#google | 1500 Word MTU

Paul Lindner

LGTM :)

LGTM :)

Originally shared by Gerwin Sturm

While the activity log at https://plus.google.com/apps/activities/from/i9 is nice for keeping track of posts you +1'd it contained too little information to be really useful, so I whipped up a chrome extension that rectifies this "issue" by fetching profile picture and a small text snippet for each of the posts via the Google+ API. This only works for public posts but from my experiments it seems that only public posts ever get added to the activities anyway. The extension still needs a bit of testing and clean-up, but I'll open-source it soon :)

PS. I've all sent feedback that this should be the default behaviour without the need for extra scripts :)

PPS. Source now available you want to give it a try - https://github.com/Scarygami/gplus-experiments/tree/master/better%20%2B1%20log

Paul Lindner

I got an email from the Google + platform team saying that there was a problem with our implementation.

I got an email from the Google + platform team saying that there was a problem with our implementation. The email however didn't contain any specifics, just some links to common issues. I've spotted 2 small things that might be the issue. Thing is I do not want to address what might be an issue only to have it turn out that I missed something for fixed something that wasn't broken.

So the question is where do I go / who do I talk to to get specifics?

Paul Lindner

Little known fact. All royal births require launchcal approval.

_It doesn't look like we're going to get launch calendar approval before EOD today. API team, please grant 100K QPD for now, to ensure that we do not block the birth of the Royal Baby._

ttp://b.corp.google.com/issue?id=9677423

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Paul Lindner

Juhan says hi!

Here's my neighbor Juhan. He's a Google fan that suffers from Macular Degeneration. Every other week I help him with his old Windows XP rig that somehow resets the font sizes back to stock.

He's still on AOL, which doesn't support larger font sizes. So when he receives a "letter" he opens it, selects Forward and uses the message editor to boost the font size. He tried switching to Comcast (Zoho?) Mail but it was a big fail.

Otherwise he does pretty well with video sites, Newspapers and Skype. Watching him use technology has been very instructive. I learned a lot watching him cope with various web sites.

Despite not using our products he's a big fan of Google and wishes us all the best!

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5898813881606962785/5898813885589560450?...

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Paul Lindner

Neil Gaiman came by Google to speak about his recent novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and at the end, a bit...

Originally shared by Chris DiBona

Neil Gaiman came by Google to speak about his recent novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and at the end, a bit from an new book coming out in September.

Neil Gaiman: "The Ocean at the End of the Lane", Talks at Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z4mwSdcLoc

Paul Lindner

Two questions come to mind:
- Google, master of the links, should've done this first
- It will probably get spammed to death, but that's a fairly easy problem to solve...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/1/4482322/twitter-embedded-websites-tracking-monitoring-events

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Paul Lindner

Mr Jingles is the best thing ever. I fully expect it to help our popularity in APAC where a mascot is almost required.

Pictured below: Toph and TophToph, the SixApart/Typepad mascots.

https://plus.sandbox.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5894689919880372449/589468991981...

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Paul Lindner

Hi there Android Central!

Hi there Android Central! Nice to see you using our Google+ badges. We noticed a problem with the badge on http://forums.androidcentral.com -- could you please change the following code?

<div class="g-page" data-href="http://www.androidcentral.com//plus.google.com/111016991750865047479" data-rel="publisher" data-theme="dark">

The href value should be set to

http://plus.google.com/111016991750865047479

Thanks!

http://forums.androidcentral.com

Paul Lindner

The wait is over!

The wait is over! If you were at Google I/O you may have seen these new buttons and badges. Now everyone can use them.

Originally shared by Raj Iyengar

If you're a publisher, blogger, or community owner that wants to promote your Google+ presence on your website, we have a bunch of new options for you! Starting today, you can configure a compact Follow button, or beautiful redesigned Badges that help your visitors follow you on Google+ without leaving your site. And, by popular demand -- Community Badges!

You can see the Follow button in action on the websites of

The Huffington Post, Mashable, CELEBUZZ, FITNESS Magazine, and Cooking Light.

#googleplusudpate #googleplusplatform

http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/2013/06/new-google-plugins-for-your-website.html

#googleplusplatform #googleplusudpate #gplus

Paul Lindner

Soundcloud and Google+: now better integrated.

Soundcloud and Google+: now better integrated.

If you already have a Soundcloud account go here:

http://soundcloud.com/settings/connections

If you create content on Soundcloud you definitely want to connect your profiles. Add your Google+ profile here:

http://soundcloud.com/settings/advanced

And then add your Soundcloud profile here:

https://plus.google.com/me/edit

Soundcloud supports authorship markup, and connected profiles makes your Soundcloud content eligible for enhanced search results!

Originally shared by Ade Oshineye

This: https://soundcheck.soundcloud.com/music/social-focus-google is cool.

But this: https://soundcloud.com/mayerhawthorne is cooler. /followed.

https://soundcheck.soundcloud.com/music/social-focus-google

Paul Lindner

Unexpected pleasure - Google Now and All Access let me know about new releases that I would have forgotten about.

Unexpected pleasure - Google Now and All Access let me know about new releases that I would have forgotten about. In the past week it's highlighted a new single from M.I.A., the new CSS album and this gem from Austra.

https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKq9aHSXLODope6LaKBJTrFLeRhrIibTs7jZu32bJ0_zqy...

Paul Lindner

Now we know why all the Noogler Helium balloons were replaced with pinwheels!

Congrats @105461895807395473744!

Couple of little things:
- Can you spec a better image for the snippet?
- Perhaps add more detail in your title?
- Add a rel="publisher" attribute to your Google+ page link.

http://www.google.com/loon

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Paul Lindner

Great new feature that makes it easier for people to follow your Google+ page from your newsletters and...

Great new feature that makes it easier for people to follow your Google+ page from your newsletters and notifications.

In the past you had to add and verify all your sender email addresses (which were often [email protected]). Now the email hostname just needs to match your verified website, which is much easier.

Originally shared by Google Small Business

Customers can now follow you directly from Gmail

Posted by Saurabh Sharma and David Nachum:

Today we're expanding the Gmail people widget to include brands and businesses (http://goo.gl/wx2mI), making it easier for your customers to connect with you on Google+. This way, when people receive emails from your domain, they can follow your Google+ page directly from their inbox! Your recent Google+ posts can also appear in the widget (alongside your email message), helping customers find and engage with your content.

To appear in the new Gmail widget, all your business or organization needs is a verified Google+ page and digitally-signed emails. Check out this page to learn more: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/3190197

#googleplusupdate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3wIrSExI_s

#googleplusupdate #gplus

Paul Lindner

I was talking to Brett Slatkin about authorship and he mentioned the Google Consumer surveys offers an A/B image...

I was talking to Brett Slatkin about authorship and he mentioned the Google Consumer surveys offers an A/B image survey that would be perfect for Authorship profile photo optimization.

You also get geographic/demographic breakdowns so I suspect that it's a good deal more informative than the OK Cupid bestface system.

https://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home

Paul Lindner

Do you send out emails with a noreply address?
Do you have a plus page?

Then you should consider getting your mappings added to the following bug so people can follow your page when they're reading your email updates.

https://b.corp.google.com/issue?id=9176847

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Paul Lindner

Was listening to Kreayshawn's Gucci Gucci, heard the shout out to Google Maps and got curious...

http://rapgenius.com/search?q=google

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Paul Lindner

Added some information to this question about integrating with analytics.js

Added some information to this question about integrating with analytics.js

I wasn't aware of this change to tracking functionality. I'll see if we can add some of this to the docs or provide an easy way to activate this tracking.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16777239/how-to-track-google-plus-1-plusone-clicks-on-google-anal...

Paul Lindner

Care about standards? From my comment from Jeff Dean's post at http://plus.google.com/112317652221071509598/posts/Wd1SamQcvpQ

Here's some things you can do to support standards at Google:

-- Look at the pages your team generates the way Googlebot does:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Add standard schema.org and html5 markup.

-- Discuss standards with the scant 200 other Googlers at http://g/standards-discuss

-- Participate in a standards mailing list/group. Plenty available for individuals at IETF or W3C. See standards-discuss if you want to participate as a Googler on corp-oriented bodies. Standards often suck because they're written by the standards/industrial complex instead of actual implementors.

-- Participate in an open-source project that implements a standard. These reference implementations are often poorly or insecurely coded. (For example a few people contributing to Apache Oltu would make Java OAuth that much better)

-- Consider exposing your amazing well-crafted stubby API via Apiary. Be extra careful to not break compatibility for a whole year. Write lots of integration and conformance tests.

-- Be like Vint. Suit up.

-- Above all have fun!

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

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Paul Lindner

Broadening distribution. Syncing up the Moments API (aka History API) with schema.org actions and the recent changes for inbox activities would benefit us all.

https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1IMQGH0F8SQ2r0I1CdlOwGFWsI5kYZccavyKGoArMn6U/edit

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Paul Lindner

I highly recommend taking some time to set up your own Adwords campaign. It's eye-opening.

There are things I like. [targeted emails are genuinely helpful and intelligent based on your situation]

And things that are not so great. [some confusing web UI for newbies, some difficulty getting keyword/landing page quality matched to bids]

http://www.google.com/adwords/?sourceid=awo&subid=ww-et-awhp_nelsontest3_nel_p&clickid

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Paul Lindner

Interested in standardizing and coordination of Google's vocabulary and markup efforts? Join here!

<div itemscope
itemtype=”http://schema.org/SubscribeAction”>;
<span itemprop=”name”>Join</span> the
<a itemprop=”url”
href=”https://plus.google.com/communities/102693216008518569997”>;
Schemarama</a>
Community!
</div>

102693216008518569997

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Paul Lindner

Anyone interested in a structured data/markup/schema group to coordinate external facing efforts?

It seems that we're moving in the same directions:

- Publisher Markup (authorship/schema)
- Interactive Posts for Google+
- Moments API
- Inbox Actions (JSON-LD)
- Tools (SDTT, markup helper)

If interested you can plus people into this thread and I'll create a G+ community with these people as seed members...

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Paul Lindner

So even us Googlers are in the dark about possible musical acts for After Hours.

So even us Googlers are in the dark about possible musical acts for After Hours. Last year it was Train and Paul Oakenfold. The year before? Janes Addiction.

Let's play a little game. Post who you think will play and why here..

If you guess well and I'm impressed with your sleuthing skills find me at the Google+ office hours. I might have some special schwag for you.

https://developers.google.com/events/io/after-hours

Paul Lindner

Have to give props to the people that go through all the effort to place ads on our site.

Finicky finicky. Or is just that we internally outbid everything with the word 'google' in it?

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5877650856094579745/5877650856940352498?...

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Paul Lindner

Somewhat surprised that Adwords doesn't use Google Wallet.....

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Paul Lindner

Your investment in authorship continues to pay dividends.

Your investment in authorship continues to pay dividends. Thanks everyone for implementing -- it makes products like this possible.

Originally shared by AJ Kohn

Content Recommendations for Your Mobile Website

When you help someone find a great article on your site, you’re not only making them happier, you’re inspiring deeper engagement and loyalty. That's why today, we're bringing together elements of Google+ and Google Search to suggest the right content from your mobile website, at just the right time.

For example: Forbes visitors can now more easily discover other Forbes articles based on Search Authorship, signals and other articles with lots of Google+ activity (including +1's and shares). In all cases, recommended content is based on the specific page the visitor is viewing, to boost the relevance of recommendations. And they only appear when people tap for more, so as not to interrupt their browsing experience.

Very interesting on a lot of fronts!

#googleplus #content #authorship

http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/2013/05/content-recommendations.html

#authorship #content #googleplus #gplus

Paul Lindner

Leafletting a Googler parking lot for low-end android phones?

Hope they're not on commission.

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5876404909126848705/5876404927437279234?...

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Paul Lindner

Success Story fodder

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2012/11/social-fridays-google-proves-recipe-for.html

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Paul Lindner

46 new speakers added to the I/O Speakers Circle (v4, May 9th edition) Perfect for adding to your Google I/O stream.

46 new speakers added to the I/O Speakers Circle (v4, May 9th edition) Perfect for adding to your Google I/O stream.

Paul Lindner

plusone.js FTW.

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/05/09/google-launches-a-one-click-button-to-save-files-on-the-web-...

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Paul Lindner

Animated GIF of a webpage with animated GIFs, which will go into a slides preso that will be recorded on Youtube.

I'm all out of encapsulations..

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5875959129896111745/5875959136286702114?...

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Paul Lindner

What's your favorite Oakland page?

What's your favorite Oakland page?

Happy to see Montclair Veterinary Hospital posting now and then..

https://plus.google.com/116719984221957569002

Paul Lindner

I/O Speakers Circle v2 (May 3rd Edition)

I/O Speakers Circle v2 (May 3rd Edition)

Added some missing speakers including:

Pamela Fox Kris Schroder Alexis Deveria Helena Roeber Charles Mendis Alexis Hanicotte Steve Lee Olivier Michon

Here's a circle containing all the speakers announced to date. I'll try to keep it up to date and reshare it as more sessions are announced.

Tip: Consider creating a new circle for people from this list. Then you can control how much I/O you get in your main stream with Google+ Volume Controls. (You can also remove the circle later too)

Enjoy Google I/O!

Paul Lindner

Salon.com needs to learn
- that they have a http://google.com/+salon URL
- use rel="publisher" in their page markup instead of using http://gplus.to/Salon

Anyone have time to reach out?

https://plus.google.com/+salon

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Paul Lindner

Google does postmortems too.... at scale.

Google does postmortems too.... at scale.

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/05/google-api-infrastructure-outage.html

Paul Lindner

Starting a Google I/O 2013 Circle?

Starting a Google I/O 2013 Circle?

Here's a circle containing all the speakers announced to date. I'll try to keep it up to date and reshare it as more sessions are announced.

Tip: Consider creating a new circle for people from this list. Then you can control how much I/O you get in your main stream with Google+ Volume Controls. (You can also remove the circle later too)

Enjoy Google I/O!

Paul Lindner

Going to I/O? Chris Messina and I will talk about authorship and many other topics of interest to web publishers..

Going to I/O? Chris Messina and I will talk about authorship and many other topics of interest to web publishers..

https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/332357156

Paul Lindner

Can we get Google+ comments activated for the Google+ developers blog?

http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com

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Paul Lindner

What would you like to see show up when you search?

What would you like to see show up when you search?

Originally shared by Chris Messina

Today at #TCDisrupt , Seth Sternberg and Ardan Arac announced that we'll soon be integrating Google+ Platform app activities [1] into Google Search.

Soon, if you search for a site or app on Google.com (and that app has integrated with Google+ Sign-In app activities), you'll see popular and aggregate user activity next to search results. For example, searching for Fandango will show the top movies among Google+ users. And when you click on a movie, you’ll go directly to its page on Fandango.

Learn more here and be sure to follow Google+ Developers :

http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/2013/04/Bringing-App-Activities-to-Google-Search.html

[1] https://developers.google.com/+/features/app-activities

#googleplusplatformupdate #activitystreams

#activitystreams #googleplusplatformupdate #gplus #tcdisrupt

Paul Lindner

Take heed developers. Structured data connected to users will soon improve search for everyone.

Take heed developers. Structured data connected to users will soon improve search for everyone.

Originally shared by Chris Messina

Today at #TCDisrupt , Seth Sternberg and Ardan Arac announced that we'll soon be integrating Google+ Platform app activities [1] into Google Search.

Soon, if you search for a site or app on Google.com (and that app has integrated with Google+ Sign-In app activities), you'll see popular and aggregate user activity next to search results. For example, searching for Fandango will show the top movies among Google+ users. And when you click on a movie, you’ll go directly to its page on Fandango.

Learn more here and be sure to follow Google+ Developers :

http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/2013/04/Bringing-App-Activities-to-Google-Search.html

[1] https://developers.google.com/+/features/app-activities

#googleplusplatformupdate #activitystreams

#activitystreams #googleplusplatformupdate #gplus #tcdisrupt

Paul Lindner

Achievement unlocked -- a bug I filed make the Wonder Bug list.

https://b.corp.google.com/hotlist?id=36442

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Paul Lindner

Can you guess the theme of this playlist which ranges from pop to metalcore?

Also this contains a song that is not in Google Play (Erykah Badu) What do you see? Is it playable? (Hope not, that would put us on par with Grooveshark...)

https://play.google.com/music/listen?view=%2Fshpl%2FAMaBXykOdnDKHEIVjgwH6O0ujIrbAdS18q7_kOp1_rJ-mb1z...

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Paul Lindner

Anyone have contacts in Argentina? Teleshow (http://teleshow.infobae.com) is sending about 3m malformed +1 button requests/day. They just need to change

annotation="medium "

to

annotation="bubble"

I'll personally send the person that helps fixes this a Google+ t-shirt and a kudo.

http://teleshow.infobae.com

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Paul Lindner

Haven't used chrome jank tools for a while, wow. Loving the paint and compositing feedback.

Replacing goog-inline-block with 'display: inline-block' is helping. Removing useless positioning helps too. Have a few CLs out to get rid of some of the boxes below...

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5870835452260302369/5870835458212547922?...

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Paul Lindner

Appengine naked domains still not supported? Comments disabled too?

<sadface/>

Going to have to host my I/O examples elsewhere -- the extra _www._ makes a difference..

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine

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Paul Lindner

RTL Nieuws Hangouts

RTL Nieuws Hangouts

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!

http://www.rtl.nl/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/2013/04_april/16/binnenland/vleesverwerker-willy-selt...

http://www.rtl.nl/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/2013/04_april/16/binnenland/vleesverwerker-willy-selt...

Paul Lindner

Happy that this track is available on Google Music because I can share a free listen and I prefer 320k mp3s.

Happy that this track is available on Google Music because I can share a free listen and I prefer 320k mp3s.

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/?id=Bf3k2d4l7emjnyso7ayhwe7llxq&pcampaignid=music_prev...

Paul Lindner

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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Paul Lindner

Google Now served up this article as Breaking News yesterday.

Google Now served up this article as Breaking News yesterday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/daft-punk-get-lucky-leaked-full-song-pharrell-williams_n_31...

Paul Lindner

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+:

http://presidiosocialclub.com/
https://spore.corp.google.com/#!s=d070e83cd3d49444

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://blog.aw-snap.info/2011/02/pharmacy-hack.html)

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!)?

http://salelevitrawithoutperscriptionusa.org/

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