
Mike Elgan
The world's only lovable technology writer.
Occupation: Writer, columnist and blogger
Location: Silicon Valley, California
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2013-05-21 15:02:13 (23 comments, 8 reshares, 90 +1s)
Useless Google+ tip o' the day: post from Google Drive.
If you post pictures to Google+ from Google Drive, the posted pic comes from your drive with some interesting flexibility.
For example, this picture is not on Google+ but in my personal Google drive account. But here's where it gets interesting.
I can move the picture file in my drive and even rename it, and the picture still works on the post. Somehow Google links to the picture no matter what you do with it.
Why anyone would want to do it this way, I have no idea.
Can anyone think of a problem this approach solves?
(Note that the picture shows a courtyard at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.)
UPDATE #1: This approach won't display photos on mobile.
It's probably because Google converts photos to WebP format for better perf... more »

2013-05-21 14:16:56 (31 comments, 17 reshares, 63 +1s)
AirBnB Banned in New York.
A judge has essentially illegalized AirBnB in the City of New York, upholding a law meant to prevent “illegal hotels.”
Use of AirBnB won’t be banned completely, but when someone complains a renter can be shut down.
New York is rapidly becoming America’s capital of bans on victimless “crimes” - trans fats, big sodas, raw milk, and now renting out your room have all been largely criminalized.
The solution to this problem will be for City Hall to revisit the hotel law to allow AirBnB. But I fear they won’t because the hotel industry will be against it.
http://www.fastcompany.com/3009953/where-are-they-now/airbnb-stay-illegal-in-new-york-rules-judge
#airbnb #newyork


2013-05-21 16:52:39 (49 comments, 18 reshares, 123 +1s)
Will Yahoo do to Tumblr what they did to Geocities?
Yahoo bought Geocities to great fanfare, let it "rot," then killed it. Is that what they'll do with Tumblr?
But wait, you might say, Geocities was lame and Tumblr is cool, right? Well, no.
Tumblr has never attained what Geocities did. Geocities in the late 90s was the third most visited site on the web. It was so valuable, Yahoo paid not 1 but 3 billion dollars for it.
If you think the press reception of these two Yahoo acquisitions are different, maybe you'd like to take The Atlantic's quiz to guess which quotes are about Geocities and which are about Tumblr:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/quiz-geocities-or-tumblr/276029/
#yahoo #tumblr #geocities

2013-05-21 00:41:55 (21 comments, 39 reshares, 226 +1s)
What's it like to TD a show at TWiT through Google Glass
I recorded my POV while I did my Technical Director duties for last Friday's episode of +Tech News Today. Watch, if you dare. This is what it's like to be the TD for the show. (But compared to this video, I get a bit less of the sea sick feeling when I do it IRL.)
#throughglass
#throughglass: Jason TD's Tech News Today (episode 756)


2013-05-21 00:28:11 (32 comments, 40 reshares, 240 +1s)
The terabyte: how far it's come.
In the late 90s, Microsoft launched a Google Earth-like service on which users could browse satellite photos. It was called the Microsoft TerraServer.
The project was conceived as a way to test the possibility of a single SQL database capable of housing more than a terabyte of data.
Back then, a terabyte was an unfathomable amount of data. And Microsoft was the only "user" I was aware of that had access to such a vast amount of storage.
Fast forward to this week and Silicon Valley companies are giving away one terabyte free as the basic incentive for embracing the new thing.
Today, of course, +Marissa Mayer announced that Flickr users would get a terabyte of free storage with an account.
Last week, +Sundar Pichai announced that all 6,000 attendees to Google I/O would get a free Chrome... more »


2013-05-20 20:52:15 (14 comments, 12 reshares, 89 +1s)
Chinese government hack of Google targeted US list of suspected Chinese spies.
Now we may know why the Chinese government hacked Google in 2010: To find the US government’s list of suspected Chinese spies operating in the United States under surveillance by US law enforcement, according to a new report in The Washington Post.
The hackers accessed a database of court orders authorizing surveillance, according to the Post’s sources.
Apparently the Chinese spies used Gmail to communicate with each other. And hackers may have tried to create misinformation on these accounts.
Microsoft was also hacked by the Chinese government at the time, and for the same reason. An unnamed source said that hackers not only sought the database, but also to access the email accounts of people identified as surveillance targets in that database.
An official G... more »


2013-05-20 19:54:40 (112 comments, 19 reshares, 246 +1s)
My Google+ wish list.
I'm a huge fan of the Google+ redesign. But G+ is still not perfect. Here's what needs fixing.
Single column view for the Profile. You can easily toggle to a single-column view for circle streams, but inexplicably not for one's own profile. I even made a circle with just me in it, and that doesn't work, either. I want a way to look at my own posts without the crazy multi-column view.
An "All" option for noise control. Right now, the options are "More,” “Standard” and “Fewer.” For super important circles like my “Family” and “Friends” or any other circle I should have the option for zero filtering.
Better fonts. +Linus Torvalds is right: The new fonts on Google+ are terrible. This is super noticeable on a Chromebook Pixel.
A switch for auto-refreshing. A... more »


2013-05-20 16:33:55 (21 comments, 22 reshares, 133 +1s)
Google Now pro tip: Set Google Now reminders from Search.
The Knowledge Graph part of a Google Search result will contain a one-click link to set a Google Now reminder.
So when you search for things you want to be reminded of, find the link and click it.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/20/google-knowledge-graph-search-reminders-can-be-sent-from-google-search-on-the-web-to-google-now/


2013-05-20 16:20:58 (44 comments, 13 reshares, 105 +1s)
Samsung unveils the highest-resolution laptop screen ever.
Samsung is showing a laptop display with a higher resolution than any Retina device or even the Chromebook Pixel!
A press release issued by Samsung casually mentions that they're showing at the Display Week event a 13-inch laptop screen with a 3200 x 1800 resolution, which blows away any existing display sold in any existing laptop.
Note that this is a component for laptop companies to buy, not a laptop for consumers to buy.
At what point do displays exceed what humans can perceive? Doesn't Retina already do that?
(Note that the picture shows a different display technology being demoed at the same show by Samsung.)
http://www.businesswire.com/news/telecomengine/20130520005533/en/Samsung-Display-Showcasing-State-of-the-Art-Mobile-Extra-Large-Sized-Displays
