@115428577457526581719 any chance that Wil could use the account migrator tool we promised people back when? Has anyone contacted him?

Also this might be controversial, but we should have a proactive VIP queue for people like Wil. It worked well at LinkedIn (paying customers went to the front of the line). hi5 did it too (we had CS reps that killed off spam on the most popular profiles). And even Six Apart had business class blogs.


https://plus.google.com/108176814619778619437/posts/Mm1ppkUz5zu

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Heard on morning edition today

_"follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+"_

awesome.


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Yet another benefit of surfing from a Google IP?

I can find out when my friends Wordpress blogs get owned with stealthy pharma spam that only shows up from our crawlers and from Google referers.




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Take your Security vitamins!

Security reviews may seem unpleasant, but they're really important to defend our users against the bad folks out there and just plain unintentional sloppiness.

I have to commend the team, their diligence revealed some hair raising issues in a SaaS partner that could have had disastrous consequences for us and all of said partner's customers.

[image CC BY-NC-SA from http://www.flickr.com/photos/teeves/]


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5717225082897424049/5717225079236654674

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It's always interesting to bootstrap your friends on G+. In this case I'm helping a DJ/Producer get onboard. He wanted to get his Youtube account linked which has all his videos. (which is a separate Gaia)

First had to get him on multilogin (and have him chose different profile photos so he didn't get confused.)

Then guided him over chat on adding links to his G+ profile... which resulted in the following..

Hopefully getting him into a Hangout goes better.

(Oh and if you like synth-pop ala pre-industrial ministry check him out:

https://plus.google.com/117422414454098030528


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5716989080486628033/5716989083951888418

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It makes me sad when journalists basically state that "Google sells your information".

That said -- there was some interesting discussion in this piece, especially the question "when does targeting become discrimination?". I'd like to think that our algorithms are better than that. However advertisers will often choose their audience based on demographic data that may not actually work...


http://www.npr.org/2012/02/22/147189154/how-companies-are-defining-your-worth-online

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Some scary spammy stuff in here..


http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/google-plus-seo

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Can't access b/ cs/ s/ etc?

plindner-macbookpro:~ plindner$ curl https://wpad.corp.google.com/wpad.dat
curl: (51) SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK

Switching to http fixes my proxies.

Also the proxy.pac on proxyconfig looks for a localhost:8888 proxy, weird!




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Anyone have scripts they use to manage non-filer-based homedirs?

I already put my git clients in /usr/local/google, but having homedir outage on my ubiquity box made things painful.

Also seems like citc clients were offline, probably because of my missing homedir...




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Remember -- _it's not the users problem it's Google's problem_

Posting from [email protected]

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY UGLY PEOPLE ON GOOGLE
ronald leslie Feb 09 10:02AM -0800

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY UGLY PEOPLE ON GOOGLE




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To further google memeification I just added imgur.com and 9gag.com igraph rules.

Anyone know the folks that run these fine sites so we can kindly ask them to support authorship markup?




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Embeds United!

I'm somewhat alarmed that there really isn't a "Life of a Widget/Embed" that has best practices on how to embed Google Content on third party sites.

Has anyone tackled this before? Obviously +1, adsense, youtube, maps, analytics and others all use their own mechanisms.

Is it time to consider deploying common infrastructure for these use cases? Especially for systems that require the ability to identify a Google user?

So here's my proposal.

* Use oauth2 semantics everywhere: tokens and api requests.
* Use a single bootstrap system to identify js domain, collect API keys as needed.
* Generate two new types of OAuth tokens that do not contain user info.
- 'Anonymous-by-domain'
- 'Anonymous-by-domain-by-api-key'
* Allow an account widget that can move you from anonymous -> identified -> authorized. (including multilogin, signin and account registration)

If all the various embeds used this common system we'd have a way to enable personalization on third party sites more easily and provide a clear way to go beyond.

Am I barking up the wrong tree?




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Anyone else receive an email from Reid Hoffman asking to enter contact info into a Google Docs form?




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Anyone looking into this? On your radar @103217625524699361065 ?

Oh and can someone tell Danny Sullivan that he should properly link his accounts on his profile?


http://searchengineland.com/dont-be-evil-tool-google-108971

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My openvpn disconnected and wouldn't reconnect.

Switching to the Council Bluffs VPN server (cbf.v.ext.google.com) and now I'm back on..




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I just updated my profile link to Google+ so authorship annotations can work.

http://t.co/uB6kFxc6

Watching the live stream for Search, plus your world:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/search%2C%20plus%20your%20world


https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/search%2C%20plus%20your%20world

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Once it's prod-ready my chromebook will be one kick-ass oncall device.

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/spdy-proxy/engineering/sshinatab

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Just got spam in the form of a link to a Google Doc

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U1leTM4akdP_kBNbZp3ci_LjcKla4Ck1W4fw0dMUHMk/edit?pli=1




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Fun to be oncall for services that page when twitter goes down...

Received response 1:\nHTTP/1.1 504\r\n\r\nDate: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:21:02 GMT\r\n\r\n\r\n\n


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5686115643399028801/5686115649643644258

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Spotted -- the rarely seen MySpaceID login widget.... Federated login done wrong.

Found on the company that just acquired hi5:

http://www.tagged.com/profile.html?uid=15621504


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5686097797712211089/5686097876962672130

Beware the ghosts of connect buttons past...

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Orkut contact import for Google+ was soft-launched this week for people in India and Brazil.

We're not promoting this externally, but I feel the need to give big props to Michael Sindelar, Eduardo Thuler , Victor Ribeiro , Paulo Golgher, and Diego Fernandes for making this happen.




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Do you participate in the mediawiki open source project and want to help authorship at Google? Let me or @102662722116509970382 know, we'd appreciate any assistance.




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Bye bye OAuth-Wrap!

The Hotmail account feature in Google+ now uses OAuth 2.0 to fetch your contacts. Looking forward to talking to more OAuth 2.0 enabled endpoints (ToS/BD willing!)

Congrats to Yaniv Shuba and the rest of the team!




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Lost in the noise today --> Import your photos from Orkut. Congrats Orkuteers on the launch!


http://websoothra.blogspot.com/2011/12/import-orkut-photos-to-google.html

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Well played, very well played.

Now please request that they send invites to all their fans _using the product_.

This has the potential to be a major traffic mover.

And Google Korea -- see if SNSD will do the same!


http://www.google.com/intl/ja/+/project48/

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We recently started importing Orkut friends for new Google+ signups in India and Brazil. Orkut friends show up as Google+ contacts in the circle editor.

We will be offering an upgrade path for existing users soon. However if you'd like this for your own Google+ account you follow these steps:

1) Use a Brazil or India proxy: go/ganon for the firefox or chrome extension.
2) Visit the following URL:

https://plus.google.com/up/?type=st&force=1

Enjoy!




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And away we go:

http://www.doordevil.com/


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5679028284162089825/5679028283986254178

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ugh.. protip for protesters @google-- have data to back up your claims.

Right now there's a grim reaper effigy and carpenter union folks handing out flyers. Flyer is hyperbolic to the extreme and doesn't have any real data other than that a specific contractor used by google pays below the prevailing union wage. The only action requested is to email REWS.

So I ask the person there: does this apply to projects at Google or is this just a problem with this contractor in general? How many companies employ this contractor? How many people are being paid below wage? What other actions have you taken, if any?

No effing clue on any of those questions nor any passion.

I never thought I'd say it, but it made me nostalgic for eng-misc.




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Doubt many people noticed -- but Yahoo Pulse is now Yahoo Profiles... They still have that lamer exclamation point generic profile pic...

Time to update a few igraph rules...


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If only cs had +1 ...

https://cs.corp.google.com/#google3/java/com/google/protobuf/contrib/testing/ProtoAssert.java

bye bye boilerplate...




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Unofficial Google phone support today:

* GTV Music app (won't play an album, only plays first song.)
* Picasa Multiple account + dasher fun (uploads going to wrong account, looks broken because both accounts have same name/profile photo) Figured it out by comparing obfuscated gaia IDs..

Lots of "Open Link in Incognito Window" required, sadly :(




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How is gmemcached related to the open source version?

latest release looks quite impressive!

Check out the release notes for 1.4.10


http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1410

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This WebRep stuff *must* be stopped!

Terrible, terrible thing...


https://plus.google.com/100623276740673202144/posts/L7gKuoFLAEC

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If you have time on your hands try this:

1) Find spam comment on G+
2) Real time search for spam comment text
3) press report abuse as the spammer posts 'em.

(and then notify http://goto.google.com/es-escalations)




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ruh-roh....

corp IPs are getting throttled on twitter....


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Sadly I have to log into an AOL account to test contact importing, which means I get exposed to their peculiar form of "news".

I am happy that no one has +1'd this particular article and confused that this has a facebook like and share button. odd...


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5667572945699929553/5667572943501636066

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Very impressed with Google Ears (go/ears). I thought I'd throw it a challenge and it nailed it!

Watch if you dare :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zoIzdJ--go

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Just added soundcloud.com iGraph support -- the first step to using their graph data in intelligent ways. (And to clearly identify Dr. Luke's remixes..)

Let me know if YOU want to support better indexing of your favorite social site!

goto.google.com/lifeofaconnectedsite


http://soundcloud.com/drluke/ke-ha-blow-cirkut-remix

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Aha! Now I know why I'm seeing inverted images. Clever!

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/photos/backend/fife-color-inversion




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First step to reducing most java binary sizes by 50MB is complete. Code that does not use custom balancers will not require a static version of lbv2client.

Thanks to @101926291824638317887 for coming up with the action plan (see attached doc...).

And big shoutouts to the folks that create and maintain TAP global presubmit and Rosie for making it somewhat painless.


https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1A_MTciL428sYZNRiV2xNTrqDUpTqm2BByQAE1mlQ-QQ/edit?hl...

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My google birthday is the same as Google's birthday.

This year has sure flown by!




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Just got pinged because of this article.

Someone I work with in the OpenSocial community is trying to read between the lines..


http://www.canadianreviewer.com/cr/2011/9/10/sourcecode-dev-google-in-perspective-an-interview-with-...

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Is there any standardized igraph-like library for email address classification/normalization at Google?

I did a search for gmx.de and bellsouth.net and didn't find anything generic. Just lots of whitelists scattered everywhere like the following class. In any case if you're interested in this let me know since I'll likely be designing such a beast in the near future....

https://cs.corp.google.com/codesearch#google3/java/com/google/caribou/base/AddrSpec.java




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So now's the time to add your Zagat profile to your google profile!

igraph rule coming shortly. Now we just need to teach them about schema.org markup, XFN, hCard, etal.


http://www.zagat.com/user/3365969/reviews


http://www.zagat.com/user/3365969/reviews

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Office move time again!


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5644499381882476913/5644499384702525922

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Next time you're considering sending an email send a Google+ message instead..




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With great snark comes great responsibility....

Not going to be specific, but an external google marketing campaign just deep-sixed a potential partner deal we've been working to consumate. The partner in question was very pissed off that we insulted their product.

Please remember that we compete with *and* partner with most of the tech world out there the next time you want to have a little "fun".

Signed,
That crazy guy that wants to enable Google to call APIs on non-Google sites...




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Interesting post on the trough of despair. Also shows adoption curves of Chrome, Wave, etc.

ES fits this in many ways -- everyone had their own internal expectations about what a Google social product might be like, and it's almost impossible to make something that works for all people.

Rolling thunder should help us blow past that trough...


http://www.stephenp.net/2010/06/02/gartner-hype-cycle-meets-google-insights/

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Want to help Google+ and Google's social efforts succeed but don't know how? Do you use other social sites on the web?

Here's one way you can help -- no coding required!

Pick a site from this list:

https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvPwfdG5fY41dE1KTk9TZGh0Wl9yaVVCNlFld3g5V1...

And fill out details on this form:

https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGg0aFpOLW9JVWpCa0t3d...

Once this is done we can add support for these sites in iGraph -- this will help social suggestions, social search, the authorship effort and more. Please feel free to reach out to me if you need more information or have questions.

Thanks!


https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGg0aFpOLW9JVWpCa0t3d...

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