multiply.com is shutting down their social network. Anyone want to look into ways of bulk importing these folks?
According to igraph we track around 150k multiply.com profiles, so it may not be a big needle mover. However it might be worth it for a PR win. (Or not... if the lede is that Google+ is killing smaller social networks..)
The least we could do is offer to import all the photos into G+
http://
#googplus
Google is a tourist destination -- at least for my in-laws. They all want to go -- two retirees and a middle age school teacher/poet. I guess I forget that people have this fascination with what we do.
Anyone considered opening _Googleworld_ or _Googleland_?
Figure I'll give them the drive around followed by a walk through 43 and lunch. Any other suggestions?
#googplus
Can we run an MR against the calendar database that relocates all meetings with '1:1' in the title to the smallest conference room less < 20m from the existing one?
Bonus points if we can reshuffle and repack all meetings into the appropriately sized conference room. (yeah, yeah, I know that's NP-hard, but still, we're Google...)
#googplus
When did we start removing the little profile thumbnails from personal search results? I saw this a while back but just assumed I was in some latency experiment...
I've been telling sites that XFN and such are a way for them to "stand out in search" because of the profile photo annotations.
Should we be pushing harder for sites to adopt authorship? Also why are Don Dodge and Jeff Reine not showing up as authors in the results below? Weird....
Would appreciate any clarification.
https://
#googplus
Okay Googlers -- if you were unhappy that Events was a closed dogfood you have your chance to participate in the most open dogfood we've ever done.
Here's some simple things you can do:
- Are you using proper schema.org markup? Are your comments http://
- Do you have a user history for your service? Investigate if it's possible to send these moments to frame service. I can connect you with the right people.
- Do you request OAuth scopes for your api-based service? Consider using plus.moments.write to send us active and passive user activity.
Docs are below, feedback will be gladly taken (and I just might send you some Google+ schwag as a token of appreciation)
http://
#googplus
[keeping this in the ES family...]
Reaction from my family to the events spam:
_Your company is so fucking stupid sometimes... Why don't you turn off events until you fix your stupid problems._
Sadly I partially agree. If we still had the incoming stream we could easily put the stranger events there. I know that some fixes are in flight -- why are we not being more public about this? A simple Mea Culpa would do a lot here. Comms folks, what's up?
More quotes: _You look like a bunch of amateurs..._ and _why didn't you anticipate this?_
Harsh.
#googplus
@103803434511913844892 @102352541062683971307
Ade shared this to a limited audience so I can't plus you into the original post...
Looks like you guys recently turned this service down (is it because of igraph changes?)
http://
#googplus
Tired of being asked to check-in to "West Oakland Mental Health" instead of the Parking Lot to pick up the Google Shuttle. Used Mapmaker to edit, but am seeing the bug described in here:
https://
Click on the link below if you're on MapMaker so we can get this approved.
http://
#googplus
Don't feel soooo bad about our authsub token page now that I've seen https://
https://
#googplus
I suppose it would be a bad idea to comment publicly on this.
All I want to say is that you just need to use the report adsense abuse form:
https://
I had the older version of this form bookmarked when I was fending off Typepad spammers back in the day.
http://
#googplus
One of these things doesn't belong...
Looks like they just added XFN markup as they're showing up in my reports now.
https://
#googplus
3rd party embeds pretty please?
http://
#googplus
It's been a while since I've encountered geo-restricted content. Man it sucks. Take my money dammit!
Oh, and if anyone wants to help me buy something from the France iTunes store LMK before I go off and try to find gift cards from the far corners of the internet.
Happy to reciprocate too!
#googplus
The ITU *does* do a lot of good work, #justsayin
I worked there from 96-99 and in some ways they are stuck in the past, but in many ways they are forward thinking and we wouldn't be here today without the work they've done.
I also think it's arguable that the gTLD-MoU would have been better than the ICANN disaster that we're living with today.
#googplus
Do you have a way to file bugs for your product? Help Googlers find that secret go link or buganizer category by adding your project here:
https://
And the next time you want to rant on G+ about the failings of this or that product make sure you head over to http://
#gplusbuganizer
#googplus
100 import sources? How about 200 import sources!
Help us dogfood the new webmail contact importer and email address verifier by following the instructions below:
http://
http://
#googplus
Maybe this is why I like standing desks so much? All those quarters spent on Defender were really just preparing me for a professional career :)
http://
#googplus
Am I the only one seeing 'spinners' on all my Google Docs tabs? (this is on Chrome Dev channel-mac)
https://
#googplus
A bit tired of wordpress security issues. I've had to help friends get upgraded after they got _pharma'd_ and today the LinkedIn blog was compromised. What's funny is that they reset my LinkedIn account in addition to my WP account..
[and no I didn't realize that I still had access to the LinkedIn blog :)]
#googplus
I was pondering about how pop music is tuned for mp3 dynamic range this morning and came up with an idea:
Google Play Musicgram
Just imagine:
- AM Radio effect for all your Sinatra songs.
- See what Elvis would sound like autotuned.
- "Chipmunk" Barry White. (or chipmunk Cyndy Lauper and see if your dog can hear it..)
- RPM 33,45,78 (for those that remember such things.)
- Def setting (adds random DJ scratching)
Or we standardize something like this as "html5 audio transforms".
#googplus
Yahoo social APIs down for 8h -- no contact imports for us!
It was obviously a software push on their end. I could see the clusters updating in our graphs in stages.
Anyone have a backchannel? I've escalated through their NOC and I'm not getting anywhere...
http://
#googplus
I hope someone is already de-FUDing this...
http://
#googplus
And look what we have here.. XFN for dead-people profiles.
rel="friend" seems a bit macabre.
[ do note that they're using all the html5 markup they can.]
http://
#googplus
IDF'able?
Goal: Propagate family information
Insight: there's usually a member of the family that is the master curator of the family tree.
Solution: Nudge curators to share their family circle.
- Compute the Family circle sizes for all the people in your family circle
- If you have the largest circle prompt to share your Family circle to your Family circle.
Caveats: obviously if you're married/divorced your family circle might be disjoint, which means that there will be unrelated people.
#googplus
Nice to see that Anil uploaded this to Soundcloud. This hold music is permanently seared into my brain after many years of using freeconferencecall.com..
http://
#googplus
I might be selectively reading the comments but it seems that people respect our strategy.
http://
#googplus
_I get my thing in action!_
Can we get the licensing rights to this?
http://
#googplus
I think there's some interesting research one could do on the virality of the photo you see below.
The sad fact is that my wife found this photo in her twitter feed because WIlliam Gibson tweeted a link to the flickr page. I searched for his name on Google+ and found him and was the first reshare, after that it spread quite nicely.
I suspect there's similar spread on Facebook, twitter retweets, flickr and other networks.
In any case I'm really enjoying following the ripples for this post and watching it spread throughout G+.
https://
#googplus
I think there's some interesting research one could do on the virality of the photo you see below.
The sad fact is that my wife found this photo in her twitter feed because WIlliam Gibson tweeted a link to the flickr page. I searched for his name on Google+ and found him and was the first reshare, after that it spread quite nicely.
I suspect there's similar spread on Facebook, twitter retweets, flickr and other networks.
In any case I'm really enjoying following the ripples for this post and watching it spread throughout G+.
https://
#googplus
Closing the viral loop: we're slowly getting there. Here's a personal anecdote.
- heard a neat song on the radio
- used Ears to figure out what it was.
- watched the youtube video via Ears link. Liked the 80s-TRONish vibe enough to +1 it.
- Searched for La Roux on the browser, found friends recommending specific tracks.
- back to Ears, go to Play Music.
- Bought the album after listening to recommended tracks.
- Sharing this here (and will on public G+ in a few) so others can discover.
Loops like this are what power your social network. We can still do a better job, but I'm quite happy with my experience here and I hope others will slowly get there too.
discover, consume, share, repeat FTW
http://
#googplus
Okay, have a domain name. Now need to come up with free-time to make my web-site-makeover / judging hangout-on-air show a reality.
http://
#googplus
Resharing internally...
Do you get depressed when you view-source?
Recently I've been doing this a bit for authorship and thought it might be fun to do it in a more general public way. Anyone interested in being a celebrity judge?
https://
#googplus