8tracks now works on Google TV. Well played indeed.

#gplus

Just invited to littlemonsters.com. Decided I'd sign up via Facebook Connect (since most people will)

Interesting things:
* popup affordances on the home page guide you to features
* Facebook connect used but only to bootstrap your account.
* Sets up an email forwarding address for you that uses your Facebook primary email.
* Has a link to mail.google.com on your profile to read your email (and a gmail logo)
* No public profiles (as of yet..)
* System posts supported (my profile creation has already gotten one "Like")
* Has +1 buttons!
* Very pinterest style for posts -- big page full of posts. None of this single-column vertical scroll.
* has up and down votes.
* "Fan" instead of following.
* Friend finder not there.
* Sorted list of "New" users.
* Chat rooms.
* "t" button for notifications.
* and holy smokes! -- actually they're provisioning a new mailbox for each user on the GA+ domain littlemonsters.com.

plenty more, happy to demo.

#googplus

Hey Paul Wyatt - glad to see you here! I work at Google now so feel free to send me your questions...

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/private to you..

Daria plays Google+ well. You can learn from her, maybe try to make contact at SXSW... Hangouts are the new VIP lounge..

Originally shared by Daria Musk

PLAY WITH ME!

Hey G+niuses! Look at these killer guitar picks Moritz Tolxdorff made! Bump into either of us anywhere at SXSW and we'll give ya one! And Scheme to win new a Taylor Guitar to play with 'em!

SCHEME + PLAY

♥ Scheme for a guitar pick: http://bit.ly/zHbrKH

♥ Win a brand new Taylor Guitars to play with your pick: http://bit.ly/xpAIPj

♥ Need a Schemer invite?: http://bit.ly/wewPo7

Whether you'll be in Austin TX for SXSW or somewhere else in the world I'll be bringing you G+ys with us for the ride via Hangouts and these crazy give-aways! :)

Look Out For SXSW Round-Up Post

In the morning announcing our first HANGOUT CONCERT LIVE FROM SXSW! ((Ahem)) Thanks Samsung USA for making it possible!

Cannot wait to see HIP (Hangout In Person) and Hangout on G+ with everyone!

Your G+rl Fo'evs,

D

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Anyone want to help Danny?

Originally shared by Paul Lindner

I just claimed my Google Scholar profile. If you create one of these profiles you should consider doing the following:

- Add it to the Other profiles section of your profile (https://plus.google.com/me/about)

- Link back to your Google+ profile (edit Homepage and link back to your profile)

Also note that that really old paper was for Gopher+, not Google+.

#gplus

I just claimed my Google Scholar profile. If you create one of these profiles you should consider doing the following:

- Add it to the Other profiles section of your profile (https://plus.google.com/me/about)

- Link back to your Google+ profile (edit Homepage and link back to your profile)

Also note that that really old paper was for Gopher+, not Google+.

#gplus

So many things to do and I get sucked into doing map edits. It's impressive -- edits go live extremely quickly. I added some trailhead parking lots and restrooms, reservoirs, and walking trails..

#gplus

Nice long walk in Sibley Regional Park.

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=216375860650465931580.0004b95aba885cda4623b

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Please welcome Baron von Luxxury to Google+! Add him to your music or DJ circles today and check out his new album which you can snag for free for one week only. (though it's definitely worth paying for..)

Dubbed the "Post-Post-Synthpop King" by the LA Weekly, Baron Von Luxxury seeks to erase the lines between high and low art by merging elements of innovative dance music with the idiot immediacy of classic pop.

I had the good fortune to work with him at Red Hat before he became famous. Some day I'll tell some stories about hairnet banner ads and psychic web-sites trying to go legit by offering linux phone support. (yes! really!)

Originally shared by Baron von Luxxury

Happy Day After Valentines Day, My Darlings!

Please download my new album The Last Seduction. For Free. It just came out today. And for 1 week only you can download it for any price you want, including $0. I honestly don't care how much or even if you pay, I just want you to have the music! Please. Just take it.

http://baronvonluxxury.bandcamp.com

#gplus

Google+ has made it all the way to the CS department of my alma mater.. Amazing.

I wonder whatever happened the the Sequent that ran cs.umn.edu way back when?

#gplus

T-Mobile USA folks -- consider signing up for this beta program.

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I highly recommend that everyone check out the rich snippets page.

- Have a Google+ account? Try putting your other profile links in there to see if you have things all linked together. (See http://blog.inuus.com/vox/2012/01/social-search-part-1-connect-all-the-accounts.html for more on this...)

- Webmaster? See how Google parses your site. You'll also find some good examples of how you can markup your pages to be better represented in Google+ and in Google search results.

Happy to help webmasters implement this -- leave me a message on my profile.

Originally shared by Ade Oshineye

Have you tried: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets ?

What did you think of it?

BTW the help page is here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173839

#gplus

Until everything in the world is in the cloud this works well for getting the bits from the linux file server in the garage to the Google TV in the living room.

Plus it uses freebase.com data to enhance your content in new and interesting ways.

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Just have to share this page since this is the first instance of a company putting a link to their plus page in an email that I've seen. They said:

We'd sure appreciate a +1! Click here to see what we're talking about.

Oh and they do make some pretty nice doors too...

#gplus

Decided to dust of my Typepad Blog for a post on how to help make your Social Search experience even more awesome.

For part 1 I focus on linking your accounts together. This is key to being able to personalize content that does not live in Google+.

If you have a deep link to a site settings page that offers a way to link to Google+ let me know here or over on the blog.

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And we must give credit to Amit Singhal who shared this first!

Stay tuned, I'll have some tips on how to make sure your content gets included in social search later today.

Originally shared by Amit Singhal

Today we are introducing Search plus Your World, a new Google search experience centered around people. For the first time ever, you will be able to find personal results from your world -- your photos, your friends, your stuff -- in search.

It's rolling out today and should be available in the US for all signed in Google users over the next few days.

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Here are my new years thoughts on the social web platforms. I've been pondering what the world can do to get ourselves out of this one man/one graph/one api situation we find ourselves in and what Google can do to help.

Facebook the product and Facebook Connect/APIs have sucked up most of the social web oxygen. Open efforts have largely failed -- the Google-led consortium OpenSocial has been relegated to niche usage like enterprise or contextual gadgets, OpenID use is declining, Webfinger never took off, oEmbed has murky IP, even RSS and Atom are use is declining.

In particular OpenSocial is now paralleling a different OSF -- the _Open Software Foundation_. Remember that? DEC/IBM/etal banded together to fight off a common enemy (Solaris/AT&T or Windows). There was some decent output from it (I loved me some Tru64 OSF/1 Unix) but in the end it was Linux that disrupted and became the server standard while Windows claimed the defacto client standard. Today both OSFs are in decline and don't define the market.
So what to do? Here are a few of my ideas, what about yours?

* Obviously getting market share for Google+ the product and Google+ the platform helps, it provides an alternative. However if we're not careful we end up with a Coke/Pepsi duopoly, since much of our growth will come at the expense of the wider ecosystem before it starts to take from Facebook.

* Try to build on open standards where it sees broad based usage. OAuth 2.0 is something that everyone (including FB) has actually implemented. Activity Streams and schema.org are ascending. Add social to these where it makes sense.

* Try to nurture the next disruptor and be prepared to jump on it when it comes. Any technology that Google promotes as "open" will likely meet the similar fate as OpenSocial. (And I hope schema.org is the exception here...)

* Do something about the Terms of Service encumbered internet that's slowly taking off.

Hopefully sometime in 2012 there can be a way for everyone to work together on social. I hope to live to see the day that Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and a hundeds of smaller players can do something that lifts all our boats and benefits users.

#googplus

#googplus

Hi Remi, I work on site integration for the Google+ team here at Google.

If you're interested I have a number of recommendations that will help 8tracks perform better on Google+ and Google social search. Let me know if you're interested -- I can be plus'd here or you can email me at [email protected]

Thanks!

#gplus

I just filed http://b/issue?id=5777937

Google Offers needs it's own Google+ Page, and we should be promoting it in the daily emails we send. This twitter stuff is so last decade...

#googplus

A world where anyone can be a major broadcaster with the people that matter. (And face-tracking antlers)

#livinginthefuture

Originally shared by Vic Gundotra

#seasonforshipping

Google+ Hangouts: Going beyond the status update

One of the most intimate forms of human connection is eye contact. Our digital tools have given us new forms - text messages, email, status updates - but nothing compares to the richness and intensity of looking into someones eyes as they talk.

Our emphasis on face-to-face-face group video communication has lead to some amazing experiences. By giving this away for free, we've enabled people around the world to see into each others eyes and share discussion and laughter in new ways.

Today, we improve the service significantly.

1) We are enabling you to hangout on any post.

2) We've reached an important milestone for "Hangouts on Air". Hundreds of people (who we have whitelisted as part of our trial) can now broadcast their hangouts to the entire world for free completely self-service. Our goal is to enable this for everyone on the planet.

3) We are making it possible for you to start hangouts from messenger on Android or iPhone devices.

4) You can call any phone number in the world and conference in anyone.

5) We threw in a reindeer :-)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/google-hangouts-going-beyond-status.html

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I've been lucky enough to live through spikes like this. At Typepad we had cuteoverload, and gofugyourself, at hi5 we had the Romanian DJ phenomenon which resulted in 20% penetration in a months time...

In both cases the small teams had to scramble to deal with the load and focus on features was suspended.

I'm so stoked to see what we can do with the infrastructure of Google behind us.

http://asiajin.com/blog/2011/12/09/google-occupied-by-akb48-within-a-day-in-japan/

#googplus

#googplus

Have some Orkut photos that you'd like to have on Google+? Now you can import them in one easy step.

#gplus

I just realized how much working on Google+ has exposed me to popular culture. Youtube integration exposed me to todays pop music. Celebrity endorsements exposed me to the whole Kardashian thing (which I was blissfully unaware of!).

And now I get to understand how they do things in Japan.

Originally shared by Bradley Horowitz

Here's the big news... We're delighted to welcome the entirety of AKB48 onto Google+...

If you don't know AKB48, you don't live in Japan (or in fact, many other parts of Asia.) They are phenomenon that might be equivalent to the Beatles + American Idol + the Spice Girls + Justin Timberlake... They are a roster of more than 200 hand-selected performers who are the subject of huge media attention, and support from millions of devoted fans.

One of the philosophies around their stardom was to preserve meaningful interaction with, and access to their fans. They used to do "handshake events." As their stardom grew, this method of interaction wasn't scalable... Google+ is going to allow them to reconnect to their fans in an intimate, authentic way.

They'll be using Hangouts on Air to broadcast their concerts... they'll be regularly scheduling Hangouts to interact with their fans. Each of the stars will have their own profile, and AKB48 themselves will have a +Page...

I actually haven't yet heard them, and I'm apparently the only one presently in Japan now who hasn't. I can't yet say if AKB48 is personally for me... But I am thrilled at their adoption of our service, and they're committed to pushing the envelope of what is possible in terms of artist-fan relationship. And that's a plus.

#gplus

I only recently found that Google Chat supports /me. If you type:

/me claps

It's rendered as

Paul claps

I wonder if there any other IRC features hidden in there?

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