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2013-05-23 01:07:03 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

2013-05-22 23:19:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

*Live Hangout on Mirror API vs. GDK - Thursday at 5pm EST!"
One of the unique things from a developer’s perspective about +Project Glass is its programming models - both the RESTful Google Mirror API and a forthcoming native SDK, the Glass Development Kit - and the freedom and flexibility having either delivers to software creators for building value for wearable computing. There’s always been friendly contention and a healthy sibling rivalry between which side you fall on - Chrome or Android - so with Glass equally supporting subscription-based services and installed applications, there’s potentially great opportunity for Google to break new ground in allowing programmers from both camps to write code in their respective ways for the same platform.

This Hangout On Air forum will feature insight from experienced coders from both the web and native sides of the argument, many ofwhom G... more »

2013-05-22 23:17:25 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

*Live Hangout on Mirror API vs. GDK tomorrow at 5pm EST!"
One of the unique things from a developer’s perspective about Google Glass is its programming models - both the RESTful Google Mirror API and a forthcoming native SDK, the Glass Development Kit - and the freedom and flexibility having either delivers to software creators for building value for wearable computing. There’s always been friendly contention and a healthy sibling rivalry between which side you fall on - Chrome or Android - so with Glass equally supporting subscription-based services and installed applications, there’s potentially great opportunity for Google to break new ground in allowing programmers from both camps to write code in their respective ways for the same platform.

This Hangout On Air forum will feature insight from experienced coders from both the web and native sides of the argument, many of whomGlass... more »

2013-05-22 16:43:08 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hot off the presses, here's this season's bowl game schedule. We all know you only care about 5, but have a look at the others, too. And revel in the sponsorship.

Seriously, the "TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl"? Doesn't get any better than that.

2013-05-22 16:37:16 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Today the Drive app for Android is getting several improvements to make creating and accessing your stuff on-the-go easier. Head over to our blog for what’s new: http://goo.gl/hvb3d

Be sure to get the app on Google Play now: http://goo.gl/TvyOl

2013-05-21 23:21:59 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

I've just been made aware that in the last 3 days, I've been used as a reference by friends of mine for a job interview, a personal loan, a lease application, an awards show, and admissions packet to school. I'm hoping karma keeps me in mind.

2013-05-21 22:24:01 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-21 22:07:16 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Seeing as how NBA Finals featuring small market teams have historically killed the league in terms of TV revenue and merchandising, you can bet the farm David Stern doesn't want his swan song to have a championship series with anybody but Miami.

I'll wager that the Commish is praying right now - begging Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Zeus and the Scientology Supreme Being to let the Heat somehow stretch it out to a 7-game series for ratings.

2013-05-21 21:46:25 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

"So, we've been working on the Xbox One for over four years....mainly sports content and movies and COD now...oh, and it's not backwards compatible...": The Price is Right losing horn

2013-05-21 11:12:28 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

"Glass is a mobile information device (with visual capabilities like photo and video). It’s not designed for navigational or transactional queries. There’s no web browser. It’s designed for finding information, not web pages. And Glass tends to do well at finding information, particularly when that information is part of Google’s Knowledge Graph. "

Good piece here by +Search Engine Land's +Matt McGee on using Glass for search. Although you can argue that if you've mastered Google Now's voice command syntax, you'll do a lot better.

2013-05-21 07:33:26 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

What's it like to TD a show at TWiT through Google Glass

I recorded my POV while I did my Technical Director duties for last Friday's episode of +Tech News Today. Watch, if you dare. This is what it's like to be the TD for the show. (But compared to this video, I get a bit less of the sea sick feeling when I do it IRL.)

#throughglass 

#throughglass: Jason TD's Tech News Today (episode 756)

2013-05-21 00:18:50 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Not gonna lie - when my Google+ client for Android updated this morning and this was all I saw for the first 15 seconds, I got scared.

2013-05-20 23:42:54 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

So much digital technology all around me...and this is what I'm relegated to using to present an idea - on using digital technology. #kickMeNow

2013-05-20 02:00:02 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)

Hi Fellow Glass Explorers, I decided to play with the Mirror API and put together a simple app to send your photo from Glass to your Android phone.

From your phone, you can easily share your photo with your favorite Android app.

It's very basic and unpolished. 

1. Sign up at http://glasstophone.com.

2. Add "Glass to Phone" to your Sharing Contacts (https://glass.google.com/u/0/myglass/share).

3. Download the Glass To Phone Android app at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dannyroa.glasstophone.

2013-05-20 00:06:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Something I've been thinking of lately, with Glass being Android based and the GDK forthcoming, is how it might support Miracast for use in mirroring or second-screen experience apps to other displays (and hopefully, the upscaled +Google TV platform running on Jelly Bean with a current build of Chrome.)

Of course, this will mean Glass will have to run Android 4.2 instead of the current v.4.0.4 build, but the team indicated the commercial version may not run the same ICS as the Explorer Edition.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

2013-05-19 23:47:24 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Here's the Glassware development talk from #io13 featuring +Jenny Murphy and +Alain Vongsouvanh!  

2013-05-19 23:41:35 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I was discussing this with +Chris Pirillo, +M Monica,+matthew rappaport and several other friends in the after-party for +Google Plus Week TV Show on Friday. Yahoo's invariably going to implement some content restriction controls, which begs the question - will all those publishers of blue material depart for being censored, or will they bolt on principle like many did post-Flickr?

2013-05-19 12:07:44 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

It's 10:07pm, 92F and unbearably humid with zero breeze. I'm sweating like a whore in church. I'm considering camping out in my freezer.

2013-05-19 11:41:40 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

This never gets old.

2013-05-19 09:57:14 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Stanford's now a national powerhouse. Notre Dame is back for the first time since Brady Quinn. Northwestern's no longer the can that gets kicked around by the Big Ten, and Vanderbilt's not exactly the SEC's fun roadtrip to Nashville with a game in the middle anymore. Even Duke went to a bowl game.

I've been saying for years we need to have a Smart Kids Bowl for FBS schools. You can only suit up if your SAT score is above 1450. All the while, the Ivy League teams will be swilling sherry and laughing among themselves while their stock brokers are on call waiting.

2013-05-19 09:11:06 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

I'm thinking ol' Sam probably gets a fair amount of business...and the occasional call from an intellectual property attorney.

2013-05-19 12:09:43 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

I'm thinking this might be why my neighbors are complaining their Internet access has been slow lately. (I had a dedicated line put in years ago. Now who's spending frivilously?)

2013-05-18 23:20:01 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

Many of you in this Communities group were probably at the session IRL, but the fireside chat with +Steve Lee, +Charles Mendis, +Isabelle Olsson & +Timothy Jordan is now up. Good stuff.

I wish I could have participated in the Q&A - I would have asked about any future plans for JavaScript support in timeline cards. Great job, everyone. Thanks for the knowledge!

2013-05-18 23:11:36 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Many of you in this Communities group were probably at the session IRL, but the fireside chat with +Steve Lee, +Charles Mendis, +Isabelle Olsson & +Timothy Jordan is now up. Good stuff.

I wish I could have participated in the Q&A - I would have asked about any future plans for JavaScript support in timeline cards. Great job, everyone. Thanks for the knowledge!

2013-05-18 10:16:35 (3 comments, 6 reshares, 7 +1s)

If you want to grasp the true essence of developing and deploying Glassware with the Google Mirror API, check out +Jonathan Gottfried's sage comments at 1:20. Perfectly captured.

I was literally trying to high-five Jon through my laptop screen. This is the second time I've cited his work this week - the man's a walking soundbyte for evangelizing the web stack. ;)

2013-05-18 00:42:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

See the little running clock in the upper right corner of Hangouts during video calls? NICE TOUCH. Incredibly helpful.

2013-05-17 23:05:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

One thing that stood out to me during the #io13  keynote address was the mention of the new location facilities, and how they might impact Glass. The new fused location provider has significantly less draw on the battery while improving accuracy, and geofencing allows for defined ranges of places to trigger events when users enter/exit them.

It's not too hard to see how cool things are going to be when you've got real time actions occurring with very specific precision and being able to tap Glass's Location scope (https://developers.google.com/glass/v1/reference/locations). I can't wait to start building.

Anyone have any thoughts/concerns/criticism on this?

2013-05-17 22:38:17 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

I must say, Hangouts for me has already passed the test with flying colors. I've been able to seamlessly keep in touch with my friends at #io13  in real time while they're in sessions, and jumping in and out of conversations with them, leverging multimedia. One app to rule them all. Win.

The last few times things were this effective on a mass, distributed scale were using Google+ Messenger during the Super Bowl and using Beluga during SXSW 2010.

2013-05-17 23:07:49 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

New category: GDK
Because Glass development now officially includes native coding, I've added a new category to our Communities group: GDK. You can post topical issues about and with the Glass SDK there. Once similar resources are added for a StackOverflow tag and official docs and an issue tracker from Google, we can add those to the sidebar, too.

If things get too out of hand, we can spinoff and create a new group just for either one. But as for now, this brings devs from both sides together to code for the same platform, an interesting dynamic I was mentioning earlier (http://goo.gl/KP0z9).

Thanks to +Chris Saari for the idea. ;)

2013-05-17 21:15:08 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Chopin Nocturne Op.9 No.2 (Arthur Rubinstein)

2013-05-17 14:49:31 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Hangouts for movie parties - it (still) needs to happen
I'm immensely impressed with the changes to the Hangout API, both functionally and structurally. +Jonathan Beri and +Richard Dunn gave a wonderful talk and are two of the most gifted presenters at #io13 . However the larger goal that I haven't seen mentioned yet, especially given that Hangouts are a bigger platform within the scope of Google's product line, is the ability to use Hangouts as a profit center by letting people enjoy movies and TV programming together in the same multiuser videochat session.

I launched a project last year by using +Netflix (https://plus.google.com/116113014152499702246/posts/cKmvj3TkU2c), but after lots of licensing and political roadblocks, it's clear that content viewed through the existing YouTube app for Hangouts is the way to go (since the infrastructure and front-endalr... more »

2013-05-17 13:17:37 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Here's an angle I'm not seeing anyone taking on the whole "RESTful API vs. native SDK" debate for Glass: at least catering to both camps lets either side finally code for the same platform. Traditionally, web programmers stuck to the browser, while native coders to platforms or devices. It was always Chrome or Android. While still not functionally the same, would this be the first time both groups wrote for the same platform?

Hmm.

2013-05-17 13:22:49 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Messaging hierarchy in Glass - where do Hangouts fit?
One of the neat things about the messaging feature of Glass is the pecking order it uses to distribute a message to a recipient. If setup optimally and contacts are organized with proper data, +Google Voice is used; otherwise, Glass defers to your carrier SMS plan; otherwise it rolls over to sending via e-mail. With the new unified Hangouts service, I'm wondering when we'll be seeing the option to send to a Hangouts conversation - not necessarily a live videochat, but an ongoing dialogue between two or more participants with the option to go multimedia.

Further, how might this smooth the gap between sharing contacts and regular contacts, since Hangouts now properly supports media attachments. To date, Glass sharing contacts can receive images and videos, and do videochat - other contacts are for telephony services.... more »

2013-05-17 09:53:54 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 16 +1s)

Done deal! Hangouts has been updated to support tablets. Great job!

2013-05-17 07:01:34 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I'm going to be burning the midnight oil tonight - I printed over 90 pages of articles, blog posts and commentary and added over 4.5 hours of video to my YouTube Watch Later queue about #io13  - and that's just for +Project Glass and Hangouts.

Not that I'm complaining. When you love what you do, it's never work. :)

2013-05-17 06:43:41 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

"It already works, kind of, go to settings, SMS for Hangouts, click the box to send sms, and you are all set.. If you are in the US, you need to click on GUAM as your country."

HA! Of course it would work that we. We out here finally get our due credit for something.

Ironically here on Guam we're a full US territory, but +Google Voice isn't supported for local users.

2013-05-17 01:55:29 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

As good as it sounds.

(Ahem, +Erica Muller...)

2013-05-16 23:50:21 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Anyone that knows me knows that (1) I love +Google TV and that (2) I've been a huge Google TV critic for fragmenting itself by dragging its feet on being up-to-speed with recent versions of Android AND Chrome, as well as a general lack of integration with Google+. That said, I'm tremendously excited to see what having Jelly Bean and the mirrored Chrome release cycle for GTV means for the living room experience. I'm hoping to be able to run WebGL, WebSockets and other high-end web features in Chrome on my HDTV.

I've been running the Logitech Revue for over two years, not needing to scale-up because of the lack of features. But this announcement makes me confident about upgrading.

And, more importantly, how Hangouts, as it becomes an across-the-board unified messaging client, plays into all this. I've been wanting to use my TV as a telephony device for some time.

2013-05-16 23:41:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Cool new channels added by +IFTTT - in addition to WeMo's switch and motion sensor, the WebHooks platform is becoming more Internet of Things-y, adding +Jawbone and Philiips Hue so you can control the real world. 

I'm super-stoked to try these out.

2013-05-16 22:49:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

The news of the coming native Glass Development Kit (GDK) and tips on rooting both got very strong ovations. It was a very lighthearted presentation and the crowd was very hip. Both +Hyunyoung Song and +P.Y. Laligand have great senses of humor.

The Explorer Edition is running ICS (v.4.0.4, API level 15), but the OS may change for the commercial release.

I'm hoping someone pops up the question about using Android Studio with Glass support. It never did.

Funny cameo by +Israel Knight (his second of the day), for the hacked headset detecting him in the crowd via his Bluetooth gear.

You can fully have touch emulation, but Bluetooth peripherals are very handy for user input for porting installed apps to Glass.

There will be an official factory image released that devs can flash hacked Glass back to if they wish for rollback purposes.

Aro... more »

2013-05-16 22:46:41 (7 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

The news of the coming native Glass Development Kit (GDK) and tips on rooting both got very strong ovations. It was a very lighthearted presentation and the crowd was very hip. Both +Hyunyoung Song and +P.Y. Laligand have great senses of humor.

The Explorer Edition is running ICS (v.4.0.4, API level 15), but the OS may change for the commercial release.

I'm hoping someone pops up the question about using Android Studio with Glass support. It never did.

Funny cameo by +Israel Knight (his second of the day), for the hacked headset detecting him in the crowd via his Bluetooth gear.

You can fully have touch emulation, but Bluetooth peripherals are very handy for user input for porting installed apps to Glass.

There will be an official factory image released that devs can flash hacked Glass back to if they wish for rollback purposes.

Aro... more »

2013-05-16 21:42:47 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This session's stream is just starting...and is much anticipated, given today's early announcement of the native GDK! Break a leg, +P.Y. Laligand & +Hyunyoung Song!

2013-05-16 18:16:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Tim just mentioned in his excellent talk (which was NOT regurgitation of the SXSW material, BTW) that video attachments will stream, as opposed to being downloaded during sync operations. All we have to do as developers is reference a URL to the video and the clip is streamed back to the wearer on-demand. 

I had posed this question right after the Google Mirror API docs came out - about whether video would be downloaded sequentially and in full and every time out (like a desktop e-mail client), or whether it would stream progressively only when requested (like a web-based e-mail client). Really slick implementation! 

Great job, +Timothy Jordan. Well done. :)

2013-05-16 17:56:14 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 25 +1s)

The new Glassware demo'ed at #googleio2013 for +CNN, Twitter, Facebook, +ELLE and Icebreaker (http://icebreaker.io).

2013-05-16 18:00:57 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 6 +1s)

The new Glassware demo'ed at #googleio2013 for +CNN, Twitter (https://blog.twitter.com/2013/announcing-twitter-google-glass), Facebook, +Evernote,  +ELLE and Icebreaker (http://icebreaker.io).

https://developers.google.com/live/shows/511607013/

Also not featured but coming is Tumblr's service.

2013-05-16 17:27:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Whoa! +Timothy Jordan just mentioned in his talk the GDK (Glass Developer Kit), which includes native facilities for things like offline access. Cool!

Make sure to stream the Voiding Your Warranty: Hacking Glass session later today for the announcement: https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/332704837 

2013-05-16 17:24:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Whoa! +Timothy Jordan just mentioned in his talk the GDK (Glass Developer Kit), which includes native facilities for things like offline access. Cool!

Make sure to stream the Voiding Your Warranty: Hacking Glass session later today for the announcement: https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/332704837 

2013-05-16 12:52:06 (5 comments, 8 reshares, 8 +1s)

Good info about the hard decision to break away from XMPP.

2013-05-16 09:17:04 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

I'm still getting the hang of the new Hangouts app, which isn't so much a usability thing for the program (it's fantastic for mobile and desktop), but more me learning to not have it for my Nexus 7 because of SMS bindings with the phone app and learning to stick with the traditional Hangouts feature within the Google+ mobile app if I want to do videochat on my tablet. Interesting.

Not at all wrong, but interesting.

2013-05-16 08:53:18 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

FWIW, My own $0.02 to this marketing roundtable would be to lean on celebrities. It's interesting to see how geek chic has only carried for far with this product. Once stars of stage, screen and TV get on board in impressive showing, Glass becomes cool for the masses.