CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-17 21:06:40 (31 comments, 6 reshares, 117 +1s)

Cashing in on social media: vote for my picture please!

http://sharks.nhl.com/club/blogpost.htm?id=17650

2013-05-17 01:24:23 (26 comments, 115 reshares, 441 +1s)

2013-05-16 17:54:55 (23 comments, 7 reshares, 250 +1s)

I almost forgot this picture. We did find Precious!

2013-05-16 17:35:52 (79 comments, 45 reshares, 458 +1s)

Photos from a day trip to Hobbiton. New Zealand is definitely a country everyone should visit at least once.

http://www.hobbitontours.com/

Thanks +Air New Zealand for the great tour.

2013-05-16 17:13:02 (60 comments, 39 reshares, 245 +1s)

Pictures from the Harley Davidson motorcycle rally in China.

Reuters photography Carlos Barria traveled to Zheijiang Province to photograph the Harley Davidson rally. This is the fifth one of its kind in China. Over 1,000 enthusiasts participated.

 Photo credit: Reuters/Carlos Barria

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2013-05-16 17:01:55 (14 comments, 7 reshares, 97 +1s)

Best photo from my trip to Auckland: my son posing for Asian tourists at a rest stop on the way to Hobbiton. He's wearing a Gollum mask and holding Bilbo Baggins.

Thanks +Air New Zealand  for making this trip happen.

2013-05-16 15:07:03 (34 comments, 28 reshares, 145 +1s)

Health experts find little benefit to sharply curtailing the consumption of salt

"'As you go below the 2,300 mark, there is an absence of data in terms of benefit and there begin to be suggestions in subgroup populations about potential harms," said Dr. Brian L. Strom, chairman of the committee and a professor of public health at the University of Pennsylvania. He explained that the possible harms included increased rates of heart attacks and an increased risk of death."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/health/panel-finds-no-benefit-in-sharply-restricting-sodium.html

Photo credit: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

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2013-05-16 16:55:59 (72 comments, 54 reshares, 217 +1s)

8 bugs to try eating.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130514-edible-insects-entomophagy-science-food-bugs-beetles

Photo credit: Amir Cohen/Reuters

2013-05-16 08:59:47 (175 comments, 35 reshares, 759 +1s)

Is it only me? Why is the Facebook two-column format so confusing but the Google+ two-column format so intuitive? 

2013-05-15 22:24:40 (24 comments, 36 reshares, 207 +1s)

Cute!

2013-05-15 17:41:50 (55 comments, 7 reshares, 334 +1s)

Someone sent this photo from UCLA. This is kind of scary! I may have to ask for one. I hope the admissions committee sees it because my son is applying this Fall. 

2013-05-15 17:35:35 (31 comments, 38 reshares, 228 +1s)

Photo essay about life in South Korea.

This is a picture of 2,000 housewives making kimchi to give to the poor. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/05/a-trip-to-south-korea/100512/

Photo credit: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

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2013-05-15 18:23:57 (6 comments, 22 reshares, 76 +1s)

Outlines of famous authors. This Joseph Heller's chart for Catch-22.

http://flavorwire.com/391173/famous-authors-handwritten-outlines-for-great-works-of-literature/view-all

2013-05-15 17:15:53 (7 comments, 6 reshares, 48 +1s)

Cool concept. Not exactly real-time translation, but you'll get the drift.

http://youtu.be/zHmKnMKzoeI

2013-05-15 16:47:28 (0 comments, 23 reshares, 65 +1s)

Download the 2013 Mobile Trends for Marketers report here:

http://success.adobe.com/en/na/programs/products/digitalmarketing/offers/apr/1304-32058-forrester-mobile-trends-for-marketers-test.html

Don't get all self-righteous because you have to fill out a form. If you don't want to fill out the form, don't ask for the report.

2013-05-15 16:50:06 (35 comments, 24 reshares, 70 +1s)

How to be a troll

http://12most.com/2013/05/14/ways-to-tick-people-off-on-social-media/

The best way to get rid of trolls is this Chrome extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nuke-comments-on-google%20/nfgaadooldinkdjpjbnbgnoaepmajdfh

With one click, you can block, delete, and report. 

2013-05-15 01:01:41 (18 comments, 11 reshares, 200 +1s)

Meta Auckland: pictures of people taking pictures of me at this morning's +Air New Zealand Social-Media Breakfast. 

2013-05-15 00:49:27 (14 comments, 6 reshares, 168 +1s)

Hanging with the moa in the +Air New Zealand lobby.

2013-05-14 23:18:53 (6 comments, 7 reshares, 55 +1s)

Getting a preview of +Air New Zealand fairy website using Google social sign in.

http://www.airnzfairy.com/#

If you're going to Google I/O look for her in the Google+ developer sandbox.

2013-05-14 21:50:12 (27 comments, 17 reshares, 108 +1s)

Photo essay of fires in California.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/wildfires_in_california.html

Photo credit: David Mcnew/Getty Images

2013-05-14 18:18:17 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 45 +1s)

Actualizing +Chase Jarvis's dreams.

I don't even remember my dreams!

http://youtu.be/W2SLkuimgpU

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2013-05-14 18:07:45 (45 comments, 54 reshares, 97 +1s)

Required viewing for conservatives?

http://youtu.be/os69gEFXUW4

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2013-05-14 03:57:01 (87 comments, 53 reshares, 541 +1s)

Traditional New Zealand lunch: hotcakes with bananas and bacon. Holy kaw! Verge coffee house. 

2013-05-13 19:49:31 (50 comments, 178 reshares, 354 +1s)

How I do social media. In this post, I explain exactly what I do for Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. 

http://blog.hubspot.com/how-guy-kawasaki-manages-social-media

2013-05-13 04:44:39 (76 comments, 12 reshares, 430 +1s)

On my way to Auckland for the +Air New Zealand social-media breakfast.

2013-05-13 04:42:37 (12 comments, 28 reshares, 115 +1s)

The thirteen PowerPoint slides that helped Buffer raise $500,000 in three months

See the slides here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/13-slides-that-landed-two-first-time-founders-500000-in-3-months-2013-5

And it got me as an advisor though I don't remember if the founders pitched me with PowerPoint. I think they just described the business to me. 

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2013-05-13 02:03:06 (23 comments, 45 reshares, 199 +1s)

Watch Jake Shimabukuro do things you won't believe possible with a ukelele

Every time I watch him play, I am newly amazed. 

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365004338

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2013-05-12 19:44:21 (12 comments, 65 reshares, 185 +1s)

2013-05-12 19:40:17 (17 comments, 27 reshares, 145 +1s)

Love the scarf!

2013-05-12 18:58:30 (29 comments, 23 reshares, 131 +1s)

Help your mom write a book. Mother's Day Special: APE is on sale for $2.99, regular $9.99.

http://amzn.to/SQrS8o

2013-05-11 20:33:48 (18 comments, 17 reshares, 136 +1s)

Those pesky national birds

2013-05-11 20:01:59 (24 comments, 74 reshares, 206 +1s)

2013-05-12 01:16:01 (132 comments, 112 reshares, 434 +1s)

Two words you don't often see together: surgery + cake.

See more delectable examples on Trendhunter

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/surgery-cake

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2013-05-11 13:18:38 (62 comments, 49 reshares, 440 +1s)

How to kick ass on Google+ by +Peg Fitzpatrick 

http://pegfitzpatrick.com/2013/05/10/five-traits-of-a-kick-ass-plusser/

Photo credit: pmarkham

2013-05-10 22:08:11 (33 comments, 79 reshares, 155 +1s)

2013-05-10 19:14:42 (31 comments, 26 reshares, 195 +1s)

Guns for your sweet tooth. 

3D printing a gun is so 2012. Check out how sculptor Scott Hove makes holy kaw! quality confectionary guns. See his arsenal:

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/scott-hove

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2013-05-10 15:32:53 (25 comments, 64 reshares, 154 +1s)

Interactive chart to help you choose a career. Try it here:

http://www.rasmussen.edu/resources/what-career-should-i-choose/

Or you could do what you love and hope that people love what you do. 

2013-05-10 14:07:05 (86 comments, 202 reshares, 683 +1s)

How to make eye-to-eye contact in video chats, webinars, and hangouts

This is a picture of a SeeEye2Eye from Bodelin Technologies. It's a periscope that puts people's face near your webcam to that when you are looking in their eyes you are also looking directly at the camera.

 Tried it tonight for a Skype conference. It works extremely well. It will work great for Hangouts too. More info about the product at the Bodelin website:

http://www.bodelin.com/se2e

Thanks to +Scott Atwood for telling me about it.

#HolyKaw

2013-05-10 13:36:02 (16 comments, 4 reshares, 101 +1s)

I've truly arrived: I'm on a Budweiser web page. This is the page for the Budweiser Red Light:

http://www.budweiser.ca/redlight/buy.php

That's the ever enchanting +Jennifer Birmingham of the San Jose Sharks with me.

2013-05-10 06:07:23 (8 comments, 4 reshares, 68 +1s)

2013-05-09 18:00:45 (31 comments, 59 reshares, 472 +1s)

The beauty of vertical space art

Romain Jacquet-Lagreze provides a different and beautiful perspective of Hong Kong.

See his images here:

http://weburbanist.com/2013/05/07/vertical-horizon-urban-photographs-turn-city-upside-down/

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2013-05-09 17:30:55 (26 comments, 3 reshares, 87 +1s)

Yeah, because what the world needs is a bigger shopping center.

The ice rink at San Mateo is being closed so that the developer can do something else with the property. This is a public hearing about the issue.

http://bit.ly/11VRl0C

Love the comment at 3:35. You go girl!

2013-05-09 17:17:37 (29 comments, 12 reshares, 117 +1s)

Book cards make an author's life easier.

Been so happy with these Enthrill cards. They enable me to "carry" lots of books to appearances. This picture shows one paperback vs one hundred cards.

Shipping paperbacks to speaking venues is a huge challenge--particularly outside the US. Now people can get an Enthrill card with a unique redemption code that they use to download a book.

You can sell the card using a Square credit-card reader and do business anywhere. You can also sell the cards in bulk to a conference organizer to provide to every attendee. 

At the event, you can autograph the card. This isn't as good as autographing a book, but it's so much easier. Also, this a great way to give people who have bought your hardback or paperback a copy of the ebook version. 

For more information, go here:
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2013-05-09 16:29:05 (23 comments, 24 reshares, 181 +1s)

Great San Jose Sharks schwag

2013-05-09 16:24:41 (10 comments, 25 reshares, 168 +1s)

Justice. Art @ SFO

2013-05-08 14:05:03 (19 comments, 31 reshares, 158 +1s)

A message for abused children

2013-05-08 14:04:38 (100 comments, 118 reshares, 294 +1s)

Scientific explanation of why men love breasts

In case you needed an explanation, Larry Young, a professor of psychiatry at Emory University, provides one:

"Evolution has selected for this brain organization in men that makes them attracted to the breasts in a sexual context, because the outcome is that it activates the female bonding circuit, making women feel more bonded with him. It's a behavior that males have evolved in order to stimulate the female's maternal bonding circuitry."

Titillate your understanding of this here:

http://www.livescience.com/23500-why-men-love-breasts.html

Illustration credit: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported | Gytha 

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2013-05-08 13:58:26 (17 comments, 42 reshares, 144 +1s)

Now this is a goal.

Walter Calderon scores for Deportivo Quito.

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2013-05-08 13:54:58 (12 comments, 51 reshares, 188 +1s)

Time-lapse video of two months of travel through the Ross Sea, Antarctica.

Who knew that ice could be so beautiful. 

http://youtu.be/BNZu1uxNvlo

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2013-05-07 21:21:05 (59 comments, 58 reshares, 268 +1s)

Need a date? Hold a guitar. 

A French study indicates that women find men holding a guitar more attractive--at least for getting phone numbers. But read more about the study before you buy a guitar:

http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/the-mating-advantage-of-male-musicians-57090/

Picture credit: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei

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