CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-04-02 17:48:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Dizzying but invisible depth

You just went to the Google home page.

Simple, isn't it?

What just actually happened?

Well, when you know a bit of about how browsers work, it's not quite that simple. You've just put into play HTTP, HTML, CSS, ECMAscript, and more. Those are actually such incredibly complex technologies that they'll make any engineer dizzy if they think about them too much, and such that no single company can deal with that entire complexity.

Let's simplify.

You just connected your computer to www.google.com.

Simple, isn't it?

What just actually happened?

Well, when you know a bit about how networks work, it's not quite that simple. You've just put into play DNS, TCP, UDP, IP, Wifi, Ethernet, DOCSIS, OC, SONET, and more. Those are actually such incredibly... more »

2012-11-25 16:43:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Letterpress Deconstructed

The iPhone game Letterpress is incredibly popular with my friends. Games usually only make it on the iOS platform if they're very polished and have elaborate graphical detail. Letterpress is a different kind of polished. Its look is sparse, strict, and minimalist.

Because Letterpress is lacking gradients, drop shadows, and other embellishments, the Google Product Manager in me decided to take it apart and analyze what makes it a great experience. I found no bells and whistles, just carefully executed transitions and animations at every step.

http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2012/11/letterpress-deconstructed.html

2012-06-13 20:56:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I shamelessly built a LaunchRock page for my stealth project. Want to be the first to know what I'm building? Just type in your email address.

http://startup.gaborcselle.com/?lrRef=ktcuI

2012-06-03 05:27:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This is a great project.

2012-05-31 23:41:17 (13 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

Exciting news! I'm leaving Google to start a new company. My last day is tomorrow.

http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2012/05/my-next-step.html

2012-05-31 02:24:15 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

The 3 R's that matter in a Startup: Reach, Retention, Revenue.

2012-05-27 20:17:29 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 0 +1s)

Wrote a blog post about what emotions you should try to evoke with the mobile app or website you're building: http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2012/05/eight-emotions-every-user-enjoys.html

2012-05-16 02:49:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Can't wait for this movie! Steve Jobs biopic written by Aaron Sorkin (who also did The Social Network).

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/15/aaron-sorkin-confirmed-as-screenwriter-for-film-adaptation-of-steve-jobs-biography/

2012-05-16 02:04:16 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

A sea of Google bikes

2012-05-14 17:02:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

These Hipmunk ads are really everywhere.

2012-05-11 21:11:48 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Pumped for +Zazzle Bay to Breakers 12k next weekend. Watch out for #6257!

2012-05-10 21:05:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

"Mobile didn't unlock location, it unlocked excess attention." -- seen on Quora

2012-05-10 21:04:58 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"What people want is not more choice. They want a better choosing experience. And they want to feel confident they made the right choice."

2012-05-09 17:42:58 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I got a wonderful birthday present this year - a flying lesson at Palo Alto airport. Thanks +Erica Kochi!

2012-05-08 19:39:42 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I want an Android Beam receiver on my MacBook. If I came across a website in my mobile browser that I'd like to read on the big screen, I could just beam it there.

2012-05-07 23:08:21 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

Google campus from the Cessna 172 I flew this weekend. Approaching Palo Alto airport.

2012-04-27 00:25:05 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

"If you go to incubator that’s not Y Combinator, that is perceived as negative credential. It’s like getting a degree at Berkeley. Okay. It’s not Stanford. You can a complicated story about how you had to do it because your parents had a big mortgage or something. But it’s a hard negative signal to get past."

-- Peter Thiel, http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21869934240/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-7-notes-essay

2012-04-25 19:15:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-04-24 18:57:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Finally! Google Drive is out. I've been using the internal beta for quite some time and it is excellent. Simple and reliable.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/introducing-google-drive-yes-really.html

2012-04-24 16:16:31 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Hipmunk ad on MUNI bus: "Fly from SFO to OMG" - pretty cool.

2012-04-17 09:24:41 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

How have I not heard of The Shard before? It's under construction and already the tallest building in the European Union.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_London_Bridge

2012-04-16 07:55:27 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Looping over London as my plane was waiting for a slot to land. What's that pointy tower they've built next to London Bridge?

2012-04-09 22:08:10 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Android's emulator just got faster.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/04/faster-emulator-with-better-hardware.html

2012-04-09 18:46:47 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"There are two kinds of wealth in Silicon Valley: Jet and no jet." - The Instagram founders are now the former. They've come a long way from Bourbon, their HTML5-based social networking app from way back.

2012-04-05 20:36:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

t’s been just over a year since I became CEO again. Instead of our usual Founders’ Letter, I wanted to do something different and give you an update on what we are focused on. Top of my priority list has been creating a simpler, more intuitive experience across all our products so users get exactly what they need, right when they want it. While we will always have improvements to make, I am excited about our progress and the opportunities in front of Google today. You can read my CEO update below.

2012-04-04 20:18:05 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Watching a talk at Google by Robert Shiller on his new book "Finance and the Good Society"

2012-04-04 17:47:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Larry Page in BusinessWeek: "I think the Android differences were actually for show. [...] I think that served [Apple's] interests. For a lot of companies, it’s useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe that it’s better to shoot higher. You don’t want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what’s possible and how to make the world better."

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-04/googles-page-apples-android-pique-for-show

2012-04-04 20:17:41 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

Decal for my work laptop just arrived. May the force be with you!

2012-03-31 19:37:33 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

The 8bit version of Google Maps is brilliant. Especially how we marked the Android building.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=37.420072%2C-122.081451&spn=0.036674%2C0.084543&hnear=180+Brannan+St%2C+San+Francisco%2C+California+94105&gl=us&t=8&z=14

2012-03-27 02:06:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

YCombinator's Demo Day is now in a much bigger venue.

2012-03-23 01:28:20 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

I had no idea we had such cool promo videos for the Galaxy Nexus.

Galaxy Nexus: Calling All

2012-03-22 06:59:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"This picture depicts the illuminated man made border between India and Pakistan, seen from the north from onboard the International Space Station on August 17, 2011. To the left New Delhi, and the cities of Jaipur and Jodpur. At the right edge: Karachi in Pakistan. The most striking feature is something that is frequently thought not to be visible from space - a border.

Realizing what this picture depicted had a big impact on me. When viewed from space, Earth almost always looks beautiful and peaceful. However, this picture is an example of man-made changes to the landscape in response to a threat, clearly visible from space. This was a big surprise to me.

Since the beginning of human spaceflight fifty years ago, astronauts have reflected on how peaceful, beautiful, and fragile the Earth looks from space. These reflections are not clichés that astronauts say because it feels... more »

2012-03-20 17:54:47 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Cool location / sensor / data processing framework by the MIT Media Lab that makes it easy to use your Android phone as a data collection device. Kind of like a tricorder. My cube mate +Nadav Aharony is one of the people behind this project.

"The Funf Open Sensing Framework is an extensible sensing and data processing framework for mobile devices, developed at the MIT Media Lab. The core concept is to provide an open source, reusable set of functionalities, enabling the collection, uploading, and configuration of a wide range of data types."

2012-03-12 18:26:08 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

In the Back to the Future time machine with +Mike LeBeau this weekend.

Taken at a very surreal Back to the Future party in Menlo Park this weekend.

2012-03-08 01:58:10 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

About a month ago, I switched to the Android team here at Google where I'm the Product Manager for some system and UI features that you should see in the next release of Android and beyond.

2012-03-07 00:12:04 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Our favorite Warhol Quote...

2012-03-06 18:11:43 (0 comments, 6 reshares, 3 +1s)

Check out Google Play - Google's new store for movies, music, books, and apps.

https://play.google.com/
https://play.google.com/about/

2012-03-01 15:27:33 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Fascinating article on the Samwer brothers in BusinessWeek.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-website-copy-machine

2012-02-28 22:20:50 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Just visited the Google Ventures startup lab which is slightly off the Google campus. Cool that Google Ventures provides this space for their portfolio companies.

2012-02-23 19:19:23 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Most awesome rumor I've heard in a while: Apple to bring triple display support to MacBook Air. I'll be the first to line up for this as I dearly miss my old setup where I had two large screens next to each other attached to my IBM Thinkpad.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/12/06/ivy-bridge-to-bring-triple-display-support-to-macbook-air/

2012-02-18 02:36:02 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Today is the 2nd anniversary of Google's reMail acquisition and my reReturn to Google. Time flies.

2012-02-17 22:15:34 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

"Modesty preferred"

2012-02-01 05:36:14 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Check out this plane flying over Russell Square in London in Google Maps satellite view.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.522194,-0.126187&spn=0.001999,0.003098&radius=15000&t=h&z=19

2012-01-30 16:11:31 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Something had to happen eventually: Fractured my left pinky finger while snowboarding in Breckenridge on Saturday. Now rocking a splint.

In a way I feel blessed that this is all that happened: Any other finger or a wrist injury would have been far more painful and expensive to fix.

2012-01-25 19:20:20 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

One day I will start a blog "Stuff Googlers Like". It will be modeled after "Stuff White People Like" and "Stuff Expat Aid Workers Like". So far, I have enough material for about 15 episodes.

2012-01-22 01:26:31 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

In Squaw with some Googlers!

2012-01-18 18:10:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I just signed this petition.

2012-01-18 16:39:28 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

If you're not already aware of the contents of the SOPA and PIPA bills being debated by the U.S. Congress, I would encourage you to read about them. If you think that the laws should not be passed as they currently stand, as I believe they should not, I'd encourage you to sign the petition below and share it with your friends and colleagues.

2012-01-18 16:42:50 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Zerocater billboard along 101. After Hipmunk this is my second portfolio company that's invested in a billboard. YCombinator companies are literally leaving their mark on the Valley.

2012-01-16 19:22:12 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

My former coworker +Greg Duffy is featured on TechCrunch today showing off the new Dropcam HD. It's great for watching your driveway for marauding zombies, even at night.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/16/dropcam-ceo-greg-duffy-on-getting-into-hardware-dont-ship-before-its-ready/