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Paul Lindner

Help your friends find you! - another Google+ tip...

Help your friends find you! - another Google+ tip...

Add and verify all of your email addresses to your Google Account here:

https://plus.google.com/settings/general

This makes it easier for your friends to find you now and in the future! I've found that I don't know the gmail address of many people, but I do know their corp email or another alias. Plus if you lose your password you can send a recovery email to your alternate address.

Be aware that you can only associate one email per Google account and you can't add another gmail address to another account. If you want to associate email addresses to your primary account you can visit this page:

https://www.google.com/accounts/EditUserInfo

1) If the email is listed as a secondary address, remove it on the old account and add to the primary.

2) If the email is primary you can change the email address of the unused account and replace it with something like [email protected]. Then add the renamed email to the primary account.

Cheers.

Paul Lindner

Hi current and former Six Apart folks..

Hi current and former Six Apart folks..

Hope you're enjoying your foray's into Google+.. Sending this out so some of you might receive invites. (It's somewhat non-deterministic, so I'm not sure if it'll go out..)

Feel free to hit the send feedback link in the lower right or ping me. Also I'm happy to work with anyone on driving deeper connectivity to Six Apart or other properties. (My main focus is on connecting sites, contacts, activities, all that..)

Paul Lindner

whoa... people really want their facebook friends... I didn't think this would go that far and wide....

http://rumormill.prom.corp.google.com/details?docid=G-0ToNIit61tQM&ref=news

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Paul Lindner

Here's a good article on what I've been working on lately including an inside look at what goes on at Google..

Here's a good article on what I've been working on lately including an inside look at what goes on at Google..

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-social/

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-social/

Paul Lindner

A couple of people have asked about importing facebook contacts.

A couple of people have asked about importing facebook contacts. Sadly we cannot do that, however there is a workaround:

* Import Your facebook friends via Yahoo:

http://www.ymailblog.com/blog/2010/03/facebook-friends-meet-yahoo-contacts/

* Then connect your yahoo account to Google+ here:

http://plus.google.com/circles/find

http://www.ymailblog.com/blog/2010/03/facebook-friends-meet-yahoo-contacts/

Paul Lindner

A whole new class of Google+ jokes has sprung up....

A whole new class of Google+ jokes has sprung up....

Originally shared by Anil Dash

Your moms so fat, she huddle all by herself.

Paul Lindner

Best comment seen today:

*It's like it's Google Christmas today!*

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Paul Lindner

Welcome aboard Google+!

Welcome aboard Google+!

Invites are still flowing out, so pay attention to your inbox (and hopefully not your spam folder!)

Paul Lindner

Hope you'll take the plunge into Google+ -- It has a lot of the Vox vibe that I miss so much!

Hope you'll take the plunge into Google+ -- It has a lot of the Vox vibe that I miss so much!

Also I'm doing connected sites work (try connecting your yahoo/live account!) there's a lot of cool stuff we can do together. Just let me know at [email protected]

Paul Lindner

Takeout is live too! Congrats!

@[email protected]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP4NI5o-WUw

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Paul Lindner

Good sign -- Dave Winer dislikes Google+

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Paul Lindner

I poke at partner sites so you don't have to...

For fun read the rules

http://www.yahooperfectmorning.com/:b=chrome/public/fulfillment/rules.pdf

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5621897824892397841/5621897826784635234

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Paul Lindner

Just for fun I thought I'd see what impact css-dashes have on the Google+ base-page.

So we start with a 312k base page:

*% wc Google+.html*
1341 17301 312802 Google+.html

If we grab id/class attributes (just the stuff in quotes) we see:

*% cat Google+.html | perl -nse 'while (m,(id|class)="([^"]+)",sig) { print ""}'| wc*
0 1773 50420

Whoa.. 1/6th of the bytes are class/id names! (see http://www.corp.google.com/~plindner/no_crawl/css.txt)

If you just remove the dashes from the class names you save 13k. In practice you can gain more since the css obfuscator will choose a smaller identifier..

#ltbd

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Paul Lindner

Today's igraph updates:
picplz.com, blackplanet.com, cpan.org, hulu.com and updated live.com rules.

Want to help? Pick a site from:

http://s/?fileprint=//depot/google3/googledata/quality/igraph/userid_handler_defs/README

And fill out the form here:

https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&formkey=dGg0aFpO...

https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&formkey=dGg0aFpO...

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Paul Lindner

Paul eta 10:45.. missed the shuttle..

https://foo.sandbox.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/album/5619220629355822817/56192206302182...

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Paul Lindner

RT @google: We're releasing +1 buttons to the whole web, making it easier to recommend content to your friends & contacts http://goo.gl/ ...

Paul Lindner

Coding to deadline and Adult Swim Google TV app don't mix!

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Paul Lindner

So wish I could +1 slashdot comments... Instead I post it here for you..

"That's the point of a Google profile! To let people more easily find you. I would certainly hope that they allow indexing of this information.

Why would you want a private profile? Like Creed from The Office, I can make a private profile with Microsoft Word."

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Paul Lindner

Wondering why your flash-based transport is so slow?

Flash 10.1 will foul up your transport speed. Need a silent audio file added to the swf to maintain 8fps (otherwise it auto-throttles down to 2fps)

@[email protected] @[email protected]

http://www.kaourantin.net/2010/03/timing-it-right.html

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Paul Lindner

The scary things you find when you start plumbing the depths of social networks creating new igraph rules..

http://igraph-browser/query?row_key=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fotolog.com%2Fpunk__d%2Fabout+&col_name=u%3...

https://picasaweb.google.com/107786897865850743842/20110520?authkey=Gv1sRgCPnp08mE0feiYw#56089183241...

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Paul Lindner

To anyone that naysays private java build rules I present one example of IDE autocompletion shame:

https://cs.corp.google.com/codesearch#search&q=com.google.caja.util

And let's not get started on com.google.inject.internal...

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Paul Lindner

Here's an even easier way to improve iGraph coverage! Just cut-and-paste URLs into the following form and I'll take care of the rest. (My previous multi-step howto only resulted in about a half-dozen submissions..)

You can find a list of uncovered sites here:

http://s/?fileprint=//depot/google3/googledata/quality/igraph/userid_handler_defs/README

By doing this you'll help improve the social search, improve authorship detection and make building the implicit graph easier.

https://spreadsheets3.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGg0aFpOLW9JVWpCa0t3d2ItR1BlSVE6MQ

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Paul Lindner

Replied to a post on twitter.com :

@kevinmarks @DavidNicholas - google video team just sent over the raw footage. I'll clean it up later today and post it.

Paul Lindner

Extra space at the OpenSocial #SOTU event right now at Google at 345 Spear. Talks followed by drinks and food at 5pm-7pm. DM for info

Paul Lindner

Shindig Commits in Open GL for the Opensocial Event this afternoon in SFO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slaI565TYE0
Gource http://code.google.com/p/gource/

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slaI565TYE0

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Paul Lindner

Having removed a few methods from j.c.g.common.base.StringUtil I know how hard it is to reverse the entropy that can develop...

https://spreadsheets1.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDNzVmFUOUtobF9pdFBPRFJRQ...

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Paul Lindner

Giving MiFi access points out at I/O is like giving machetes to children..

https://picasaweb.google.com/107786897865850743842/May112011?authkey=Gv1sRgCLDgua79sOS_hwE#560559947...

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Paul Lindner

Back on a transbay bus after about 3 years. Not your Google shuttle experience at all.

https://picasaweb.google.com/107786897865850743842/51111849AM?authkey=Gv1sRgCLnHj6zpxbiJJw#560548628...

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Paul Lindner

OH: Opensocial may be dead at google, however we're getting plenty of use out of the corpse!

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Paul Lindner

Bacn support is now checked in. Guess that means that @[email protected] can actually shave now!

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Paul Lindner

Following

A better follower email might make all the difference to the people that complain that ES is spam.

Here's the flickr follower email. Nice and concise, it illustrates the asymmetrical nature of the relationship and provides some useful information. Furthermore there are two calls-to-action that reinforce the viral loop, specifically asking you to check out the _contacts_ of the person.

https://picasaweb.google.com/107786897865850743842/April252011?authkey=Gv1sRgCKnsktjV2sD36gE#5599453...

Paul Lindner

Living on the bleeding edge -- /usr/local/google converted to ext4 and noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier

did a blaze clean --objfs and it completed in record time.

Load spikes seem to have gone away.

git gc running faster..

/me crosses fingers..

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Paul Lindner

Going to post this here as well as follow up with email...

Got some good feedback from @[email protected] on the gbus today..

* When selecting the visibility/acl for an item the word 'Custom' is confusing -- suggested text might be 'Specific Circles/People'? It's awkward no matter which way you look at it. Also the ACL choices need some kind of tooltip or help to assist the user choosing the right one.

* University/Employer auto-complete rocks, would like to have a button next to customized University/Schools that would allow someone to add this customized data to our corpus properly specified. It would also be nice to display the logos on the profile (is that waiting for badges?)

* It would be nice to list degrees instead of majors.

* Employer name is coming from 'companies' it does not find other entities like School Districts -- perhaps the entity query could be broader, or freebase data could be better co-typed?

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Paul Lindner

The relief gbus was under-capacity so I'm sitting here with @[email protected] at the local McDonalds snarfing some attwifi while we wait for the 9:45 shuttle to arrive......

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Paul Lindner

I can't believe that fundamental things like converting strings to character sets and back is so horribly horked in Java/OpenJDK to this day. A scalability / code style change I've been promoting turns out that it generates way too much overhead.

So I thought I'd see Android's implementation

https://cs.corp.google.com/#android/libcore/luni/src/main/java/java/lang/String.java

sooo much better. Optimized converters for the most common character sets implemented in native code.

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Paul Lindner

Had a great lunch with @[email protected] and @[email protected] ..

Based on our conversations I'm going to claim this idiom *social referer*

For a number of reasons it might make sense to send the originating social profile in an API request. For example a nytimes +1 could include an sgn URL with the API request.

POST /plusone/create
Content-Type: text/json
X-Social-Referer: sgn://nytimes.com?pk=12345

This would help with spam mitigation (we could throttle individual accounts at a third party instead of an entire site) It would also allow us to have a reciprocal relationship with our partners since they can see the profile information in one way only. Of course we should be willing to send social referers to sites we make API calls to as well.

POST /api/v2/contacts
Host: api.yahoo.com
X-Social-Referer: sgn://google.com?pk=OBFUSCATEDGAIAID

Stupid idea? Good idea? Sound off in the comments!

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Paul Lindner

Welcome @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected] to the warm waters of the emerald sea!

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Paul Lindner

Greetings people not native to the Emerald Sea -- Just in case you missed the promo you *must* check out the mobile app. It's amazing!

https://goto.google.com/mobilefishfood

(Also that I'm able to share this with non-es folks speaks to the power of the sharing model!)

https://goto.google.com/mobilefishfood

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Paul Lindner

If you want +1 now go here: http://www.google.com/experimental/index.html

Paul Lindner

With +1, Google Search Goes Truly Social — As Do Google Ads http://t.co/z4plhXh via @techcrunch

Paul Lindner

Tell Google about your LinkedIn account here: http://lnkd.in/CYe9_G

Paul Lindner

September 27, 2010

First day at my new job at Google, going to miss everyone at LinkedIn...

Paul Lindner

December 7, 2009

at google search launch event

Paul Lindner

svgweb - Project Hosting on Google Code http://ff.im/-5Gi0s

Paul Lindner

Auto-Detecting Approval ‎(Google OAuth & Federated Login Research)‎ http://ff.im/-5E2MT

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At #io2009 talk - Google Wave == browser DOM torture chamber. http://ff.im/-3lEVi

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Hope to see plenty of people at GTUG tonight, Google I/O in the next two days, then Community One next week.. http://ff.im/-3ht6k

Paul Lindner

google-collections - Google Code http://ff.im/-2p5CM

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at google (again) for opensocial summit...

Paul Lindner

at google prepping for campfire #3