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2013-03-26 20:19:48 (18 comments, 8 reshares, 81 +1s)

The results are in

A few weeks ago we revealed that we were seeking Explorers to help us shape the future of Glass. To do that, we asked people across Google+ and Twitter to tell us what they would do #ifihadglass . We could never have imagined such an enthusiastic response! There were so many creative, diverse, and (sometimes) crazy applications. We’ve certainly learned a lot through this whole process and it’s inspiring to hear how much passion there is for Glass. 

Now for the really exciting bit... we know you’ve all been waiting patiently, which is why we’re pleased to announce that the results are in. Over the next few days we’ll be sending out invitations to our Explorer Program through Google+ and Twitter. So, keep a lookout for tweets and G+ posts from @projectglass and +Project Glass  to see if you’ve been invited. 

We also want to call outthat we receiv... more »

2013-03-19 16:53:27 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 38 +1s)

If you haven't heard yet, we just launched one of the most forward-looking developer products: the Google Drive Realtime API.  This API allows your application to build realtime collaboration on Google infrastructure with essentially no overhead.  This is huge.  The ability to add operational transforms into your application in a performant way with an established data model allows you to make game-changing updates to your app.  Don't think like a chat client, think like Google Docs: multiple cursors from multiple people in the same file at the same time editing the same words!

Check out the blog post below and our documentation for more, but if there's one thing you should be doing today it's checking out this API and building a test application.

2013-03-15 01:35:32 (17 comments, 27 reshares, 60 +1s)

This photo comparison of two recent events in the Vatican is mindblowing:
http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/14/17312316-witnessing-papal-history-changes-with-digital-age

All of those people are watching the screens in front of them, instead of paying attention to the live event. Even if we feel a need to document our experiences, surely we shouldn't be giving up the experience itself?

I hope +Project Glass will provide a better way. Let's get everyone back to living their lives.

/ht +David Kaufman 

2013-03-11 15:35:33 (10 comments, 39 reshares, 133 +1s)

Google Glass throughout history
on The Verge at http://goo.gl/fznuU

What a lovely way to start the week, =].

2013-03-07 03:09:46 (21 comments, 4 reshares, 48 +1s)

Headed to Austin this weekend for South by Southwest? So are we! Here are just a few of the events you won’t want to miss:

Chrome
We're showing off our latest Chrome experiment "Find Your Way to Oz." On Friday, March 8 at 1:15pm at Galaxy Highland, the team will give a talk with Unit 9 on creative storytelling, followed by a screening of "Oz The Great and Powerful."

Google Playground
Stop by the Google Playground and get hands on with our latest experiments in reimagining advertising on Saturday, March 9 from 12-6pm at 340 E. 2nd Street (across from the convention center, http://goo.gl/r0iSn). The team will give a talk, "How will art, copy & code re-imagine advertising?" on Sunday at 3:30pm: http://goo.gl/rUWJW

Search
On Sunday, March 10 from 11am-12pm, Amit Singhal will take the stage withG... more »

2013-02-27 22:25:38 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

Last day for #ifihadglass 

It’s been a whirlwind week for #ifihadglass and we’re now in the home stretch. Tonight at 11:59pm PST, we will be closing the application process. So if you’ve been mulling over a brilliant idea, now is the time to post.

We’ve had so much fun this week reading about what you would do if you had Glass. We can’t wait to see what happens next.

2013-02-22 19:14:09 (5 comments, 14 reshares, 44 +1s)

"...I walked away convinced that this wasn’t just one of Google’s weird flights of fancy. The more I used Glass the more it made sense to me; the more I wanted it."

2013-02-20 17:51:44 (10 comments, 25 reshares, 54 +1s)

Just in case you needed any more inspiration. This is how it feels.


#ifihadglass #glass  

2013-02-20 14:30:03 (18 comments, 6 reshares, 48 +1s)

Seeking Glass Explorers: goo.gl/PbKWr

Last year we showed Glass to the world for the first time - we jumped out of airships, crashed New York Fashion Week and even took a ride on the subway. It’s been an exhilarating journey so far and there’s a lot more to come, but we can’t go it alone. We’re developing new technology that is designed to be unobtrusive and liberating, and so far we’ve only scratched the surface of the true potential of Glass.

Now we want you to get involved and that’s why today we’re expanding our Glass Explorer Program. We’re looking for bold, creative individuals who want to join us and be a part of shaping the future of Glass. Glass is still in the early stages, so we expect there will be some twists and turns along the way. While we can’t promise everything will be perfect, we can promise it will be exciting. 

We’d love tomake everyone a Glas... more »

2013-02-16 19:34:00 (2 comments, 7 reshares, 27 +1s)

A nice story to start your Saturday morning.  There's nothing quite like the burgeoning Sci Fi + Romance + Adventure genre, =].

2013-02-15 18:48:15 (8 comments, 6 reshares, 52 +1s)

A couple weeks ago, we held two hackathons for a small group of lucky developers from among those who signed up for the Glass Explorer Program at Google I/O 2012.  We called these events the Glass Foundry.  In San Francisco and New York, the selected Glass Explorers were able to spend two days with Glass and the API we’ve developed.  They formed teams and built over 80 new ways to use Glass.  Everyone who demoed received a special edition glass bar identifying them as a “Pioneer” of this next generation of computing.  Eight hard-working teams won the grand prize: Google will pick up the cost of their Glass Explorer Edition.

The Glass Foundry was a great opportunity to get our engineers working next to developers on Glass and the API.  We discovered that we all shared a passion for the future of wearable technology, and the feedback we received is already helping us improve theplatform.  ... more »

2013-02-14 04:17:32 (2 comments, 11 reshares, 27 +1s)

"Professor Xavier is a total..."

(Watch all the way to the end)

2013-01-19 02:05:52 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 48 +1s)

Introducing our Developer Relations team for +Project Glass: +Timothy Jordan +Jenny Murphy +Alain Vongsouvanh +Ossama Alami 

2013 is here, and that means we're getting Glass ready for developers with the Google Mirror API. It's a cloud API that uses RESTful web services, so you should feel right at home if you've already developed for YouTube, Drive, or Google+. And, you can use any programming language that you prefer. We recently shared this information in a Glass Developer Update to our Glass Explorers, who signed up to test Glass during #IO2012.

We're inviting some of the Glass Explorers to a hackathon to help us test the API and give us feedback. It's still early and so the documentation isn't publicly available yet.  But stay tuned for more updates this year. We know you're eager for information and we can't wait to see what you will build.

2013-01-16 02:11:32 (37 comments, 4 reshares, 145 +1s)

Time for a new profile photo.  =]

+Natalie Villalobos and I took some really cool tintypes at photoboothsf.com--totally her idea an I think it turned out really awesome.  It's a very cool mix of the future and the past.

2012-12-19 15:42:14 (15 comments, 4 reshares, 31 +1s)

1981 ad for Lego.

http://blog.makezine.com/2010/01/14/1981-ad-for-lego/

2012-12-15 23:09:26 (1 comments, 8 reshares, 29 +1s)

Tell me Houston, what's the problem?  It's ok.  Oh, it's okay.  Because this flight control is on the job today.

#WhimsyIsImportant   #space  

2012-12-17 04:01:14 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 22 +1s)

Happy Birthday, Ada Lovelace!

It's awesome to see so many birthday wishes for this extraordinary pioneer of computer programming.  Here's another.  This is the front and back of a trading card that I designed for our developer event at SXSW 2011.  Lady Lovelace was one of the handful of extraodinary hackers that +Natalie Villalobos, +Chris Messina, +Merci Niebres, Google Developer Relations, and I pulled together with original cocktails formulated in their honor by +Daniel Nadasi.

2012-12-06 17:00:43 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

More than 500M total upgrades
235M active across Google
135M active in the stream
A new communities feature
Snapseed for Android and iOS, for free

Not bad for a Thursday :-) Enjoy!
#googleplusupdate  

2012-12-04 19:24:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Save the date for Google I/O 2013

It might only be December, but Google I/O 2013 is set and is just 162 days away! We’ll be returning to Moscone Center West in San Francisco on May 15-17, 2013, and sharing the experience beyond via Google Developers Live and I/O Extended viewing parties. We’ll announce registration details in February 2013. 

If you have not yet experienced Google I/O, our annual developer event, visit the 2012 site at https://developers.google.com/events/io/ for highlights, including the spellbinding Google Glass demo (http://youtu.be/D7TB8b2t3QE).

To stay up to date on Google I/O announcements, as well as other developer news, follow us here on Google+ and join the conversation with #io13  .

2012-11-17 02:04:31 (14 comments, 66 reshares, 161 +1s)

I know, I know.  But this one's worth it.  All the way to the end.

2012-10-18 17:40:58 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

Is it just me, or does this house look like something you'd build in Minecraft?

Unrelated: I think this house is really neat and I would like to craft things there.

http://www.digsdigs.com/wooden-fortress-like-metamorphosis-house-in-chile/

2012-10-18 00:10:47 (10 comments, 10 reshares, 29 +1s)

When you're on a Google website (like right now), you're accessing one of the most powerful server networks in the known Universe. But what does that actually look like? Here's your chance to see inside what we're calling the physical Internet.

I've always been fascinated by our data center technology.  It's easy to forget that all this web stuff actually lives somewhere and that somewhere is an incredible achievement.  Check out these stunning pictures for an up-close-look at this awesome tech.

2012-09-27 16:35:20 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 17 +1s)

What is the equinox?  The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, the winter solstice is the shortest.  The fall equinox occurs midway between the two when day and night are roughly equal (12 hours each).  This happened on September 22nd.

I kinda knew all that, but this photo shows you.  It's a composite of the sun's travel across the sky on each of those days (both solstices and an equinox).  The top track is the longest day, with the most sun.  The bottom is the shortest day, and the middle is the equinox.  Cool, huh!?

Thanks Tunç Tezel of Bursa, Turkey for the cool photo!
via http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120923.html

2012-09-19 18:22:13 (7 comments, 10 reshares, 22 +1s)

Click this link and say goodbye to any productivity you thought you had left before lunch.

Also, I want this to be made into a video game.  Like, right away.

2012-09-19 00:37:45 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

"It's beautiful out here.  It's so beautiful it hurts my feelings"

Really looking forward to seeing this movie.  It's so important to remember that art, just like happiness, has no rules.

2012-08-30 15:18:23 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

Remember this video?  Perhaps a little heavy handed, but I love the slow moments and pauses--it does indeed strike a cord.

When's the last time you saw something wild, outside of a cage, and beautiful?

http://wemissyou.de

2012-08-23 15:10:25 (40 comments, 10 reshares, 15 +1s)

An airbag on your head.  This company calls it the invisible helmet--essentially a collar that can sense a bike accident and deploy an airbag to protect your noggin.  Would you wear one?

http://www.hovding.com/

2012-08-20 01:16:11 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

There is a tradition at +Silicon Valley Roller Girls (SVRG) games: at the end of a game, the entire audience rises from their seats and lines the edge of the track.  When the winning team is announced, the players circle the track and high five everyone (including the opposing team).  It's really cool, but rarely tense.

Last night it was full of tension as the score was so close that everyone waited on the oval for 10 minutes as the officials checked all the figures.  The un-official score became final and the 7 point difference put SVRG in motion around the track slapping hands and beaming smiles.

It was an thrilling end to a dramatic game that saw three lead changes in the first three jams and packs so tight the jammers frequently resembled divers plunging forward, trying to splash through a surface of opposing jerseys.

That is all to say, it was a very fun nightof ... more »

2012-08-16 03:09:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Thomas Hawk is hanging out with 8 people right now in a live Hangout On Air! #hangoutsonair

2012-08-12 22:48:03 (3 comments, 7 reshares, 27 +1s)

Hello Internet.

Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is determined by website traffic, the larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle. Users’ switching between websites forms links, and the stronger the link, the closer the websites tend to arrange themselves to each other.

internet-map.net

2012-08-12 18:44:40 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

I've often dreamt of one day taking an epic road trip steeped in natural and human history. If I were to do that today, this would be the trailer to take along.

http://design-milk.com/airstream-victorinox-and-serenity-trailers

2012-08-02 04:13:24 (13 comments, 2 reshares, 51 +1s)

squeee #glassexplorers  

Thanks +Project Glass!

2012-07-26 15:44:45 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Who is your storytelling hero?

I've often dreamed of telling stories the way Spalding Gray did.  His style was so passionate and engaging because his whole self worked as a single instrument for the story.

http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/and-everything-is-going-fine.php

2012-07-26 06:19:31 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

Everyone starts somewhere.

from octopustreehouse.etsy.com via designtaxi.com

2012-07-19 17:37:41 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

You asked for it and now it’s here! Google+ Pages access is extended to HootSuite’s nearly 5 million users.

Learn how social media teams can now fully utilize the advanced capabilities of HootSuite’s engagement, measurement, collaboration and security tool-set to manage the unique brand-focused environment of Google+ Pages

Read more: http://owl.li/cl5U7

2012-07-19 02:57:14 (12 comments, 4 reshares, 48 +1s)

"How'd that get in there?" +Amanda Rosenberg (at Flipboard's 2 year birthday party)

2012-07-10 17:15:10 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Google I/O was a blast, and it's time for a recap. It's also time for another session of the Google+ platform office hours.

When: Tuesday, July 10th at 2:00 pm PDT (see in your time zone: http://goo.gl/IAJ8a).
What: This week we'll discuss what we announced at Google I/O and answering your questions.
Where: In a Hangout On Air. Once the session has begun see it here on +Google+ Developers or on Developers Live: http://goo.gl/hOsUZ.

Ask your questions by commenting on the announcement post: http://goo.gl/C1M4l.

Some questions are better asked face to face. If you'd like to join the hangout, mention that in your comment too. We'll send you an invite.

2012-07-07 06:58:06 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 37 +1s)

Now that's a big hash tag! #ZeppMe

I'm at Airship Ventures learning all sorts of really cool things about modern zeppelin flight. Its name is Eureka and it always has someone looking after it (24 hours a day). It has rear propellers that allow it to take off and land with as few as five ground crew. It has two balloons inside the big balloon...

...also it's really big and cool and flies!