*Incognito by Default*

Redesign all of our systems to operate without direct access to user data while maintaining quality.

This is my dream after reading https://sites.google.com/corp/google.com/quirk/ and filing data retention plans for the past month....

Ambitious enough?

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Had a Slacker Shuttle May Day treat.

Here's a Google Shuttle Bus patiently waiting for the ILWU Drill Team and Parade to proceed from the docks to downtown Oakland.

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Self-redacting your messages on Hangouts Chat? think again....

A message was edited in Hangouts Chat, view the updated message on (https://chat.google.com).

While not strictly social, this did use the underlying Shindig code based used for social gadgets. It also allowed for Cooperating Gadgets in the browser via gadgets.pubsub and distributed Prefs system using gadgets.prefs

In fact one of the use cases was 'add the Google Gadget to your container' so your other gadgets could have enhanced functionality. The only thing missing is a user-owned, portable data store. We're seeing a return to this model in ARCS and Fuchsia.

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This is good. Read and/or watch it.

http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/

Build systems that forget less. Use that as a metric...

Of course the cybernetician in me wants to say:
- Forgetting is really Variety Attenuation[1]
- The Good Regulator theorem applies [2]. To effectively regulate a system your model needs to be as complex as the system itself.

[[Oh and http://opentranscripts.org is such a great project. It's something that Google could do at scale, especially for educational materials, lectures etc. It also... *increases variety* by making video content more accessible]]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_regulator

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oh no, not this again....

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/moma-news/home/201202/whathappenedwithcpac?pli=1

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5000 memberships? I thought this was Google?

com.google.apps.framework.request.StatusException: <eye3 title='FAILED_PRECONDITION'/> generic::FAILED_PRECONDITION: User 91363953886 has 5309 total memberships, can not mutate to reach 5310 as that is over the limit of 5000 ;AppErrorCode=9;StartTimeMs=1519173416402;tcp;Deadline(sec)=9.664;ResFormat=UNCOMPRESSED;Originator=corp-loas-proxy;Tag=cidc3;ServerTimeSec=0.365905408;LogBytes=256;Non-FailFast;EndUserCredsRequested;EffSecLevel=none;ReqFormat=UNCOMPRESSED;ReqID=feead50e0dd47f81;GlobalID=d58444c9b3c68ad4;Server=10.2.37.199:4113

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googlegroups.com == dogfood history

I counted 44 dogfood google groups (!) including these classics:

butterandcream-prod (wha?)
friendsofallen
openbonfire
snickersmocha

Enjoy it while you can, GDPR will probably force the cleanup of all these...

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Googlers, don't be smug, doesn't look like Google Express supports Food Stamps either..

[And at least Amazon offers discounted Prime membership to people with EBT cards.]

That said if you don't have the learned experience of being poor you might want to check out today's talk "Growing Up Poor In America" - Lisa 'Tiny' Garcia at 11am PT

Livestream at http://go/tiny-kim

[original image sourced from https://imgur.com/MUuZ9sr]

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So one more Nexus 6p / Android post.

A teammate offered me a 6p test device as a loaner. Has the asset tag and everything. *Yay!*

Turns out it was factory reset with a test account on it. *Uhoh!*

But no worries there's an internal unlock tool. (http://go/androidunlock) *Yay*

Ugh it's broken for some odd reason:

https://buganizer.corp.google.com/issues/68021469

Techstop basically gives up at this point and say try out http://go/skylab -- basically saying that the device is a paperweight.

If we can't manage a shared pool of devices I fear what hell our enterprise customers go through. Also imagine if a fired employee Factory Resets their phone before they leave. Instant brick...

Anyway, enough ranting for today. I need to save my energy to deal with my wife's repeated question: "let's just go buy iPhones -- Are you some kind of masochist or what?"...

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Google Store, please take my money :(

- FWIW this is the chrome bug where time goes backwards
- And to add insult to injury I now have 4 pending charges for the failed orders.... At least having my card declined let me know that this was the case
- Filed http://b/72589737

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Wow, so this is what the Google Store offers for a clean/working Nexus 6p trade-in...

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Nexus 6p Bootloop :(

And we're not making it right for users and sending people to Huawei, who are now closed. And all my spare phones are micro-sim.

The playbook for the people on the phone is a depressing read:

https://support.google.com/playops/hardware/answer/7519413

We have a huge hoard of cash, surely we could do right by our users?

Oh and this is my 4th 6p...

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Well worth watching. The blog->book is an interesting thing I didn't know about and I found the email -> blog solution for communicating with her future grown-up children clever.

Slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14fAzIdLrfKt6K313UraEJATFsjFsqTEumNun4ufhtiU/edit?usp=sharing

https://wordpress.tv/2017/12/10/brianna-privett-the-story-of-your-life-using-wordpress-as-your-memor...

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Looks like G+ sharing was added to gThanks in

https://b.corp.google.com/issues/9972517

But the shares it creates now are pretty bare-bones and you have to really hunt down that G+ share button...

Oh and big congrats to all the people getting Kudos and PBs lately. Y'all are awesome!

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It took a bit of searching to figure out why I received a check for 8. But if you get one here's why:

This is a wage and hour PAGA action arising from Defendant's failure to pay wages in a timely manner at the end of each pay period. Labor Code § 204( d) requires employees to be paid out by the seventh (ih) day following the closing of the pay period if employees are paid on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Defendant, who paid its employees on a bi-weekly basis, had a consistent policy of paying the wages of its employees on the eighth (8t11) day or later following the close of the respective pay period, and thus, beyond the time periods as allowed pursum1t to Labor Code § 204. This PAGA action is being sought on behalf of Defendant's other aggrieved employees.

In addition to the PAGA action, Plaintiff also asserts individual claims for wrongful termination in violation of public policy. Specifically, Plaintiff engaged in protected activity by removing alcohol from the workplace (due to fear for her personal safety and the safety of co-workers), and to prevent sexual harassment. However, by exercising such rights, Plaintiff was terminated from her employment.

Defendant's Position

Plaintiff was employed by Defendant from approximately January 27, 2015 to April 12, 2016 as a Program Manager. In late March 2016, a Google employee reported that several personal items had gone missing. Google's asset investigations team confirmed through video evidence that Plaintiff had taken the reported items. During its investigation, Plaintiff provided inconsistent accounts of her actions, which Google deemed to lack credibility. As a result, Google terminated Plaintiffs employment for violation of company policy and the dishonest conduct she exhibited.

Google denies that its payroll schedule was inconsistent with section 204 of the Labor Code. Moreover, Plaintiff cannot show that she or any of the members of the group she seeks to represent were aggrieved. An award of civil penalties under PAGA would result in an award that is unjust, arbitrary, and oppressive

https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/California_State_Santa_Clara_County_Superior_Court/16CV301321/Baid...

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Two new local charities available for gift match for California Wildfires so it's not just the Red Cross now:

http://go/california-fires

Still *0k* to match.

Also I learned that Google Docs has a 'mobilebasic' suffix which generates a simple lightweight doc. Many of the emergency resource docs are using this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ZhXDNaL260p5OempaFbCrsYBe_5pvNvDqV7xcwn95s/mobilebasic

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ZhXDNaL260p5OempaFbCrsYBe_5pvNvDqV7xcwn95s/mobilebasic

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Not strictly "social" per-se, but there were a number of cross overs from iGoogle. Also relevant as Now is undergoing some historical changes of it's own..

- Pixie Labs ended up moving their games to Google+ Games (remember Farmville?)
- The gadget infrastructure from iGoogle (GGS) was used heavily for the +1 button, OpenSocial, PeopleSense and others. +103390686048441232976 might even still carry a pager for this old infrastructure...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XS9u1D-pFSxTcrbTZRa43CV7VKHztHzWLDCzrj0csJ4/edit?_escaped_fragme...

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Google is both a particle (consumer) and a wave (enterprise). We need some kind of general product relativity instead of a newtonian model...

... or quantum mechanics vs classical physics, you get the idea...

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*
Hired to work on web protocols. Immediately detoured to the needful work of building a social network. Learned a lot along the way.

I don't have a lot of sage wisdom to offer other than be humble, humane, and empathic. That goes a long way.

That and banjo. Always have banjo.

Looking forward to 7 more years of causing trouble with you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmLINm2bchY

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Google Assistant as envisioned from 1973's "Designing Freedom"

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=8pOruwSkOisC

Much of what we implement today was predicted then. We also forget that people once derided and feared "The Computer".

This work is quite accessible and reading it gave me a better understanding of complex dynamic systems, relaxation time, variety, Ashby's Law and the nature of bureaucracy. Also originally broadcast on the CBC as a lecture series:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819

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Looks like we once had an Ethnographer on staff. This is the only notable mention of Complex Adaptive Systems I found. But it is interesting reading back from 2011....

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/google-culture/home/google-at-the-edge-of-chaos

https://www.google.com/a/google.com/ServiceLogin2?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fgoog...

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Greetings Area 120. Google Forever has also made it to the final pitch round.

We have plenty of opportunities for people to pitch in on sustainable bizdev models, decentralized engineering and more. But one role we'd love to fill is a UX/Design/Frontend leader. Here's our job listing. Please reach out if you're interested!

https://grow.googleplex.com/opportunity/job/2000000020689

Are you interested in building user experiences and critical user journeys that work for generations? Do you want to help people preserve their most important digital memories?

Consider joining the Google Forever Project. We're a proposed Area 120 project that's already made it to the final pitch round and we need you!

Our project is creating the software that will power a business and ecosystem that will last for decades and centuries. We're starting with a way to preserve the world's most valued Photos in an easy, simple sustainable way.

As a lead/founding frontend member of the team you will have considerably freedom to set the direction and tech stack while working with our passionate engineering and business teams. You will also be able to explore experimental user interfaces and user experiences that might be used in the far future.

If accepted to Area 120 you will have the chance to work on this full time. We also will accept any and all people who want to help us achieve our vision!

See http://go/google-forever or contact Paul Lindner to discuss how you can contribute.

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GoogleCloud asks: *What was the first program you wrote that you were proud of?*

_Please include what language it was written in and a brief description. Feel free to go out of bounds if you have a creative answer!_

My response:

At age 17 I was published in Compute!'s Gazette. The small utility, named ML Runner, is tool written in Commodore 64 Basic and 6502 Assembly. It converted machine language binaries into easy to use BASIC programs. The result was a better, easier way for users to execute code.

You can see the actual short code on page 98 in the June 1987 Issue here:
https://archive.org/details/1987-06-compute-magazine

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTVpBafCZghSvaYi6sf8JRbncaOqh153gwtxJE00D0pCcB7g/viewform?...

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60 days isn't a long time for people with lots of data. I have a feeling it's going to take legislation to get companies to do the right thing here (and that includes us too, Google Drive notice is 60 days as well...)

Also facepalm on the earnest CEO video at:
https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/

https://twitter.com/crashplan/status/899995190852820994

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tired: drone delivery
wired: missile delivery

If you look back you'll see the parallels between Google and the Postal Service....

http://99percentinvisible.org/article/firing-off-letters-u-s-postal-services-cold-war-missile-mail-p...

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Question for Jungle Gym -- how does it stack up against the Q&A feature in Groups? It seems that there's some overlap here that needs to be shaken loose. Maybe something for Daniel when he returns from his travels..

https://support.google.com/a/answer/126169?hl=en#__sid=md0

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I read that we were going to participate in Net Neutrality protests today. I loaded up google.com to see if we were doing a home page promo. I didn't see the logo load and thought that this was a very sublime way of calling attention to content blocking. So I waited for a spinner and call to action...

haha; no. Instead it was this super heavy doodle that took forever to load over GBUS wifi.

Ah well. Looks like we're sending an "email" to our "listserve" (itsthe90s.gif) of committed diehards, and posting a video playlist hidden somewhere on youtube (couldn't find it, can you?)

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/moma-news/july-2017/ourparticipationinthenetneutralitydayofact...

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

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Paul here from the Superfund Squad, where we're getting rid of the infrastructure you love to hate and paying off unfunded mandates with technical debt. And digging up the History of Google's Social Efforts in the attached collection.

I've been cranking at this social thing for almost 7 years at Google on Google+ and a long time before that at places Six Apart (home of Typepad and Livejournal), hi5 and LinkedIn. I did a lot of work on OpenSocial and other standards back then which is a big reason I'm here today.

Oh and this enterprise thing isn't my first rodeo. Way back at Critical Path we provided hosted email, calendar and tasks for Italian Telecoms, Major Universities *and* the Kiss Army. And at Red Hat we sold shrink wrap and services to all sales channels.

But I'm most proud of the work I did at the UN on telecom standards, relief efforts and publishing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 500 languages. (And the site is still standing to this day!)

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/SearchByLang.aspx

And finally before that was the Internet Gopher.. Me, with Heavy Metal hair:

https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol

Beyond all this tech I enjoy life in Oakland with my fabulous wife Julie and our Great Pyrenees Gus. You'll find us exploring the parks of the East Bay, checking out obscure music or cruising the rapidly gentrifying Valencia street in the Mission. I'm also heavily interested in building software and systems that last the long term. I'm a member of the Long Now (https://longnow.org) and I have a 20% project called Digital Vellum (http://go/digitalvellum)

Happy to be here with y'all and looking forward to our next adventures!

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A reminder that +1s *for web sites* are going away. You *can* export them to other places. I chose to move mine to Pinboard. One nice thing Pinboard does is archive the pages you bookmark, so now the content I +1'd is more stable long term.

In the process I found and fixed a bug where the timestamps on the plusones takeout export were wrong. It was broken for about 5 years and no one noticed :(

If you want a proper export file you can use https://ac-autopush-takeout.corp.google.com/settings/takeout for now. Prod push should be sometime this week...

https://pinboard.in/u:lindner/t:plusones/

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So I hear that body slam GIFs are all the rage now. Of course back in 2011...

Many more cringe-worthy things here:

https://zahidlilani.com/2011/07/19/hilarious-google-plus-gif-animations/

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6438194510653877985/6438194508238025506?...

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Changes coming to the +1 widget you see on web sites.

Originally shared by John Nack

Making the G+1 button load more quickly

The G+1 button is shown billions of times per day on web pages around the world, so it’s important that it load as quickly and efficiently as possible. To make it easier for people to load and share the pages they’re interested in, we’ve created a simpler G+1 button sharing experience.

Beginning in a few weeks, clicking the +1 button will open a streamlined new Google+ sharing dialog, and the G+1 button will no longer display a +1 count. If you’re a publisher, you can rest assured that these +1s do not affect search ranking and the size and layout of the button will remain the same.

These changes will only affect the G+1 button outside of Google+. The +1 button within Google+ will continue to work the same way it always has.

If you’d like to view all of the pages you’ve +1’d over the years, you can download a list using Google Takeout.

We hope this change makes it that much easier to check out and recommend all the interesting things you discover!

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I have a mechanism that has enough crypto-theater to make me happier than just drawing numbers out of a hat and having someone pinky-swear that the process is legit
.

It uses a Random Beacon to seed a random number generator, which then chooses 5 winners from the 73 entrants. It's a silly perl script (might rewrite it in go if I
have time...)

https://plindner.users.x20web.corp.google.com/www/survey-drawing/README

------------------------------------------------

5 winners will be chosen on June 15th at noon Pacific Standard Time.

Read on to find out how winners will be chosen.

- Each of the 73 entrants is given a 'lot number', which is emailed to them.
- The file lot_to_username.txt maps the number to a hashed version of your username.
- You can verify that your lot is listed correctly. For example:

# Verify if your lot number is 12
sudo apt-get install apache2-tools
htpasswd -v -b /google/data/rw/users/pl/plindner/www/survey-drawing 12 lindner

- The http://winners.pl script chooses 5 random winners with a random seed.
- The random seed will be generated by the NIST random beacon on June 15th Noon Pacific Standard time. Results will be visible here:

https://beacon.nist.gov/rest/record/1497553200

- The seed value will be written to seed.xml at that point and winners will be
chosen!

TECHNICAL DETAILS FOLLOW

- The original names are stored one username-per-line in names.txt
- The lot_to_username.txt file containing bcrypt hashed usernames was generated using this command:

cat -n /tmp/names.txt | xargs -n 2 htpasswd -b -B -C 20 ~/contest.file

- Note that you could brute-force the usernames with moderate compute capacity. Please be polite and don't do that.

TAMPER VERIFICATION

You can verify that the usernames, script, and contest draw date have not been modified by verifying the PGP signature of the date and sums.

You can verify this message by using keybase https://keybase.io/lindner or looking up my PGP key lindner@inuus.com

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

sha256sum lot_to_username.txt http://winners.pl

6a86aadf90310cb83b2cadcf820d3b3a0ea0bfbd175822ebcfb44a55a1fc1e0f lot_to_username.txt
bf45ed9e504d51934261610bf69153c0f0646dfbe0b58c1fe044803a90dd3ff3 http://winners.pl

Contest Seed: https://beacon.nist.gov/rest/record/1497553200
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

wkYEAREIABAFAllBLkYJEPhZKFJz9YBUAADv9gCgkHEiWKjs7RlfM3G5U4NsYNmK
rqUAoBpiZrhGAy/SMPUqzX+Wl/6AuQdD
=XjMK
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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I didn't find my sound search within Google Play Music, but it appears that my 91 year old future self is still using GPM..

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Digital Vellum is working on a project to help people store Photos for 100+ years.

That means I'm thinking about how to build a long-term, stable, resilient systems and business. I'd also love to see this applied to Google so it too can be a very very long term entity.

So I'm not an expert in this area but it seems that there are some ways that we can focus the business on long term value. Some are structural, others based on rethinking existing systems. I'm not an economist or an MBA by any stretch, but here goes:

- Sell annuities that pay out in storage/access "dividends" spread out over a long time.
- Create a wholly owned Mutual Society to manage storage and serving. Google can then become a Lloyds of London-stye "Name". [This entity could sell long-term/perpetual bonds that also have storage dividends]
- Create a customer-owned collective to manage long-term assets. Think of it as "Vanguard for Storage".
- We already store Photos for iPhone users, why not have each company back each other up and come up with coordinated storage systems with rights of survivorship.
- For the crytpocurrency angle use something like Streem (http://steem.io) or Storj (http://storj.io) Allow anyone to participate in a long-term storage system. This might be more adaptable.

And also remember to take our Photo Preservation Survey if you haven't already:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBR7omZ1SDgpgO05W4UD70cITmBk6zqS1xvxyU1t-rtV0Vkg/viewform?...

https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_reeves_how_to_build_a_business_that_lasts_100_years#talk

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Finally can use GCP instances to replace Ubiquity.

Also so very happy that I put my dotfiles in git so I can get this rig the way I like it quickly...

https://user.git.corp.google.com/plindner/dotfiles/

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*The +1 button for web sites is now the G+ button*

Hey Googlers - get ready to dogfood the new G+ button! It's an evolution of the existing +1 and +Share buttons you see across the web. It's leaner, faster and much less expensive to operate. Instead the world's most costly-click-counter you'll share directly to G+, which is what most users wanted anyway.

You can see the G+ button at various places such as:

- Blogspot blogs like http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ or https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/
- The Chrome Web store https://chrome.google.com/webstore/
- And sites from a-to-z http://abc7news.com/weather/doppler/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10069107/

Want to give feedback? There's a handy link in the pop-up sharebox to do so.

Big kudos to +106053902024703312631 / +110610523830483756510 / +104802479551695111660 and the cast of characters that have helped us get this far.

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Unsearchable and Daily Inspiration for a TGIF..

The following *delightful* Google Play Playlist is a comprehensive collection of music from Watch Dogs 2:

https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXyk097zW--4WF7YxbXiHUAwlq-_CkO6SUOEQuhlGiwkzcMYeVnWqK_Kyi...

Digdug doesn't know anything about it.

And yes, that's a base-64 encoded proto you're seeing! [and Let's hope that adding a new message to that proto doesn't rewrite all the permalinks....]

I was able to find the link to this in some disqus comments with a bit of search tweaking, but I couldn't get an actual link surfaced for a playlist in our own product. The original Spotify playlist does show up.

https://www.gamecrate.com/heres-all-music-featured-watch-dogs-2/15001

https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXyk097zW--4WF7YxbXiHUAwlq-_CkO6SUOEQuhlGiwkzcMYeVnWqK_Kyi...

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Looks like there was an internal presentation that I missed:

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/eng-program-management/community-and-events/fireside_chat/safe

It gives names to processes that I recognize, so it seems like it might be a useful model..

http://www.scaledagile.com/

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*Emerald Sea Protocols* - October 2010

_Make open protocols the "default choice" and the "easy choice"_ -- me

And 6 years later some of this stuff is finally taking off....

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1spaXUlKajV6Ng20zZBmcKHvDekDNbC2OO5M-R-Ug0q8/edit?_escaped_fragme...

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*Various Dates* - Various Google+ Commercials and Promos

In order of appearance with some notes on when they aired.

Introducing the +1 Button
Google+: Circles
Google+: Sparks
Google+: Instant Upload
Google+: Explore Circles
Google+: Explore Settings
Google+: Explore Hangouts
Google+: Explore Games
Welcome to Google+
Google+: A quick look
Google+: Messenger
Google+: Pages
Google+: Search
Google+: Sharing but like real life
Google+: Circles Love Story
Introducing the new Google bar
Google+: Say more with Hangouts
Muppets Google+ Hangout (featuring the Muppets).mp4
Search, plus Your World
Google+: New Dad
Google+ Nina
Google+: Daria Musk
Google+: Tom
Google+ Local: Places you'll love, from people you trust
Google+ Events: Share event photos instantly with Party Mode
Introducing Google+ Events
Connect with friends the way you want with Google+ in Gmail
Google+ for Android
College Football on Google+
Google+ 2012
Google+ Communities: A place for whatever you're into
Google+ Events: Introducing a new way to get together
Google+: Public Squares
Google+: Beautiful movies, made Auto Awesomely
Google+: Media

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrzxz5-dv4abGzg0lZPjCIYVSqhc-ivlw&_utm_source=gplus

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_People long to be treated as co-creators. Not cattle._

[pulled from the massive Google+ feedback thread...]

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Finally figured out how to get Charts to overlay labels on the vertical...

Oh for the record, Peak Oz:

28151 files
330MB of Code/Resources
125 Backends
1525 HTTP Paths
673 Stubby Endpoints
3 binaries (widgetbe, widgetfe, frontend)
Lots and lots of qps, much 4514$

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*The Social Multiplier for Google+* April 2011

A Social Multiplier applies to Googlers’ 2011 bonuses. It measures and recognizes the impact each team has on the success of Google+ and building meaningful relationships, sharing, and identity across all our products.

More details

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/2011-social-multiplier-faqs/home

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*Emerald Sea Mobile Update* - 2010 Q3

by Punit Soni

- We've come full circle on Location Sharing. +111280803752736822602
- Making phone calls on profiles never happened, and the CallMeMaybe project 5 years later never launched.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17D9uqGEglLfrICSNiYOwKCzHsFmSjZcNNoc7KpJHOk0/edit?_escaped_fr...

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Bitcoin Lightning talk today:

_Come learn about the bitcoin Lightning Network! The Lightning Network is a "layer 2" bitcoin protocol designed to address some of bitcoin’s technical limitations in regards to scaling. Compared to on chain bitcoin payments, it promises instant payment speed measured in milliseconds to seconds, scalability capable of millions to billions of transactions per second across the network, lower cost and improved anonymity. Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka roastbeef) is a former Google intern and currently works on Lightning Network at Lightning Labs. He will give a deep dive into latest developments in the implementation of Lightning Network._

More info: https://lightning.network/, http://lightning.community/

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=ZGcxZDNhZjBnaW9sZDhwZ2tjYjl0Ymo...

http://lightning.network/

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*An Update on the Oz Monolith*

So it's a little over been two weeks since we turned down most of Oz for frontends. Project Death Star removed most Google+ traffic. Purple Hummus removed contacts.google.com. Project Falcon got iOS G+ on FEDS. And the OneGoogle Notifications Widget is now exiting too.

There's still much more to do, Apiary APIs, widgets and more need to go. And lots of code to delete as you can see in the Rise and Fall of Oz by # of files below.

Thanks to everyone that removed services/code, and let me know if you're missing a killoz teams badge.

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Remember to test your backups and be careful with rm -rf

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I guess just in case I was running some perl script I downloaded off of Matt's Script Archive on port 7888

plindner@arcwelder:[beaker]/google3$ host 172.25.65.58
58.65.25.172.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer security-scanner-amer-3.cbf.corp.google.com.

But it appears I can't make it stop :(

https://scarf.googleplex.com/checkip?target=100.109.7.129&list=

05:52:51.515942 IP 172.25.65.58.43577 > 100.109.7.129.7888: Flags [P.], seq 0:432, ack 1, win 229, options [nop,nop,TS val 1188697399 ecr 2097041011], length 432
        0x0000:  4560 01e4 1784 4000 3b06 ccee ac19 413a  E.....@.;.....A:
        0x0010:  646d 0781 aa39 1ed0 c325 02b0 5897 25e2  dm...9...%..X.%.
        0x0020:  8018 00e5 069a 0000 0101 080a 46da 1537  ............F..7
        0x0030:  7cfe 4e73 4745 5420 2f66 6f72 6d2f 6175  |.NsGET./form/au
        0x0040:  6b74 696f 6e2e 6367 693f 6d65 6e75 653d  ktion.cgi?menue=
        0x0050:  2e2e 2f2e 2e2f 2e2e 2f2e 2e2f 2e2e 2f2e  ../../../../../.
        0x0060:  2e2f 2e2e 2f2e 2e2f 2e2e 2f65 7463 2f70  ./../../../etc/p
        0x0070:  6173 7377 6420 4854 5450 2f31 2e31 0d0a  asswd.HTTP/1.1..
        0x0080:  486f 7374 3a20 6172 6377 656c 6465 722e  Host:.arcwelder.
        0x0090:  6d74 762e 636f 7270 2e67 6f6f 676c 652e  mtv.corp.google.
        0x00a0:  636f 6d3a 3738 3838 0d0a 4163 6365 7074  com:7888..Accept
        0x00b0:  2d43 6861 7273 6574 3a20 6973 6f2d 3838  -Charset:.iso-88
        0x00c0:  3539 2d31 2c75 7466 2d38 3b71 3d30 2e39  59-1,utf-8;q=0.9
        0x00d0:  2c2a 3b71 3d30 2e31 0d0a 4163 6365 7074  ,*;q=0.1..Accept
        0x00e0:  2d4c 616e 6775 6167 653a 2065 6e0d 0a43  -Language:.en..C

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Achievement unlocked. Google Now tells me about my own posts on my own site.

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