Thanks to Malte for ControllersForbiddenDependenciesTest
Millions of browsers and data plans are breathing a sigh of relief.
#infrastructureworkingwell
#googplus
We found the doppleganger for @103403111903646616992 in the #SELFIE video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdemFfbS5H0
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5997045439778760769/5997045441757533874
#googplus
Considering setting up a Google Code Orphanage.
OWNERless code could automatically be "gifted" to a code-orphanage group of maintainers. Those volunteers could then put the code up for adoption or retire it in a sensible way.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5995965251408653457/5995965253170844578
#googplus
Punting to your users and their elected officials considered harmful.
http://lj-advisory.livejournal.com/
#googplus
Full list of Google supported Donors Choose projects.
http://www.donorschoose.org/donor/2275665/?tab=PROJECTS_SUPPORTED
#googplus
I wonder if there's anything to learn here, especially with our push to split into multiple apps.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/21/5534814/twitter-music-is-officially-dead
#googplus
So we have new *Die Techie Scum* and *Tech out of Oakland* graffiti at the West Oakland Park & Ride
If Transportation folks can get someone on this it would be great (time is of the essence for this kind of stuff)
If not I'll try and pick up some solvent and rags this evening and clean it up...
#googplus
But first let me take a #selfie ...
Cannot be unheard...
https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=B7keer7m66imh4urkuzdnunp7pi#body-content
#googplus
Twitter for business marketing department is cranking out the art... 5 pitches in 2 weeks. All related to tv show integration. (In this case the Oscars..)
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5984526121028377329/5984526124445161010
#googplus
Listening to some UK Garage today. Altavista reference made me smile.
_You won't find us on Alta Vista_
_Cult classic not bestseller, you're gonna need more power_
_Plug in the free phase and the generator, crank it up to gigawatts_
https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKqCnCd3p4qn9iqqezTaS3AvK63bBfq4F2l1DgNR4I3HhL...
#googplus
When I want reliable stats I always turn to BirdSignals
_We'll all be watching and cheering for our favorite athletes on TV in the next few days. In fact, 81% of Twitter users say that they will watch at least some part of the games. Of those, over half said they will be likely to Tweet about it as well ++ ._
_Through our TV conversation targeting, we make it easy to promote Tweets to users engaged with specific events on TV. This feature allows you to interact with people as they talk about a TV show on Twitter before, during and after it airs._
_++ Source: #Birdsignals, Twitter & Vision Critical, February 2014_
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5981792006118916929/5981792003510010594
#googplus
Understandable how this search result was tagged with a menu. Because 'food' I guess.
Reported at http://go/bad
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5981514037966807201/5981514041010252658
#googplus
Needed: Periodic testing for developer sample apps.
I've been importing a number of Google's sample Android apps into Eclipse and/or Android Studio. It's painful. If we could periodically download and run these Apps on a fresh Android Studio/Eclipse(/Xcode?) we might save developers a lot of time and catch broken examples sooner. Automation for bonus points...
Here's just a few things I bumped into:
- GMS changed their APIs between v4.0 and v4.1 Half the things I was trying to do didn't work.
- Most examples have a hard coded compile version which means the import fails unless you've been downloading SDK versions for the past couple years. Once you figure this out it's an easy fix, but it's still another roadblock.
- Developer Console vs Cloud Console. 'nuff said there..
Here's some of the bits and pieces:
https://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client/wiki/Android
http://developer.android.com/google/play-services/auth.html
https://developers.google.com/+/quickstart/android
https://developers.google.com/+/mobile/android/getting-started
#googplus
Just noticed this markup syntax for linking web pages back to FB profile pages. We should probably parse these are rel="me" back to the the facebook profile.
@116679685807477912446 - sounds like an igraph thing, should I file a bug for it?
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/guides/og.follows/
#googplus
Is there a Youtube video that has the encoding information stamped on the video like this?
There are some _Example Show_ videos that when played tell you the bitrate and resolution. It's also a surreal thing to watch...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/netflix-test-video_n_4212826.html
#googplus
Anyone want to help me decipher the userId structure for this site? It's tightly linked to our profiles. (Naturally due to AKB48 crossover)
Example profile pages are good. A regex that matches them is even better.
http://gp48.net/view
#googplus
So I was just saying to myself wouldn't it be great if we could have incognito iframes and behold! there it is.. iframe sandbox's unique origin solves that problem...
Anyone using this in practice? I'd love to use this as a way to serve up 3P content and supply the appropriate user information directly from the parent via postMessage to avoid user-overlap confusion.
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/sandboxed-iframes/
#googplus
Pluck spammed me about their new events/hangouts-like functionality.
Hello Paul,
Can you do this today?
Hold a live event, on your website or Facebook page. Invite an executive, topical expert or celebrity to host it. Let hundreds of thousands of your fans not only follow the event, but participate with comments, questions and photo and video uploads. Manage your event’s tone, pace and energy by choosing the content your fans see. Compel them to spend an average of 40 minutes on your website or Facebook page.
How about this?
Enhance a virtual or in-person event with a dynamic social wall experience. Collect, curate and display related social media content directly on your website. Moderate fan content – comments, questions, photos, videos, tweets, Facebook posts – so that it best represents your brand. Add your own original content or editorial commentary. Create a complete, highly visual story around a particular topic or event.
Creating a Real-time Experience is about starting a conversation, not joining it. It’s about listening and engaging. Real-time Experiences are about collaborative content, and leveraging unique audience consumption opportunities on your owned media.
Pluck’s CoveritLive Real-time Engagement Platform gives you everything you need to design and produce highly interactive real-time experiences. More than 1,500 leading brands, retailers and publishers like Subway, EA, Jeep, Ford and Anthropologie have created real-time experiences with CoveritLive. They have connected with their fans – and generated new ones – through Live Blogs, Q&A Sessions, Social Walls, Second Screen Experiences, Featured Galleries and Facebook Chats.
For digital marketers seeking customer and shopper engagement, real-time experiences are highly differentiated and very sticky. CoveritLive routinely supports events with hundreds of thousands of attendees, who on average are engaged for 40 minutes.
And here’s the best part. You can download CoveritLive and run trial events of your own at no cost. What are you waiting for?
#googplus
And more Perception vs Reality.
Don't take a -knife- fact-based argument to a -gunfight- irrational issue..
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/22/264528139/long-a-dirty-word-gentrification-may-be-losing-its-stigma
#googplus
Anyone tight with the people at xda-developers?
See http://b/8002104 if you can relay a request to help them fix an issue.
#googplus
Waiting for people.oz to turn green? Play this....
Or heck, play anything from the 51 albums in the Rockabye Baby collection.
https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKrGos62UGCnyd2XAGkVtdWmgfUG8zFRifPE5W7eUdCTtL...
#googplus
One liner for output of /usr/bin/unsued_deps for #futureme
*cat /tmp/oz_deps | awk '{print -bash "\nblaze build " " || read -p BORKED "}'*
buildozer 'remove deps //java/com/google/common/annotations:annotations' //java/com/google/apps/people/oz/widget/signin:module
blaze build //java/com/google/apps/people/oz/widget/signin:module} || read -p BORKED
....
#googplus
Some gutsy tagging on P turf.
(And real proof that the techies are taking over the Mission. P and NP gangs are the new Norteños and Sureños.)
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5968262152633464209/5968262154427017826?...
#googplus
Graffiti partially removed/obscured and one bag of trash dealt with this morning.
I have a bag with solvent, gloves, rags, trash bags and a scrub brush. If other people are keen on helping I can leave it out. I also brought my portable leaf blower -- I can get some of that broken glass taken care of.
Also reported illegal dumping using SeeClickFix on 7th & Linden (Download the App, it actually gets stuff done). Also can someone get Caltrans to pick up the sofa and other junk that was dumped in the lot?
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5965831869026667441
#googplus
Hey WOPR folks, let's clean up West Oakland.
I used to live in SOMA and there was a guy who would clean up all the trash and butts around the corner of 7th and Howard. His small acts made a huge difference and he was the most popular guy in the neighborhood.
There's a trash bin at the corner of 7th and Adeline, so arrive a few minutes early, clean up and win a few hearts and minds. And remember we have hand sanitizer on the bus.
https://plus.google.com/+PaulLindner/posts/NuzN8eaLjKx
#googplus
35% of sites on the web now use a custom font. The +1 button's use of Roboto apparently added 8% to that statistic.
No worries, when we added Roboto we also converted the button to SVG. All those bytes from the sprite now are more effectively used to support highly cacheable font downloads.
http://httparchive.org/trends.php
#googplus
Sharing my personal tips for #bureaucracybusters
By using the tips below I'm down to 2 passwords and two gnubby touches per-day.
https://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MacRoadWarrior
#googplus
*Paul's Guide to Youtube spammers*
G+ uses a reputation system and it gets better if it's properly trained. Here's how to help.
1) Find a video you like.
2) Select *Newest First* Comments.
3) Find a spammer! Selling instagram followers, make money at home, PSN codes, ascii-"art", Home "remedies" etc.
4) Hover over the timestamp
- If it's a link to a video, you have a skinny page, report it inline.
5) If it's a G+ profile cmd-click into a new tab
6) On the opened tab click on the profile link in the left card.
7) Amaze at the series of spam posts
8) Report them as spam from the drop-down until you get bored
9) Block/Report the profile if you deem it appropriate
10) For particular nasty stuff or if you detect certain patterns escalate at
http://go/es-abuse
And follow the instructions in the bug template.
#googplus
Paradigm shift. Post->Create, View->Search.
I think part of the YT problem is one of perception that reminds of the early days of Gmail. Remember when you 'put' messages in 'folders'? That's what people think of when they post. Instead you have 'Content' that is created that has certain attributes.
When you have content with attributes you can use search to surface it, rank it, and filter it.
So my minor suggestion for Youtube comments is to add a really simple thing: Add _Searching for Comments..._ to the loading indicator.
#googplus
Paging absentee Google-owned Youtube channel owners -- time to start policing your comments. If you're not going to moderate *and engage* just disable comments. Otherwise while you're away the partying teens will trash the place.
For sport and old-times-sake I spent time reporting porn/abuse/spam on popular videos and Google-owned channels. I saw the usual hideous garbage in "Newest First", but what I didn't see was any engagement from the channel owners.
So to repeat, own your channels. Moderate and engage. Moderate and engage. *Moderate and engage*.
[Also banning a few abusive individuals will go a long way towards eliminating the ascii-art genitalia until the ML algorithms catch up..]
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/ex-nfl-player-home-trashed-hundreds-partying-teens-articl...
#googplus
New SVG based Plusone Buttons going out to the world.
https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKqN3U0OdvXv0MiMQwSljmTmDspcCdRRosU-xYLTBvl6BL...
#googplus
The SNS space keeps shifting. Hyves is now moving from a general purpose social network to a gaming focused one.
I hope that works out better from them than it did for hi5.
http://hyves-corporate.pr.co/63596-hyves-transformeert-naar-online-gaming-portal
#googplus