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Thought I'd go all meta and post the ripples for the ripples deprecation post...


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6151421247823702833/6151421246109492834?...






 

 

Rank your top 5..

Another product roadmap from Comcast.  Heads up to Nest, Jetstream, Drive, and Fiber teams.

Probably pretty accurate since the last survey was asking about Solar, and lo and behold, they're doing that..


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6147710232253884145/6147710234524435826?...






 

hospital wifi sucks more than shuttle wifi

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
50 packets transmitted, 34 packets received, 32.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 20.109/59.697/251.879/55.778 ms


http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/






 

*The Real Life Social Network* July 2010

by Paul Adams, UX researcher at Google.  This had a huge influence on the design of Google+.


http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2






 

Signal boost for http://go/secondopinion

I requested a 2nd opinion yesterday around 2pm, received form at 4pm, sent it in at 5pm, was called within 15 minutes to go over details.

<24h later a specialist doctor called us to discuss the case and started the process to get all the data needed for a diagnostic review.

Crazy good.  Highly recommended.

Someone needs to add a link to

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/us-benefits/health-wellness

so this is more discoverable....


https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fgoogle.com%2F...






 

 

Dealing with the _"Help me with my website"_ question...

When people find out you're a Googler they often ask _"can you help me with my site"_?  I mostly give some simple advice and leave it at that.  This time is different.

But first..  a story.

My wife, Julie, fears dentists due to unfortunate childhood events.  While on vacation she had some gum bleeding.  Using Google Search I found Maisy, an oral surgeon, and her husband, Amir, an anesthesiologist.  Together they did the impossible and got Julie the dental care she needed.  She went above and beyond in so many ways.

Alas, there were complications on discharge.  Despite a blood test only 10 days earlier her levels had dropped really low.  Maisy and I talked a lot while we waited for the transfusion to complete in the ER.  We spoke about how she and her husband started their practice and how they wanted to grow it.  Many questions about online marketing came up.  I said I would see what I could do.  After everything I'd walk over glass for Maisy.

So....

*What's the best way to help?*  I'm no expert, but I am acquainted with some non-google consultants I could engage.  Looking for any advice or referrals, especially for people that deal with local.

Oh and if you need a dentist, it's well worth the trip.  Great people, dog friendly, pleasant surroundings, and the most advanced dental technology.


http://www.desertdentalspa.com/meet-the-doctors/dr-maisy-ibrahim/






 

*Earliest mention of Eden aka Orkut* October 2003

_I already started getting bug reports regarding eden so_
_it's time to add it the project list (:_
_Eden is a social networking tool under development. You_
_can visit http://eden/, sign up and check it out. Please_
_keep eden confidential._

....

https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/bugs/lA-IYLLpn3c/Ft-h3xqSjUgJ









 

So no more G+ by default on Android... (amongst other apps) Overall it's probably a good thing -- I'd prefer earned installs to default ones.

.oO(Should we start spending on app install adds?)


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6129912537119115681/6129912535696718466?...






 

Finally found a way to dogfood collections in my own way....

And I've only just begun to document the people, the products and the decisions that have shaped Social at Google this past decade.

Looking for dusty old decks, groups links and old forgotten wiki pages.









 

*Tacotown, aka Buzz* August 2009

I binge watched TGIF videos when I joined Google.  This one has a special place in my heart.  So inspirational.

I'm happy that so many of the people you see below are still here -- still trying to deliver on this dream.  [In fact too many to plus-mention.]

Source: https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/tgif-info/highlights/08-28-09


https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/1iIVuMoaWc1467f9-c2JGR99u7EO6aWpt6O3y94aUOznRMfKPWKSXAH...






 

For those of you not around back in 2010 we were working on this interests thing back then too.

In a serif font no less.

Finally cleaning up some of this stuff now...

https://critique.corp.google.com/#review/88781755









 

I'd pay to get this cherry picked into LMP MR1..

https://b.corp.google.com/issues/18069309

signed,

Paul's Nexus 5 with 900+ MB of system memory used...









 

What will it take to change this narrative:

_There are companies that do not get social and they never will. Apple’s one of them, Google is the other: they’ve failed with Google+. When your culture is engineering-focused, you do not understand social. Social is a very emotional experience. Engineers are not so much, in a lot of cases,_

It won't be facts, since any numbers we release are instantly dismissed.  My guess is that we're going to have to move influentials over, one-by-one until the zeitgeist changes.  People only see what's in their bubble, and Google's social efforts don't penetrate.... yet.


http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/myspace-what-went-wrong-sean-percival-spotify






 

Today's   inspirational tune.  Sadly there's no vid for this..


https://play.google.com/music/m/Tpletfdxsiuhlkgtsxt4b244uti






 

What's up with Ad Planner? It now redirects to

https://awics.corp.google.com/um/ssoauth?dst=https://adsmediaplanner.googleplex.com/?ICS_AUTH_OK

and gives me a 403. Is there any way to get some baseline geo/demo data for publisher websites these days?












 

 

I contributed early on but didn't realize that Google contributed 16k as well.  Happy to see things like this.


http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Blogger-hands-out-165-000-to-Mission-fire-victims-6104825.php?...






 

I still think Ripples is awesome and needed more than ever in a interest based system. How else are you going to follow the entire chain?

Here's a link to the Tau post by Danielle

[and ugh, the metadata for sharing on those pages is awful...]


https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=z12qtdmgdtmaj5oy304cjzjwttehc3bb4z40k






 

So if Google is creating special versions just for kids, maybe they can do one just for adults.  Then I thought what's the opposite of a unicorn and search provided just the answer:   *icorn*

Oh and what did the Unicorn call his dad?

Popcorn


https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071024061903AAPom3V#ya-c






 

Anyone know what happened to hashtag search?  I haven't seen this trigger in many months, but I didn't see an Ariane turndown..

@108935767358519094547 / @100831539213655563256 ?


http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2297394/hashtags-come-to-google-search-results






 

Search ads functioning as In-App ads.

Add or cross off onions, get an onion ad. Brilliant. I hope that we're behind this...



https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6118410658793676817/6118410655566398498?...






 

I have my own stalker-poet-recruiter now...

var poem = function() {
  wrote(function() {
    this(function() {
      toMakeYouSmile(function() {
        pleaseRespond(function() {
          imStuckInCallbackHell(function() {
            yoursTruly('jason');
          })
        })
      })
    })
  })
})


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6117021450310081057/6117021448725524562?...






 

Curious how the JeffWeCan twitter page ranks so very highly give the data I see in digdug.

https://plus.google.com/explore/JeffWeCan

vs

https://twitter.com/hashtag/jeffwecan

PageRank is comparable, both were crawled and indexed into Base..

I think I found some superroot code, but don't know for sure...


https://twitter.com/hashtag/jeffwecan






 

I/O is using a C64 color palette this year...




https://events.google.com/io2015/






 

All the Martin Solveig _Smash_ videos in a single playlist.   A must-watch.

[Sadly sharing Youtube "Collections" to Google+ collections doesn't work so well...]  @103403111903646616992 - I suppose we're not going to get Playlist embeds, right?


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1FZihtktLKvWIpUk22nxm9Dth3mlkdHP






 

Where do you find the best Google candidates?  Why not try your local shopping news?

[I imagine it's a package deal or a publishing requirement.  LinkedIn also has their reqs here too...]


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6111425154521051137/6111425156847404834?...






 

My new go-to way to share mobile android screens during meetings.
Many conference rooms have a local input for HDMI and this works great with it.  Tips:

- Enable Settings→Developer Options→Show touches
- Fire up the camera if you need to display a device that's not slimport compatible. (like the 2012 nexus 7)
- Get it from stuff - https://mystuff.corp.google.com/stuff/items/1000


http://shop.slimportdirect.com/products/sp1003






 

@Produces
Coffee produceCoffee(@Node @HalfnHalf MilkProduct milkProduct) {
.....
}


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6102481687489401041/6102481690632384722?...






 

 

TiL M-x google-compile









 

 

My fix.sh script

This contains anything that accepts a changelist in the form of -c XXXXXX

I just run this thing before I mail out CLs and has made my life easier.  Anything else safe that can be added here?  Next step I should add some kind of g4 mail trigger to just run this thing automatically......

#!/bin/sh
buildifier -a -v
/google/src/head/depot/google3/tools/java/remove_unused_imports.py --fix
/google/src/head/depot/google3/tools/java/sort_java_imports.py









 

*Human Factors Design Handbook - 1981*

One can learn a lot by looking into how real Architects design things.  Airports, Parking Garages, Bathrooms, Missile Control Systems, Furniture, you name it, it's in there.  It also includes things highly relevant to our field like accessibility, design for failure, and social factors and privacy:

_Personal space factors are important in establishing the privacy requirements for architectural design._

Currently residing at the desk of @102103132265474854376   -- Check it out!


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6090541554277570881/6090541559340908530






 

Here's my slides talking about SEO for Google+

Email me at [email protected] and I will gladly add you to the webmaster tools for plus.google.com to see all the cool graphs.




https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Cpv9JlJ0r8jOHJioBU-OKqH3Kz5mnD1HTXAAxfqAolw/edit?_escaped_fr...






 

 

1 Direction Hangout had visible effect in search queries to plus.google.com.  (Blue is impressions, red clicks.)


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6080909467251976817/6080909471461225522






 

 

_Add support for [deprecated = true] on all types of definitions_

Fixed in 2.6.0

There was much rejoicing..


https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=329






 

So it appears that Pages that restrict visibility from the US will not get indexed in search.  I just checked this using webmaster tools and things don't show up.

I doubt that's what these page owners expect...

@107119856398345819723 / @106642279061626308531 - thoughts?

@102583327817215270776  I know we allow webmasters to geotarget whole domains, do we allow for a way to do it on a page-by-page basis using magic markup?


https://support.google.com/business/answer/4601912?p=audience_settings&hl=en&rd=1






 

If you have an org devoted to supporting power/'head" users I'd love to hear about it...  [post a comment or message me]

Looks like Youtube has this with real metrics and OKRs which is cool.

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/yt1tomany-global









 

Managed to get OpenVPN-ng working.  Recommended if you live in Chrome Canary, like I do...


https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/19UhFhzFenS3zqu-TpFIh96FjFCg9I-VHRAb02mE0LdM/edit?_e...






 

Interesting take on Email based sharing for photos.

.. rewind : we were talking with Yahoo about supporting this use case a few years ago.  Not much came of it.


https://plus.google.com/






 


IMO we need *Public* to be different from *Publicized*.  There are people that want stuff to be out there, but not promoted.  Give the user a choice here..

We've been through this hell many times.  User thinks their audience is small.  We blow it up big time:

- Google+ Shares of Youtube videos
- Photos on a Map
- next?

I've told this story many times, but when I was at hi5 we analyzed why people deleted their accounts.  A big percentage were people with photos that appeared in the hi5 version of 'What's Hot'.

http://www.allisonwoodruff.com/publications/2014-Woodruff-CHI2014-ReputationManagement.pdf






 

*This is how Googlebot fetched the page*

So my  with SEO got the shout out, so I guess I should tell you more...  I learned a few things about driving search traffic at some startups and at LinkedIn which really mastered the practice. When Authorship was unlaunched I noticed that we did quite poorly in this area.

So I got our sites verified on Google Webmaster tools and started going through a few checklists.  Bushels of low hanging fruit.  Many issues have been fixed, but there are many more to go.  I'm collecting resources on this sites page:

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/oz/oz-documentation/seo

And here's a cover bug that lists many of the problems found:

https://b2.corp.google.com/issues/17438991

Also if you're interested in these issues I can add you to the webmaster tools sites.  You can see what people are searching for and what your pages look like to Googlebot.  And hopefully it's not like the /explore page (which is fixed in http://cr/75340820)

[we now return you to your I release code freeze scramble]


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6058268239207694881/6058268240831870450






 

You can now donate and gift-match via payroll deductions.


https://support.google.com/googlersgive/answer/3381180






 

*One simple trick that simplifies JS Loading!*

@103532563190745371016 has delved deep into script loading and found that it's better to  just use a regular script tag to load many resources.  The key is to use the async and defer attributes.

It turns out that preload scanners work better than the gobs of script-tag-injecting js code, even on older mobile browsers.

If you're targeting IE9 and above you can also use the _onload_ attribute on your script tag to trigger execution when the script is async loaded.

Work is ongoing to update our docs and existing uses in google3.


https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1vOKlHN3VI9nlJYbkCIXSZiP_T9QimGvaoh48qR9BKI8/edit?_e...






 

Google Health...  For dogs

Just had to deal with medical records for my dog's chemo treatments.  Very suboptimal.  I was able to get PDFs (instead of fax) and some digital x-rays.

However to make sense of this I had to manually plug in blood test results into a sheet.  Each of these data points had differing error-ranges. etc.

There's a long history of animal based science being applied to humans.  If we could solve the Vet problem we could move on to Humans.....









 

I don't think that's what we meant by "name shaped".

@102143528674197588447 @103643500382916616176


https://plus.google.com/