CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-21 05:01:51 (1 comments, 9 reshares, 30 +1s)

2013-05-21 04:25:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-21 03:59:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Really Hulu? Talk about garish...

2013-05-21 03:16:39 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I started Saturday with inbox 1600. I'm now down to 900. Getting there. #io13  

2013-05-21 03:14:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Added photos to After Hours Party.

2013-05-21 01:27:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-21 01:19:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-21 01:12:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Star Trek Into ARMY OF Darkness

2013-05-21 00:51:13 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

+YouTube Creator Academy

https://creatoracademy.withgoogle.com/preview

2013-05-21 00:42:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Is Yahoo's big photo space giveaway part of a plan to show more ads?

2013-05-21 00:40:50 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Woaw... New picture search on g+ mobile is pretty damn clever.

2013-05-21 00:31:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I would buy this in a heartbeat.

2013-05-21 00:26:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

With SPDY and HTTP/2, we can finally stop playing silly games, like delaying "low priority" requests for images: instead, we can send them all immediately, and let the server optimize delivery based on priority of each stream!

Net effect: better throughput and utilization of the TCP link, and... faster rendering speeds! Below graph is a great illustration, courtesy of +William Chan: Chrome M29 delivers faster rendering by eliminating unnecessary delays in the resource scheduler!

Corresponding CL in Chrome: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/14694014

2013-05-21 00:25:33 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Lee Child's infamous character, Jack Reacher, is now on the big screen (goo.gl/oo5Ln). What'd  you think of the movie?

2013-05-20 23:52:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I guess +Yahoo! really is all about Tumblr. The official blog has moved.

2013-05-20 23:46:05 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Sony’s next gaming system is an out-of-focus black rectangle

via +Ars Technica

2013-05-20 23:38:16 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

A new Flickr app for +Android. It's about 99% photo and 1% border. Well done.

Although they need to stop doing the stupid webview for +Google auth.

2013-05-20 23:33:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Biggr. A free terabyte of space

At Flickr, we believe you should share all your images in full resolution, so life’s moments can be relived in their original quality. No limited pixels, no cramped formats, no memories that fall flat. We’re giving your photos room to breathe, and you the space to upload a dizzying number of photos and videos, for free. Just how big is a terabyte? Well, you could take a photo every hour for forty years without filling one.

Time to step up +Google Drive!

2013-05-20 23:31:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Nice job on the Flickr redesign +Yahoo! 

2013-05-20 23:14:38 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

:)

2013-05-20 23:05:32 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Another one bites the dust.

2013-05-20 22:49:28 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

+Google+ has some shiny new "finish your profile" cards.

2013-05-20 22:28:53 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-20 22:25:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-20 22:24:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

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2013-05-20 22:13:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-20 21:39:30 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Understanding Google's new design: It's all about cards.

From The New Yorker: "A card will be the atomic unit of information display across all of Google."

See what I did there? I put what we journalists call a "pull quote" as the top line. The reason is that I know in your stream you will see only my "headline" and my first line, and I wanted to make it compelling enough for you to click and read. 

Welcome to the new Google+. 

Some people are complaining about this, saying its anti-writer, anti-words, pro-photos or too much like Pinterest. 

In fact, Google+ always displayed only the first few lines of each post, but now they're displaying fewer. 

Let's be clear about why this is happening: Google is fully embracing the cards interface. A card is a unit of information that could containany... more »

2013-05-20 20:20:35 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

But I can already do this with +Gmail and +Google Wallet...

2013-05-20 19:17:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

My MacBook Air's screen looks really washed out now after using my +Google Chrome Pixel.

2013-05-20 19:03:05 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Oh yay...

2013-05-20 18:43:55 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

Rich notifications with action buttons have been added in the Message Center in the last Mac chromium build.

You can play with them by enabling chrome://flags/#enable-rich-notifications and install the Notifications Galore! Chrome App at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notifications-galore/gclcddgeeaknflkijpcbplmhbkonmlij?hl=en

Source: http://codereview.chromium.org/15024010/

2013-05-20 17:35:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-20 17:33:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-20 17:15:43 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Hangouts, phone calls and Google Voice

Thanks for all of your feedback on last week's Hangouts launch. I wanted to quickly talk about 1) making/receiving phone calls in Gmail, and 2) Google Voice support more generally.

1) Today's version of Hangouts doesn't yet support outbound calls on the web and in the Chrome extension, but we do support inbound calls to your Google Voice number. We're working hard on supporting both, and outbound/inbound calls will soon be available. In the meantime, you can continue using Google Talk in Gmail.

2) Hangouts is designed to be the future of Google Voice, and making/receiving phone calls is just the beginning. Future versions of Hangouts will integrate Google Voice more seamlessly.

2013-05-20 17:14:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Another big brand, this time Sprint, gets a warning over user generated content spam and goes to the help forums to figure out where exactly it might be.

2013-05-20 17:14:29 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

How does one go about enabling the new Hangouts for an Apps account? It's not currently listed in services.

2013-05-20 15:22:18 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Here's why Vic couldn't sleep last night!  A fresh new Google+ Android build that incorporates all of last week's goodness... and more.   Enjoy.

#googleplusupdate

2013-05-20 15:22:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

200Mbps Internet for $50? No wonder +Om Malik looks so good

Last night on TWiT +Om Malik revealed that his San Francisco apartment has 200mbit symmetric Internet access for $50 a month!

The company that provides this, http://webpass.net, in only available in a few California cities, and I'm sure it only makes business sense in densely packed high-rise apartment complexes, but still... want!

http://youtu.be/9BIRYLmuAyA?t=1h59m4s

2013-05-20 15:09:56 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-20 15:06:03 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

From our friends at +National Film Society  -- which Sulu is best?

2013-05-20 12:22:34 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-05-20 05:29:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Art you can enjoy - and eat - beautiful ice cream roses. 

Source: http://blog.alexandra-k.com/post/35723263284/martinekenblog-ice-cream-roses-omg

2013-05-20 05:14:05 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-20 03:10:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I've got an older Galaxy +Nexus phone that is rooted and has an encrypted disk. I'm trying to do a factory reset and wipe the data but attempting such just restarts with the existing data still present. I tried booting into recovery and performing the reset from there but since the disk is encrypted it fails to mount.

Any ideas? #android  

2013-05-20 03:06:15 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 12 +1s)

Amazing.

2013-05-20 02:21:35 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-20 02:13:14 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

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