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Digital Vellum Photos
Digital Vellum is working on a project to help people store Photos for 100+ years.
That means I'm thinking about how to build a long-term, stable, resilient systems and business. I'd also love to see this applied to Google so it too can be a very very long term entity.
So I'm not an expert in this area but it seems that there are some ways that we can focus the business on long term value. Some are structural, others based on rethinking existing systems. I'm not an economist or an MBA by any stretch, but here goes:
- Sell annuities that pay out in storage/access "dividends" spread out over a long time.
- Create a wholly owned Mutual Society to manage storage and serving. Google can then become a Lloyds of London-stye "Name". [This entity could sell long-term/perpetual bonds that also have storage dividends]
- Create a customer-owned collective to manage long-term assets. Think of it as "Vanguard for Storage".
- We already store Photos for iPhone users, why not have each company back each other up and come up with coordinated storage systems with rights of survivorship.
- For the crytpocurrency angle use something like Streem () or Storj () Allow anyone to participate in a long-term storage system. This might be more adaptable.
And also remember to take our Photo Preservation Survey if you haven't already:
Kanban
We have what, three or more internal Kanban tools? go/kanban, go/plananizer, and now go/scrumboard
None of them really do everything I want.. Trello or Jira+Grasshopper both worked better in the past, and I'm sure they're even better now.
I wish we could merge all three internal projects and then add the UI from this simple opensource sandstorm app WeKan.
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...
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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?
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Mosh to cloudtop from laptop
Assumes:
- you have a jump host (existing ubiquity works fine)
- beyondcorp is disabled on laptop/jumphost
On jumphost
sudo apt-get install dtach
On laptop
ssh cloudtophost
echo
# copy the value of that environment variable
# create a new shell on your laptop and continue:
mosh --port=60000 jumphost
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK={pasted filename}
dtach -Ez -r winch -c ~/.cloudtop-session ssh cloudtophost
tmx # or screen or whatever you prefer
This setup leaves your mosh session active when putting the laptop to sleep, network changes, etc.
Every morning you will need to use go/auth-refresh to get fresh tokens.
If you have to reboot your laptop you can get back to your previous state by executing:
mosh --port=60000 jumphost
dtach -a ~/.cloudtop-session
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...
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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...
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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...
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The Mail Must Go Through - Decentralized Customer Service
Some kudos to the US Postal Service. I sent Express Mail to a PO Box for Saturday delivery. Saturday comes and I realize that the post office is only open from 8 to 10:30, but delivery is only guaranteed by 3pm. Oops.
So I look up the Post Office and notice that a local number is available. With skepticism I called the local number. 3 rings later I'm talking to a small-town Postmaster. She knows the recipient, takes the tracking number and promises to call back. 15 minutes later she has found out where it was and promised to receive it after hours and deliver it.
Shocked I ask her what can I do to thank you. Her response is simple - "The mail must go through!".
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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://
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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.
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Google+ Buttons...
*The +1 button for web sites is now the G+ button*
Hey Googlers - get ready to dogfood the new G+ button! It's an evolution of the existing +1 and +Share buttons you see across the web. It's leaner, faster and much less expensive to operate. Instead the world's most costly-click-counter you'll share directly to G+, which is what most users wanted anyway.
You can see the G+ button at various places such as:
- Blogspot blogs like or
- The Chrome Web store
- And sites from a-to-z
Want to give feedback? There's a handy link in the pop-up sharebox to do so.
Big kudos to +106053902024703312631 / +110610523830483756510 / +104802479551695111660 and the cast of characters that have helped us get this far.
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Unsearchable and Daily Inspiration for a TGIF..
The following *delightful* Google Play Playlist is a comprehensive collection of music from Watch Dogs 2:
Digdug doesn't know anything about it.
And yes, that's a base-64 encoded proto you're seeing! [and Let's hope that adding a new message to that proto doesn't rewrite all the permalinks....]
I was able to find the link to this in some disqus comments with a bit of search tweaking, but I couldn't get an actual link surfaced for a playlist in our own product. The original Spotify playlist does show up.
CitC on mac, really hope security kittens are in my favor..
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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!
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Moffet Place has source-routed elevators... 1st I've ever seen this...
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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://
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?
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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.
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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://
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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://
And I'll leave you with some revolutionary, code killing, Oz-esque inspiration from Oakland's _The Coup_:
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Here's some Cute Penguins, Cute Dogs and Beautiful Landscapes to brighten your day.
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On my 3rd Nexus 6p. Things I have learned:
- Always upgrade the new phone to the latest build or backup/restore breaks. (With security updates that meant *6* restarts.)
- Good time to prune unused Apps.
- Don't forget to recache: Play Music playlists and Maps Offline data.
- Open each app one-by-one to get rid of "Okay, got it" prompts.
Things that are still painful:
- Entering long 20 character passwords in apps
- Transferring TOTPs in Authenticator
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Google+ Commercials and Promos
*Various Dates* - Various Google+ Commercials and Promos
In order of appearance with some notes on when they aired.
Introducing the +1 Button
Google+: Circles
Google+: Sparks
Google+: Instant Upload
Google+: Explore Circles
Google+: Explore Settings
Google+: Explore Hangouts
Google+: Explore Games
Welcome to Google+
Google+: A quick look
Google+: Messenger
Google+: Pages
Google+: Search
Google+: Sharing but like real life
Google+: Circles Love Story
Introducing the new Google bar
Google+: Say more with Hangouts
Muppets Google+ Hangout (featuring the Muppets).mp4
Search, plus Your World
Google+: New Dad
Google+ Nina
Google+: Daria Musk
Google+: Tom
Google+ Local: Places you'll love, from people you trust
Google+ Events: Share event photos instantly with Party Mode
Introducing Google+ Events
Connect with friends the way you want with Google+ in Gmail
Google+ for Android
College Football on Google+
Google+ 2012
Google+ Communities: A place for whatever you're into
Google+ Events: Introducing a new way to get together
Google+: Public Squares
Google+: Beautiful movies, made Auto Awesomely
Google+: Media
Now this, this is interesting.
It's like Patreon for groups. I could see this being useful in tons and tons of places.
It's also something the Wallet team should have and could have pivoted to.
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""The appearance of privacy where it doesn't exist should be avoided at pretty much any costs. Your users will invest a great deal more trust in it than you ever want to and ever should, and you should make privacy design decisions with this in mind.""
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I set up https://
Ping me if you want to sign up.
And yes, some of you may recognize the name....
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Everyone should be using Matrix. Not just open source developers.
It's near feature parity with Slack and it's also one of the best IRC clients around. I used to run ERC in a tmux session just so I could stay connected and not lose messages. No more.
What a nice story.
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