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This morning at 9:11AM the crack java-libraries special ops team killed StringUtil#replace(). No BUILDs were harmed, however an 8-year old unmaintained jsp file was caught in the crossfire. Further investigation revealed that the jsp in question had already been dead for many years.

Further details on the mission can be found at http://go/stringutil









 

Yikes.. noticed I had Hans Reiser listed as a fan on slashdot. removed.. Social networks are more than a capital investment, they come with ongoing maintenance costs too..









 

The swedish chef has infected my CL....

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Bacn support is now checked in. Guess that means that @rkhare@google.com can actually shave now!









 

Experiencing Emerald Sea separation anxiety!

At least this time sink of a renovation project at my house is almost done and I can get back to doing real work and showing up in the office..









 


I was six and Star Wars had just come out. It was sold out. Instead the sitter got us into Clint Eastwood's "Every Which Way but Loose"

hmm, might explain a lot -- especially my use of profanity :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077523/








 



Reshare to a circle of your choosing:


*What was the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theater?*









 

- question of the day

*Would you rather go back in time or visit the future?*

Create a new post and spread (at least until I write the qotd app!)









 

There's a gmail switching campaign -- who knew? Love the art!


http://gmail.com/switch






 

Anyone have opensocial stickers or other materials hidden away?









 

Cross posted from a buzz thread about implicit graph matching.



creepy/yuck factor? At one time organ transplants were considered frankenstein creepy. Street view was (and some say is) considered creepy. The facebook news feed was once considered creepy. People's views change over time, especially if there's an underlying value that one can understand. For all of the above I'd say that the value is there and folks have adjusted.


Having a benevolent trusted partner that can search all of your content and knows you better than you know yourself using heuristics and AI? That stuff is science fiction magic. We can make it happen, and it forms the basis for serendipitous search.


I'd say we're going to have a lot more moments like this where we surface stuff to the user that they didn't expect nor ask for. Making everything opt-in is not the answer -- there has to be a middle ground here where value is given before it is asked for.









 

Too quiet around here..

Todays QOTD:

What was the first computer you owned outright? Create a new post and spread far and wide....


Me? The money I earned as a teen cleaning fish guts from the resort next door netted me a C= 64 & 1541 disk drive. Good times, good times. We only needed two cursor keys back then :)


-firstdata


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64






 

resisting the urge to install IRJ22.. Flashed GRJ22 instead...









 

Living on the bleeding edge -- /usr/local/google converted to ext4 and noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier

did a blaze clean --objfs and it completed in record time.

Load spikes seem to have gone away.

git gc running faster..

/me crosses fingers..









 

Going to post this here as well as follow up with email...

Got some good feedback from @ionas@google.com on the gbus today..




* When selecting the visibility/acl for an item the word 'Custom' is confusing -- suggested text might be 'Specific Circles/People'? It's awkward no matter which way you look at it. Also the ACL choices need some kind of tooltip or help to assist the user choosing the right one.


* University/Employer auto-complete rocks, would like to have a button next to customized University/Schools that would allow someone to add this customized data to our corpus properly specified. It would also be nice to display the logos on the profile (is that waiting for badges?)


* It would be nice to list degrees instead of majors.


* Employer name is coming from 'companies' it does not find other entities like School Districts -- perhaps the entity query could be broader, or freebase data could be better co-typed?









 

The relief gbus was under-capacity so I'm sitting here with @ionas@google.com at the local McDonalds snarfing some attwifi while we wait for the 9:45 shuttle to arrive......









 

I can't believe that fundamental things like converting strings to character sets and back is so horribly horked in Java/OpenJDK to this day. A scalability / code style change I've been promoting turns out that it generates way too much overhead.

So I thought I'd see Android's implementation

https://cs.corp.google.com/#android/libcore/luni/src/main/java/java/lang/String.java

sooo much better. Optimized converters for the most common character sets implemented in native code.









 

woohoo! new oz release out. Now I can see all my contacts that were previously silo'd, including all the folks working on gadgets!









 

Had a great lunch with @macduff@google.com and @rkhare@google.com ..

Based on our conversations I'm going to claim this idiom *social referer*

For a number of reasons it might make sense to send the originating social profile in an API request. For example a nytimes +1 could include an sgn URL with the API request.

POST /plusone/create
Content-Type: text/json
X-Social-Referer: sgn://nytimes.com?pk=12345

This would help with spam mitigation (we could throttle individual accounts at a third party instead of an entire site) It would also allow us to have a reciprocal relationship with our partners since they can see the profile information in one way only. Of course we should be willing to send social referers to sites we make API calls to as well.

POST /api/v2/contacts
Host: api.yahoo.com
X-Social-Referer: sgn://google.com?pk=OBFUSCATEDGAIAID

Stupid idea? Good idea? Sound off in the comments!









 

Welcome @fkunz@google.com, @alanv@google.com, @jcater@google.com and @jonalie@google.com to the warm waters of the emerald sea!









 

Circles success story #1.

I wanted to tell people about the awesome mobile apps. Normally I'd buzz it and you'd see it in your stream even for people on Emerald Sea that have been using it for a long time.

However... since I have a circle I'm calling "Other Googlers" I just sent it to that circle and didn't waste other folks time. Just like I'm only sharing this keen observation to es-folks..

so cool...









 

Greetings people not native to the Emerald Sea -- Just in case you missed the promo you *must* check out the mobile app. It's amazing!

https://goto.google.com/mobilefishfood

(Also that I'm able to share this with non-es folks speaks to the power of the sharing model!)


https://goto.google.com/mobilefishfood






 

Too bad 14 blade razors will only be available when I'm 130..


http://www.xkcd.com/887/






 

Someone needs to tie DiRT to Emerald Sea using some clever reference to auditors..









 

Just signed up for the Opensocial SOTU - May 12th, tell your friends http://lnkd.in/Ya2uFc

 

If you want +1 now go here: http://www.google.com/experimental/index.html

 

With +1, Google Search Goes Truly Social — As Do Google Ads http://t.co/z4plhXh via @techcrunch

 

Tell Google about your LinkedIn account here: http://lnkd.in/CYe9_G

 

Zeppelin ride!

 

lindner opened issue 1 on gli/closure-compiler-maven-plugin http://ff.im/-yIgZn

 

"OpenSocial 2.0 Kickoff!" on December 16th http://t.co/xd6Snt9 via @eventbrite

 

lindner started watching nf/gogopherd http://ff.im/-vaUOQ

 

lindner opened issue 1 on joestelmach/zipper http://ff.im/-v2euq

 

lindner forked joestelmach/zipper http://ff.im/-uMc8w

 

RT @dlpeters: Wave accepted into the Apache incubator, thanks to 88 votes of support! http://bit.ly/awvpr

 

Heath ceramics sale. So nice that the rain let up! http://twitpic.com/38mb4s

 

At junnoon with opensocial folks

 

RT @dlpeters: Today is OpenSocial's 3rd anniversary. Enterprise OpenSocial Interop event on Thursday: http://bit.ly/osinterop

 

Just found http://localshow.tv/ - very nice site using Youtube APIs - shows continuous local band videos with a TV optimized UI.

 

lindner started following sporkmonger http://ff.im/-suCGh

 

@atrachtenberg @ramsey. Can you send info to dev@shindig.apache.org Thanks!

 

RT @Vespa59: the definition of madness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result, unless you use Firefox/Firebug for web ...

 

lindner deleted branch stable at memcached http://ff.im/-rD5D7

 

lindner created tag 1.4.5 at lindner/memcached http://ff.im/-rD5CU

 

lindner deleted branch engine-pu at memcached http://ff.im/-rD5CT

 

lindner pushed to master at lindner/memcached http://ff.im/-rD5D8

 

lindner deleted branch stable-1.3 at memcached http://ff.im/-rD5CX

 

lindner opened pull request 2 on memcached/memcached http://ff.im/-rD5D2

 

lindner deleted branch gh-pages at memcached http://ff.im/-rD5D4

 

Best brunch in healdsburg — at Barndiva http://gowal.la/c/2C9wJ?137