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This is Paul Lindner from the Google+ Platform Team
I would like to report a problem with the +1 button on rtl.nl The value of the 'annotation' parameter is incorrect. This prevents the button from displaying.
Can you route to the appropriate technical contact?
An example page where this failure occurs follows:
Thank you!
Happy that this track is available on Google Music because I can share a free listen and I prefer 320k mp3s.
Looks like we're not quite #onegoogle for image filtering.
TL;DR -- SIte displays porn content from freebase/knowledge graph that violates AdSense ToS.
_A quite strange thing happened recently. I have a news website and I'm using Freebase API to provide readers for more in depth information about the content of news articles. The site runs Google's AdSense ads._
_Following the publication of a local news, on the sidebar containing text and images downloaded through Freebase API, an image of a woman with her bare breasts was displayed._
_Well, that image, made available by Freebase, which is a Google product, was considered obscene by the team of AdSense (also a Google product), which decided to suspend the service. A sort of vicious circle of Google, exercising a censorship on itself._
_Given the impossibility to make Google people understand that the visualization of such kind of images was occasional and not intentional, I'd prefer to avoid such problems in the future. Hence, I'd like to know whether there's some way, when using Freebase API, to filter out images considered obscene by the AdSense team._
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Google Now served up this article as Breaking News yesterday.
Is there anything we can do to help hacked Wordpress installations that have pharma ads? As you can see below it's impacting sharing to G+:
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This has been going on for *years*, I've personally had to burn down and rebuild many WP blogs for friends. (and multiple times due to backdoors). (Read more about it at http://
What can we do? Are we still running netagent to detect spam cloaking? Can we detect spammy links/text and refetch? Should Google+ ignore spore and just refetch using it's own user-agent (ick!)?
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Sometimes you just want a peanut burrito...
Originally shared by David Barnett
Pass the salsa! We noticed a squirrel in our back yard eating something huge. It turned out to be an entire tortilla.
Can GFEs do more than basic redirects? Like mod_rewrite? It seems like it'd be super useful. For example:
https://
could be redirected to
https://
It appears the the path_redirects only allow for path->absolute redirections.. Happy to be proven wrong.
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Someone needs to convert to Google+ sign-in...
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Just found my next cleanup
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@Nullable Present<T> means nothing...
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It's the _green_ room show room.
Check out those snazzy animate-in effects...
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Social Score pipeline visualization. I think Alexandria is the slow draining bathtub...
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Ever wonder what the "brick circles" are in San Francisco? Wonder no more.
For more technical details you can read this writeup which goes into the various failsafe mechanisms involved:
Though I wonder if they're still using a SCADA system connected to a VAX 4000 to run their pumps?
36 days until Google I/O? Hurried man indeed.
Sadly it appears we may need to add (like facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+https://
to our fetch requests...
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Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! Julie & I spent a fine evening at Pizzaiolo which had a March 32nd themed menu with dishes we won't see till next year, including their special Italian spring break cocktail sesso sulla spiaggia.
Two bytes are sitting in a bar. One says: "I'm not feeling so well. I think I might have a parity error."
"Yeah," says the other, "I thought you looked a bit off."
(found in the latest DNA Lounge mailing...)
"Google should just buy stuff for me" -- Sergey at a TGIF a while back.
... or Takeout for subscription services
Think about Spotify, Rdio, Netflix, HBO and other content subscription services. Once you stop paying you have nothing left. Takeout is nothing more than references to a paywall.
A way to disrupt this might be to structure systems to reward you with ownership of a portion of the catalog each month. Examples:
- Your most listened song or TV show.
- The ebook you shared the most.
- etc.
Then when your subscription period ends you get to keep the fruits of this relationship.
In many ways this is like the Columbia House[1] or BMG music club. You get a free thing each month by default. You can sample the entire catalog, or get more if you want. But you're always *owning* something new and interesting each month.
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Intuit's market cap is $20B. If the government bought them and sold off the non tax related assets the return on investment would be less than 5 years.
That's how a government run like a business would operate...
If you're a wikipedia contributor you might be interested in this feature request...
Here's another episode of the fun with stopcharacters for #musicmonday
Last time we covered the curious case of "ke ha"
Today we have someone that's truly ungoogleable. He's Matthieu Chedid, better known by his stage name "-M-" (that's dash, M, dash) Go ahead, try searching for that, you won't find it on Google, Youtube, or Play. Not even Dailymotion or Fnac.
This is sad because less people see and hear his high-energy rock&roll played on a pacman-ghost guitar. Enjoy!
Should a search for -M- (a french musician of some note) work?
I had to actually search for M disambiguation to find this:
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Prince playing at the DNA Lounge
Google, remember this....
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A good writeup from the folks at GitHub.
I liked this:
> We have fixed this issue on our affected applications and are working with the Rails core team to determine if this change was intentional as well as what action other users should take.
The risk is that what looks like a routine system update includes a change that looks to be innocuous but that has side effects for people who are using the system in ways that are unexpected by the coders.
So go/babble exists.. It's basically "Readability" for English (and I'm glad there's no such requirement..)
I did learn a little bit, specifically the source of "do the needful".
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This out-of-print audio book is a must-listen.
Brought to my attention by Julie Lindner via a Gibson retweet.
Note that a 5-disc CD version was made - we have one.
Free Pie on π day...
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
MTV-40-2-Seville Tech Talk (155) VC
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Another shuttle ride close-call! ... and my most strenuous exercise of the day.
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Only a week to go until the radio play of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere on BBC Radio 4. It has quite the all star cast:
When do you think it's on? The BBC website is less than clear about this. I suspect it's weekly Sat afternoon on Radio 4 and then repeated on 4 extra, but that's not quite what the feature page says.
"Neverwhere begins with an hour-long episode at 6pm on Saturday 16 March on Radio 4 and continues with five 30-minute instalments stripped across the week on Radio 4 Extra from Monday 18 March."
Julian Bond - looks like it's playing on Radio 4 at 14:30 on the 16th :
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and then on Radio 4 Extra at 18:00 on the 17th
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My plan is to schedule it to record using TuneIn Radio Pro, but I expect the episodes will be available to stream like many other BBC shows.
Paul Linder that was my plan as well to use the tunein app on my phone to record each episode
New widgets refactor code-name: Sprockets
Your widgets have become tiresome.
It evokes SNL, the Jetsons, and a tooth'd gear.
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So had a four hour power outage last night. Pretty sure we're down to 2 nines of availability for the year.
You'd think with all the new Smart Meters that
Pacific Gas and Electric Company should accurately know about power outages in near real time. Instead of alerting on their usage graphs it appears that the primary feedback mechanism is phone calls.
I've asked for a callback. When I do I'll post it to the Postmortems community. Ought to be interesting...
Thinking of posting this externally.... Already left as a comment on a post. I think it might help people understand what's at stake.. I just need to find a creative commons image of dollars in a mattress :)
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Keeping all your data on your own hard drive? Do you keep your money in your mattress?
Just like most of us keep our money in a bank/credit union, most of us should keep our data in a trusted place and only carry around what we need at a given moment.
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Anyone know how to debug gmail issues? I don't know which dogfood just bit me.
All of a sudden I saw my mail in my inbox dissappearing 4-5 per second inside the offline gmail chrome app. First time I ever saw the 'happy sun' image which I assume is what you get when your inbox is empty.
Not sure if it's the Chrome app or the dogfood android or something else.
All inboxen are affected back to Feb 19.
Also if you sent me email and need a response ping me on chat until I sort this out...
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No, this isn't today's doodle. It is some very creative high-speed liquid photography.
Originally shared by Alex Koloskov
Behind the shot video:
Have one can of blue paint left, should we shoot Facebook from it? :-)
Insta-buy!
Clément Covemaeker, Apr 19 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com