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

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#throughglass

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Sibley Regional Park #throughglass

Early Sunday, before it got too hot, Julie Lindner  and I took our dog Tommy for a walk in the Oakland Hills.  With some care (and a bit of luck!) you can get some nice shots with the Glass camera.

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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!

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I missed this part!  Timothy and I worked together on +1

Originally shared by Chris DiBona

Timothy Jordan showing Neil Gaiman #glass

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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

#googleplusplatform #googleplusudpate #gplus

Kudos to Kickstarter for reinventing Patronage as an egalitarian fan-based process.

... and The Suburbs are totally cool, you should check them out.

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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.

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This simple OSX utility is handy.  You can keep windows on top, change transparency and more.

This allows me to have my Keep todo list always on top, and stop hangout windows from staying on top.

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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.

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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 noreply@hostname.com). 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

#googleplusupdate #gplus

ZigBee in the hospital...

Noticed these all over. Turns out they're used to track equipment and people as they move throughout the building, just like electronic toll collection.

Some interesting background info at http://slide share.net/Aware point

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Has it been 2 years already?  Time flies when you're +1'ing

[oh and the cake was delicious..]

Originally shared by Fred Gilbert

Happy second birthday +1 and happy donut day to you all! I hope y'all get a chance to pick up a free one at Krispy Kreme :)

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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.

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Happy to see OAuth support for CalDAV.  Still sad that it's always going to be saddled with legacy vCalendar issues.

Both CalDAV and CardDAV suffer from their history and badly need redesigning.  Not much has changed in the 10 years since I was hacking on libical.   I mean, consider the following CDATA chunk from the RFC.  No one should need to parse/generate this ancient format.  It's complicated, finicky and plain awful.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

   VERSION:2.0

   PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Client//EN

   BEGIN:VTIMEZONE

   LAST-MODIFIED:20040110T032845Z

   TZID:US/Eastern

   BEGIN:DAYLIGHT

   DTSTART:20000404T020000

   RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4

   TZNAME:EDT

   TZOFFSETFROM:-0500

   TZOFFSETTO:-0400

   END:DAYLIGHT

   BEGIN:STANDARD

   DTSTART:20001026T020000

   RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10

   TZNAME:EST

   TZOFFSETFROM:-0400

   TZOFFSETTO:-0500

   END:STANDARD

   END:VTIMEZONE

   BEGIN:VEVENT

   DTSTAMP:20060206T001102Z

   DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20060102T100000

   DURATION:PT1H

   SUMMARY:Event #1

   Description:Go Steelers!

   UID:74855313FA803DA593CD579A@example.com

   END:VEVENT

   END:VCALENDAR

Maybe I should standardize SnmpDav?  At least it has XER which would make it slot into XML without the ugliness above.

In any case I hope that a new calendaring standard emerges from this muck that is more developer friendly.

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truth:

Another option is to take a hard look at how the accident actually happened, treat the engineers involved with respect, and learn from the event.

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My local electric utility PG&E has a low tech solution for their Smart meters.  If you want to activate the remote sensor you fill out this form and wait 5 days for your "HAN eligibility code".

Well.. it turns out that submitting this form emails customerservice@pge.com with the information (and cc's the person filling out the form).  A quick check reveals that it posts to '/cgi-bin/pgemail.pl' with the included account number and other personal information.

I wonder how they'll send me this super secret code?  Email too?  But don't worry it's secure, they have "PKI certificates using Certicom Elliptic Curve Qu Vanstone (ECQV) technology."

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At LinkedIn HQ they have a time-capsule made of legos.  I hope they invite me over when they decide to open it back up.

Of course this would be the handiwork of Adam Nash.

And thanks again to Brandon Duncan for inviting me over for lunch to see this and other LinkedIn wonders.

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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.

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#throughglass

#gplus #throughglass

Want to upgrade?

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Found the perfect baby shower gift.

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Paul Lindner was tagged in Gus Class's album.

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Hi, 

Thunder will be at Office HGours

1240-140 and 230-4

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Like a boss

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A bear on a shark and an active G+ profile? Yeah I'll take that.

#io13

Originally shared by Steve Aoki

IT'S OUT!! This is how you'll feel when you listen to my new Singularity Remix EP!!! Get it right here on iTunes: http://bitly.com/SingularityRemixEP

#io13 #gplus

... and shirtless

#justsaying

#justsaying #gplus

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.

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It's not the Cataracts

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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  

#authorship #content #googleplus #gplus

What do you think? Does this image embody 'Flowers'? #photohunt

#gplus #photohunt

A neutrino walks into a bar. The bartender says, We don't serve neutrinos in here.  The neutrino says, Hey, I was just passing through.

More #geekhumor  from the latest DNA Lounge newsletter.

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

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What's your favorite Oakland page?

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

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Can you guess which one is #1?

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Here's the latest I/O Speaker Circle (v3, May 7th edition)

18 new speakers added including: Mike McGeary Jeremy Robbins John Hjelmstad Jeannie Foulsham Jen Pahlka Adam Eijdenberg Grzegorz Gogolowicz Benjamin Wiley Sittler Sergey Panitkin Brynn Evans Martin Gannholm Derek Slater Sunil James Sarah Peterson John Cormie Navneet Joneja and Kevin Callahan 

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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!

#io13 

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The acorn in place of an olive is a nice touch.

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Google does postmortems too.... at scale.

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Hi I/O Speakers!

I created this circle based on the profiles listed on the public I/O Site.  You might be seeing people adding you on G+ due to this.  #headsup !

#headsup #gplus

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!

#io13  

#io13 #gplus

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

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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

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

Some power-pop-punk for your #musicmonday  

Found via The Current's best new radio show  "P.O.S is Ruining The Current" [1]

"Doomtree hip-hop collective co-founder Stefon Alexander, a.k.a. P.O.S, hosts this must-listen hour-long show highlighting his musical influences and favorites. It airs on Saturdays at 11 p.m."

[1] http://www.thecurrent.org/programs/pos-is-ruining-the-current

#musicmonday  

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The Replacements are back in a special charity album for Slim Dunlap[1]  Picked this up at 1-2-3-4 Go Records for Record Store Day. 

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Dunlap

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It's Record Store Day

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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...

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

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