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Anyone on photos team working with twitpic to get their stuff into G+ photos?

Would be interesting to create an appengine application that could serve twitpic.com and redirect and keep those permalinks active.


http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/twitpic-to-shut-down-picture-sharing-service-after-tradem...






 

4 mos old visitor

4 mos old visitor

 


From the ever entertaining CompeteWatch community...

https://quip.com/blog/notifications






 

My canary's got a regression! And the only prescription.. is more @Nullable!









 

 

FYI -  Search is unlaunching social features today:

https://ariane.googleplex.com/launch/121162 (Authorship)
https://ariane.googleplex.com/launch/120045 (SpYW)

This is a reactive release, so no explicit comms will go out.  If anyone asks you should escalate through PR.  There will be a public post about some of this by John Mueller.

Sad to see it go, but I do understand the reasons why.









 

I hope you can update Mark with authorship changes the same way you treat Search Engine Land.

I hope you can update Mark with authorship changes the same way you treat Search Engine Land....  He's going to lose some major credibility.

Originally shared by Mark Traphagen

Interview with Me About Google Authorship

Andre Alpar of OMReport.de interviewed me last June at SMX Advanced in Seattle about Google Authorship and the changes we had seen from the beginning of the year up to that point.

Please note that this interview was conducted before Google removed all author photos from regular search, but Authorship still works, and I believe the principles I discuss here are still valid.

 

You can now donate and gift-match via payroll deductions.


https://support.google.com/googlersgive/answer/3381180






 

*One simple trick that simplifies JS Loading!*

@103532563190745371016 has delved deep into script loading and found that it's better to  just use a regular script tag to load many resources.  The key is to use the async and defer attributes.

It turns out that preload scanners work better than the gobs of script-tag-injecting js code, even on older mobile browsers.

If you're targeting IE9 and above you can also use the _onload_ attribute on your script tag to trigger execution when the script is async loaded.

Work is ongoing to update our docs and existing uses in google3.


https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1vOKlHN3VI9nlJYbkCIXSZiP_T9QimGvaoh48qR9BKI8/edit?_e...






 

Worth re-reading every now and again...

And since this was in 7/2012 many new folks may have never seen it..

http://go/escalation-manifesto







 

Gaia engineers, avert your gaze.

Imagine the logic needed to implement that...

Nebraska: age 19 (or upon marriage) huh?


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






 

 

Some days I wish we could apply machine learning to TAP...

For example, run this small set of tests first, because if they fail, then all these other ones will fail too.









 

 

Google Health...  For dogs

Just had to deal with medical records for my dog's chemo treatments.  Very suboptimal.  I was able to get PDFs (instead of fax) and some digital x-rays.

However to make sense of this I had to manually plug in blood test results into a sheet.  Each of these data points had differing error-ranges. etc.

There's a long history of animal based science being applied to humans.  If we could solve the Vet problem we could move on to Humans.....









 

I don't think that's what we meant by "name shaped".

@102143528674197588447 @103643500382916616176


https://plus.google.com/






 

This following comment makes me wonder...  when will HTML not make up the majority of our search corpus?

_They've already been using their ranking system to encourage HTTP and HTML. Think of all the poor BBSs and gopher servers they've been discriminating against!_


http://search-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/08/07/1556204/google-will-give-a-search-edge-to-websites-th...






 

Big congrats to the G+ signin team for getting integrated with mixi.  Wow.


http://mixi.co.jp/press/2014/0804/12248/






 


_"embedded restaurants and taxis"_

This is why I think we need to do more, not less with live content, especially on mobile....

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/8/1/app-unbundling-search-and-discovery






 

Good context here.  27k members!

Good context here.  27k members!

 

 

John Hjelmstad / Jonathan Beri - same deal as sign in button...  let's incorporate it...

John Hjelmstad / Jonathan Beri - same deal as sign in button...  let's incorporate it...

Originally shared by Gerwin Sturm

As you might have noticed I invested quite some time in Polymer recently. What I like about web components is that they make a lot of things a lot easier, except...

Normally adding a +1 button (or any other Google+ plugin) to a website is just about the easiest thing you can do.

1. Take the code snippet from the docs, e.g. https://developers.google.com/+/web/+1button/

2. Paste it in your code at the appropriate place.

3. Done.

Unfortunately the gapi JS library doesn't like to work with the Shadow DOM. Even if you pass in a direct reference to an element inside of your element it won't work.

The (https://github.com/GoogleWebComponents/google-hangout-button/) works around this issue by adding an element to the light DOM, telling gapi to render the button there, then snatching the element and sending it to the shadow realm dom.

Since there are a lot more widgets to choose from, I took this idea and started by creating a generic element that takes `type` and `data` as attributes to render the appropriate plugin, using the same idea as the hangout-button.

So for the default +1 button you could just use

Or for a profile badge you would use

<google-plugin type='person' data='{"href": "https://plus.google.com/+GerwinSturm"}'>

From there I started to create specific elements, that have the relevant attributes for each plugin.

For now there are only two but others are easy to add:

(the profile attribute will be used to build the href attribute needed by the profile widget)

The plugins still aren't really happy inside of the shadow dom, displaying some errors in the console, and not all interaction seems to be working correctly.

I have some other ideas I will test to improve this, but maybe the gapi team will eventually support Shadow DOM properly ;)

For now these elements work better than not working at all :)

Source code: https://github.com/Scarygami/google-plugins

Docs: http://scarygami.github.io/google-plugins/components/google-plugins/

Demo: http://scarygami.github.io/google-plugins/components/google-plugins/demo.html

 

Kudos to Lisa on the 84/580 run today. She was running behind and right behind the other 580 bus, she asked the Newark/Bayfair passengers if they'd switch to the other bus so she could skip those stops.

Super Ingenious.









 

Putting servers under a "microscope"?

At -= 2 we had a special set of prod machines called microscopes.  These machines ran fully instrumented binaries with full logging and oodles of extra instrumentation.

For read-only services without side effects a small chunk of traffic was mirrored to the microscopes.  For mutable requests a %age was sent there.

I don't expect we'll let engineers connect Yourkit to running production code, but I would have to expect that something like this exists, right?  right?


http://faizscientific.com/faizhtml/images/hello-kitty-microscope.jpg






 

What is this Messenger app in L???

Will Hangouts still be default? What about Gmessage?


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6041918966800660241/6041918960428142274?...






 

Bookmark this for when your Hangout/GVC loses audio and the other side doesn't care/know.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSQcqhJl9rM






 

 

A gem of a performance.

A gem of a performance.

I've found that a search for {BANDNAME} {YEAR} live where year is early on yields some amazing finds.  That's how I found this superb performance.

 

Realized that many people don't know about this nicely curated news blast that's put out every morning.  Subscribe today!


https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/forum/#!forum/morningnews






 

Read this behind the scenes article about Project Boswell with Brett Lider  and Joseph Smarr  who toiled long and...

Read this behind the scenes article about Project Boswell with Brett Lider  and Joseph Smarr  who toiled long and hard to deliver an awesome feature.

This article also showcases how sometimes you have to throw away the first few concepts before you get it right.   Happy that I had a small part at the beginning of the project and props to the many folks that invested time and effort to get this out the door.

 

Nifty new auto screenshot sharing in Ingres. Play Games should offer this as "Screenshot as a Service". I wish that they used Deep Links and Calypso...

Intel report for Portal "Jordan Residence" -- Ace Arch.


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6031938915992521697/6031938918283855778?...






 

Still at work, trying to leave now...

Still at work, trying to leave now...

 

Fundraiser for Libby Schaaf for Mayor of Oakland at the BlueSprout industrial co working space.

Originally shared by Tim O'Reilly

Fundraiser for Libby Schaaf for Mayor of Oakland at the BlueSprout industrial co working space. Oakland is a Maker city. Libby will be a Maker - friendly mayor. But she is most of all a doer who will help city government to work for its citizens!

 

Going to be using hashtags in CLs a lot more now that Critique shows them as links to a search landing page:

https://critique.corp.google.com/#search/&q=tag:socialefficiency&type=cl









 

 

EA FIFA '73 spotted at Google...

EA FIFA '73 spotted at Google...

 

The OpenSocial zombie is tough to kill.  Instead of braaaains it mutters _unified architecture document._.....


http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/social-activity-proposal.html






 

Big anti-hangouts article from Microsoft.

_Google+ Hangouts is Google’s attempt at a Universal Communications solution, but is designed primarily for consumers rather than information workers. It relies on third-party applications for many key voice capabilities, and has other significant limitations that make it a poor choice for business. Lync, which is easy to use and easy to manage, offers the flexible yet comprehensive UC solution that both enterprises and end users need—a solution that Google can’t match._


http://blogs.office.com/2014/06/09/microsoft-drives-the-universal-communications-revolution/






 

Idea: *bandwidth meter on shuttle*

or a data based way to stop data hogs.

- Install network monitoring on the router. Use sflow or something like http://www.pmacct.net/ Also gather interface stats (up/down/max bw, etc)
- display results for everyone to see
  - use built-in TV/video out (if available)
  - or use an led sign like the one below..

Messages that could be displayed:

  - Bandwidth warning 75% reduce usage.
  - No 3G/4G service.  Hang tight!
  - Warning.  Video usage @35%
  - Display stats for the current ride
     BW used this ride 420M
  - Or even better:
     BW used this ride: 56
  - Or sillier:
    BW use this ride: .05 milli-SWE

Of course a programmable sign could be used for other things too.

Next Stop: West Oakland Park & Ride
Some interesting google-wide metrics (and not the stock price, please...)


http://www.amazon.com/NEOPlex-Programmable-Scrolling-Software-Keyboard/dp/B00B90LY7I/ref=pd_sim_sbs_...






 

This crazy "gothic" house near my home in Oakland can be yours for $869k.

This crazy "gothic" house near my home in Oakland can be yours for $869k.

Bonus: it's an Ingress portal.  Not sure if that'll be in the disclosures...

Photo tour here:

http://www.coldwellbanker.com/property?propertyId=283479577

 

So is there an official cabo hangout/community thing for those of us here in all this mugginess?









 

Wow.

Wow.

 

 

 

Remember: *Social's about the people*

_Hey now y'all, can we just get real?_
_Do we care about our fans or is this just another deal?_
_Said another way, have we lost our way?_
_Social's about the people, remember they are people_
_Do we really need another fan, like or share?_
_Do we need another post to show up everywhere?_
_I hope as we scatter we never forget_
_That our posts live forever even when we go to bed_


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itvvFfeLh84






 

For a second there I thought we had forgotten some size params on our FIFE urls...


https://plus.google.com/104979267299758620425#__sid=md0






 

This is either really disgusting or super-trollish, depending on whether this person is an actual employee...   Latest comment:

_Nothing at all; this was a decision made by the Hangouts team. The XMPP change has to do with the NIH syndrome a lot of Google engineers suffer from, combined with the incompetence of the Hangouts PM, Kate Cushing._
_Disclaimer: I work for Google._


https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=presootto






 

This just happened to me at 4am.  Many, many reports like this at http://community.nest.com/ and there's no public response.

Wife wants to rip them all out and get a refund.  Anyone from Nest team want to help out?


http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/20/is-the-nest-protect-fire-alarm-giving-users-false-alarms/






 

Google+ : For Winners.

(Private communities and hangouts get the job done for Ingress players...)


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6014259673203354705/6014259666305363442?...






 

A tale of automation woe.  Read from the bottom..

A tale of automation woe.  Read from the bottom..

A Windows 7 deployment image was accidentaly sent to all Windows machines, including laptops, desktops, and even servers. This image started with a repartition / reformat set of tasks.

As soon as the accident was discovered, the SCCM server was powered off – however, by that time, the SCCM server itself had been repartitioned and reformatted.