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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://support.google.com/adsense/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=violation_report&rd=2

I had the older version of this form bookmarked when I was fending off Typepad spammers back in the day.


http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emily-white-at-npr-all-songs-considered/






 

One of these things doesn't belong...

Looks like they just added XFN markup as they're showing up in my reports now.


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Meebo offers a way to save your data as a tsv or zip file.  Can someone with Google Drive API experience talk to them about saving this data there instead?









 

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!









 

The ITU *does* do a lot of good work,

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.









 

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://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhoDoIBug

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://go/WhoDoIBug and file a bug first.











 

We had alerts fire for facebook downtime today. Must have been ugly if it brought down their oauth apis...









 

If you see me twitching it's just that I'm on a punk/speed metal musical diet until I/O.









 

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://goto.google.com/tryWebmailImport


http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Growth-Traction/What-are-some-decisions-taken-by-the-Growth-team-at-Fa...






 

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_arcade_video_games






 

Running Chrome Dev channel, Chromoting into a gprecise machine while running intellij idea on jdk7.

Can I get any more dogfoody than that?









 

Am I the only one seeing 'spinners' on all my Google Docs tabs? (this is on Chrome Dev channel-mac)


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_Me_: Launchcal is like doing your taxes
@113832139606919962388 -- How much can we make by creating TurboLaunchcal?









 

Got sick this afternoon and just woke up. I kept having dreams that I was a human junit food poisoning test suite.

hope I'm the only one and no one else dreams of assertEcoli()









 

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 :)]









 

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".









 

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://developer.yahoo.com/forum/YDN-Documentation/Problem-with-PHP-API/1335363456962-bd151f27-bbdc-...






 

 

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://www.sysoon.com/deceased/eva-pfeil-36/followers






 

Anyone know who's running bitbucket.org? This is just wrong:


<link type="text/plain" rel="author" href="/humans.txt" />









 

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.









 

When did the VU visualizer in Google Music (on android) start showing actual data instead of the fake random bar movement? Unexpected delight!

Oh and Daft Punk makes the meter jitter like it's consumed 10 cups of coffee.









 

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://soundcloud.com/anildash/free-conference-call-remix?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=sha...






 

I might be selectively reading the comments but it seems that people respect our strategy.


http://www.hackerne.ws/item?id=3854587






 

OH on an IETF list:

_speccers gonna spec_









 

_I get my thing in action!_

Can we get the licensing rights to this?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US8mGU1MzYw






 

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://plus.google.com/116425265660840849345/posts






 

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://plus.google.com/116425265660840849345/posts






 

So Will Wheaton never posts on G+ any more. Did we stop bribing him or what?

Or is it just because he couldn't transition over to GA+? @115428577457526581719?









 

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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8eJh4i8Lo






 

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://viewsorcerers.com






 

Should we be worried that searching for "google shuttle wifi password" finds a tweet with the correct answer?









 

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://plus.google.com/117259934788907243749/posts/A6hCjzRdzBD






 

@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






 

Russian "classmates" site now has public profiles and schema.org markup, however looks like we're not getting that goodness in the sharebox..


http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/profile/505699888741






 

 

Street view is not so useful in the land of recessed strip malls and gated communities..









 

The gods are trying to force me to take a vacation.

Rental cable internet is inoperable. Time Warner are clueless. Don't expect me to respond quickly to anything. ssh over tethering is painful.









 

Heard on morning edition today

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

awesome.







 

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.









 

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/]


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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






 

Can someone point me to the javascript readability rule that requires that periods go on the previous line for chained call?

someLongAssIdentifier.
foo();

vs

someLongAssIdentifier
.foo();

I keep doing the latter and I'm hoping knowing the rational reason _why_ will help me get out of this habit.

(And I'm secretly hoping this is some ancient IE6ism that we can banish...)









 

More follow buttons all over the web...

@101960497985958811288


http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/02/27/linkedin-follow-button-for-companies/






 

+1 auto expand works. Folks I know that don't normally share are sharing. Now I just have to pester them to upload a profile photo :)









 

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






 

 

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!