Oh fun, this years Opensocial event is going to have a snazzy tee.
I was six and Star Wars had just come out. It was sold out. Instead the sitter got us into Clint Eastwood's "Every Which Way but Loose"
hmm, might explain a lot -- especially my use of profanity :)
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Cross posted from a buzz thread about implicit graph matching.
creepy/yuck factor? At one time organ transplants were considered frankenstein creepy. Street view was (and some say is) considered creepy. The facebook news feed was once considered creepy. People's views change over time, especially if there's an underlying value that one can understand. For all of the above I'd say that the value is there and folks have adjusted.
Having a benevolent trusted partner that can search all of your content and knows you better than you know yourself using heuristics and AI? That stuff is science fiction magic. We can make it happen, and it forms the basis for serendipitous search.
I'd say we're going to have a lot more moments like this where we surface stuff to the user that they didn't expect nor ask for. Making everything opt-in is not the answer -- there has to be a middle ground here where value is given before it is asked for.
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Too quiet around here..
Todays QOTD:
What was the first computer you owned outright? Create a new post and spread far and wide....
Me? The money I earned as a teen cleaning fish guts from the resort next door netted me a C= 64 & 1541 disk drive. Good times, good times. We only needed two cursor keys back then :)
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Following
A better follower email might make all the difference to the people that complain that ES is spam.
Here's the flickr follower email. Nice and concise, it illustrates the asymmetrical nature of the relationship and provides some useful information. Furthermore there are two calls-to-action that reinforce the viral loop, specifically asking you to check out the _contacts_ of the person.
Going to post this here as well as follow up with email...
Got some good feedback from @ionas@google.com on the gbus today..
* When selecting the visibility/acl for an item the word 'Custom' is confusing -- suggested text might be 'Specific Circles/People'? It's awkward no matter which way you look at it. Also the ACL choices need some kind of tooltip or help to assist the user choosing the right one.
* University/Employer auto-complete rocks, would like to have a button next to customized University/Schools that would allow someone to add this customized data to our corpus properly specified. It would also be nice to display the logos on the profile (is that waiting for badges?)
* It would be nice to list degrees instead of majors.
* Employer name is coming from 'companies' it does not find other entities like School Districts -- perhaps the entity query could be broader, or freebase data could be better co-typed?
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I can't believe that fundamental things like converting strings to character sets and back is so horribly horked in Java/OpenJDK to this day. A scalability / code style change I've been promoting turns out that it generates way too much overhead.
So I thought I'd see Android's implementation
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sooo much better. Optimized converters for the most common character sets implemented in native code.
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Had a great lunch with @macduff@google.com and @rkhare@google.com ..
Based on our conversations I'm going to claim this idiom *social referer*
For a number of reasons it might make sense to send the originating social profile in an API request. For example a nytimes +1 could include an sgn URL with the API request.
POST /plusone/create
Content-Type: text/json
X-Social-Referer: sgn://nytimes.com?pk=12345
This would help with spam mitigation (we could throttle individual accounts at a third party instead of an entire site) It would also allow us to have a reciprocal relationship with our partners since they can see the profile information in one way only. Of course we should be willing to send social referers to sites we make API calls to as well.
POST /api/v2/contacts
Host: api.yahoo.com
X-Social-Referer: sgn://google.com?pk=OBFUSCATEDGAIAID
Stupid idea? Good idea? Sound off in the comments!
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Circles success story #1.
I wanted to tell people about the awesome mobile apps. Normally I'd buzz it and you'd see it in your stream even for people on Emerald Sea that have been using it for a long time.
However... since I have a circle I'm calling "Other Googlers" I just sent it to that circle and didn't waste other folks time. Just like I'm only sharing this keen observation to es-folks..
so cool...
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Greetings people not native to the Emerald Sea -- Just in case you missed the promo you *must* check out the mobile app. It's amazing!
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(Also that I'm able to share this with non-es folks speaks to the power of the sharing model!)
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