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?

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.

(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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Really happy to see IBM moving forward with this!

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Enjoying a new beer: Cháu Tiên

http://www.paleale.com/

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It's a mac n cheese kind of day.

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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

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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...

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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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Social Search is getting a huge upgrade today! Your +1s, your posts and your content now matter more than ever.

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Test

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Preparing for the new year with melted cheese!

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

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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..

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.

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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

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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.

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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?

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

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12/24/11

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Roo has found her favorite spot.

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Roo update day 2.

Everything is in order, she's eating her food, and getting along with Tommy.

Went on a nice long walk this morning. I was worried that those little legs couldn't make it up the hilly terrain, but she did fine.

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Christmas came early for me courtesy of T-Mobile!

They powered up a new cell tower a short way from my house. Now I can finally get rid of my erratic cell-boster, and I have decent coverage throughout the neighborhood (which is challenging given the hills and trees).

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Roo after a brisk walk with Tommy in the Oakland Hills. She's acclimating quickly.

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Roo is in her usual spot.

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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 plindner@google.com

Thanks!

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It's #musicmonday and #mashupmonday

This just passed by my #mashup live stream. You get a years worth of pop music in six minutes. solid.

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Glad that we have the white hats keeping things safe. It's amazing the crazy things you have to do to securely pass data between sites.

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Okay, one more holiday song. Electric Six really captures the spirit of this song.

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Well now, that's different.

Though it brings to mind potential sequels. And Chester Arthur would make a great sidekick.

Originally shared by Laughing Squid

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Tommy at Android HQ. There was even a little left over snow.

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Tommy is in MTV-1900-204 today (sans hat). Stop by for a visit!

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http://status.twitter.com/ -- powered by Tumblr?

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Totally unexpected. Then again, hi5 is a much different place these days.

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

#livinginthefuture

Originally shared by Vic Gundotra

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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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It's not the holidays without The New Standards! They do a great set of live holiday shows every year and cover all the classics.

I like that this song brings to mind those lazy winter days when the snow plow couldn't get the job done. That and it's a seasonal song made in within the last decade. Hope you enjoy it.

[Oh and there's plenty more including a wicked xylophone version of Hey Ya at http://www.thenewstandards.com/]

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You didn't hear it from me, please share the original if you like.

Originally shared by Jhonx

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Gingerbread marmalade -- Just in time for the holidays! Highly recommended. Also check out Blue Chair's other flavors. They make the best artisanal jams and marmalades.

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

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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.

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