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?
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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
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sooo much better. Optimized converters for the most common character sets implemented in native code.
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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!
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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...
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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!
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(Also that I'm able to share this with non-es folks speaks to the power of the sharing model!)
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Just signed up for the Opensocial SOTU - May 12th, tell your friends http://
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