Chris keeps finding these odd houses...

Originally shared by Chris DiBona

Wow, the metalwork done for this house blows me away:

http://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/harlech-house-goatstown-dublin-14/1610743

Check out the gatework in the photos..

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I've just been informed that 8tracks now has an Android app. Check it out..

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Tommy bath at Pawrero. Little known fact: the movie Fowl Play filmed a scene here.

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The antidote to too much Phil Collins in my stream..

Side note: The Current is a public radio station in Minneapolis that only plays alternative music ala KEXP. Definitely worth a listen.

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I think Perry Farrell came up with the idea of crashing hangouts and meeting with fans first. Nice to see the idea spreading.

Originally shared by Paul Oakenfold

Let's #HANGOUT! Paul Oakenfold crashes your hangout! Confirmed time for the hangout crashing Friday November 4th at 4:00pm EST/1:00pm PST. Probably will give you all a head start....so look for my "here we go" post.

When you see it, comment with your hangout link (the URL in the browser window of your hangout). And add a one-liner as to why I should join YOUR hangout.

IMPORTANT - please leave at least one seat open for me!

Download WE ARE PLANET PERFECTO Vol 1

Pre-order on iTunes: http://bit.ly/WAPPiTunes

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4 years ago today OpenSocial launched to the world at the first Google Campfire One event.

You can find me at 4:14 and 4:30 operating the browser next to Akash Garg and Jeremiah Robison. Today Akash is doing infra work at Twitter, Jeremiah is over at Jawbone working with a bunch of the former hi5 crew, and I'm working on making Google+ better with some of the same folks that participated in the original OpenSocial effort you see below.

Also don't miss the Vic Gundotra's intro at

Campfire One: Introducing OpenSocial

and performances by Joe Greenstein, Marc Andreessen, Adam Nash and others.

How time flies!

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Nice, the new Gmail UI is out. Make sure you give it a few days to grow accustomed to it. It really is better, but you have to retrain your brain a little bit. (Whenever I see the old UI now I cringe!)

Originally shared by Jason Cornwell

We're launching a major redesign of Gmail today! This is the result of months of hard work by many members of the Gmail team.

You'll get a link to upgrade at the bottom of your gmail screen over the next few days.

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One dapper dog..

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Have a Google vanity domain? This is what you've been waiting for!

Originally shared by Ronald Ho

Hi, I'm Ronald Ho. I’m a product manager at Google and for the past months I’ve been working on making Google+ work with Google Apps accounts.

We hoped to have this out to you earlier, but it took more technical work than we’d expected. With that work out of the way, the day is finally here and Google+ is now available with Google Apps.

You can find more details in our blog post including links to resources to help get Google+ enabled for your domain.

Let us know how you plan to use Google+ with your Google Apps account, and give us your feedback on any part of the experience that we can improve. Thanks!

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1. Many earthquakes in a short time.

2. A large construction project nearby at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley

Max Zorin anyone?

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Another creative use of hangouts...

Originally shared by Florian “Babar” Rohrweck

O RLY? #catspam #hangoutcat

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Some panoramas from 3849 ft.

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10/23/11

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Two things you don't see too often.

1) anything made by Sylvania.

2) a tiny Sylvania netbook thing running Win CE.

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Portland folks, can you help?

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Another java project "goes guava"

Originally shared by James Snell

More Abdera2 Updates... this is a copy of an email I just sent to the Abdera-dev mailing list...

----------

Ok, for those of you who may not have seen it, I posted another major update to the Abdera2 code yesterday. Where as the first round of updates focused primarily on updating dependencies and the introduction of the Activity Streams capability, this update focused more on API Refactoring and the introduction of two new major dependencies: the Joda-Time Library (http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/) and the Google Guava Libraries (http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/).

First up, Joda-Time... for those who aren't familiar with it, joda-time is a comprehensive code library for working with dates, times, durations, intervals, etc. When I wrote the first version of the Abdera Feed Object Model API, there wasn't a good open-source implementation of the ISO8601 DateTime format required by the Atom specification available so I wrote a fairly limited, down and dirty implementation in the form of the AtomDate class. It had decent performance, fairly good coverage and got the job done. Joda-Time, however, has emerged since as a top quality rich implementation of the 8601 standard... so even though it is a breaking change to the existing Feed Object Model API, I have gone through an have replaced Abdera's own implementation with Joda-Time's DateTime class, which, when used in combination with the mechanisms provided by the Google Guava libraries, provides for some very interesting and compelling new capabilities.

Which, of course, brings me to Guava. This library is a collection of extremely useful utility classes from google. This update brings significant deep integration with Guava in a number of ways, the most important of which is the new Selector API that I introduced as part of the first Abdera2 checkin.

Among many other things, Guava defines a number of interfaces and utility classes aimed at making it easier for developers to write quality, functional, readable code that has a more natural flow to it. It is easiest to show by example.

In Abdera 1.x, if I wanted, for instance, to extract a list of entries from an Atom feed that had been edited after a specific date and time, it would look something like this...

AtomDate ad = new AtomDate("2011-09-10T12:12:12Z");

List list = feed.getEntries();

List selected = new ArrayList();

for (Entry entry : list) {

if (entry.getEdited() != null) {

if (entry.getEdited().after(ad.getDate()))

selected.add(entry);

}

}

Note that feed.getEntries() will return every entry from the feed whether we want it or not. We then have to iterate back over that list, check to make sure there's an edited date, compare those and build up a new list. The code is ugly and cumbersome and inefficient. With the code I just checked in, the same process looks like this...

import static org.abdera.abdera2.model.selector.Selectors.*;

import static org.abdera.abdera2.common.date.DateTimes.*;

List list =

feed.getEntries(

edited(after(dt("2011-09-10T12:12:12Z")))

);

The portion, edited(after(dt("..."))) constructs a Selector that filters the list of items returned by getEntries(), keeping us from having to iterate back over the list.

Suppose we wanted to add another condition to the mix.. say some custom selector that checks for the presence of a particular extension... We can implement our CustomSelector by extending the AbstractSelector class, and merely append that in to the code above like so...

import static org.abdera.abdera2.model.selector.Selectors.*;

import static org.abdera.abdera2.common.date.DateTimes.*;

Selector customSel = new AbstractSelector { ... }

List list =

feed.getEntries(

edited(after(dt("2011-09-10T12:12:12Z")))

.and(customSel)

);

Underlying the Selector API a large chunk of the Guava API... specifically the Predicate, Function, and Constraint interfaces. The Selector interface actually extends from Predicate and Constraint and provides a mechanism for being cast as a Function.

A broad range of utility methods have been provided that create constructors for many of the most common cases, in particular DateTime related operations. Look at the following classes for those utility methods...

org.apache.abdera2.common.date.DateTimes

org.apache.abdera2.common.selector.Selector.Utils

org.apache.abdera2.model.selector.Selectors (for Atom specific utilities)

org.apache.abdera2.activities.extra.Extra (for Activity Streams specific utilities)

The Selector mechanism has been baked into both the Atom and Activity Streams APIs now. For instance, suppose we have an Activity stream but we only want a max of 10 activities for which a given user is the intended target (using the Activity Streams Audience Targeting Extension.. which I can explain later .. lol).. We could get that list of entries using...

PersonObject person = new PersonObject();

person.setId("acct:john.doe@example.org");

Iterable list = stream.getItems(isTo(person).limit(10));

Additional changes in this update include....

1. Refactoring classes into immutable thread-safe objects. This will be an ongoing change. As much as possible, a Factory/Builder model for most basic object types will be used as opposed to the more traditional getter/setter model. The motivation behind this change is simple in that it helps make more a much more scalable architecture and significantly more readable code.

For instance, if you wish to construct a Cache-Control header, you can use a simple fluent builder api...

CacheControl cc =

CacheControl

.make()

.isPublic(true)

.noTransform(true)

.maxAge(1000)

.get();

Likewise if you wish to construct a new WebLink HTTP Header,

WebLink link =

WebLink

.make()

.iri("http://example.org")

.rel("alternate")

.title("Home")

.get();

The pattern is simple and consistent throughout.

2. Added support for Guava objects in the URI Template implementation... specifically, a URI Template Context can now include the Guava Multimap, Supplier and Optional values. In addition, support for java.util.concurrent.Future, java.lang.ref.Reference and java.util.concurrent.Callable were also added. The one caveat when using Future, however, is that the context will not wait for a value to become available. The Context calls Future.get() and takes whatever it gets back as the value so before you use a Future in a URI Template, make sure it's been completed.

3. org.apache.abdera2.common.text.CharUtils has been refactored. This class was always a bit of a hacky mess. It's been cleaned up significantly around a new CodepointMatcher that is modeled after Guava's CharMatcher interface. Codepoint matcher, however, is designed to work specifically with Unicode Codepoints rather than Java Chars. For the most part, CharUtils and CodepointMatcher are internal classes that the majority of users won't ever have to mess with.

4. Filter/FilterChain has been refactored. This is the part of the Server framework that allows you to plug in a chain of filters before invoking a Publishing Protocol Provider. Previously, the Filter and FilterChain interfaces were very specific to the Server API.. they have been refactored into generic Chain and Task interfaces and moved to org.apache.abdera2.common.misc.*. This allows the use of Chain anywhere you may need a simple interceptor framework...

A trivial example,

Task lower =

new Task() {

public Void apply(

String input,

Chain flow) {

if (input == null) return null;

return flow.next(input.toLowerCase());

}

};

Function print =

new Function() {

public Void apply(String input) {

System.out.println(input);

return null;

}

};

Function chain = new Chain(print,lower);

chain.apply("HELLO!");

The Google Guava api does provide the means of composing multiple Function objects together such that the output of one flows into the input of another, but it only works in one direction.. the Chain here allows you to intercept inputs and outputs.

There are a number of other additions here and there throughout the code, and there will be more to come. One MAJOR change that I'm currently exploring is the use of Guice as a complete replacement for the Classpath-based configuration model we currently have. Let's face it, the current stuff provides a significant amount of flexibility and power, but initialization is slow. Guice is significantly faster and much more powerful than what we currently have.

Anyway, that's it for now.------

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Creepy

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Not sure what's the process for proposing new rel attributes for XFN..

In any case posting this here for feedback.

Add a new supplementary rel value 'verified' that combines with other rel attributes to indicate that the source believes that this relationship is valid (by using an OAuth API or other means.. For example:

<a href="http://inuus.com" rel="me verified">Paul

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Creepy

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http://gplusglobe.com/ is very well done. Nice use of WebGL and Google+ APIs.

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New winged goats on the Cell space mural.

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LinkedIn folks -- Oh how I wish I had this vid for the Curling release :)

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from incoming :)

Originally shared by Alejandro Fernandez-Lovo

We've lost enough already.... Don't take Bacon away!!!!

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Couldn't agree more...

Originally shared by Brad Templeton

When I saw the news about Steve Jobs it was a shock. But the news that Dennis Ritchie has died was much more like a blow. I didn't know him super well, we attended Usenix together for many years, but he was mostly a quiet man, not the sort to seek the limelight.

Dennis was instrumental in two things -- the C language and Unix -- which are the foundation of almost all the computing in the world today. Certainly much of C came from its predecessors like B and BCPL, and many things in Unix from its predecessors like Multics, but these two focal points were where all of 60s and early 70s computer science came together, and spread out. Of course Linux and MacOS and Android are very direct descendants of Unix, but even Windows is filled with ideas from Unix.

Far more than Steve Jobs, pretty much all your computing is based on Dennis' work. Last week Google noted Jobs at the bottom of the home page, a very rare honour. But Dennis Ritchie would be even more deserving of it.

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Infocom should be a good steward of the former Six Apart assets.

Though the weird part is when you go to Typepad the footer says:

Copyright © 2011, TypePad, Inc. All rights reserved.

Typepad, Inc?

Originally shared by Brad Fitzpatrick

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/24/sayonara-six-apart-brand-and-six-apart-japan/

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#musicmonday

Unun stuff is pretty rare to this day. I couldn't find anything from this era on youtube, but you can try out these track samples. Kung Fu Blue is quite fun, right Garth Webb?

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Slashdot PT cruiser - license plate LINUXPT

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Paul Lindner tagged Adam Nash in Ikai Lan's album.

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Tommy lounging at the Butler & the Chef with Joel (the chef and 3rd favorite person). We used to have breakfast here every day when we lived in the neighborhood. It's nice to see South Park improving. The B&C plans to upgrade next door and http://www.public bikes.com has opened a showroom.

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An easy to remember PLU. #geekhumor

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Check out this place if you find yourself in Pacific Heights. Great pastries and Four Barrel coffee.

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Thanks to Dave Aiello I now know that Movable Type is ten years old today.

I'll always have a soft-spot for MT. I can still vividly remember Anil Dash copying MT binaries onto six USB thumb drives at a time when preparing for a big conference. Fun times!

And here's to Six Apart KK and the vibrant community that keeps MT (and Melody) going strong!

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Am I the only one that finds it odd that Say Media fedex'd me a notice that Kevin Sladeck is selling 200k shares?

I was assuming my stock was only useful as a fond memory.

Oh and TIL that secondmarket.com has social networking features, who knew!

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This one is for the Java programmers out there.

Originally shared by Kevin Bourrillion

At long last... Guava 10.0 has been released!

It's been a long wait since 9 (almost six months!), but I think you won't be disappointed; there's tons of new stuff in here. CacheBuilder/Cache, EventBus, Range and ContiguousSet, Optional, UnsignedLongs, MapJoiner and MapSplitter, the completion of Equivalence, many more new classes, dozens of new methods, and hundreds of smaller improvements scattered all over.

If this comes as good news to you, please join me in thanking the team:Charles Fry (release-master this time, took MANY bullets for us), Chris Povirk Kurt Alfred Kluever and our summer Deranged Intern Louis Wasserman. And as always, the number of other Googlers (and one non-Googler!) who contributed is too many to even list.

Please upgrade, and please help us spread the word!

Now back to work on 11.0 I go. :-)

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Another funny strip from Manu. Be sure to follow him for lots more geeky humor!

Originally shared by Manu Cornet

http://www.bonkersworld.net/well-timed-book-release/ (This probably won’t make any sense for those not obsessively up to date with IT news.)

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Interesting article about how Peets, the progenitor of Starbucks, is becoming more and more like them.

Luckily there's a plenty of alternatives brewing around here. Oakland's Blue Bottle Coffee is still tops for me. How about you? Have you seen places like Blue Bottle spring up in your area?

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Ouch. hi5 folks let me know if I can help you find your next gig.

I think the real reason they're able to get by with less hardware is because they now have a ton less traffic and the new site runs on newer hardware.

I also note that it appears that they're still running on tomcat + netscalers for now:

curl -v http://www.hi5.com/friend/displayHomePage.do 2>&1|egrep 'Server:|NSC'

< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

< Set-Cookie: NSC_bqq-tfswfst-ofxvj=e246bb343660;expires=Tue, 20-Sep-11 10:20:46 GMT;path=/

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Hi Qiwenm

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Add your other Accounts on the web to your profile:

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Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

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Thanks again for using Google+!

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Hi Stephen!

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Add your other Accounts on the web to your profile:

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

Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

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

Thanks again for using Google+!

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Hi Sana!

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Add your other Accounts on the web to your profile:

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

Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

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

Thanks again for using Google+!

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Hi Fahad!

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Add your other accounts on the web to your profile:

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

Also consider visiting the Connected Accounts settings page where you can connect your various accounts:

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

Thanks again for using Google+!

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Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Add links to any other Accounts you have on the web to your profile:

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Thanks again for using Google+!

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Hi Rohama,

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Be sure to add your other Accounts on the web to your profile!

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Thanks again for using Google+!

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Hi Ferjani,

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Be sure to add your other accounts on the web to your profile!

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Thanks again for using Google+!

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Hi Gourav,

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Be sure to add your other accounts on the web to your profile!

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Thanks again for using Google+!

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Hi Hande,

Thanks for adding me to a circle on Google+. I work at Google on the Connected Sites team. We build tools that help your friends find you. There are a number of things you can do to help:

Be sure to add your other Accounts on the web to your profile!

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Thanks again for using Google+!

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Best thing about the Emmys is Tim Goodman's snark on his live blog.. Hope we can get him over on G+

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/emmys-2011-live-blog-236098

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Blackwood Gin and Tonic. So delicious!

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Thanks for adding me Sage -- be sure to link your accounts on your profile for better friend suggestions!

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Thanks for adding me Stéphane. Be sure to link your accounts on your profile for better friend suggestions!

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