CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2011-11-18 23:08:13 (28 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Galaxy Nexus & ICS

Things I like:
Bright, crisp, sharp screen - especially text & watching HD video
A pleasant shape to hold
Light
Roboto
More intuitive UI
Ability to set the phone up to force StrictMode & visually display results
Plug it into my PC, and I can see the device filesystem
Integrated tips & explanations
The welcome email with links to help videos
The speedy Gallery (Nexus One gallery was painfully slow)
Fast camera
Market is very usable & slick, and apps install very fast
The much improved widgets & shortcuts interface
The kerning on the wifi/network icons top-right
The soothing colour scheme
The static set of four launcher icons
The permanent search box, with voice
The slimmed down and rotating Back/Home/Running icons

Things I don't like:... more »

2011-11-16 16:08:05 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Wonderful work, +Simon Meacham http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15739984

2011-09-25 17:27:49 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Warrior is a truly incredible film. Nick Nolte is phenomenal. I think it's probably the best film I've seen this year.

The trailer makes it look like a film about to guys fighting, but there's so much more to it than that.

Warrior - Official Trailer [HD]

2011-09-22 21:16:12 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Really impressed and excited by BankSimple's UI demo--I sure hope I can use it soon! :) Congrats to Alex Payne and crew!

/via http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/21/banksimple-shows-its-web-based-banking-tool-on-video/

2011-08-24 13:31:42 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This certainly looks to me like a sign Google+ is gaining traction outside the world of tech-heads
http://madonna.com/news/title/join-madonna-on-google

2011-07-23 07:42:42 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Flying is much safer than going to hospital
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/research/article/1028883--fear-of-flying-better-fear-a-trip-to-the-hospital-says-who?bn=1

2011-07-22 13:45:15 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

I'm really pleased to see this has been published. Doctors and researchers from around the globe who have experience with ME/CFS have come together to create a full set of criteria to define & diagnose M.E. (myalgic encephalomyelitis) as distinct from generalised fatigue. Anyone with M.E. knows that it is to "fatigue" what emphysema is to coughing and this document provides a guide for doctors faced with the challenge of differentiating. It should also help with research as it much more clearly defines the condition. These new international consensus criteria are an update to (and replace) the Canadian consensus criteria (that I wrote about in the BMJ). If you know anyone with M.E. they might find it useful to show this document to their doctor.
http://www.meassociation.org.uk/?p=7173

2011-07-22 11:47:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Nearly a million people in the UK using Google+ already. That's about 1.5% of the population in less than a month
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904233404576460394032418286.html

2011-07-21 15:20:15 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Wow, a lot of people REALLY don't like their lawyers.
http://solicitorsfromhell.co.uk/

Unsurprisingly the site is being sued for defamation by fifteen law firms

2011-07-20 08:44:43 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

That last post relates to (and references) this piece I wrote for the British Medical Journal in June, describing my experience with ME/CFS. http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d3836.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=ZWOFdwR8iozaEPQ

2011-07-18 20:51:32 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

The Stigma of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/turning-straw-gold/201104/the-stigma-chronic-fatigue-syndrome

2011-07-16 09:40:53 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Another paper discussing immune system dysfunction in ME/CFS patients
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21756995

2011-07-15 12:55:11 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My local doctors surgery's automated telephone appointment-booking service is closed for lunch. I wonder what it's having?

2011-07-13 16:29:27 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 4 +1s)

A new form of dance. Unbelievable.

2011-07-13 12:50:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I'm really pleased to see British politicians working together to solve problems today. I always feel a sense of deep unease and irritation when they point-score and play their immature little games instead of focusing on what the country needs from them. Tom Watson is a bloody hero.

2011-07-11 19:49:48 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

People often don't believe I can juggle fire, so here is evidence that I can (or I'm very good with Photoshop - you decide). I don't do it very often as it takes a bit of planning to transport fuel and kit, but strangely I've always found it very relaxing & hypnotic.

2011-07-11 18:33:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

If my phone was hacked I'd not be "shocked", I'd be fucking pissed off.

2011-07-11 11:09:46 (51 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Pretty sick of Circles now. They're not working for me at all. Circles for occasional privacy is useful (family, etc), but Google+ does not solve the problem of how to segment public posts by subject, so READERS can pick and choose what THEY want to read. Where people post on a number of subjects (which let's face it is most of us) it makes no sense that the poster has to decide what people want to read. Why are we being forced to post to private groups when many of us want to post publicly, to specific interest groups? Every time I get an "XXX is following you" message I am being asked to decide what this person is interested in - that's their job, not mine, half the time I've no idea, and it's irritating I'm being forced to do it. As +Terence Eden has said, readers should do the bulk of the organising, not the poster. +Vic Gundotra

2011-07-10 22:35:28 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

They say politicians are like nappies/diapers, they should be changed often, and for the same reason. There must be an equivalent metaphor for media moguls who lack a moral compass.

2011-07-06 15:44:11 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Amazon same-day delivery still seems like a form of magic to me. We can all enjoy our inner petulant child that wants things NOW (for a price!)

2011-07-04 22:26:32 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

We're not totally reliant on political democracy to sort out Murdoch - we have commercial democracy; If you don't like what they do don't buy their papers or pay for Sky. Buying does more than encourage them, it funds them.

2011-07-04 10:29:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Very happy to now have a copy of this pic of me at Moss' desk on the set of The IT Crowd last year :-)

2011-07-01 09:32:40 (27 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Someone just posted a comment on +Matt Cutts stream saying "i just deleted you from my Circles because to be honest, I couldn't care less about your shoes or cats." and therein lies my bugbear with G+ - no way to specific what kind of stuff you want to know about a person.

2011-06-29 16:35:55 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Realistically people won't stop using Twitter and Facebook to just use G+, and especially when network migration is hard. Can't help but wonder how the three of them will co-exist. Many will want accounts on all three, but how to manage cross-posting?

2011-06-29 14:13:58 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I'm hoping at some point there will be a way to say "Follow ABC, but only when they tweet about X" - maybe let people post to "public circles" that people can follow, or even better follow someone and REMOVE public circles to filter the content down to the interesting stuff. e.g. if someone posts about Personal and Work, some people will want both (work friends), some will want Work only (colleagues) and some will want Personal only (parents and friends). Circles seem too restrictive for this as I have to add people.

2011-06-29 12:53:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Hard to understand at this stage how Google+ works for someone with one GApps account and a personal Gmail account. I want work related social alerts to go to my personal email, work ones to go to work email, and access to + from both. Hopefully can avoid two + accounts, that would suck as human relationships aren't discrete (some work people are also friends)

2011-06-29 12:48:24 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I misunderstood posting to circles. I thought it was categorisation, but it locks access to the specific people in the circle. Makes more sense now. Like Twitter, best way to figure it out is to use it.

2011-06-29 12:38:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I have three Twitter accounts for different areas of my life (@ollieandroid, @juicyproperty and @ollie72) and was tempted to set up a fourth. Google+ provides a delightfully simple solution to sharing to specific groups, encouraging a lot more sharing and contact. Hopefully it'll be possible eventually to link Googe+ to Twitter & Facebook so I can drive them all, but steer with one.

2011-06-29 12:37:56 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I'm gonna need to replace the Nexus One to make space for the Google+ app. I'm really liking it so far, especially the visual styling