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://
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.
Have some Orkut photos that you'd like to have on Google+? Now you can import them in one easy step.
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.
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?
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
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!
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.
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.
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!
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...
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 :)
The world's most dangerous turkey wishes you all a happy Thanksgiving!
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.
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.
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
Want to find some great new music? Load up this URL:
https://
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.)
Welcome to Google+, Ron Gould
Hope Standsure is doing well. Let me know if you want help setting up a Google+ Page!
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://
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.
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.
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.
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://
To do my part I just built the fedora RPMs for f15/f16/rawhide. Try it out on your favorite high-volume server.
One of my favorites, hopefully they'll start posting soon...
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.
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
Chris keeps finding these odd houses...
Originally shared by Chris DiBona
Wow, the metalwork done for this house blows me away:
http://
Check out the gatework in the photos..
I've just been informed that 8tracks now has an Android app. Check it out..
The antidote to too much Phil Collins in my stream..
Side note: The Current is a public radio station in Minneapolis that only plays alternative music ala KEXP. Definitely worth a listen.
I think Perry Farrell came up with the idea of crashing hangouts and meeting with fans first. Nice to see the idea spreading.
Originally shared by Paul Oakenfold
Let's #HANGOUT! Paul Oakenfold crashes your hangout! Confirmed time for the hangout crashing Friday November 4th at 4:00pm EST/1:00pm PST. Probably will give you all a head start....so look for my "here we go" post.
When you see it, comment with your hangout link (the URL in the browser window of your hangout). And add a one-liner as to why I should join YOUR hangout.
IMPORTANT - please leave at least one seat open for me!
Download WE ARE PLANET PERFECTO Vol 1
Pre-order on iTunes: http://
4 years ago today OpenSocial launched to the world at the first Google Campfire One event.
You can find me at 4:14 and 4:30 operating the browser next to Akash Garg and Jeremiah Robison. Today Akash is doing infra work at Twitter, Jeremiah is over at Jawbone working with a bunch of the former hi5 crew, and I'm working on making Google+ better with some of the same folks that participated in the original OpenSocial effort you see below.
Also don't miss the Vic Gundotra's intro at
Campfire One: Introducing OpenSocial
and performances by Joe Greenstein, Marc Andreessen, Adam Nash and others.
How time flies!
Nice, the new Gmail UI is out. Make sure you give it a few days to grow accustomed to it. It really is better, but you have to retrain your brain a little bit. (Whenever I see the old UI now I cringe!)
Originally shared by Jason Cornwell
We're launching a major redesign of Gmail today! This is the result of months of hard work by many members of the Gmail team.
You'll get a link to upgrade at the bottom of your gmail screen over the next few days.
Have a Google vanity domain? This is what you've been waiting for!
Originally shared by Ronald Ho
Hi, I'm Ronald Ho. I’m a product manager at Google and for the past months I’ve been working on making Google+ work with Google Apps accounts.
We hoped to have this out to you earlier, but it took more technical work than we’d expected. With that work out of the way, the day is finally here and Google+ is now available with Google Apps.
You can find more details in our blog post including links to resources to help get Google+ enabled for your domain.
Let us know how you plan to use Google+ with your Google Apps account, and give us your feedback on any part of the experience that we can improve. Thanks!
1. Many earthquakes in a short time.
2. A large construction project nearby at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley
Max Zorin anyone?
Another creative use of hangouts...
Originally shared by Florian “Babar” Rohrweck
O RLY? #catspam #hangoutcat
Two things you don't see too often.
1) anything made by Sylvania.
2) a tiny Sylvania netbook thing running Win CE.
