I wonder if they'll let users export their data from Ping?  Time to send in the Data Liberation Front...

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Here's an inventive way of recycling old trophies.

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Photographers at dawn.

My favorite from the morning -- the silhouettes against the rising sun at 10k feet really captured the scene.

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Added photos to Star trails and sunrise shooting at Mt Haleakala, Maui.

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Potato chips and chocolate hmmmm...

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Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner

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From the catamaran in Maui. Amazing views.

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With the +Platform folks. Excellent mahi Mani.

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Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner

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Anyone have opinions on this?  From my vantage it appears that it's much much harder to get any traction on any standards due to flaws in the consensus reaching process.

I've also seen how the governmental/industry fora work too.They have their own set of problems, but have also been able to achieve a lot with their own processes.

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Are Carbon Offsets for Open Source software doable?

Instead of planting a tree or sequestering CO2 why shouldn't we spend that money making open source software more energy efficient?  

"Keep the coal fired power plant -- we'll just optimize openssl instead!"

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Now you can get your Blue Bottle coffee in a Heath Ceramics mug/cup.

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Sunday Streets are pretty cool, it helps you to see what things would be like without cars crowding out everything.

Also, consider following Spare the Air, Bay Area if you live in the Bay Area -- you get Google+ events like this and the latest pollution alerts. 

Originally shared by Spare the Air, Bay Area

We hope to see you this weekend at Sunday Streets. Visit our booth to learn how to Spare the Air and improve the health of your community.

http://www.sundaystreetssf.com/

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Resharing the Motorcycle photos.

Originally shared by Paul Lindner

This was at Kiehls.

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Some Replacements for your #musicmonday.  Download their entire last concert at the link below.

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Time for some pastel cocktails.

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I know it's not #macromonday  but I thought this shot came out pretty well.

Taken in Sonoma County at the Nicasio Resevoir.

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Hi John Colburn / Dennis Boehm -- Do you know each other?  In any case I've been pondering how one might take the Spout experience into Google+ via video hangouts and connect with the nascent arts community that's developing here.  There's so much potential to do fun things.

If either of you is interested let me know.

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TIL that the Jellybean "What's that Song" widget works with audio from Apps. Working great with TuneIn. Here's a track I grabbed off of Couleur3 Fun.

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Wild Turkey Olympics this morning. They're decent on the balance beam. Not so great at track and field.

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Figures the day I leave early.... .

Hazardous driving conditions on I-880 at Hacienda

http://m.google.com/u/m/xc9ddj

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oof

Originally shared by Adam Rifkin

Hello Kitty Gun!

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In my day MTV actually had music and we liked it!

Originally shared by The Current

Jake Rudh posted his pick for Video of the Day and it's ALL MTV idents. Seriously, just one after another for six minutes. He explains,

"Leading up to the MTV event at First Avenue this coming Friday night, Transmission simulates an hour of watching classic MTV from (1981 - 1992) this Thursday at 10pm."

Take a break and revisit the astronauts, the cows, and the animation that looks even stranger now.

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Currently watching Trampled by Turtles via the magic of YouTube on Google TV. 

And there's much more at Lollapalooza  including Sigur Rós ...

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This was at Kiehls.

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This is pretty cool, I have great memories of the old Loring in Minneapolis.  It closed then moved and reopened after Paul and I left Minnesota so I've never tried the current incarnation.

I think my positive memories revolve more around the amazing, funky space than the food or drinks but I'll certainly give the Oakland outpost a try once it opens.

http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/08/02/loring-cafe-takes-shape-in-oakland/

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You can stop reading if you're not interested in poetry and other literary pursuits.

  An empty van trembled in front of the liquor store...

Definitely check out this interview with the erudite John Colburn.  John is in my Family Circle but his writing would not be at home in the magazine with the same name.

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Fax machines and teletypes!

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Playing tour guide for a few days.  What's your favorite sf bay-area landmark? 

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Has anyone else reripped their entire music collection lately?

Last time was in 2003 so I had bitrates as low as 96k.  Everything is now 320k mp3 and I'm ready to re-import into Google Music.  Some interesting observations:

- CD ripping must contribute to global warming.

- CDs are heavy ~40 lbs of CDs fitting in .1 m³ (about 3.5 ft³)

- Gracenote/CDDB has declined in quality (album art especially)

- Price stickers bring back memories.  Tower records, FNAC and 32 CHF albums, oh my.

Nice thing is I can better judge the provenance of my collection and correct it.  Just received 3 custom CDs from Twin/Tone including two albums from the late-80s Minneapolis band The Wallets.

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Do we parse hResume in PRS?  (See comments on original post)

Also some issues with videos FYI.

Originally shared by Robert Headley

Testing for Chris Messina 

It does this for every video I post. When I paste the URL into the edit box, it automatically attaches the link, instead of the video widget, 

Here is the link I used.

Evolution of Dance - By Judson Laipply

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Anyone at LinkedIn interested in improving public profile snippets? (look at the comments on the original post..)

Originally shared by Robert Headley

Testing for Chris Messina 

It does this for every video I post. When I paste the URL into the edit box, it automatically attaches the link, instead of the video widget, 

Here is the link I used.

Evolution of Dance - By Judson Laipply

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Hi, I hear that you're having problems importing..  here's a screen shot that shows where you can upload an address book on the Circles Page.

You can also upload at http://google.com/contacts

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This looks great and I'm not even a Cal alum.  Plan to stop by there later today.

 [Also makes me wonder if someone also did this for Memorial Stadium at the University of Minnesota ...]

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Faces in more places!

If you link github directly to your Google+ profile it's a little easier.

Originally shared by Malte Ubl

Getting author annotations for your Github projects in Google search

See, there is my face next to my Github project :)

How did I do it:

My Github projects has www.nonblocking.io listed as my website. That website has this bit of markup:

<a href='https://plus.google.com/116910304844117268718/posts' rel='me'>Malte Ubl

<a href='https://github.com/cramforce' rel='me'>Malte Ubl @ Github

So it says that both my G+ profile and my Github profile are both "me".

Now my G+ profile links to www.nonblocking.io as well (and actually to my Github profile). Those 3 things together establish a pretty safe link between my Google profile and my Github profile and Google starts to surface the association in search. Neat

PS: Only because I work for Google, absolutely positive does not imply that I know what I'm doing, so your experience may vary.

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In Portland?  Tonight you can network with people working on OpenSocial, Shindig and Rave.

Sadly I won't be able to make this or the OpenSocial State of the Union.  Have fun folks!

Originally shared by Mark W.

Please join @ApacheRave, @ApacheShindig, on Tues night @OSCON& celebrate another year of open source! http://bit.ly/NPqiyN

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Nice day for iced coffee at the market. Latest addition is a self proclaimed "Computer Maven" offering free advice.

The normally culverted Temescal Creek is flowing above ground today too.

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A pod car would have been quite useful for me a few times this week.  Instead I suffered three expensive cab rides, a 45 minute walk in the noon-day sun,and a slooow shuttle ride.  At least the time I was able to bike was okay..

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Going to OSCON?  Check out this event plus the OpenSocial State of the Union.

Originally shared by Mark W.

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A really well written, must-read article about Google's Authorship program.

And this applies to anything you author.  For example, if you're an open source developer you should definitely link your github profile.  Video and photo sites?  Same thing.

Most sites are supporting XFN these days so the more links to your Google+ profile, the more often your face will show up next to your content.

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The author or Snowcrash has a kickstarter aimed at creating a realistic sword-play game.  Also he has less followers than me -- please rectify this by adding him to your circles...

Originally shared by Neal Stephenson

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Note to self: avoid Marin during commute hours...

[Found this weekend in Point Reyes Station, CA.]

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MapMaker now supports the sharebox.  Nice stuff.  Here's something I added recently.

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Streaming the  #wits  show on Minnesota Public Radio right now.   Amy Sedaris and They Might Be Giants performing.  Good stuff.

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The first time I've seen a restaurant have a playlist posted...

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Google+ history API code lab about to start in Room 2. #io12

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