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Please welcome Baron von Luxxury to Google+!

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

 

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

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?

 

 

Best post seen during the halftime show...

Best post seen during the halftime show...

Originally shared by Nate Long

Madonna + LMFAO: I'm sixty and I know it.

 

Second time I've seen this exact same car being washed at the same time as mine. Eerie...

Second time I've seen this exact same car being washed at the same time as mine. Eerie...

 

 

LMFAO and Redfoo now have geek cred...

LMFAO and Redfoo now have geek cred...

http://www.xkcd.com/1009/

Originally shared by Amar Gandhi

Damn it, xkcd! I was just grooving to Adele and now LMFAO is back in my head :)

 

 

The odd things you find on Netflix.

The odd things you find on Netflix.... Searching for more info didn't bring up much except for this quote from a press release:

"`Nancy Drew' and `The Hardy Boys' will move smoothly into the modern age with great adventures and mysteries using modern day products like cell phones, CD-ROMs and modems to continue their young adult sleuthing."

Had to watch three episodes to fully appreciate how bad it was.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/'NANCY+DREW'+AND+'THE+HARDY+BOYS'+MOVE+FORWARD+THIS+FALL%3B+NEW+LINE...-a017089122

 

Hood ornaments found in Sausalito. A Packard and Cadillac.

Hood ornaments found in Sausalito. A Packard and Cadillac.

 

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

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

 

Until everything in the world is in the cloud this works well for getting the bits from the linux file server in the...

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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Breezy day at the market. Parking meters are now $4.25/hr.

Breezy day at the market. Parking meters are now $4.25/hr.

Bumped into Benjamin Trott which was nice.

 

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Confirm receipt?

Confirm receipt?

Hi Evan -- pinging you here just in case you didn't see my note about starting on SPYW...

 

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Some good thoughts from James about the standards process.

Some good thoughts from James about the standards process.

(Oh BTW, I have opened an issue to get full Activity Streams conformity.. Mostly this was just a disconnect of developing the APIs while the standard was baking..)

Originally shared by James Snell

Just some basic thoughts on standards development...

 

 

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It's a mac n cheese kind of day.

It's a mac n cheese kind of day.

 

I wonder if there's a professional version of this? Interesting idea..

I wonder if there's a professional version of this? Interesting idea..

Originally shared by Guy Kawasaki

(Wed04) Was getting in touch with my metrosexual side on Pinterest and came across this pin:

http://pinterest.com/pin/248823948131916417/

Which lead me to this:

http://www.dwell.com/articles/bialetti-pasta-pot.html

Which is something to buy for sure! You can get it here for $34.95, but all the colors are sold out except purple.

http://www.bialettishop.com/PastaPotPurple.htm

 

Just have to share this page since this is the first instance of a company putting a link to their plus page in an...

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...

 

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

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.

 

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

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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Test

Test

 

Preparing for the new year with melted cheese!

Preparing for the new year with melted cheese!

 

New Years Eve Fondue is on the way. What's your tradition?

New Years Eve Fondue is on the way. What's your tradition?

 

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Roo update..

Roo update..

No problems, she's been on plenty of long walks in the area parks and can now claim to have visited Rockridge, Sibley Park, Jack London Square, Sausalito and parts of Berkeley.

People still keep asking what her mix is...

Hope everything is going well in Texas and we'll see you sometime friday morning..

 

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Round Top Sunset..

Round Top Sunset..

Caught this reflection in the water tank while walking the dogs in the Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve. (http://www.ebparks.org/parks/sibley)

Round Top, one of the area's highest peaks, is made up of lava and volcanic debris left over from a 10-million-year-old volcano. During the past 10 million years, massive tectonic forces on the Hayward and Moraga earthquake faults uplifted the Berkeley hills, folding bedrock formations and tilting the Round Top volcano complex on its side.

 

Gift of the magi.com?

Gift of the magi.com?

Did everyone else get a nice letter from Karthik about hi5 shares? I suppose I should resign myself that my few thousand shares of hi5 are not going to be worth the hassle.

The odd thing is magi.com is registered to some place in Canada:

Registrant:

Uniserve Communications Corp.

610 6th ST

Suite 200

New Westminster, British Columbia V3L 3C2

Canada

 

Both Amazon and iTunes are failing Dr Who fans.

Both Amazon and iTunes are failing Dr Who fans. Neither of them has posted the Christmas episode. Normally they have these the following day. To make matters worse Amazon screwed up and made the 2 minute prequel a paid download which resulted in everyone who had a season pass getting charged.

After seeing a few episodes on BBC America I know that I can never go back to watching these episodes with commercial interruptions. It's just too jarring to switch from Cybermen to M&M ads.

 

Roses blooming in the Oakland Hills.

Roses blooming in the Oakland Hills.

Here's a photo uploaded directly via Eye-Fi. I'm still working out the best way to use this with G+, but so far I'm pretty impressed. The geotagging was pretty accurate and I'm always happy with the quality of the photos from the Lumix.

Currently I've just set this up to upload to the machine at home with iPhoto and also upload to Picasa. I've yet to experiment with the Android app and Wifi-Direct, but that seems a bit complicated -- I might just turn on wifi tethering when taking photos instead.

Anyone else using a setup like this? Any hints?

 

Christmas eve lunch at Fish in Sausalito with Julie, Tommy and Roo.

Christmas eve lunch at Fish in Sausalito with Julie, Tommy and Roo.

 

12/24/11

12/24/11

 

Roo has found her favorite spot.

Roo has found her favorite spot.