More SNS consolidation.
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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.
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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:
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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...)
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More follow buttons all over the web...
@101960497985958811288
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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...
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Can't access b/ cs/ s/ etc?
plindner-macbookpro:~ plindner$ curl https://
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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Hey instagrammers -- anyone know what the canonical web presence for Instragram is? I see that they link to web.stragr.am on the offical Instagram blog, however it's not 'official'..
@109016304695129264328 @110242419133439594545 know anything more?
@106853593867879252009 - who's looking into expanding image social search corpus...
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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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.. random ES thought on content-based circle classifications..
Imagine if we could infer the type of circle based on either the content you post there (via NLP), the linguistic name, or user specification?
We could:
-- boost/dampen the volume of a post based on circle matching:
I have you in my _Photos_ circle, you share to your _heavy_metal_ circle == dampen.
-- You post your high scores to _public_ + _chess_, I follow you in a circle named _games_ == boost.
-- My wife posts to _family_, I have her in _family_ == boost
-- My wife posts to _Tennis_ and public, I don't have her in a sports circle == dampen.
The reason I've been thinking about this is another what-if --
-- what if Apps had a one-to-one relationship with a plus page?
-- When I add an App, it can circle me back.
-- If I perform an action on the third party site the app can plus-mention me, or it can group together users into relavant circles to send updates.
-- I can put noisy apps in a circle and lower the volume.
Note that App could be a Game (like Angry Birds), an App (like Remember the Milk) or even a web site (like 8tracks or Soundcloud..)
Maybe this is stretching the model too much, but it's certainly fun to ponder!
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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?
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These are not the Guava you're looking for..
[fun stuff from the interests pipeline]
Otherwise pretty accurate, if a bit heavy on my youtube viewing history...
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I just updated my profile link to Google+ so authorship annotations can work.
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Watching the live stream for Search, plus your world:
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After almost a month our Flume MR is finally running again. The mystery of the broken shard has been finally solved!
*shard (n.)*
a piece of broken ceramic, metal, glass or rock typically having sharp edges.
*sharding (v.)*
dunno… but you will likely wound yourself and you get to keep all the pieces.
— Theo Schlossnagle
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soundcloud.com -- now with rel="me" on profile links. It's a start!
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It's one of those "You have to spit to see the shine days"...
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Just registered for this event with the hope that I'll be able to get OAuth or XFN support in MediaWiki. Sadly EventBrite has every share mechanism except the +1 button..
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Once it's prod-ready my chromebook will be one kick-ass oncall device.
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