So even us Googlers are in the dark about possible musical acts for After Hours. Last year it was Train and Paul Oakenfold. The year before? Janes Addiction.
Let's play a little game. Post who you think will play and why here..
If you guess well and I'm impressed with your sleuthing skills find me at the Google+ office hours. I might have some special schwag for you.
Your investment in authorship continues to pay dividends. Thanks everyone for implementing -- it makes products like this possible.
Originally shared by AJ Kohn
Content Recommendations for Your Mobile Website
When you help someone find a great article on your site, you’re not only making them happier, you’re inspiring deeper engagement and loyalty. That's why today, we're bringing together elements of Google+ and Google Search to suggest the right content from your mobile website, at just the right time.
For example: Forbes visitors can now more easily discover other Forbes articles based on Search Authorship, signals and other articles with lots of Google+ activity (including +1's and shares). In all cases, recommended content is based on the specific page the visitor is viewing, to boost the relevance of recommendations. And they only appear when people tap for more, so as not to interrupt their browsing experience.
Very interesting on a lot of fronts!
46 new speakers added to the I/O Speakers Circle (v4, May 9th edition) Perfect for adding to your Google I/O stream.
What's your favorite Oakland page?
Happy to see Montclair Veterinary Hospital posting now and then..
I/O Speakers Circle v2 (May 3rd Edition)
Added some missing speakers including:
Pamela Fox Kris Schroder Alexis Deveria Helena Roeber Charles Mendis Alexis Hanicotte Steve Lee Olivier Michon
Here's a circle containing all the speakers announced to date. I'll try to keep it up to date and reshare it as more sessions are announced.
Tip: Consider creating a new circle for people from this list. Then you can control how much I/O you get in your main stream with Google+ Volume Controls. (You can also remove the circle later too)
Enjoy Google I/O!
Google does postmortems too.... at scale.
Starting a Google I/O 2013 Circle?
Here's a circle containing all the speakers announced to date. I'll try to keep it up to date and reshare it as more sessions are announced.
Tip: Consider creating a new circle for people from this list. Then you can control how much I/O you get in your main stream with Google+ Volume Controls. (You can also remove the circle later too)
Enjoy Google I/O!
Going to I/O? Chris Messina and I will talk about authorship and many other topics of interest to web publishers..
What would you like to see show up when you search?
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
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
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...
Happy that this track is available on Google Music because I can share a free listen and I prefer 320k mp3s.
Google Now served up this article as Breaking News yesterday.
36 days until Google I/O? Hurried man indeed.
"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
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!
No, this isn't today's doodle. It is some very creative high-speed liquid photography.
Originally shared by Alex Koloskov
Behind the shot video:
http://www.photigy.com/the-making-of-google-happy-birthday-google-plus/
Have one can of blue paint left, should we shoot Facebook from it? :-)
Hi fine folks at Montclair Vet clinic. You should merge your Google+ page with your local page here:
https://plus.google.com/117774614967907184951
I work for Google and am happy to help you out if you want.
Paul Lindner
I recommend that you check out the Loring Cafe. They're opening up from 5-8 during first friday.
Once a Google+ skeptic the author Neil Gaiman is starting to share with people on Google+ You may remember that he didn't think much of us back when we launched:
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/07/tangled-like-ivy.html
Here's hoping that he's having more fun now, and that he enjoys and engages with his community.
Originally shared by Neil Gaiman
My Australian trip. My Return. Stuff. The Fire Brigade arrives.
Reposting this writeup from Peiran Guo on the google groups list. It is so true. I deployed 40 resonators on 1950 Charleston a couple of days ago. Could've kept going if it wasn't for a meeting.
Bonus: you can piss off TheCurmudgeon. I hope for the sake of his career that he's hitting his OKRs since it seems like he's playing all the time and all over campus.
I wonder if there's any players in this area who are looking to level up. The resistance at Googleplex is oncall 9-5 on workdays and they respond with an SLA of less than 5 minutes to several of the portals on campus.
If you have a few hours to kill and want some easy AP, then bring about 200-500 resonators of any level, blow up one portal, stand back about 20-30 meters and tap the deploy button as fast as you can. I've seen people come running out of the buildings to clear your resonators for you like it's some sort of emergency or something. You'll get as much AP as you have resonators. If you find you can't keep up, you may need to slap a bunch of shields on the portal. You might want to find a bench in the shade in case you get tired. You might want to double check that your gps isn't floating too much before you begin. Maybe bring a sandwich or a drink if you think you might get peckish and don't forget to use the restroom before you start.
A little late to the party, but this is one incredible album.
Recorded at the First Avenue and 7th St Entry you'll get plenty of Dick Valentine banter between a solid set of Electric Six classics including this quote:
"Put the two together and you have a kangaroo going down a water slide."
And what's more you have long-time First Ave stage manager Conrad Sverkerson on the cover. Read more about it here.
http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2012/10/electric_six_release_live_album_recorded_at_first_ave_...
It's e-waste day here at Google. Time to ditch all my 16MB video cards, 10base2 Ethernet cards, UltraSCSI HBAs (fast 'n wide) and some old tape backup gear.
I might keep the Pentium 2 just for the bed of nails heat sink. Raj Iyengar snagged the Myspace branded Flip video camera with the dead battery.
Mike's already picked up on the +1s bleeding through.
We have an open bug on choosing a URL from the body text. Another possible solution -- allow posts with links to use full-bleed photos.
Originally shared by Mike Elgan
How Google+ could improve viral G+ marketing for free.
Unlike Facebook, Google+ is a great blogging platform.
Let's say you want to blog about another post somewhere. If you paste in the link, or click on the link icon, Google+ will add a thumbnail from the external post, plus a blurb.
But this is ugly. Some of the highest-traffic bloggers on Google+ don't use that system, including me. What we do instead is add a big, appealing photograph, the paste in the link in the body of the post.
The first method links plus-ones on the other post. In other words, when someone plus-ones a post on Google+, the original source plus-one count goes up by one. It's linked forever. If the same user comes back and un-does his plus-one, the count on the source site goes down by one.
However, if you do the big-picture method, plus-ones on Google+ are not reflected on the external post -- the plus-ones are not linked.
Here's an example of the problem: Yesterday I posted an item on Cult of Mac using the big-picture method. The post and its comments got well over 2,000 plus-ones. But over on the Cult of Mac site, the post got only 76 plus-ones.
https://plus.google.com/+MikeElgan/posts/B9VLptUGikF
People always mentally compare the Facebook "Like" count with the Google+ "plus-one" count and Google+ often looks like a slacker. But the reason is that likes for the the big-picture posts on Google+ aren't counted.
If Google+ had counted the "plus-ones" for my post, for example, the G+ count would have been much higher than the Facebook count, and people viewing the source page would have a more accurate comparison between Facebook and Google+.
Here's my proposed solution.
When a user pastes in a URL in Google+, and the system auto-generates the thumbnail-and-blurb thing and links the plus-ones of the two posts, the user should have the option of replacing the thumbnail-and-blurb without de-coupling the linked plus-ones.
That way, bloggers like me could use big-picture blog posts and still have plus-ones reflected on the source page.
Is this possible or desirable?
Nice to see a punk community springing up in Google+! Here's my first pick. Posting the play store link since they don't have many youtube videos available and since Revolution and World on Fire are my faves...
It's high noon for the internet and the ITU.
The watch you see was from the 1998 plenipotentiary conference in Minneapolis. I implemented the RealAudio streaming for the conference back when I worked in the IT department at the ITU.
Engraved on the back of the watch is the text "Offered by SWISSCOM".
WTF? Why is this snippet so awful? Can we fix it?
Get your #musicmonday moving with some Greek punk/grunge.
You can really hear the Nirvana-esque Steve Albini production along with shades of X, the Sex Pistols and Gossip.
I suppose Punk from disaffected youth is the only silver lining for the Greek financial mess.
h/t to Pixbear for review.
Okay, it's totally non-obvious and buried in the settings... There is some magic that detects that it's a following circle:
https://cs.corp.google.com/#google3/java/com/google/apps/tacotown/socialgraph/client/CircleNameSugge...
Originally shared by Trey Harris
This bears repeating. Privacy is important, and Google+ has great privacy controls. But you need to know how they work to use them to best advantage.
The first rule of privacy on Google+: people don't get any access to your info without you taking action. Relationships in G+ are "asymmetric", meaning you can "follow" someone ("adding to a circle", or "circling") without their having to reciprocate by circling you back. When you circle someone, the things they share you'd already be able to see anyway — because they're shared publicly or with a circle that includes you — will appear in your streams. But if you go to their profile before and after you circle them, you won't see much difference — circling someone doesn't give you access to their info.
At the same time, when you circle someone else, you are not only asking Google+ to put that person's shares into your stream, but you're also giving them access to things you share with your circles. For instance, if you edit your profile (the circle with a profile in the buttons up top of the G+ web interface), you can give people in your circles access to your email address or your phone number. Those are people you have added to your circles, not people who have circled you. (When you edit your profile, you can change the visibility of items by clicking the little icon next to each one.)
Similarly, if you enable G+ chat, when you click the triangle to the right of your name in the chat box (in the left sidebar of your G+ stream, not in Gmail) you can choose whether "Your Circles" can chat you, or a custom selection of circles. Note that those people must have also circled you and done the same; chat is obviously one case where reciprocity matters!
But if you've been paying attention, you'll notice that you circle someone for two different reasons: one, to see their shares in your stream, and two, to give them access to your info and/or chat. This makes sense most of the time; people you know are the people you want to hear from. But sometimes the two don't align, and when they don't, you need to know a couple of more advanced tricks, which I've taken screenshots of below.
First, not all circles are created equal. Some circles are ones you may use for celebrities or people you don't know but who publicly share interesting stuff. (A lot of people use the "Following" circle for that.) Maybe you want to get their stuff in your stream, but you don't want to give them any access to your info. No problem: go to https://www.google.com/settings/plus and click "Customize" under "Your circles" (first screenshot). Then make sure only the circles you want to share with have the checkbox clicked (second screenshot). Now, when you see "Your circles", you know that really means "all my circles but the ones I unchecked here", and you're safe to add whoever you want to "just follow" to those unchecked circles without giving them visibility to things you want to share in a limited fashion.
What about the reverse case? Maybe you have business associates or acquaintances who post stuff you don't care to read, but you do want them to have the "always up to date" contact information in your profile (especially useful if they have an Android phone or use Gmail!) and/or access to chat you. In that case, put such people together in a new circle (I call mine "Contacts", because that's how I think of them). Make sure the circle is checked in the "Your circles" setting we just saw. Then go to your stream and click that circle's name in the lefthand sidebar (third screenshot). Now, at the top, you'll see a slider. Drag it all the way to the left (fourth screenshot), so it says "Show nothing from this stream in my main stream" (fifth screenshot).
Now you won't see this circle's shares unless you specifically go to this stream again, but since this circle is part of "Your Circles", they'll have access to the things you want to share with them.
(One final note: when you enable chat in G+, you have your choice between allowing chat from "Your Circles" and a custom set you select. This gives you even a bit more control. Maybe you don't want to be chatted by that guy you're following with the interesting but weird political opinions, but you'd just love it if your favorite celebrity were to respond to your insightful comment with a chat. It's your choice.)
So my Nexus4 order was backordered. So here's the next best thing. I was able to get the following since I've been with T-Mobile for over 10 years:
- $199 with $50 mail in rebate.
- Waived the overnight shipping fee of $24.99 (as a credit to my bill)
- You do need a data plan of >$35/month on the line and a 2 year contract extension, however the standard plan comes with 400 text messages so I was able to consolidate a text message bundle with the data bundle and end up at $0 change.
- Retain the rest of my FamilyTime,@Home service and the G1 data plan on the other line.
And it will arrive tomorrow...
Have to love the low tech doodles that the Missouri Lounge does for their advertisements in the East Bay Express.
Check them out at
https://plus.google.com/115477316230066484040
West Berkeley’s longest running dive bar, keeping people hip since 1953.
Now does anyone have a nerd walks into a bar... jokes?
Since you missed this before...
Originally shared by Theodore Ts'o
Phoronix, alas, has perpetrated another example of irresponsible journalism. I won't dignify said article with a web link, since I don't want to reward them with more ad hits. So I'll link to the original Ubuntu Launchpad report, and include the comment I just made there:
Those specific fsck corrections --- fixing the number of free blocks and the number of free inodes --- is completely normal and is purely a cosmetic issue. There is nothing to worry about here.
What is going on is that ext4 no longer updates the superblock after every block and inode allocation; that causes a wasteful write cycle to the superblock at every single journal commit, and it also is a SMP scalability bottleneck for larger servers (i.e., with 32 or 64 CPU's). To fix this, we no longer update these values in the superblock every time we allocate a block or an inode. Instead, we only update these values when we unmount the file system, mainly for cosmetic purposes so that dumpe2fs shoes the correct number of free inodes and blocks, and at mount time we calculate the total number of free blocks and inodes in the file system by summing the the free blocks/inodes statistics for each block group. So in fact, ext4 does not depend on the correctness of the values in the superblock, but it does try to update them on a clean unmount.
In e2fsprogs commit id 2788cc879bbe6, which is in e2fsprogs 1.42. 3 and newer, we changed things so that e2fsck -n would not display this as something "wrong". However, we still do show this as something that we "fix" when running e2fsck -y or -p, since in fact it is a change to the file systems. See: http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git;a=commit;h=2788cc879bbe667d28277e1d660b7e56514e5b30
No one else has complained or noticed up until now, because other distro's apparently are capable of doing a clean shutdown allowing the file system to be unmounted cleanly. Ubuntu, unfortunately, is incapable of reliably doing a clean shutdown even when users request it, which is why Ubuntu users are seeing this behavior much more frequently, and apparently some people have panicked as a result. Sigh....
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I will say that it is extremely irresponsible of Phoronix to make a big deal about this this before giving anyone knowledgeable (which unfortunately does not include any Ubuntu kernel engineers, since as far as I know they don't have any file system specialists on staff) to comment on the bug. No one from Phoronix even bothered to contact me to tell me they were posting this story, or to ask me for a comment. I had to find out about it when someone asked me to comment on Google+.
However, from the perspective of trying to send as many ad clicks as possible to their web site, they are doing a heckuva job....
Following along here on my evening commute...
A new album by Mark Mallman, very catchy. If you don't know his work read this review:
Frankly, Double Silhouette, his latest, is the album the Killers were trying to make with Battle Born – an epic, gorgeous pop album filled with arena-ready choruses. But he does it in a way that doesn’t make him sound pompous (sorry, Killers).
http://www.letoilemagazine.com/2012/10/02/we-will-rock-you-local-reviews-part-deux-mark-mallman-and-...
I can't wait for the integrations that this will enable.
What android app would you like to see enhanced with Google services?
Originally shared by Tim Bray
Oooh, OAuth goodness for the Android ecosystem (via the shiny new Google Play services).
Just passed 150 edits on MapMaker. I was just an occasional dabbler until I earned trail karma, which means my walking/biking trail edits don't need to be reviewed, they immediately show up!
That's led to more edits: Tennis courts, baseball fields, parking lots, schools, electrical substations and more. Be careful it can be addictive, and trails are the gateway drug.
apropos to our discussion of what a +1 means...
Originally shared by Google+
50 Things a +1 Can Mean
A +1 is simple. It’s one of the easiest ways on the web to take an action that endorses the content and says you saw something. But it can mean many different things. That’s the beauty of +1. You can +1 things you like. You can +1 bad news. You can +1 things you love. You can +1 casual status updates or items that change the world.
Often, we get asked what it means to +1. Here are some ideas. We’d love to see yours.
1. A +1 can say you agree with the post.
2. A +1 can say your photo is beautiful.
3. A +1 can say your joke was funny.
4. A +1 can mean you share in sympathy.
5. A +1 can mean you endorse content found on the web.
6. A +1 can say “thanks for sharing!”
7. A +1 can say “thanks for mentioning me!”
8. A +1 can say “Glad to see you hanging out!”
9. A +1 can say “Good to see you here!”
10. A +1 can say “Wow! That’s cool!”
11. A +1 can say your video was amazing.
12. A +1 can mean you’re excited about new features.
13. A +1 can mean your post was clever.
14. A +1 can say you like this brand.
15. A +1 can say you’re the biggest fan.
16. A +1 can mean you agree with the shared story.
17. A +1 can say “thanks for commenting!”
18. A +1 can say “I vote for this choice.”
19. A +1 can say “your high score is impressive”.
20. A +1 can say “thanks for playing!”
21. A +1 can say you’re with the band.
22. A +1 can say you love the band.
23. A +1 can mean your meme is hilarious.
24. A +1 can mean your child is adorable.
25. A +1 can mean your food looks delicious.
26. A +1 can mean that song is incredible.
27. A +1 can mean “You said what I was going to say!”
28. A +1 can say you saw the post, but have no comment.
29. A +1 can say that video is stunning.
30. A +1 can say you found the news interesting.
31. A +1 can say you sure do know how to recommend people.
32. A +1 can say “I’m rooting for you!”
33. A +1 can say “Congratulations!”
34. A +1 can mean this article is a must-read.
35. A +1 can mean “I have this product too.”
36. A +1 can mean “I love this book!”
37. A +1 can mean “I hear you.”
38. A +1 can mean “You rock.”
39. A +1 can mean “I love you.”
40. A +1 can mean “I + you.”
41. A +1 can say “I can’t wait!”
42. A +1 can say “You shouldn’t miss this!”
43. A +1 can be a smile.
44. A +1 can say “You look hot.”
45. A +1 can say “I’ve been there before, and I love it.”
46. A +1 can mean “I wish I were there.”
47. A +1 can mean “I am so proud of you.”
48. A +1 can mean “You took my breath away.”
49. A +1 can say “I’m on my phone and only have a second.”
50. A +1 can say anything.
Asking this author to implement the history api would probably be easier than us doing it ourselves sad to say.
Originally shared by Erica Joy
THIS IS NOT AN EXTENSION CREATED BY NOR ENDORSED BY GOOGLE (Had to say that in big bold letters so the people who follow me hopingwishingdreaming that I give them their big "story" break don't run off breathlessly trying to out scoop one another about this and wind up making themselves looking not so bright in the process.)
That out of the way, I like this little extension for using Google Music. It pops up a little miniplayer so I don't have to keep the browser window open to control my music. Bangorang.
Since it can scrobble, I've resurrected my Last.fm account from the dust and ruins. If you wish to be Last.fm "friends" you may find me here: http://www.last.fm/user/EricaJoy
Mark Mallman is still going strong 4 days into his cross country live video streaming #marathon4 at:
http://m4.qwikcast.tv/?gallery=m4-live
And here's a live album listen from Google Play for people going "Mark who?"
Sunday Streets are pretty cool, it helps you to see what things would be like without cars crowding out everything.
Also, consider following Spare the Air, Bay Area if you live in the Bay Area -- you get Google+ events like this and the latest pollution alerts.
Originally shared by Spare the Air, Bay Area
We hope to see you this weekend at Sunday Streets. Visit our booth to learn how to Spare the Air and improve the health of your community.
Hi John Colburn / Dennis Boehm -- Do you know each other? In any case I've been pondering how one might take the Spout experience into Google+ via video hangouts and connect with the nascent arts community that's developing here. There's so much potential to do fun things.
If either of you is interested let me know.
TIL that the Jellybean "What's that Song" widget works with audio from Apps. Working great with TuneIn. Here's a track I grabbed off of Couleur3 Fun.
Figures the day I leave early.... .
Hazardous driving conditions on I-880 at Hacienda
Currently watching Trampled by Turtles via the magic of YouTube on Google TV.
And there's much more at Lollapalooza including Sigur Rós ...
Has anyone else reripped their entire music collection lately?
Last time was in 2003 so I had bitrates as low as 96k. Everything is now 320k mp3 and I'm ready to re-import into Google Music. Some interesting observations:
- CD ripping must contribute to global warming.
- CDs are heavy ~40 lbs of CDs fitting in .1 m³ (about 3.5 ft³)
- Gracenote/CDDB has declined in quality (album art especially)
- Price stickers bring back memories. Tower records, FNAC and 32 CHF albums, oh my.
Nice thing is I can better judge the provenance of my collection and correct it. Just received 3 custom CDs from Twin/Tone including two albums from the late-80s Minneapolis band The Wallets.
