Roo update day 2.

Everything is in order, she's eating her food, and getting along with Tommy.

Went on a nice long walk this morning. I was worried that those little legs couldn't make it up the hilly terrain, but she did fine.

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Christmas came early for me courtesy of T-Mobile!

They powered up a new cell tower a short way from my house. Now I can finally get rid of my erratic cell-boster, and I have decent coverage throughout the neighborhood (which is challenging given the hills and trees).

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Roo after a brisk walk with Tommy in the Oakland Hills. She's acclimating quickly.

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Roo is in her usual spot.

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Hi Remi, I work on site integration for the Google+ team here at Google.

If you're interested I have a number of recommendations that will help 8tracks perform better on Google+ and Google social search. Let me know if you're interested -- I can be plus'd here or you can email me at plindner@google.com

Thanks!

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It's #musicmonday and #mashupmonday

This just passed by my #mashup live stream. You get a years worth of pop music in six minutes. solid.

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Glad that we have the white hats keeping things safe. It's amazing the crazy things you have to do to securely pass data between sites.

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Okay, one more holiday song. Electric Six really captures the spirit of this song.

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Well now, that's different.

Though it brings to mind potential sequels. And Chester Arthur would make a great sidekick.

Originally shared by Laughing Squid

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Tommy at Android HQ. There was even a little left over snow.

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Tommy is in MTV-1900-204 today (sans hat). Stop by for a visit!

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http://status.twitter.com/ -- powered by Tumblr?

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Totally unexpected. Then again, hi5 is a much different place these days.

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A world where anyone can be a major broadcaster with the people that matter. (And face-tracking antlers)

#livinginthefuture

Originally shared by Vic Gundotra

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Google+ Hangouts: Going beyond the status update

One of the most intimate forms of human connection is eye contact. Our digital tools have given us new forms - text messages, email, status updates - but nothing compares to the richness and intensity of looking into someones eyes as they talk.

Our emphasis on face-to-face-face group video communication has lead to some amazing experiences. By giving this away for free, we've enabled people around the world to see into each others eyes and share discussion and laughter in new ways.

Today, we improve the service significantly.

1) We are enabling you to hangout on any post.

2) We've reached an important milestone for "Hangouts on Air". Hundreds of people (who we have whitelisted as part of our trial) can now broadcast their hangouts to the entire world for free completely self-service. Our goal is to enable this for everyone on the planet.

3) We are making it possible for you to start hangouts from messenger on Android or iPhone devices.

4) You can call any phone number in the world and conference in anyone.

5) We threw in a reindeer :-)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/google-hangouts-going-beyond-status.html

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It's not the holidays without The New Standards! They do a great set of live holiday shows every year and cover all the classics.

I like that this song brings to mind those lazy winter days when the snow plow couldn't get the job done. That and it's a seasonal song made in within the last decade. Hope you enjoy it.

[Oh and there's plenty more including a wicked xylophone version of Hey Ya at http://www.thenewstandards.com/]

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You didn't hear it from me, please share the original if you like.

Originally shared by Jhonx

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Gingerbread marmalade -- Just in time for the holidays! Highly recommended. Also check out Blue Chair's other flavors. They make the best artisanal jams and marmalades.

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Have some Orkut photos that you'd like to have on Google+? Now you can import them in one easy step.

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I just realized how much working on Google+ has exposed me to popular culture. Youtube integration exposed me to todays pop music. Celebrity endorsements exposed me to the whole Kardashian thing (which I was blissfully unaware of!).

And now I get to understand how they do things in Japan.

Originally shared by Bradley Horowitz

Here's the big news... We're delighted to welcome the entirety of AKB48 onto Google+...

If you don't know AKB48, you don't live in Japan (or in fact, many other parts of Asia.) They are phenomenon that might be equivalent to the Beatles + American Idol + the Spice Girls + Justin Timberlake... They are a roster of more than 200 hand-selected performers who are the subject of huge media attention, and support from millions of devoted fans.

One of the philosophies around their stardom was to preserve meaningful interaction with, and access to their fans. They used to do "handshake events." As their stardom grew, this method of interaction wasn't scalable... Google+ is going to allow them to reconnect to their fans in an intimate, authentic way.

They'll be using Hangouts on Air to broadcast their concerts... they'll be regularly scheduling Hangouts to interact with their fans. Each of the stars will have their own profile, and AKB48 themselves will have a +Page...

I actually haven't yet heard them, and I'm apparently the only one presently in Japan now who hasn't. I can't yet say if AKB48 is personally for me... But I am thrilled at their adoption of our service, and they're committed to pushing the envelope of what is possible in terms of artist-fan relationship. And that's a plus.

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Granola and a latte in the brisk air almost makes up for the pain of missing the shuttle.

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I only recently found that Google Chat supports /me. If you type:

/me claps

It's rendered as

Paul claps

I wonder if there any other IRC features hidden in there?

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20fying....

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Wallpaper* is here. Not as much of a fan since Conde Nast bought them. Of course that just means we now have Monocle

In any case it's always good to see the Walker Art Center doing the good things they do.

Originally shared by Wallpaper* magazine

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Anyone want to help me fill out my DJ circle? ... especially artists that share Youtube content. Google+ shared videos are a great feature on the new Youtube home page.

Thanks!

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Search. How does it work?

Try searching for ke sometime. You might be surprised at the results. It's all about character tokenization.

You might think you're clever by using punctuation in proper terms, but in reality they get treated like spaces. In this case ke-dollarsign-ha is really indexed as two terms ke ha. And you can put as many dollar signs, slashes or other characters in your query, they're just tokens to be ignored.

So for all the Korean Ke's out there here's a version of SNSDs Run Devil Run performed by the top search result for ke.

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There's some interesting things going on behind the scenes here. Some of this will find it's way back to shindig.

In any case it's a generalized solution for calling JSON-RPC endpoints with postMessage flow using OAuth2.

Originally shared by Mano Marks

Pretty cool, a new way to access many of Google's APIs, though not Maps at the moment. In particular, Google+, Freebase, Contacts, Latitude, and a host of other APIs. And it'll handle the authentication for you.

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Now I can finally populate my Internet Gopher circle! FYI my old gopher Ts are now on loan to the computer museum.

hmu if you want to talk about the past present or future!

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More quirky finds in Sausalito....

Obviously not a fan of Big Daddy Roth..

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Could either of you recommend someone associated with the Fedora cvs->git transition that can talk to the Apache folks? There's so much drama going on over there regarding git and their infra people are moving way slow...

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Nice, The Current is on Google+ -- Listening to Radio Free Current right now on the time machine weekend. Lucky folks in MN you get it on FM :)

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The world's most dangerous turkey wishes you all a happy Thanksgiving!

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They're open!

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Some great shots of parades past. Don't miss the incidental stuff in the background like the Kleenex advertisement.

Originally shared by Ryan Estrada

Happy Thanksgiving!

Did you know they used to release all of the balloons after the parade was over? They quit doing that, because they almost crashed a plane.

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It wouldn't be Christmas without a new Doctor Who special.. I hope that Amazon offers this as an HD digital download; they did well with season six.

Originally shared by null

Looks like Doctor Who meets Narnia for the Christmas special, I approve of this.

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Even more amusing considering that we had an ice cream sandwich truck today....

Originally shared by Kimberly Johnson

I just got #icecreamsandwich on my iPhone

Android

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Want to find some great new music? Load up this URL:

https://plus.google.com/s/remix/posts

Then click "Most Recent".

You'll find all sorts of interesting remixes scrolling by. There's enough content that you can't even listen to it all, so you can pick out the most interesting stuff.

(And feel free to substitute some suitable generic term if you're not really into DJs and electronic/pop music.)

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Welcome to Google+! Lalit Sarna

PhotoBuzz in hangouts :)

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Welcome to Google+, Ron Gould

Hope Standsure is doing well. Let me know if you want help setting up a Google+ Page!

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Yikes!

Originally shared by Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda

The director of the last 2 Harry Potter movies will be getting a crack at a hollywood Doctor Who

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2061496/Doctor-Who-movie-Harry-Potters-David-Yates-dire...

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Made a reference to Paco today that no one got. If you don't know see the following playlist.

Wouldn't be where I am today without 3-2-1 Contact.

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It'll be brown by Christmas.

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Just realized that I have 8 invites left for Google Music beta.. You might want to try it out just to get your hands on a few hundred free songs. (Admit it, you really do like the Bay City Rollers Saturday Night!)

First 8 emails posted below get an invite.

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Welcome to Google+, Lalit Sarna

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Hey look, it's the Fedora Project! On Google+

Check out Fedora 16 if you're into Linux distros. I just finished upgrading the home server last night and it's running smooth. (even if systemctl reminds me way too much of solaris SMF)

Fun fact: I've been upgrading the same system image since Red Hat 6.0. No reinstalls.. and since I never had a CD/dvd all upgrades were via rpm/yum.

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You can stop reading now if you don't care about software that keeps the internet from falling over.

Memcached 1.4.10 is now out and this release looks to be the best yet. Check out the release notes and send some kudos over to http://dormando.me/ (Hey Dormando, get on G+ already!)

To do my part I just built the fedora RPMs for f15/f16/rawhide. Try it out on your favorite high-volume server.

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One of my favorites, hopefully they'll start posting soon...

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A Blue Bottle latte and the aroma of roasting coffee beans almost makes up for missing the google shuttle this morning....

Always worth a visit if you're near Jack London Square.

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Hi -- have a few ideas on how 8tracks can work better on Google+

Feel free to drop me a line here or email plindner@google.com

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