CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-03-14 00:14:50 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

RIP Google Reader. Thank you for making every day interesting. Thank you for never showing ads in my feed. Thank you for supporting 3rd party apps. And thank you, Google, for supporting a niche product for so long. You will be missed and never forgotten.

A moment of silence, please, for the end of an era.

2013-03-11 00:42:30 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Asian fusion all you can eat FTW.

2012-12-13 19:13:13 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

Today Facebook is launching a turbo charged native version of Facebook for Android! So proud to a part of the team.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/13/facebook-android-faster/

2012-12-08 00:37:07 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Trying out snap seed. Seems way more powerful than Instagram and only marginally more complicated! I love the use of gestures.

2012-12-07 03:44:07 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Alright everybody, share all the secret products you know! How's key Lime Pie baking?

2012-12-07 02:39:30 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Do you own a Nexus 4? Join my exclusive community.

2012-10-26 22:44:38 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

I once remarked to a friend that Google competed with every tech company, short of taking on Amazon's delivery service.

Well, shit just got real.

2012-09-18 21:22:22 (5 comments, 8 reshares, 23 +1s)

In depth look at a lot of the small, annoying, issues left in Jelly Bean.  Here's to hoping all this gets fixed in Key Lime Pie!

2012-09-12 00:01:25 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

500 MILLION

Today is a big day for Android... 500 million devices activated globally, and over 1.3 million added every single day.

Oh, and btw, the Jelly Bean statue is back in our front yard :)

2012-08-08 20:27:19 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

My fav Google doodle yet!

2012-08-06 07:58:47 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

Perfect.

2012-07-30 16:54:16 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Maybe this is a first step in the unification of Gtalk, Google Messenger, Google hangout chat, and Gdocs chat?

2012-07-20 23:16:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-07-19 07:20:07 (26 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

Did Google+ ask anybody else to update their birthday?

2012-07-12 16:11:44 (4 comments, 22 reshares, 55 +1s)

How Selection Bias is Hurting the Web

Pop  Quiz: Does the average American spend more time watching TV or browsing Facebook?  The answer is watching TV. By a mile.  Americans spend 159 hours a month watching TV (http://goo.gl/OBj9P), but only 8 hours on Facebook.  In fact, It turns out that the average American only spends 30 hours per month browsing the web (http://goo.gl/Q67m).  

I bet that doesn’t describe your habits.  If you’re anything like me (and if you’re reading this, you probably are), you spend both your working hours and a substantial chunk of your free time on the internet.

You probably watch some TV, but not necessarily on a TV.  You own a smartphone. A tablet. A laptop running OS X.  Maybe more than one of each.  You’d only ever consider using Chrome.  Or maybe you’ve switched back Firefox because Chrome has gotten “all bloatedand slow”. 

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2012-07-05 23:20:50 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Beautiful interactive infographic of the history of the web.

2012-07-04 20:58:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Challenging the idea that Google+ is a 'man cave.'

There's been a lot of chatter recently about gender distribution on social networks, with Pinterest skewing most toward women and Reddit toward men and everything else falling somewhere in between.

Attention has been drawn to the idea that Facebook and Twitter activity is mostly by women now, and that Google+, as Brad Reed describes it, is an "uninviting digital man cave." 

Now I don't doubt that men outnumber women on Google+. But I also suspect that the male skew is less pronounced than stats would tell. 

The reason is that I have the sneaking suspicion that men are more likely than women to post publicly on Google+, and women are more likely than men to post privately. 

Since public posts are, for the most part, both the posts that are measured and also the onesthat ... more »

2012-06-29 19:01:24 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 17 +1s)

I'm sure most people on G+ feel gmail is by and away the most popular email client.  Yet, it just now overtook hotmail in popularity. It's a reminder that we should be mindful of how selection bias shapes our perceptions of the world.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/28/gmail-hotmail-yahoo-email-users/

2012-06-28 05:26:19 (27 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

I just installed Jelly Bean on my Galaxy Nexus.  I'm LOVING it so far.  My favorite feature is the redesigned Google Search experience!

2012-06-06 23:37:11 (5 comments, 11 reshares, 30 +1s)

In honor of Linkedin's failure to salt their passwords, I've prepared a little graph.

2012-06-06 03:46:36 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

I'd love to pay for Game of Thrones, but sadly I cannot :(

2012-05-17 16:17:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

First look at Unreal Engine 4! It's a great time to be a gamer :)

2012-04-26 21:56:06 (2 comments, 9 reshares, 14 +1s)

It has come to my attention that some people don't know how to control the noise from each of their circles :(

Google+ lets you set the noise of each circle with a handy slider. This is life saver if you want to make sure you see all of your friends updates, but only the best stuff from the random people you circle!

2012-04-24 17:16:51 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

So what's the advantage over Dropbox? There isn't even Google+ integration :P

2012-04-19 18:59:43 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Candle + Lighter + Bullet + Slowmo = AWESOME

2012-04-18 19:44:59 (5 comments, 4 reshares, 6 +1s)

This sounds awesome and the right people are involved. Yay for the commercialization of space flight!

2012-04-12 20:43:39 (0 comments, 12 reshares, 13 +1s)

#whitespace

2012-04-11 22:29:32 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

This is how I know Google+ is going mainstream! (for better or worse).

2012-04-11 19:12:26 (4 comments, 17 reshares, 28 +1s)

Found a use
Ever wondered what to do with that white space, well it is perfect for your post it notes.

#whitespace #newgoogleplus

2012-03-28 21:58:35 (0 comments, 9 reshares, 9 +1s)

Here's your feel good video of the day.

2012-03-21 19:53:54 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

The new spelling correction in Google Docs is the BEST THING EVER. It corrects the misspelling that has been plaguing me my entire adult life.

2012-03-05 23:50:42 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

My buddy +Tareq Ismail just released an awesome iPad app that makes playing Music on your iPad easy again.
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/03/05/daily-ipad-app-deck/

2012-03-01 09:14:30 (6 comments, 5 reshares, 23 +1s)

Whoever designed the new task manager in Windows 8, I want to hug you.

It's pretty AND functional!

2012-03-01 09:14:20 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-03-01 09:14:12 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-03-01 09:12:14 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-02-26 00:32:27 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

I don't always use Chrome on Windows, but when I do...

2012-02-15 08:37:02 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

I use Google Reader more than any other website or app, but it's been stagnant for years. Are there any alternatives that are just as fast for systematically weeding through hundreds of articles per day?

2012-02-08 00:23:00 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I can't get Android Chrome Beta to load webpages or sync with my desktop Chrome. Anybody else have this problem? Tried reinstalling, but no dice.

2012-02-07 18:27:13 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 15 +1s)

Finally Chrome on Android with tab syncing between desktop and phone!

2012-02-02 20:12:47 (0 comments, 10 reshares, 9 +1s)

I don't normally make poop jokes, but this was too funny to not share.

2012-02-01 21:08:00 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Google has gone evil not because they consolidated their privacy policy, but because they keep telling me about it. I don't care!

2012-02-01 03:08:08 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

How can I rent a sloth for a day? Anybody have any idea? Googling isn't helping.

2012-01-20 00:10:41 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I have a feeling that FB Origin is a search engine.

2012-01-18 23:52:38 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

How I feel today

2012-01-18 20:07:58 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Hello webmasters! We realize many webmasters are concerned about the medium-term effects of today's blackout. As a precaution, the crawl team at Google has configured Googlebot to crawl at a much lower rate for today only so that the Google results of websites participating in the blackout are less likely to be affected.

2012-01-18 20:02:13 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

What is this white stuff in my West Coast? #snowpocalypse

2012-01-12 03:04:56 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

An oddly reasonable assessment of Google's new social search efforts from Techcrunch.

2012-01-04 19:18:04 (20 comments, 15 reshares, 31 +1s)

The Android back stack is broken

I want to discuss something that’s been bugging me for a while. The Android back stack. Most Android users love the back button, and I do too. But, the design is broken. I’ll explain with an example:

You receive a text. You tap the notification, which opens a conversation with your friend. She invites you to a party and asks you to invite some friends. You respond, “sounds good!”, and then tap the back button on your Android phone to return to your list of messaging contacts. Except instead of going to the list of contacts, you are taking back to the Android launcher.

“Huh”, you think to yourself, “I swear hitting back from a text conversation took me to my contacts list?” Moving on with life, you tap on the messaging app and proceed to fire off texts to your buddies to invite them to the party. You close the messagingapp by hitting ... more »

2011-12-29 20:23:03 (4 comments, 12 reshares, 27 +1s)

Sometimes we lose perspective of the importance of Android to the entire world. Cheap Android phones will change the lives of billions of people. This is the kind of revolution Larry and Sergey envisioned when they created Google.
http://www.osnews.com/story/25465/What_Makes_Android_Revolutionary