 days until Google I/O? Hurried man indeed.

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/?id=Boominjctghep4a53xcquzyfram&pcampaignid=music_prev...

Paul Lindner

This.

http://www.not-implemented.com/urls-are-for-people-not-computers/

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Paul Lindner

When did we hire Lady Penelope?

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAB_1

https://plus.google.com/photos/110968360116588936278/albums/5863083305184916545?authkey=CLTniJSes7LZ...

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Paul Lindner

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)

#googplus

Paul Lindner

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes!

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! Julie & I spent a fine evening at Pizzaiolo which had a March 32nd themed menu with dishes we won't see till next year, including their special Italian spring break cocktail sesso sulla spiaggia.

Paul Lindner

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?

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Paul Lindner

Seeing this on http://tv.tunein.com/

Seeing this on http://tv.tunein.com/

Any ETA on a fix?

Paul Lindner

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

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Paul Lindner

Paul Lindner was tagged in Mario Anima's album.

Paul Lindner was tagged in Mario Anima's album.

Paul Lindner

#geekhumor

Two bytes are sitting in a bar. One says: "I'm not feeling so well. I think I might have a parity error."

"Yeah," says the other, "I thought you looked a bit off."

(found in the latest DNA Lounge mailing...)

#geekhumor #gplus

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Oh, you.

Andrew Brown (drusepth), Mar 27 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com

There where 10 binary digits sitting in a bar one said to the other you're looking a bit off.

Trevor Seaman, Mar 27 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com

11 cheers for binary humor...

Paul Lindner, Mar 27 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com

wouldn't the bartender, say one of you look to be a bit off?

only dr. hamming would know which bit

justin kruger, Mar 27 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com

Paul Lindner

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

Paul Lindner

Intuit's market cap is $20B.

Intuit's market cap is $20B. If the government bought them and sold off the non tax related assets the return on investment would be less than 5 years.

That's how a government run like a business would operate...

http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing

Paul Lindner

If you're a wikipedia contributor you might be interested in this feature request...

If you're a wikipedia contributor you might be interested in this feature request...

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29968

Paul Lindner

Here's another episode of the fun with stopcharacters for #musicmonday

Here's another episode of the fun with stopcharacters for #musicmonday

Last time we covered the curious case of "ke ha"

Today we have someone that's truly ungoogleable. He's Matthieu Chedid, better known by his stage name "-M-" (that's dash, M, dash) Go ahead, try searching for that, you won't find it on Google, Youtube, or Play. Not even Dailymotion or Fnac.

This is sad because less people see and hear his high-energy rock&roll played on a pacman-ghost guitar. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ1Uaf3mtqw

#musicmonday #gplus

Paul Lindner

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.

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Paul Lindner

Test

Test

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/?id=Boominjctghep4a53xcquzyfram&pcampaignid=music_prev...

Paul Lindner

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-

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Paul Lindner

Prince playing at the DNA Lounge

Prince playing at the DNA Lounge

http://sfist.com/2013/03/21/prince_to_play_dna_longe_in_april.php

Paul Lindner

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

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Paul Lindner

Google, remember this....

http://marketingland.com/here-comes-another-button-send-to-kindle-36755

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Paul Lindner

A good writeup from the folks at GitHub.

A good writeup from the folks at GitHub.

https://github.com/blog/1440-today-s-email-incident

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I liked this:

> We have fixed this issue on our affected applications and are working with the Rails core team to determine if this change was intentional as well as what action other users should take.

The risk is that what looks like a routine system update includes a change that looks to be innocuous but that has side effects for people who are using the system in ways that are unexpected by the coders.

Edward Vielmetti, Mar 20 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com

Paul Lindner

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...

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Paul Lindner

This out-of-print audio book is a must-listen.

This out-of-print audio book is a must-listen.

Brought to my attention by Julie Lindner via a Gibson retweet.

Note that a 5-disc CD version was made - we have one.

http://www.bearcave.com/bookrev/neuromancer/neuromancer_audio.html

Paul Lindner

_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.

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Paul Lindner

Free Pie on π day...
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
MTV-40-2-Seville Tech Talk (155) VC

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5854975686369226017/5854975690050852642?...

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