CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-23 01:08:02 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

This zoetrope features round wheel of chocolate bird characters that seem to come to life as device spins. http://youtu.be/bU8a1t99rQs

2013-05-22 23:24:09 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

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

http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2013/05/dissident-spinal-taps-beijing.html

Someimes its difficult to get your head around how things change, and how fast. A few years back, Liu Xiaobo part authored and helped circulate a painfully earnest document calling for China to be established as a constitutional, democratic republic. Sympathetic media overseas gave it a helping hand but, basically, it died on its arse. Nonetheless Beijing decided that it had enough of Liu and jailed him for a decade for incitement to state subversion. A bunch of elderly Scandinavians gave him a Nobel to try and shame Beijing into releasing him, but no joy.

A few years later Ai Weiwei releases a spoof heavy metal video which I believe is called in Chinese ‘Stupid Cunt’: by a nice irony this had to be self-censored into ‘dumbass’ inEnglish... more »

2013-05-22 22:35:00 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

+mathew murphy on Google's abandonment of XMPP for Hangouts and how this is closing a door for him.

My usage on the other hand has skyrocketted since I've started using Hangouts to stay in touch with my work place. But there is no doubt that Google is becoming a silo just like the other players and all the arguments it used to use about openness and interoperability have been unceremoniously dumped.

Why use anything Google nowadays? Because it's Google and Google are big and trusted.

That's a very different argument to the one about not be locked into yet another vendor.

2013-05-22 22:10:07 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

2013-05-22 22:02:01 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

I mean, really.
It makes it so fun to chase a comment box.

2013-05-22 22:02:28 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-22 21:57:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Retuning the social mindset.

When I first heard about, and then joined, Twitter back in 2006 I knew we were on the cusp of a new age of social. The service excited me in a way that MySpace and others had never been able to achieve.

It wasn't until 2007 that Twitter's potential started to be realised but there was just something about the place: it was new, it was a truly level playing field and it's simplicity was key.

I've never been a big Facebook user and I sometimes wonder if this stemmed from having a "Twitter mindset" - connecting to people from anywhere regardless of whether I knew them, being able to hijack public conversations without the need to do the "friending thing".

I always say that a shift in social attitude occurred with FriendFeed and then carried through to Buzz as a lot of the same users moved from... more »

2013-05-22 13:35:18 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Great article by Bruce Schneier on the impending age of surveillance.

2013-05-21 23:08:55 (13 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

What a liar.

One thing Tim Cook did not say is that Goldman Sachs siphons off hundreds of millions in fees for providing Apple with cash to operate in the USA.

In the meantime they are hiding $100B+ away from legitimate taxation in the countries they are sucking this money from, including the USA.

You can read all about it here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324482504578454691936382274.html

Google does the same. Most multinationals run the same rort but if you or I tried to pull the same stunt, we'd be prosecuted and possibly imprisoned.

The problem will continue because Goldman Sachs systematically bribes politicians in your country and mine to keep this con game running, euphemistically calling it "lobbying".

We should be marching in the streets.

2013-05-21 22:55:14 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

He is proud of the GIF, but remains annoyed that there is still any debate over the pronunciation of the format. “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Mr. Wilhite said. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”

2013-05-21 22:43:00 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 24 +1s)

2013-05-21 22:41:57 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://william-hobbs.tumblr.com/post/50972730933/

2013-05-21 22:17:27 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Now it's time to advance the next cause:

Civil unions for straight people.

Don't get me wrong: Marriage is a fine institution.

Assuming you like institutions.

2013-05-21 13:42:06 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

And my wallpapers folder grew three sizes that day...
from http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1eqcak/if_we_lost_all_memory_of_photoshop_but_the/

2013-05-20 23:15:52 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

Hey Google, your move.

#yahoo  #flickr

2013-05-20 23:17:42 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Before there were people wearing Google Glass and before there were people who saw it as their duty to call them #glassholes ... I mean way back to before the horizon of your memory, back to nearly the dawn of time, back to the dotcom boom days. Back to 1999. There was a website called

Phonebashing.com

A novelty home page that took as its mission to shame and humiliate anyone who dared to carry a mobile phone out in public. You kids may not remember this but there was a time when all mobile phone users were seen as pretentious wankers that needed to be taken down a peg or two.

That was before 2003 the year before which owning a mobile phone marked you out as a bit of a dick but after which not owning a mobile phone marked you out as a bit of a dick.

Yes I am drawing a parallel.

2013-05-20 14:35:30 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

The future is now

2013-05-20 14:34:56 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

2013-05-20 13:58:18 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

2013-05-20 13:04:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-20 13:02:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Everyone

2013-05-20 13:00:36 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 18 +1s)

2013-05-20 12:35:55 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Don't know where to start? You could start from here.

2013-05-20 12:16:33 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

Darwin vectorized.

2013-05-20 09:28:52 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Interview with Google's web developer relations guy, Paul Irish, on the future of Chrome and Blink.

2013-05-20 07:03:23 (12 comments, 8 reshares, 16 +1s)

This is how geeks Mine #BitCOINS ...

2013-05-20 06:11:33 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Angular.js will build on the Polymer.js compatibility layer to deliver Web Components.

2013-05-20 03:25:36 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Web Components.

Probably should be paying attention to this.

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

2013-05-20 00:42:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Good practical tools for boosting website performance.

2013-05-19 22:47:20 (12 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

My teenage daughter tells me that all the "Cumberbitches" are preparing to see the new Star Trek movie.

Not for Spock or Kirk but for the villain.

2013-05-19 22:15:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

#glass   #googleglass  

2013-05-19 06:57:35 (9 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Read this list of shootings... it'll blow your mind.

2013-05-19 06:46:44 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

AT THE END OF THE DAY

Seriously people, what the hell is up with the this term? I am constantly hearing people use it in videos, blog post, on Twitter, on Google+...  If I hear one more person use this term I am going to bang somebodies head on a really hard surface until blood spills. 

What is "end of the day"?? Is there even such a thing? 

#DumbestSayingEVER  

2013-05-18 00:31:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

He's an atheist and he's proud

Mike Booth has been branching out from the Some Grey Bloke series of satirical cartoons. In this video Jeremiah McDonald performs Mike's writing. It's a bit of fun but what I found particularly interesting was the weblinks to this thing called Patreon. The idea is that people can become a patron of an artist/content producer. We're talking about something like a dollar for anything they produce. No one is getting rich off it (yet) but I saw that when Mike makes a video he gets about $50 out of Patreon. Beer money if nothing else. I think it's a pretty cool idea.

2013-05-18 00:22:16 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

This is a winner!!! LOL

2013-05-18 00:21:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

:-)

2013-05-18 00:01:44 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Happening right now at your local Microsoft retail outlet.

2013-05-17 23:42:49 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Google does listen to our feedback.

Fewer Read More links is what we need.

2013-05-17 14:10:23 (37 comments, 3 reshares, 15 +1s)

I'm also submitting this (with notes from my past posts) to Google+ feedback.

2013-05-17 08:38:52 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Does this scream README!?

There are 603 words of highly considered thought ENTIRELY BELOW THE FOLD

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK?!!

From the top border of the post to the top of the photo is 257 pixels in my browser.  (Yes, so sue me, I fired up the GIMP and measured it).  Dedicated entirely to envelope-level contextualizing data, styling elements, and whitespace.

There are 603 words, 3428 characters, of content.  They're all completely hidden beneath the fold.  It's advertising for Google Glass (which, frankly, I am starting to get a little tired of, but y'all might like to see it).  And it features, I counted, ZERO photographs of +Robert Scoble in his, or anyone else's, shower.

My first reaction (as with most graphics-heavy posts) was to mute it and move on.  Then I saw those tiny words, in a pale gray,"... more »

2013-05-17 08:28:15 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Google Glass Impressions

My attempt at being a Glasshead. Alas, with my eyesight it just wasn't a happening thing. There are adjustments on queue that will enhance Glass' ability to work with prescription eyewear, but my guess is that people who don't wear contacts and who have some major visual challenges should try before buying.

That said, I got plenty of exposure to Glass at #io13  and met some awesome folks on the Glass team and some very insightful Glass users. The technology has enormous potential, even with its very alpha-stage form.

The good news is that the Mirror API for Glass makes many powerful things possible, including the ability to do custom menus which can give reasonable action choices that target your content - not just the hardware and Google services. The full developers' toolkit is still in the works, but it sounds as if there... more »

2013-05-17 05:15:55 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-05-17 05:02:53 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Maybe a black person's life is not really worth the same as a white person's life?

Surely not.

2013-05-16 11:48:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Hangouts: Google real time messaging platform dissected by Verge 

Hangouts is a work in progress, with integration of Google Voice and SMS integration still pending. Like everything Google does, things start small and then grow to become big and ever-present.

2013-05-16 11:30:10 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 18 +1s)

Haha, I kid because I love. :)

#GoodOldDays  

2013-05-15 23:38:33 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Try to use the new g+ website from the iPad. Works pretty well under the Chrome browser if you "request Desktop site".

2013-05-15 22:50:54 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Not a photoshop.

2013-05-16 02:28:24 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 16 +1s)

Via jwz

"And the codec played ã"

Caption stolen from +Pet +Peter da Silva

2013-05-15 09:20:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

It's now 43yrs since I was in Vietnam. Con Thien was the northern-most place name that our unit regularly patrolled and fought in. I see that a forlorn-looking bunker is all that marks a firebase that I went to many times. There is a picture on Google Earth that shows the tanks that are arriving at Alpha-4, the last firebase before the DMZ. I went there many times and lived and fought in the fields around it. It was called "The Marketplace," so named because so many soldiers "bought it" there. I was very anxious the first time the old guys told me about the marketplace that we were going to patrol, then after months of being there, one gets used to it and wonders why it was so scary back then. Although we did see combat, it became manageable.  Much as I think hell would be if one spent an eternity there. 

What is neat is that as you can see, the road was a cruded... more »