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Max Huijgen
I've been in China for a few days now, and finally got Google+ to work. Sadly it seems to be blocked here. There are so many things to love about Beijing, such as the Forbidden City at night... I took this photo in October on another visit. I went up here last night to enjoy the view again. Hope to post some new photos soon :-)
Tom Anderson
The Phone that could turn me into an Android fanboy.
A rumor is now circulating that a "Google Edition" of the HTC One could be announced in a few weeks.
Google announced at Google I/O that the Samsung Galaxy S4 would soon ship with a Google install (like the Nexus 4) instead of the shitty Samsung-generated UI.
Now, a rumor is circulating that the HTC One would also ship as a "Google Edition" phone.
This would be an Android phone I could not resist. If this rumor is true, I will likely throw my iPhone in the trash and buy this phone as soon as I can.
http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/17754/20130523/htc-one-google-edition-rumor-device-released.htm
Mike Elgan
Just wait till you see us continue to invest in the product. We are just getting started here.
Vic Gundotra
We Are All Made Of Stars
They say the atoms contained within us all started life within the stars some billions of years ago. Knowing this would you hide away or decide to shine as brightly as you can?
I always say we are capable of more, whenever you feel life is too much just remember you are made of stars and shine on.
Mike Shaw
The Kinect sensors in the new Xbox One are so crazy good they can monitor your heartbeat from changes in your skin tone.
This, my friends, is amazing technology. Watch this video and get blown away.
Mike Elgan
14-year-old girl shreds on Van Halen 'Eruption' cover.
A 14-year-old girl named Tina kills it on a cover of Van Halen's eruption.
Mike Elgan
Elephants That Can Paint Better Than Me
This is a legit image of an elephant from Thailand that has been taught to paint with its trunk. The trainers stand near by and direct them with words but the trunk and paper is never touched by a human. So amazing to watch. You can do that here on this you tube to see it happening live.
ELEPHANT PAINTING POPPY FLOWERS Or here
http://youtu.be/He7Ge7Sogrk
#elephant #amazing #travel #thailand
Amanda Blain
Morgan Freeman falls asleep during TV interview (video).
Actor Morgan Freeman fell asleep during a TV news interview while fellow actor Michael Caine was blathering on.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/23/watch-did-morgan-freeman-nod-off-during-an-interview/
Mike Elgan
Corn farmers cranking up chemical pesticides as Monsanto's GMO fails.
Monsanto promised a genetically modified corn variant that makes its own pesticide inside the corn so farmers wouldn't have to spray to kill rootworms.
Any first-year biology student can tell you this is stupid because it simply favors the selection of worms unfazed by the GMO corn. Now these artificially selected superworms are taking over cornfields, and farmers are having to pay extra for pesticide-producing corn AND chemically sprayed pesticides.
The industrial agriculture industry is thrilled -- everybody is getting paid. Farmers are going broke paying extra for both GMOs that don't require pesticides AND pesticides -- or passing costs along to the consumers.
The public is now dealing with both untested GMO food and additional agricultural toxins in the air, soil and water supply.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323463704578496923254944066.html
#gmofoods #monsanto
Mike Elgan
Something I Need To Pay More Attention To...
Time to start kicking the drainers to the curb....
#inspiration
Amanda Blain
+490 - 43 shares - 18 comments
The Color Surge - the most photographed tree in Wanaka, NZ. Here is go for it.
Olaf Bathke
Mind = blown.
Google knows what's in your pictures. I'll prove it.
Choose "Photos" from the left navigation bar. Type in any search term. Google+ will show all the pictures you've ever uploaded describable by that term.
I searched for "car," "cat," "dog," "jewelry" and many others, and in every case, Google+ showed me all the pictures of those items -- including private pictures I have never shared.
This is amazing. Try it!
UPDATE #1: Searching your personal, even private photos now works from Google Search!
Google just announced the extension of personal photo search to Google Search. Just use the words "My photos" as in "My photos of cats."
http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2013/05/finding-your-photos-more-easily-with.html
http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/23/4359886/google-machine-learning-pulls-your-personal-photos-into-search
Mike Elgan
+428 - 12 shares - 28 comments
New and Exclusive x http://muzemagazine.com/2013/05/april-summers/
April Summers
I'll be live from the 24 hr party at Disneyland this week! Check out today's blog post for the details!
Vic Gundotra
Photo Sphere // Storm Rolling through Bay of Fires in Tasmania
On my recent adventure through Australia, I as fortunate to have the chance to spend a number of days exploring Tasmania. One of the highlights was hiking along the coast line in the area known as the "Bay of Fires". On the first day I happened to catch a passing storm roll down the coast line that not only left me a bit soaked, but also made for a pretty epic Photo Sphere with my #Nexus4 .
If you want to know how to embed a Photo Sphere onto a website or blog, follow this link: http://goo.gl/z8ybP
#photosphere #seeaustralia
Colby Brown
Why Google killed auto-refresh for Google+ streams.
+JR Raphael, writing in +Computerworld, says Google told him auto-refresh was terminated because shuffling cards on the new multi-column layout is disorienting.
Fair enough.
So how about adding auto-refresh as a feature of the single-column option?
http://blogs.computerworld.com/social-media/22234/google-plus-auto-refresh
#googleplusupdate
Mike Elgan
Worst smartphone dock ever looks like pancakes.
This $50 smartphone dock from Japan looks like a stake of hotcakes. Why? Because Japan, that's why.
They also have burger and sushi versions.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BVXXFDO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00BVXXFDO&linkCode=as2&tag=anhyt-20
Mike Elgan
Walking my dog while playing Ingress. He stops and sniffs at a lamppost, then pees on it to mark his territory. I then realize we are playing exactly the same game.
Matt Mastracci
This Image is 15,000 Pixels Wide. You cant Do That On ANY Other Social Network!
Zoom in and see how many birds... you can count. This is 9 16Mp images stitched together using +Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and CS5.
*www.JasonJosephStudio.com*
#newyorkcity #newyork #newyorkphotography #worldtradecenter #newyorkharbor #panorama #lightroom
Amanda Blain
The most popular mistake in Marketing
I hope you are not yet tired of my rants, but I have a message for those of you struggling with your marketing and communications efforts.
What I am about to describe is something that we ALL have done, and I am actually purposely doing it in this post to help drive home the point.
If you are having problems with conversion, I want to make sure that you understand that this mistake I am going to describe, is more often than not the reason why you are failing.
Are you ready?
YOU DON'T GET TO THE POINT.
People are busy. Before they pay close attention to what you have to say, pitch, explain, market, or share, they need a REASON TO LISTEN.
You have between 10 and 30 seconds to convince your target that you are not wasting their time. Note that the headline to this post tells you what I am going to tell you.
The description after that is an example of what most of us do, not just in our marketing, but in all of our communication. We think we better EXPLAIN ourselves or justify taking up someone's precious time.
Let me ask you; when you are pitching your services, are you not there to help? Why do you feel the need to explain why you want to "help"? How about just start HELPING? The clock is ticking, folks.
If you have something of value to others, why the hell should you be worried about long descriptions, boring explanations, where you literally beg your target for permission to be of assistance to them?
When you explain before assert, you are communicating what YOU think about the strength of your value proposition. If you have something wonderful to say, SAY IT. The clock is ticking.
Some people never learn the value of getting to the point, neither in their business or personal dealings. I receive more than 300 email messages every single day. Messages from clients are auto-routed to a specific folder, but for the rest, I simply do not have time to read them all.
I read the first few lines of other messages to see if there is value or relevance for me or the business, but if that's at the end of the message, I probably missed it and deleted the email.
GET TO THE POINT.
If you market via email, this is of critical importance to understand. That subject line? It better be compelling, or you are wasting time and money while your communication gets deleted without being read.
Yes, this is a pet peeve, and it is a difficult change to make, but you must if you plan to be successful. You have between 10 and 30 seconds to matter, to establish relevance, and to make your audience care. If you cant do that, I hope you are selling candy, because otherwise, you might starve.
Write it on your hand prior to meetings, so that you cant forget this, your target should know why you are speaking with them, almost by the time you let go of the handshake. If they dont, you could lose their attention before you ever get to the point, and your target could even resent you for taking their time away from what they care about.
Right here, on Google+, many of you do not headline your posts, and give viewers a chance to understand what you are talking about. With the new layout, it is crucial to your engagement that you provide a clue as to why your square should be expanded.
MAKE ME CARE.
Dont come at your targets like some Nigerian with a sad tale about needing to make a bank deposit in America, with the requisite half-page tale of woe, and a long explanation of why you can be trusted.
Messaging that says "I CAN SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM" is messaging that gets read. Your targets want to see that before they even know who you are.
You have between 10 and 30 seconds, and after that, nobody cares.
</rant>
J.C. Kendall
A Google+ mention drives more sales than a Facebook mention -- study.
Addshoppers.com found that Google+ mentions are more valuable to merchants than those from Twitter or Facebook.
A referral from Google+ is worth an average of $10.78, compared to a Facebook referral at $2.35 and a Twitter referral at $1.62.
Google+ mentions were not as valuable as email referrals, however: Email mentions are worth $17.93.
http://socialtimes.com/google-drives-more-sales-than-facebook-or-twitter-study-finds_b127817
#googleplus #facebook
Mike Elgan
5 Steps to Cutting Costs Through Open Source: DIY Drones
In this blog, I'm continuing my exploration of what Chris Anderson's company DIY Drones has done in using open-source methods to create products that are exponentially less expensive to make.
After more than a decade as the editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams -- a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics, to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones. When it came time to choose a co-founder and the CEO for his company, Chris didn't go with an MIT PhD or a Stanford professor. Instead, Anderson chose Jordi Muñoz, a 19-year-old high school student living in Tijuana, Mexico. How and why Anderson choose Muñoz is the opening theme of this blog. A subject I find fascinating and one that's important for you to understand.
"If I had used the traditional construct for hiring when looking for someone to be co-founder and CEO of 3D Robotics," Chris Anderson told me, "I probably would have gone to Stanford or MIT to look for people who had on their résumés the words 'drone' or maybe 'company' or possibly 'college degree,' maybe even 'graduate degree.' Instead, I ended up with a teenage high school student from Mexico. Now, it turns out that this teen, Jordi Muñoz, was the perfect person for the job. This job didn't require a PhD-quality drone engineer. The job involved creating an open-source robotics company in an unexplored space using low-cost resources and built on community participation. The people who went to MIT and Stanford are probably genius, but they probably didn't know all those things."
Today Jordi is a 26-year-old high school graduate living in San Diego, serving as CEO of a multimillion-dollar company. How he was hired, and the success of his role as CEO, reinforces the notion that the community brings the right person to the company. The community also brings a network of people who want to work for the company during their spare time, evening and weekends. These individuals aren't motivated by the money; instead, they are doing it out of interest for the product being developed. These are people Chris could never afford to pay.
"Today, we have people who work for Apple, who are designing the iPhone by day and drones by night," Chris said. "We have people who work for Google. We have people who work for NASA by day. By night they put in often as many hours working on our projects. We could not afford to hire them. They told me they're unhireable. It's weird: 'You can't pay us to work for you. However, we'll work for you for free.' That is a great concept. So, why do they do it? Is it generosity? No. Is it altruism? No. It's enlightened self-interest -- because they have a passion that for whatever reason isn't tapped by their day job. And they've always wanted to do this."
When Anderson started 3D Robotics, he looked at the Raven, a small military UAV made by AeroVironment, and wondered how he could take out at least 90 percent of the cost of creating it (or something very like it).
"I'm not sure we were even smart enough to know that such economies were possible," Chris said. "We hadn't actually seen a Raven or known its capabilities until a bit later. But at the end of the day, we took two to three orders of magnitude out of the price in military technology. Undercutting military procurement economics turns out to be not so hard."
The military-grade UAV purchased by the Defense Department cost it between $300,000 to $400,000 for the full system. Chris' company ended up building what's known as a Quadcopter, similar to a Raven in overall capabilities, that costs about $300, or basically 1 percent of the cost of a similar UAV such as the Raven.
The secret was the community, and the use of open-sourcing.
During a recent trip to the EAA's (Experimental Aircraft Association) Oshkosh AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Anderson found a whole host of eager hobbyists and enthusiasts interested in working on fun and innovative aerospace-related projects. "The world's garages are full of people with lot of energy and passion, working on great ideas. What they need most is a better mechanism for collaboration," he said.
"The real magic happens when you combine the kind of collaboration we enable at DIY Drones with what's going on in electronics," Anderson said, "with super-powerful chips and processors available for the hobbyist at a fraction of the cost of only a few years ago. The recognition that we have infinite processing, infinite sensing, wireless imaging at consumer electronics economies of scale -- which is to say, cheap and available and easy to use -- that's the big breakthrough here. We've got a hammer that combines open-source innovation plus smartphone integration. So let's start hitting things with a hammer." Anderson plans to take on a number of other aerospace hardware projects where his approach can "demonetize" the cost, reducing it by 99 percent or more.
I asked Anderson to outline how a community can reduce the cost of product development by one or two orders of magnitude -- what are the advantages and pitfalls. Here's Anderson's list of five areas to keep in mind.
1. Don't charge for intellectual property. Making things open-source brings the cost down. Effectively the participants contribute their ideas and labor for free, and what you pay for is the hardware. "In electronics there's what is called the bill of materials, which is the fundamental cost of the components," Anderson explained. "Then there's the final cost of the product. For something like military electronics for military autopilot, the bill of materials might be $100 and the autopilot, essentially the software, might cost $10,000." Anderson continued, "There is a huge difference between the cost and the price. That difference is mostly labor in the form of R&D and intellectual property, plus the cost of doing business in the form of legal costs, sales cost and profit. The alternative, what we use with our open-source approach of DIY Drones and 3D Robotics, is to price the final products at 2.6 times the bill of materials. That 2.6 number is a 140 percent margin for the wholesaler -- that's the people who make it -- and another 40 percent margin for the retailer. That's the distributors who ultimately sell. That's fair. You can build a business on a 40 percent margin."
2. Be prepared to be ripped off. "The Chinese cloned us in seven days, Chris said. "We put in tens of thousands of dollars of our own R&D cost (R&D cost is not zero, but is still a lot lower than the military invests in it). We did all the work and then they just took our files and cloned us."
3. Despite theft from some quarters, the crowd will make your product better. "Along with cloning, though, what's going to happen is someone else is going to take your files and say, 'I could have done that better,'" Chris said. "And they're going to modify it and they're going to do a derivative design and then they're going to either sell that or send it back and say, 'You should do this instead.' That's what's great."
4. Open-source leads to regulatory breaks. Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you. "If you are Lockheed Martin or Boeing or anybody else and you want to create an autopilot, first of all you have to get it certified, you have to go through this long approval process, through the military procurement chain," Chris said. "You're not allowed to test it in the air unless you have an approval from the FAA -- which governs unmanned vehicle use in the national aerospace. If, on the other hand, you're a kid, an amateur, there's an exemption for you and you can fly it in the park all day. Amateur use, i.e., non-commercial use, is a kind of safe zone. By and large, open-source qualifies as public domain, so the active technology being created free by the Internet and shared by the Internet means it's exempted." Chris Anderson went on to explain how this is also true for State Department ITAR regulations and even FCC regulations.
5. By giving it away for free, liability issues evaporate. "It turns out if you're shipping to end users, to consumers, you have to get FCC certification," Chris said. "If you're shipping to developers, you don't. It's the last person who touches the product before it ends up in a blister pack that has to get it certified. As long as you're shipping to other DIYers, you're exempt from that. Open-source is a get-out-of-jail-free card for the gnarly barriers to entry that have slowed innovation so far," Chris said. "By the way, big military industrial companies love regulation. The more rules, the better, because they've got an army of lawyers."
Basically, Chris said, open-source hardware is the "hammer" to break open innovation of all sorts. "Right now the technology is available. You can do it. With this hammer called open-source hardware, people are going to reverse engineer things. What's going to happen is that the first one is going to suck. But it was open and DIY, and that's cool enough. The next one's going to suck less. They're going to find a way to do something totally cool and cheap."
In my next blog, I'm going to introduce you to my friend Philip Rosedale, a brilliant entrepreneur and the creator of Second Life, who has come up with ways for entrepreneurs to change the way people think about barriers and to change the they think about work.
NOTE: As always, I would love your help in co-creating BOLD, and will happily acknowledge you as a "contributing author" for your input. Please share with me (and the community) in the comments below what you specifically found most interesting, what you disagree with and any similar stories or examples that reinforce this blog that I might use as examples in writing BOLD. Thank you!
Tim O'Reilly
Awwwww!
Rodney Pike
Gentlemen: What's your perfect man cave?
This excellent +Houzz piece by +Mitchell Parker tells why men need caves, and showcases a big selection of dream caves for geeks, sports nuts and this one for arcade-gaming alcoholics.
Whats your dream cave like?
http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/10542925/
#mancave
Mike Elgan
Stunning pictures from the tornados in America.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/tornadoes_wreak_havoc_in_us.html
Mike Elgan
Baseball food vendor caught taking snow cones in the bathroom stall.
A snow cone vendor selling at a Houston Astros game brought the snow cones with him into the bathroom stall, and an Astros fan took a video.
Story and video: http://deadspin.com/an-astros-vendor-pooped-next-to-his-snow-cones-509479058
So I wrote a song about it:
"Take Food Out of the Bathroom"
(Sung to the tune of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game.")
Take food out of the bathroom.
Take it out of the stall.
Don't put your crack over Cracker Jack,
I won't eat the snow cones it's hygiene they lack.
Never poop, poop, poop near the hot dogs.
The stall just hasn't got room.
For it's one, two or whatever you do
In the old bathroom.
UPDATE #1: +Ben E. Brady recorded my lyrics!!
https://soundcloud.com/ben-e-brady/take-food-out-of-the-bathroom
#shittyfood
Mike Elgan
Jennifer Lopez to open cell phone stores for Latinos.
Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez announced plans to open a chain of cell phone stores for Latinos called Viva Movil.
The stores will sell Verizon phones and service in New York, L.A. and Miami.
The staff will speak Spanish (as well as English) and provide Latinos with a "culturally relevant shopping experience." “Latinos ... need to be catered to," she said in an interview.
Should each race or ethnicity have its own separate cell phone stores?
http://techland.time.com/2013/05/23/jennifer-lopez-to-open-cellphone-stores/
Mike Elgan
Tips and Tricks for Google+ Hangouts on Air - The Book
Today I decided to write a 6000-word book. Phew.
Based on my Tips and Tricks for Hangouts on Air and Marketing Guide for Hangouts on Air, I wrote up a big ebook on how to run and market your Hangouts on Air. It's completely revised, expanded and improved based on what I've learned after running literally hundreds of Hangouts on Air.
This is a rough draft of the book, but I've made it open to the public, and anyone can make comments. Please let me know if there are any ideas you'd like me to include. At some point I'll actually get it designed, with picture examples and then release it as a free PDF.
#hangoutsonair #hoa #hangouts
Fraser Cain
Peek a Goby :Gobies are ornamental fish popular in home aquariums. But these inch-long jeweled creatures are the unlikely heroes of coral reefs. Corals are threatened by seaweed that grow rapidly in tropical waters, thanks to overfishing and warming temperatures. They produce an oily substance that reacts chemically with the coral, bleaching it within a few days and decreasing coral's photosynthetic ability by 80%.
Gobies to the Rescue: Within minutes of seaweed contact, or contact from only seaweed chemical extract, the coral releases its own chemical compound (not yet identified) that recruits gobies to trim the seaweed and dramatically reduce coral damage. In turn, the gobies become more toxic to their predators after consumption of this noxious alga and protect their home site. Mutualism for the win!
Reference and Podcast: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6108/804
Image: Maze dweller by Chhaya Werner http://goo.gl/DfzWi
#ScienceEveryday
Rajini Rao
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
This city keeps bringing me back to explore it again. It has a number of old buildings and row houses and depicted below is the public library with a statue of Queen Victoria in front of it. Isn't amazing to see how much of the world has been influenced by the British? More info about the city: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Elizabeth
Billy Wilson
Good night Me luvilees!
stolen from +Ben Zaitz
Linda Lawrey
Andrea Kuszewski+24 - 6 shares - 57 comments
For those of you who really want to know about semicolons
#grammar #semicolon
Ayoub Khote
How to the See the International Space Station
Here's my next video in the explainer series (I really need a better name for this) about how you can see the International Space Station with your own eyeballs. Again, a big thanks to +Jason Harmer for helping out with the camera work, writing and editing.
How to See the International Space Station (ISS)
Fraser Cain
A five-minute video recorded on the International Space Station had the potential to create a tangled web of intellectual-property issues. How does copyright work in space? http://bit.ly/197x7GO
Jeff Jarvis
Mind = blown.
Google knows what's in your pictures. I'll prove it.
Choose "Photos" from the left navigation bar. Type in any search term. Google+ will show all the pictures you've ever uploaded describable by that term.
I searched for "car," "cat," "dog," "jewelry" and many others, and in every case, Google+ showed me all the pictures of those items -- including private pictures I have never shared.
This is amazing. Try it!
UPDATE #1: Searching your personal, even private photos now works from Google Search!
Google just announced the extension of personal photo search to Google Search. Just use the words "My photos" as in "My photos of cats."
http://socialtimes.com/google-brings-photos-from-google-to-the-search-bar_b127940
Mike Elgan
My NEW Exclusive Interview with Muze Magazine x
April Summers
Audrey Hepburn II In Grayscale
http://rwpike.blogspot.com/2012/12/audrey-hepburn-ii-in-grayscale.html
Rodney Pike
Late Night Playing Around
Just experimenting with a couple of techniques while listening to some +Hans Zimmer . I like noodling around late at night with no real particular aim. Kinda clears the mind....
RC Concepcion
Breaking into other people's computers and stealing their information is totally mainstream and accepted in China.
"Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person’s computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes and monitor cellphone communications, too."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/world/asia/in-china-hacking-has-widespread-acceptance.html
#china #hacking
Mike Elgan
Why Facebook is Blue
The Science of Colors in Marketing
If we take a look at what the major brands out there are using, a lot of their color choices become obvious. Clearly, every one of these companies is seeking to trigger a very specific emotion
Read More Here: bit.ly/brandingcolors from +Buffer
Paul Allen
+111 - 9 shares - 9 comments
first rays of sun.
photo by ivo pandoli
#EarthMyMother #ForFriends #photo
Rodney Pike
I do wonder at times...
Ayoub Khote
Now they're just messing with us. Physicists have long known that quantum mechanics allows for a subtle connection between quantum particles called entanglement, in which measuring one particle can instantly set the otherwise uncertain condition, or "state," of another particle—even if it's light years away. Now, experimenters in Israel have shown that they can entangle two photons that don't even exist at the same time.
Derya Unutmaz
[The takeaway from this video? Children are totally psychotic. And hilarious.]
Man reenacts a convo with his two-year-old daughter, but replaces her with a fully-grown adult male. The results? Outstanding. The type of video the internet was made for. Can't wait for more episodes.
And to have kids so I can have little psychopaths running through my house, too. :D
Alida Brandenburg
Elephant charges at hyenas to protect wounded calf.
She won.
Hyenas? Next time, would you mind going after the poachers?
#KThnxBye
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303350/Heart-stopping-moment-protective-elephant-charges-pack-hyenas-protect-injured-calf.html
Rodney Pike
I'm afraid to search for awesome new communities...
... because I know I'll find them, and these are the ones I've already joined.
Too. Many. Awesome. Communities!
Mike Elgan
anopsis
a view of the town of oia from the little port of ammoudi, on santorini island, in greece
more from santorini: https://plus.google.com/photos/+helensotiriadis/albums/5867794710159553857
helen sotiriadis
Two men attacked and killed another man, and then started making political statements.
This is now a terrorist act that has caused meetings at the highest level.
This, to me, is a problem.
Where were the COBRA meetings when Malakai Mckenzie ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-22612728 ) was shot in the head?
Where were the COBRA meetings when an eleven year old girl was repeatedly raped ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-22626994 )?
Either hold COBRA meetings for all heinous crimes, or hold them for NATIONAL threats.
Especially when the two so-called terrorists have already been shot, caught, and are in custody while being treated for their injuries.
I'm sick and tired of being told to remain afraid by the media, and by my government.
Ayoub Khote
No Comment.
Carmelyne Thompson
Mari Thomas
Giving me ideas!
Noze P.
#VibrantWednesday #VividWednesday #WhateverWednesday #WeirdWednesday #WomenWednesday #WowWednesday #bodypainting #nyc
Rodney Pike
#brooklynbridge #brooklyn #nyc #newyorkcity #newyork #foggymorning #foggy +Breakfast Club #breakfastclub #cityscape #urban
Rodney Pike
Waking up and seeing this crap all over my Facebook page is why I hardly go there...I can't breathe because the ignorance and racism is so bad in this stupid county.
#idontwanttoliveonthisplanetanymore
Max Devine
I'm sorry I am swamping your stream with my visage.. again. But I needed to say something about this photo. I used it on Sunday for the Selfy Sunday, but after the awesome +kimberton pemberly sent me some amazing textures, I found one that I could use for this frosty portrait. So thank you, Kimmie, you're the best.
I'm going back to hide under my rock now.
Karin Nelson
Question of the Day
What is your deepest fear?
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.
~ Marianne Williamson
My deepest fear is that I will run out of dreams to chase.
#ftl #questionoftheday
Ayoub Khote
But that's huuuuuuuuuuuuuge
So today my pal +Jason Joseph shared a panorama of New York that was 15,000 pixels wide to demonstrate how great Google+ is in letting you upload, display and zoom into such a large image.
Well, I knew I had to one-up that, so here's a panorama of the Valletta harbor in Malta that is more than 24,000 pixels wide. How does than sound? ;)
Don't forget to zoom in using the trackpad or the scroll wheel.
Ugo Cei
New profile photo courtesy of +RC Concepcion
RC Concepcion
Know thy enemy.
[ http://bit.ly/Z0Ycao ]
christopher rizzo
HOLY SNOT! Lego built a 1:1 scale model of the X-Wing using 5,335,200 bricks! It's lifesize... as in you (and your astromech) would fit in it!!!!
"This model uses more than five million pieces and it's 11-feet tall and 43 feet long, with a 44-foot wingspan. That's just like the real X-Wing and 42 times the size of the commercial Lego set."
The only difference is that the engines light up and make sound, oh and that it's friggen HUMAN SIZED! Gizmodo has a shitton more images and where you can go to see it.
via: http://gizmodo.com/this-incredible-full-scale-lego-x-wing-is-the-largest-m-509484787
#StarWars #Lego
Paul Spoerry
People Are Awesome
Rodney Pike
Wanderings
#LoveWednesday #WaterscapeArtWednesday #washingtondc #sunset #sunsetphotography
Rodney Pike
"The explosion struck a chord with 18-year NASA veteran Homer Hickam, a former lead astronaut training manager for Spacelab, and later for the International Space Station. In the late 1950s, Hickam had a brush with law enforcement for allegedly starting a forest fire. State police came to his high school and led him and his friends away in handcuffs, but his high school physics professor and school principal came to the rescue, clearing him of wrongdoing."
Jeff Jarvis
Russian Super Model Natalia Beanovich
http://www.rwpike.blogspot.com/2011/11/russian-super-model-natalia-beanovich.html
Rodney Pike
Gmail search to also find results in Google Drive, Calendar.
Google announced this morning that Gmail's search feature will also search Google Drive, Google Calendar and other sites at the same time.
This feature is being rolled out over the coming week to US users only.
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/search-emails-google-drive-calendar-and.html
Mike Elgan
Good afternoon everyone :)
Major headache in the house!
Noze P.
Anyone Own This Weber E-330
Reviews on it are great - and I am totally missing not having a grill at home. I figured I would wait a bit and really go for something I could use for a while rather than dispose of it after a few years.. (RIP Brinkmann Grill .. ya did good kid). Just wanted to get other opinions on it. (Just propane for me. Charcoal would be nice but im too scattered for it). Thanks!
RC Concepcion
Chinese newspaper mistakes deviation for Japanese military helicopter prototype.
The same newspaper is also investigating a mysterious blue hedgehog who may be after China's golden rings. More on this as it develops.
via +Kotaku JAPAN http://bit.ly/12vb5bC
Artwork by *MeganRid: http://bit.ly/194Pagy
Linda Lawrey
+19 - 3 shares - 23 comments
NSFW for language, but yeah, learn about semicolons!
#writing #grammar #ft
Ayoub Khote
Google's newest employee is my awe-inspiring mother, +Nada Miljkovic. She's joining the Google X team as a hardware test engineer and PCB designer, starting June 3.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_x) Here's to more mother-daughter teams in engineering! And here's my shameless pride -- the referral I wrote for Mom:
"The candidate is my mother. While I have not worked with her professionally, I have a lifetime of experience that makes me very confident she would be an excellent fit for this position, and for Google in general.
Summary: In annual reviews, she is consistently told that she does extremely high quality work at an impressively fast pace. Her designs are clever and technically sound, and she is wonderful to work with. She shares her reviews with me, and this message has been consistent for over 20 years.
Intelligence: My mother is brilliant and creative. She kindled my passion for science and technology with a constant interest in how things work and unusual insights into how to make them better. She asks probing questions and thinks deeply.
Culture fit: She’s a fun, playful, friendly person and a team player in every sense. She prioritizes what’s best for the group over individual interests. She is always well liked among her teammates, and continues to be friends with many from past companies. She’s a natural connector of people and community builder.
Communication: She’s great at asking questions to clarify a problem, and she’s an amazing listener. I’ve never met anyone she couldn’t get along with. She would occasionally tell me about a challenging engineer who had thanked her for taking the time to understand his needs and the needs of his project. She is very proud of being able to work well with anyone. She’s also excellent at explaining challenging concepts.
Motivation and work ethic: She’s an extremely hard worker and has amazing endurance. When I was growing up, I recall her getting up at 2am to go to the office early, so she could work 12 hours and still be home before me. She told me that long hours don’t feel long when you love your work. And my mother absolutely adores PCB design. She’s obsessive about visual puzzles of all types (from jigsaw puzzles to 3D metal pocket puzzles to optimizing the layout of our overpacked suitcases on vacation) and she considers PCB design to be the ultimate puzzle. She’s told me that she would do it as a personal hobby if it weren’t her job.
Because of this, she’s also extremely self-motivated. I know of many cases where she actively sought out more work and found new projects for herself. She genuinely enjoys honing her skills -- she talks gleefully about new challenges and the techniques she's learning to solve them."
Louis Gray
I'm not necessarily a fan of Microsoft, but damned if I'm going to let them put an always-on, internet-connected webcam and microphone in my living room.
Matt Mastracci
+32 - 3 shares - 18 comments
I can't believe I've never seen this before!
Dare to think for yourself!
Ayoub Khote
This is a beautiful video. Zach Sobiech passed away 2 days ago. His mentality towards life was exceptional.
If you or someone you love is going through terminal illness, this is an excellent, classic read. It might better help you understand and communicate.
http://www.amazon.com/On-Death-Dying-Scribner-Classics/dp/0684842238
http://youtu.be/9NjKgV65fpo
M Monica
umbrella
Thomas Morffew
14-year-old girl shreds on Van Halen 'Eruption' cover.
A 14-year-old girl named Tina kills it on a cover of Van Halen's eruption.
Thomas Morffew
Google Wallet Gmail Money Transfer Feature An Epic Fail For Me
I received some currency in gmail and went through the Google Wallet process of trying to claim it. After Wallet asked me some security questions, several which only offered incorrect answer choices, it's now requiring I send in photocopies of my driver's license and utility bill. So far I'm discouraged by this process as it is proving more complex than setting up my premium paypal account and is at risk of failure.
NOTE: This is not me trying to open a new Google Wallet account. I already have one and LOVE it! This is a new feature for exchanging Wallet currency using gmail.
UPDATE: The system won't activate this feature for me unless I send an image of my driver's license, SSN card, and a utility bill. It is locked in this mode and will not go back to more security questions. Since it's the authentication system at fault for not recognizing my data, and since it is asking for more documentation than ANY bank or online account has ever asked me for, and since I NEVER provide copies of my SSN card (per government recommendation) it looks like I will not be activating this feature on my Wallet account. If you want to transfer money to me, looks like PayPal is the better choice. (Sigh). Sorry #google
(cc: +Petra Cross )
Keith Barrett
Here is my compromise to the great #GIF fight: Say it the way the Dutch do. A demonstration from my Dutch friend +bart brouwers at the link below....
Jeff Jarvis
Throwback Thursday: Photoshop toolbars, 1989 - present.
Image credit: Design You Trust - http://bit.ly/10UcSFG
Rodney Pike
Suggested G+ Community - The New Digital Age
help make the future with us!
Based on the new book from Google's Executive Chairman +Eric Schmidt and founder of Google Ideas +Jared Cohen, The New Digital Age community (http://goo.gl/HRrdb) will attempt to uncover solutions and breathe life into fresh ideas based on the insight that in the next 10 years 5 billion people will come online - and we need to be prepared for it.
This connected world will be full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and harness. Let's talk about them, and share our stories of connectivity and technology, here.
Hat tip to +Maya Grinberg for the invite!
#shareyourcommunity #thenewdigitalage #moonshotthinking
Natalie Villalobos
Penguin 2.0 Live
We started rolling out the next generation of the Penguin webspam algorithm this afternoon (May 22, 2013), and the rollout is now complete. About 2.3% of English-US queries are affected to the degree that a regular user might notice. The change has also finished rolling out for other languages world-wide. The scope of Penguin varies by language, e.g. languages with more webspam will see more impact.
via: http://bit.ly/10RoFb5
AJ Kohn
Barack Obama Caricature Study
http://rwpike.blogspot.com/2013/01/barack-obama-caricature-study.html
Rodney Pike
Wel duidelijk :)
http://www.nrc.nl/carriere/2013/05/23/rockshop-bij-ons-geen-werknemers-met-snor-baard-piercing-tattoo-of-sigaret/
Jacques J.J. Soudan
Admiral Mike Mullen CJCS
http://www.rwpike.blogspot.com/2011/08/admiral-mike-mullen-cjcs-real-big-brass.html
Rodney Pike
Wow. This is the most messed up, awesome mashups I've ever heard. Enjoy...
NIN's "Head Like A Hole" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe."
http://youtu.be/5Lm1FL7gWl4
M Monica
epic. has been probably posted a million times by now... here is one million and one :)
h/t +Tim Johnson
Florian Rohrweck
steph wanamaker
A great way to see poverty
This image is google search results by language graphed onto the globe. You can interact with it here: http://data-arts.appspot.com/globe-search/
It occurs to me, that if you were to somehow graph population density onto this same graph, you would have a great indicator of poverty or perhaps wealth. I wish I could do it. Anyone know any googler's who might be able to?
John Fanavans
Well, its all coming apart for Apple, isn't it? The Samsung hate must be chewy in Sunnyvale. As if Samsung was somehow responsible for Google Now. What a bunch of rubes.
J.C. Kendall
The way to the Milky way by Manish Mamtani http://www.manishmamtani.com/
Catherine Laplace-Builhe
Dear Googles: Can haz moar Skroalbrz Plz?
Really, not. I'm kidding. But ... 5 scrollbars packed next to each other in Notifications? For reals?
What do we have?
1. Post text scroll.
2. Main G+ window scroll.
3. Notifications window scroll.
4. Comments section scroll.
5. Editor window scroll.
As has been noted by several people, the Notifications drop down is notoriously twitchy. I suspect much of the problem comes when scrolled to the bottom of comments while adding a new comment, and missing the scrollbar you meant to hit, resulting in the Notifications drop-down closing, and loss of any entered content (this appears to be not getting lost all the time now, though I've tested and found I can still lose text: draft mode please).
In my custom CSS I've addressed this by:
1. Expanding the post area. Give it some more room to breath.
2. Removing the 'max-height' constraint from comments. Once you're in the comments area, there's no real need to scroll.
3. Removing the 'max-height' constraint from the edit box. Dittos.
This drops us down to a post-area scroll, a notifications window scroll, and the main window scroll. Not great, but a vast improvement, and the lower two confounding scrollbars (#4 & #5) are eliminated. Rationale is: you've already read/seen the post text (this is a notification, remember?). Comments can be read by scrolling the Notifications window. And once you're entering text, no need to worry about growing the window excessively to the bottom, there's nothing below it to worry about displacing.
I've been using that configuration for a day or so and it's vastly better.
Check into it, OK?
+Yonatan Zunger
+Shimrit Ben-Yair
+Google+ Help
#feedback
#gpluslayout
#styleplus
Max Huijgen
Lambda Labs is launching a facial recognition API for Google Glass - http://tcrn.ch/188Xa19
Yifat Cohen
+41 - 12 shares - 4 comments
The Harveys
http://www.rwpike.blogspot.com/2010/10/harveys.html
Rodney Pike
On the desktop, did you know that on Google.com you can initiate a voice search with Google Now with the shortcut keys: CTRL+SHIFT+Period? (Tested on Chrome v27, mic required)
Carmelyne Thompson
[The takeaway from this video? Children are totally psychotic. And hilarious.]
Man reenacts a convo with his two-year-old daughter, but replaces her with a fully-grown adult male. The results? Outstanding. The type of video the internet was made for. Can't wait for more episodes.
And to have kids so I can have little psychopaths running through my house, too. :D
Ayoub Khote
DJ Play My Song
I absolutely love +The Gregory Brothers . Here's a great video from them that, in addition to being funny as heck, has a great vibe to it!!
RC Concepcion
Leaving Google+ open for a day
I have a lot to catch up now......
Moritz Tolxdorff
MEDICINE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE. NOR IS 3D.
An airway created with a 3D printer saved this baby's life
This is why I believe people become doctors. Stories like this one.
But here's the amazing part:
The image-based design and 3-D biomaterial printing process we used for Kaiba can be adapted to build and reconstruct a number of tissue structures. We’ve used the process to build and test patient-specific ear and nose structures. Scott has also used the method with other collaborators to rebuild bone structures in pre-clinical models.
So can you see a future where a doctor designs your face on their computer, prints the required parts and you come out looking exactly like that picture in the magazine?
Scary!
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#3d #medicine #3dprinting #topstories #savelives #reconstructivesurgery
Yifat Cohen
Google Doesn't Support Schema Mark-Up for Breadcrumbs
Maybe everyone already knew this or maybe you were a bit confused (like I was). But I've confirmed that Google doesn't support schema mark-up for breadcrumb snippets.
You'll want to use data-vocabulary mark-up instead as detailed in the help section: http://bit.ly/14ChFzt
#seo #structureddata
AJ Kohn
New Episode of Photography Tips and Tricks
Want to see me play with a toy Gumby and Pokey horse, as well as a Munny doll on a show? Yeah.. I know you do. Check out the first episode in the new season of my podcast Photography Tips and Tricks
13 minutes.. just enough for a coffee break. If you want to see something .. lemme know.. :)
RC Concepcion
My Home Drive To The Rescue
On Sunday I was sitting in Chicago getting ready for the WPPI conference I was doing w/ +Pete Collins when it occurred to me.
I cant find that file that I need. ARGH!!!!
How much did i love logging into my house and downloading the file? Very much. Thats my +Synology DS1812. No you cant have it. :)
RC Concepcion
Double Bred Composite Charolais (fancy ass cows)
#animaloftheday
http://www.doublebfarmsva.com/charolais-cattle.html
Florian Rohrweck
So, the National Organization of German Fraternities ("Burschenschaften"), which has already drifted more to the right than it previously was, is now debating a new prerequisite for joining a German fraternity:
Not only do you have to be a German citizen, but your ancestry matters as well. It is planned that application procedures will distinguish between "German", "non-German occidental/European", and "non-German, non-occidental/European". Being German is defined as "being distinguished as German by language, culture, common historical fate and heritage". Their press speaker dismisses any accusations of racisms as "ridiculous", saying that they are less racist than, say, "Jewish sports clubs". To pick an example entirely at random.
Jürgen Hubert
Good morning from Washington, DC! Where does today find you -- and what are you working on?
Alexander Howard
+51 - 1 shares - 4 comments
Moon tonight
20 images stacked, 5" SC, Canon 600D, foggy and cloudy.
Alizée Rait
Glad I don't obey all the rules...
Jack C Crawford
Researchers at the University of Michigan have used a 3-D printer to create a custom-made, life-saving implant for baby boy, they report in a letter in 'The New England Journal of Medicine.'
Derya Unutmaz
En toen hadden we Evernote reminders.
- http://blog.evernote.com/blog/2013/05/23/evernote-reminders-are-here-on-mac-ios-and-web-2/
Leuk idee, maar slechte implementatie!
Arvid Bux
I love the use of technology for good, and the "Instant Wild" project is a great example. Wildlife poaching is endangering rare species, and using sensors to help track alerts can be a big help. It's also just beautiful stuff - some of the photos and videos you can see of animals going about their business.
At any rate, this project is competing in Google's Global Impact Challenge. I voted for it, and I hope you will too.
Tim O'Reilly
"Scoring by market share alone and ignoring profit is like saying that a baseball team won because it had more hits when the other team scored more runs. Scoring by market share alone and ignoring profit is like saying that a football team won because it gained more yards when the other team scored more points."
It is true.
John Hardy
+17 - 5 shares - 11 comments
Simon Mainwaring, Marilyn Ritter, Bill Davis, Fernando Montenegro, Adam Boenig, Blair Warner, Eva Fernandez, Tracy Williams, Bill Brand, Guy Gur-Arie, Jonathan Talbot, Ande Lyons, Russell Peden, and David Kelly
Yifat Cohen
This Image is 15,000 Pixels Wide. You cant Do That On ANY Other Social Network!
Zoom in and see how many birds... you can count. This is 9 16Mp images stitched together using +Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and CS5.
*www.JasonJosephStudio.com*
#newyorkcity #newyork #newyorkphotography #worldtradecenter #newyorkharbor #panorama #lightroom
Yifat Cohen
I need 1,000 subscribers in order to stream to YouTube. I had over a 15,000 with my other apps account which I don't have any longer. If you don't mind could you please help me reach 1,000 and subscribe? I would be most grateful! Thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/user/VideoRizzo #YouTube
christopher rizzo
No Comment.
Rodney Pike
My New +Forbes Article: Deconstructing Google's Strategy: Will Google Eat Your Business Next? Link: http://ow.ly/lkLOb
Would love to hear your thoughts...or if you find any typos! Been staring at this one for a while... Share if you like (or hate) it!
Steve Faktor
Yeehaa! My limited edition Ouya is ready to ship. Can't wait!
"Yep...it’s true.
Your OUYA has arrived at our distribution center and we expect it to land on your doorstep within the next two weeks (give or take a day or two depending on your location).
Be on the lookout for a confirmation email that will follow once your shipment has been picked up for delivery and which will include your personalized tracking number.
The following items will be included in this shipment:
1 x Gift-OUYA Gaming System KIT NA + 1 add. controller (90-10-G01)"
Sascha Pallenberg
Aline AleeDaily Circles check it out
| Name | Author | Members |
|---|---|---|
Austrian Photographers |
54 | |
Finnish active people and Pages circle |
111 | |
Google Developers GTUG |
152 | |
Super Science Circle |
220 | |
Photography Newbies |
100 | |
Food, Beer, and Wine Circle |
165 | |
Social SEO |
25 | |
Google+ Pages and interesting people |
241 | |
Android Pages |
31 | |
Banken und Finanzen |
170 | |
Think different: the interaction circle |
200 | |
Play Ball! Baseball |
31 | |
some great people |
501 | |
experts in social business |
90 | |
Writer's Circle |
99 | |
Science Circle |
300 | |
Google Services |
48 | |
Daily Fine Art |
199 |
Rznag Rmrod
Jaana Nyström
Nils Hitze (Kojote)
Fraser Cain
Dante Duphorne
Chris Robinson
Mark Traphagen
Thomas Morffew
Daniel Bödger
Max Huijgen
Google+
Thomas Power
Meg Tufano
Gideon Rosenblatt
Siegfried Hirsch
Charles Lupica