If I could clone myself I'd spend all my time doubling-down on making Google *the* place for musicians and bands.  Between Play, Youtube, Search and Plus we have so much to offer, yet don't wrap it up in a pretty package like we should...


http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/02/myspace-squandered-the-only-thing-it-had-left/

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Why are we serving up the refresh images? Are the cache headers set properly?  I've been noticing this too on desktop and mobile.

Photos team -- any idea what's going on here?  @102367365652197389609?


https://plus.google.com/u/0/105307547102248990120/posts/Rh1G5g9npTd?cfem=1&e=-RedirectToSandbox

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Have ideas on how to improve Google+ widgets?  Add your ideas and up/down vote existing ideas here:

https://lightning.corp.google.com/plus-button

This uses Lightning which is a frontend to buganizer for ideas collection and management.  It's funny how a simplified interface can make such a difference.

Try it out!


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5839292500124762193/5839292505628736098?...

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DiRT idea -- push out a bad Android build to Googler Android phones that bricks 'em.  (ahem temporarily)




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Today's a day when I wish I could type 20 ctrl-g in chat windows...

Guessing that's by design...




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Is it time to stop domain-sharding for browsers using SPDY?

I notice that we're doing the right thing for images in the Google+ stream:

https://cs.corp.google.com/#google3/java/com/google/apps/people/activity/client/wrapper/ActivityConv...

Guessing there's lots of other places where this pattern is used..




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How did I miss this?  @110388429398517693608 -- how well is this supported?

Man I hope that we only need a style="display:block" tucked in there for converting links to widgets.


http://html5doctor.com/block-level-links-in-html-5/

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I'm a bit worried that some Googlers are getting a little obsessive with this game.  Not to name names but there are some people that have portals all throughout the googleplex in Mountain View and will take back anything that gets blown up in the matter of minutes.

I suppose it doesn't matter much now that the Resistance has taken over almost everything.  I'm not going to bother and channel my obsessive-compulsiveness into my job instead...




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Everyone.  Please add sensible canonicals.
- Especially if you have a 'enable SSL' bit.
- or if you have content that spans multiple domains
- or if you respond to /foo and /foo/ without a 301 redirect on one of them.

I've noticed two canonicalization issues (project hosting and sites) in the past few days.  I'm guessing there are many more out there..


http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394&ctx=plusone

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Anyone looked into this?  Happy to see alternates, but I am somewhat concerned about this quote:

_...there seemed to be little interest from Google in changing and extending GPB to address the performance related issues._


http://blog.blinkprotocol.org/2013/01/blink-compared-to-google-protocol.html

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[ note -- this a test of how social actions increase the score you see on third party websites.  To see it in action:

1) Go to techcrunch and note the counter value.
2) Comment/+1 here
3) Reload the page after a few seconds to see the number go up.

wheeeeee!


http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/whats-the-fastest-web-browser-in-the-real-world-chrome/

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This is pretty nifty.  Just need to wrap this in a chrome extension...


https://gist.github.com/2640302

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Begone vile techcrunch transparent image seen in too many shares..

See http://b/5827537 for more detail and to lament that this fix took a whole year..


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5833776330904352769/5833776339214430850

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Am I the only one watching the FB live stream and the OKR live stream?




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*Suggest* -- _it's not just for search queries_

Is there a "Google Cookbook" resource for our customers on how best to use our plethora of services given a scenario?

The specific example I have is "opening a new restaurant".  Here's some of the steps I can see that we might want to suggest.

* -Sign up for a MapMaker account, add your Restaurant.-
  http://mapmaker.google.com/
  Oops, found out you can add your listing here instead:
  http://www.google.com/places/
* _.....wait for review of your edits...._ * Do not create a Google+ profile (yet) despite what you read at:
  http://www.google.com/+/business/
* Consider Apps For Your Domain    http://deployment.googleapps.com/Home/small-business
* Create a website for your business using Google Sites
  (Or maybe Google Drive?  Or just host it)
* Sign up for Webmaster Tools.
  https://www.google.com/webmaster/tools/
  - Verify website ownership via DNS or 'magic' file.
  - Set your geographic target.
  - Set up sitelinks for directions/menus
  - more?

* Sign up for AdWords.  Set your timezone forever and ever:
   https://www.google.com/adwords
* Sign up for Google Analytics
   https://www.google.com/analytics
* Sign up for Blogger, and create a blog.
   https://blogger.com/
* Add the following to your website
  - Google Analytics
  - plusone/share buttons
    https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/

* Phew, -MapMaker- Google Local listing approved weeks later!
* Go to the Google+ Places page, and submit request for verification.
* _.....wait for postcard to arrive in the mail....._
* Start posting to twitter/facebook/tumblr/yelp in frustration.
* Get Zagat rated:
   http://www.zagat.com/restaurant-owners
   email to presskits@zagat.com
   [??? Is this obsolete information?]

* Hooray!  My business verification postcard has arrived.
* Verify my business!  Create my plus page linked to my Places page.
* [delete any plus pages you may have created before this point. so sorry!]
* Connect Plus page to my website
  http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1713826
  - add magic <link.. tag> or a brand badge widget to verify.
* Add my Opentable link.
* Get interior street view for my business
   http://maps.google.com/help/maps/businessphotos/
* Add Blog/Social Networking links to my Plus page for authorship.
* Upload photos to my Plus Page.
* Get Followers for my Page and have them write reviews.
* Sign up for Google Offers
  https://www.google.com/offers/business/
* Start an Adwords campaign.
* Post regularly to the PlusPage by setting a reminder email.

After poking around gathering these links it really makes you realize that our Org Chart is on display and how painful this is for users that just want to get things done.  I also realize that we've made great progress in unifying many services.

That said, there's lots that could be done.  Can we suggest the next step to a user?  Can we remove the speed bumps between products.  Can we infer customer intent? ("It looks like you're opening a restaurant, you might want to do A, B, C next.)




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IDF needed: *Method of generating culturally non-offensive hash numbers.*

Requesting "Satan's number" removal from my profile!!
Jacob Ryan Hughes Jan 10 08:49PM -0800

I am requesting an *immediate* URL number sequence change!! The pattern in
my profile's number sequence has the following 3 in a row 6s, symbolizing
"Satan's number" in the Bible. It wasn't until today (01/10/2013) that I
realized that the number sequence had the following "symbol". I will even
pay for a shorter URL for the inconvenience! Please help me resolve this
issue!!

Here is my profile
https://plus.google.com/109134666819281103796/about




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Meeting room occupied beyond the end time?  Try this:

1) Find the hangout for the meeting that's running over.
2) Join the hangout.
3) Add Youtube app.
4) Play annoying videos


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3jgo5ea_zc

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Potential Aspen partner for using people.list APIs


https://plus.google.com/113394999772355498767/posts/NsejHpeuYj9

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Anyone have a copy of this lying around?  If not I'll expense a copy (or two).

A good chunk of it is in Google Books, but would like to read the rest of it.


http://books.google.com/books?id=2chSmLzClXgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&am...

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Anyone opposed to making a postmortem community on public G+?  Obviously it would only have public information.  The Github writeup was interesting and there are plenty of other writeups that one could chat about.




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A little something shared with me by my former colleagues at LinkedIn.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba6Igu1MvE0

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The secret truth -- the ITU wants deep packet inspection to fix their Content-Type charset headers..


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5823819709617866049/5823819712652075282

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+1 buttons on LinkedIn?  Amazed.  Amazed.


http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121005143024-6526187-working-one-of-the-most-dangerous-...

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*Hidden Riches!*

From java-libraries-dev

ImmutableMultimap has an inverse()  method, so it's really also ImmutbaleBiMultimap.


http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableMultimap.h...

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Count -all- more of the +1s !!!

And we can even beat twitter when the article isn't being reposted by tons of bots, like this:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/state_web_winter_2012


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5823404156012784257/5823404159481790626

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Pasting in my sell-my-soul listing.   Please bid -- at 4.50/hr this is technically illegal for California minimum wage laws....

https://sys-gplus2012.googleplex.com/item?q=9016

Is your code tired, riddled with lint and deprecation warnings? Send it off to my exclusive day spa for 8 hours of luxury. My special treatments include:

- Lint detox -- remove all subdermal lint errors found with -v
- Dependency liposuction - run reducedeps on your tired BUILD files.
- javascript manicure - buff and polish with fixjsstyle.
- Hot stone deprecation massaging.
- Dead code exfoliation using scythe.




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*LTBD* - Little Things, Big Difference.

Last week I had a very satisfying LTBD moment.  I discovered that many webmasters were double escaping url params in their +1 widgets.  Fixing this little thing caused a noticeable boost in +1 renders and creations and a big big drop in error logs -- big difference.

2 years ago when I was at LinkedIn this was a formal policy direct from Deep Nishar, head of PM.  Each engineer was supposed to tackle an LTBD item for each sprint.  These are the little things that make the product easier to use, clearer, or fix annoying bugs.


http://talent.linkedin.com/blog/index.php/2011/01/recruiter-review/

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I wish I could add communities to circles.  Would help make targeted consumption and noise controls so much easier.




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The horror -- no portals near offsite location...




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Pennies from Verizon prepaid 3G bandwith.  I find it fun to see how badly people implement their payment systems.  Worried a little bit that end-users won't.

[note: 1st attempt was with wrong zip code]


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5818499384700596113/5818499381876482594

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If you're going to do a hangout on the shuttle wifi you can at least ask the person on the other end to not move that much.




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Music appropriate for

blaze-bin/devtools/janitor/terminator


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE

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Anyone work with reverbnation?  Would be nice to get them supporting Google+

http://www.reverbnation.com/band-promotion/social_sync

They're probably already using our APIs since they target Youtube.  They also have one of the larger mappings of social media links I've seen.


http://www.reverbnation.com/band-promotion/social_sync

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People keep endorsing me for _REST_ on LinkedIn.  However I'm really only an expert in telling you why REST sucks for most things you want to do.




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Dear #lazyplus

Curious if anyone's done any work on recognizing URL redirectors where the  target is embedded inside the link?

http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprofiles%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fpmlindner&url...

It seems like we could derive some significant benefits by knowing that links like this go to the eventual target.

I did find go/linkdoctor but that's not quite right.

Also @114489135332974198500 for this weird-ass snippet that came from this link..


http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprofiles%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fpmlindner&url...

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New spam vector:

1. Buy spammy press release on prweb  http://service.prweb.com/pricing/ (Only 59!)
2. Wait for press release to be republished on thousands of news sites (see below).
3. Bot page views like crazy
4. Wait for article to appear in 'trending/what's hot/most read'
...
6. profit!


Anything we can do about the spammy site originating this?

http://hottydeals.com/samsung-galaxy-note-2


http://www.sfgate.com/business/prweb/article/Galaxy-Note-2-Black-Friday-Deals-and-Cyber-Monday-40580...

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Forget #enlightenment  vs #resistance  ..

we have robots vs gfs

And the robots are going to win

cr/39137693




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What's the state of the art for publishing bloom filters in these parts?

_Problem_: need a way to identify if a URL is a Google+ plus page without sending an RPC all the time.  It's acceptable if recent plus pages are not included.

There are any number of MRs that iterate over the all gaia-space that could compute this and put it someplace.

Anyone with good examples of this in practice?

Is there a super-secret bloom filter publishing service that I'm not aware of (and if not, maybe there should be?)

[Obviously once I have the persisted bloom filter then I can play around with doing incremental updates from a subscriber to a goops feed and all that.]




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Since some folks have never heard the expression....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_day_(software)

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When things go pear-shaped..

Given recent events I'd like to reminisce on one of the best pro-customer things I've had the honor of being involved with.

When I worked at Six Apart in 2005 we let the customer decide how much pain they felt, and let them choose how much they want to be compensated. I'd love to see this replicated for N4 customers by offering them 5, 10 or 20GB of free drive storage.  Or none, if they so choose.


http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/six_apart_does_their_customers_right.php

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Thanks in advance for an ingress invite.  I'd love to see if there are G+ integration possibilities.  (And I will totally rule the SF East Bay...)




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Loose lips...

This weekend I was at a restaurant in the Mission and learned the following information about Facebook:

* They have a team of 6 people working on App Ranking.  That's ranking Applications in the stream and in their new ad system.

* Their shuttles don't have wifi, but you can expense a data card.

So the next time you're at a restaurant or bar, remember, someone might be listening.




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Kennedy Offline Gmail?  Yes indeed!




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Decided to dig deep in my mail archives to see what my first contact was with Google-folk after reading @116509592231017933209 post.

Earliest was search integration on redhat.com (early 2000), back then http://redhat.google.com was a real thing.

Lots of people moved on including Ray Sidney, Samir Kothari, Harry Cheung, Howard Jacobson, Rachael Kutras...

The two still here are @112983450704233067709 and @111898143234484272777




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Is there a bad OWNERS MR that someone pays attention to?  Seeing a few errors like this:

WARNING: file /google/src/files/38806164/depot/google3/googledata/html/hosted/OWNERS references non-existent file /google/src/files/38806164/depot/html/external_content/gstatic/apps/cpanel/resources/OWNERS

*dasher folks:* can you fix?




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Remember, mockito is what you should be using for all new tests.  Might as well go all-in and add junit4 and hamcrest too...


http://blog.james-carr.org/2009/08/21/junit4-mockito-hamcrest-bdd-goodness/

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Interesting #anecdata  points.

Caught up with an old friend.  His teenage sons are both big kik users on their iPod touches.  They don't want an iPhone since they're not allowed in school but the iPod is.

The son of my wife's stylist asked me if we could add file transfer to Hangouts or messenger.  I'm somewhat dubious on this (seems like a good way to spread virii -- however adding Drive sharing to chat might be interesting (and safer..) and is orthogonal with Photo sharing in Messenger.

Send file == upload to drive, share file from drive to friend, share link over chat channel, render drive content using embed.


http://kik.com/

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Will Googlers have an easy way to buy a Nexus 4 on launch day?  Or should I get out my tent and camp at a T-Mobile store?

My Nexus-S using wife really really wants to upgrade.  She even threatened to get an iPhone 5 until I told her that it's not available unlocked...




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Security Escalation help?

We found about 1m users that are infected with a chrome extension that rewrites search result pages (See http://b/7465588).  We've gotten some good help on some of the issues, but I feel like I haven't gotten the right people involved to deal with this properly.

- Can we notify those 1m users that they are infected?
- Can we detect that this extension is running on the SRP and stop it?

I can't tell who on Search to raise this issue to, and I cannot see who would coordinate an outreach program to the poor folks that are getting a crappy chrome experience due to the dodgy extension...

Thanks




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woohoo!  Warner Music on Google Play.  Glad to see they finally came around.




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