I had forgotten how I signed up for eMarketer which actually dumps some useful analysis in your inbox. I didn't find the original eMarketer info but I did find this roundup of valuable external data sources (which does include eMarketer)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e0E3Vy6LIDP1Q15mhYh-Pp_2Uli-kVwg1xqv3j3dNWQ/edit?_escaped_fragme...
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Maps and GBUS work pretty well split-screen, especially useful to know if you're going to get to the stop on time.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6470343210085028337/6470343209853819490?...
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Curious if our sales teams pitched Walmart?
In any case keep an eye on FB. We should be aware of their moves. A lot of it is more in the Slack/Dynamite area, but there are significant crossovers into Plus.
We should all be up on https://www.facebook.com/workplace/
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/26/workplace-facebooks-enterprise-edition-snaps-up-walmart-as-a-custo...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about robots.txt and then some.
_Then in 2007, they announced that all three of them would support the Sitemap directive in robots.txt files. And yes, that important piece of internet history from the blog of a formerly 125 Billion dollar company now only exists because it was archived by Archive.org._
https://intoli.com/blog/analyzing-one-million-robots-txt-files/
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I ordered the _"Designing for Trust: The Data Transparency Playbook"_ ebook..
Gives me hope that all this GDPR work will pay off.
https://www.invisionapp.com/blog/data-trust-gap-design/
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Surprised it took this long for an article about this to come out...
http://blogpros.com/blog/2017/09/google-plus-removes-share
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Aaron Swartz Day 2017 has a nice lineup of speakers.
Also watch this if you haven't already:
https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz
https://www.aaronswartzday.org/
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Anyone know if there are projects inside Google to standardize on data models for Intellectual Property Rights?
https://www.coalaip.org/
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DNS still kinda sucks, despite the billions of revenue collected by ICANN and registrars..
https://sites.google.com/corp/google.com/stronger-dns
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Stumbled on Jostle.me, a new Enterprise Social Networking company. Some good takes on why this stuff is important. Also includes elements of gThanks, teams and more.
https://www.jostle.me/google-apps
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Pack it in folks, I think we've reached peak ICO insanity.
[email is already decentralized!]
https://investorsbuz.com/2017/08/22/prometheus-building-first-decentralized-email-system-offer-total...
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This looks good. Added to my to-watch list.
h/t to the creator of X-Plane, which is a pretty awesome flight simulator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i48Pb6sTgmY
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Hi Last-minute 120ers.
Here's the pitch deck for *Google. Forever.* Still looking for UX and BD team members.
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/presentation/d/1eP4UkcW3U4l7p13XzHPX7RXSPaNSJqrLS4nGASxgUKo/edi...
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Susan from March 2017. I prefer this positive response to the corp-speak one that was sent out.
I hereby pledge to double-down efforts in this area and widen my circle of influence to to match my circle of concern.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-to-break-up-the-silicon-valley-boys-club-susan-wojcicki
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Want week numbers in your calendar? Read on.
Saves you a trip to http://whatweekisit.com
http://www.scottgreenstone.com/2016/01/calendar-week-numbers.html#__sid=md4
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BRB reading whitepaper. Happy that it's not yet another ethereum smart contract.
[also have you noticed that having a whitepaper is a prereq for startups these days...]
https://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf
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Now playing in the G MinusOne war room. 10% 10% ! !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGrKcqcHHcE
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*Google+ vs Facebook GIFs - 2011*
So I hear that body slam GIFs are all the rage now. Of course back in 2011...
Many more cringe-worthy things here:
https://zahidlilani.com/2011/07/19/hilarious-google-plus-gif-animations/
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6438194510653877985/6438194508238025506?...
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There are days when I'm ashamed of the industry I work in.
Of course the medical industry should feel shame too. This is all about treating disease as a big money making opportunity. Just feels like ghouls feasting off the misfortune of others.
http://gizmodo.com/how-a-company-you-ve-never-heard-of-sends-you-letters-a-1795643539
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Launching +1 button evolving banners...
https://play.google.com/music/m/Thzqqdnh7rpdhjodtkdkricg4z4?t=Anvil_Of_Crom_From_Conan_The_Barbarian...
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*Paul* Added *Groove Thang* to *Bumper Music*
[manually constructed activity post]
Plug for my bumper music playlist[2] that you can use to spice up your meetings and give it that TGIF vibe. Suggestions welcome, description below:
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Waiting for people to show up for your meeting? Add some Bumper Music! [1] These are instrumental tracks that can be easily faded out at any point.
Retrospective? Let's do the Time Warp!
Your "classic" weekly sync? Apache, Frankenstein, Hocus Pocus, and Green Onions have you covered.
Top Secret Project meeting? Moby's James Bond
Or just spice up your boring all hands with some electro/synth/funk.
Suggestions welcome!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_music
[2] https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXynB0Y7GSMNgd3XrzHLe5CQOatDMjcWYhS0Gn7R7ACZuOmlJLQJ9vez4G...
https://play.google.com/music/m/Tur2wrgcwhqev3aymylzwn2d2em?t=Groove_Thang_2006_-_Remaster_-_BEF
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Always good to reread the *As We May Think* essay.
Dr Bush foresaw much of our modern life. Well, except for the Taboola/Outbrain ads you'll find in the Atlantic. Pretty sure that Lovecraft predicted those...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/#article
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And here I am redacting Google+ widget logs so we don't track you across the web...
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/6320398
https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169421
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Challenge: Redesign classic games for DAU and ARPU metrics. I'll start: Monopoly - do not pass go for 24 hours unless you buy these gems.
Sad to see Imzy go down.. So much potential...
https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/imzy_is_shutting_down
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I highly recommend reading the updated *ACM Code of Ethics*. You can draw a straight line from those principles to Product Excellence, Focus on the User and more.
I also wonder how many Googlers actually belong to a professional organization? Do people think of themselves more as Professionals? Artisans? Proto Plumbers?
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/5/216328-listening-to-professional-voices/fulltext
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Seeing these strong words being posted in a few places. I probably need to create a Silicon Valley Apostates collection...
Oh and it's Maciej Cegłowski, fair warning...
http://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htm
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Anyone know what's the latest on Macaroons? They seem to solve a large set of problems in a general way...
https://research.google.com/pubs/pub41892.html
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TL;DR: OMG! Your aggregated data is not protecting privacy...
Also if you're not familiar with k-anonymity this is a good place to start...
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/15/trajectory-recovery-from-ash-user-privacy-is-not-preserved-in-ag...
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I highly recommend The Product Excellence Workshop. Take it with your team for an even stronger experience. The instructors +101977395828280125935 and +100280079678510579493 deftly covered a large body of knowledge.
It's also good to see the H.E.A.R.T. model covered in formal training. People like
+114097187269026141752 and friends have done well to evangelize this in Social/G+ over the years.
Lots more at http://go/peworkshop and more resources at https://product-excellence.googleplex.com/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hHF-4S5VYcTUNLMEl0bDVaOUk/view
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Anyone else subscribed to *The Morning Paper*? Interested in starting a reading group? I found them when I was reading up on Honey Badger BFT and have been a fan since.
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/08/end-to-end-optimized-image-compression/
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CitC on mac, really hope security kittens are in my favor..
https://g3doc.corp.google.com/devtools/srcfs/g3doc/mac-citc.md
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QoS is awesome. Returns 429 to GoogleBot when under load.
And Google+ is fortunate to have +103629377878623483645 implementing and developing it. Thanks!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-KFDiTrQe9lWDJOMWx3a0xCb28/view
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Moffet Place has source-routed elevators... 1st I've ever seen this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENWVRcMGDoU about bin packing elevators.
This is a very well written article about how the film/content industries are attempting (and failing) to keep up with archiving their data.
Reading about LTO I now understand why gtape is moving to http://go/chronicle and http://go/timelock (Also interesting that timelock has a Q2 OKR for 500PB, which is 10x the size of the film archive mentioned in the article.)
I'm also curious if Google has had to delete data that we've regretted. Do we have all of the old street view data?
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/it/the-lost-picture-show-hollywood-archivists-cant-outpace-obsole...
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Reading about HIP.. It's like Mosh for every protocol and allows clients and servers to move networks and stay connected.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8005
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2 Chapters in on the audiobook and I can already recommend this.
Remember to buy the non-drm'd versions at http://craphound.com/
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30139664-walkaway#bookMeta
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*Oz News Update* - Early Q2
TLDR:
- Deathstar and other projects launched, we removed lots of code/GCUs/Zipit.
- We're going to keep removing code/GCUs/zipit.
- The +1 button will meet it's demise soon. Long live the G+ button.
- Contacts, People APIs and lots more are moving/moved.
Read the full episode at:
https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/oz-eng/uXAdeOtGg5Q/KLsRdzBdEwAJ
And I'll leave you with some revolutionary, code killing, Oz-esque inspiration from Oakland's _The Coup_:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acT_PSAZ7BQ
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