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Max Huijgen
A top the morning to ya ! ;)
April Summers
Buddha sits alone in his temple in Beijing...
Trey Ratcliff
Newsweek Cover 1970
"Is Privacy Dead"
Jeff Jarvis
Waiting for the bees - #nature #birds #wildlife_photo
#BirdPoker Long beaks curated by +Phil Armishaw
#bokehtuesday
#birds4all +Walter Soestbergen +Ricky L Jones
#hqspbirds +Marina Versaci +Joe Urbz
+BIRD LOVERS Worldwide +Heinrich Wagner +Robert SKREINER
+Birds in Focus +Risto Talman
Mike Shaw
This is a 30 min preview of the 4+ hour post-processing landscape tutorial from New Zealand. We recently had an event here and people came from all over the world to spend four days taking photos. We recorded the whole thing... watch this to see what happened! :) You can get all 4+ hours at http://store.stuckincustoms.com/tutorials
1000 photos in 4 days - 36 Keepers
Trey Ratcliff
Deadman's Cove
"An evening at Deadman's Cove on Lake Superior's eastern shore, roughly 80 km north of Sault Ste. Marie, ON." This is another photo taken by one of my favourite local photogaphers Travis Favretto. You can find his site here: http://www.travisfavretto.com/ Photo shared with permission.
Billy Wilson
To say that last night's 4 hour sunrise/sunset over the Godafoss waterfall in Northern Iceland was epic is the understatement of the year. Never in my life have I seen such epic light for such an extended period of time. You have to love the midnight sun where sunrise and sunset meld together during June in Iceland.
On top of all this...the light was amazing in full 360 degrees from our position...every direction you looked there was a new angle to capture. It is through experiences like these that Iceland has become one of my favorite countries to work in.
Colby Brown
When in Nürnberg....
Jeff Jarvis
Here comes the trailer for 'the biggest movie ever assembled': The LEGO Movie!
It has an all-star cast, too, including Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnet and others!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/
#legomovie #lego
Mike Elgan
wanna fly ?
my morning distorting attack from the same Only lensbaby week
take your time to check the new album on Photographer's log -
http://www.victorbezrukov.com/only-lensbaby-one-week-project/
and have a great day !!!
#lensbabyweek
Victor Bezrukov
JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER KENDALL
<Message from +su ann lim > Dear, dear G+ friends,
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the outpouring of your comments and posts in tribute to +J.C. Kendall and also sharing my painful experience.
I am overwhelmed by your responses to the news of Jonathan's sudden death. I wish I could be able to personally thank each of you for your kindness, but, at this moment it is all I can do to get through one day at a time. I'm trying to read and respond to your thoughts but I'm also struggIing to survive the tsunamis of grief as well as moments of denial that Jonathan cannot possibly be gone. If you haven't heard from me yet, please know I very much appreciate your comments and intend to touch base when I can.
Some of you have generously offered help. I was advised by a couple of you to keep lists of things that need to be done so that others can help me with specific tasks.
Well, one of the key things in my mind right now is what would the best memorial event be for JC - one that he would be delighted with if he were here. What do you think of a memorial HIRL held at a place where the event can be shared live with everyone who'd like to attend via HOA?
If you like the idea, may I ask for volunteers who can help me make this special event happen?
J.C. Kendall
Read about my good friend and fellow artist Donna Bell http://theadvocate.com/DonnaBell
Rodney Pike
*Top Interactions and New Faces*
This interesting little circle is a gem of mine... a Good amount of people in this circle are new around here, but still comment a lot and create good discussions on my posts. There are also quite a few people whose stuff I've loved over the years of being on plus... If your stream is appearing a little dull lately... Why not try some new faces? Feel free to share!
And if you are in this circle (you were notified).. Thanks for making my Gplus better :)
#sharedcircle #nb
Amanda Blain
Web, Leaves And Bokeh
Never forget to look at the small stuff when out and about with your camera, always be aware of what is in both your foreground and your background too, more so what you do with both and the effect it will have on your final image.
This image comprises of three elements, the first being the gentle red/pink leaves of the bush that stand out from the bush itself. The second being the formation of the spiders webs not only on the leaves but the longer one that stretches across the image and eventually falls off so you cannot see what it creates a bridge to. The third is the bokeh background, created by dropping the f/stop down to 2.8 and pulling the focus directly on the subject.
Then the image was taken using the rule of thirds.
None of this has been set up by me, I simply used what nature had put in place for me to photograph. She is a clever mother, use what she gives you, sometimes you just have to look a little harder.
Mike Shaw
+205 - 26 shares - 18 comments
Edward Steichen The Flatiron Building, New York City-Evening 1905
Rodney Pike
La clef des charmes v2
https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Clef-des-Charmes/333112650062129?fref=ts
http://laclefdescharmes.com/
Rodney Pike
LG working on always-on voice command smartphone.
GottaBeMobile says LG will be launch an Android phone that "wakes up" when you speak the right command.
From there, you can use voice commands and the phone will favor certain apps depending on your location. For example, if it detects that you're in a moving car, it will favor voice control of navigation.
GottaBeMobile claims this information came from several of their sources.
LG announced last year that an English-language version of it's Siri alternative virtual assistant software, called Q Voice, would come available in the first half of this year, which ends in two weeks.
It's interesting to note also that LG is the company that manufactures the Google Nexus.
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/06/18/exclusive-lg-working-on-phone-with-always-on-voice-commands-for-2014/
http://www.phonearena.com/news/LGs-Q-Voice-coming-to-those-who-speak-English-in-first-half-of-2013_id32570
#lg
Mike Elgan
Cascade of souls
From my #stephenkingcollection
For #waterfallwednesday by +Eric Leslie
#cwlupicaphotography #abstractphotography #nikcollection #colorefexpro4 #CEP4 #SEP2 #silverefexpro2 +Nik Photography #longexposure
Charles Lupica
Chillaxing with awesome journalists and entrepreneurs today at Bloomberg's Next Big Thing.
Mike Elgan
+80 - 28 shares - 17 comments
Lol, a shirt for the Dad who has everything :D
#HappyFathersDay
Mari Thomas
When memes collide... ♥
#heygirl #aintnobodygottimeforthat #fuckyeahryangosling #ryangosling #humor
Alida Brandenburg
+126 - 5 shares - 17 comments
Everywhere I look in Nürnberg, I wonder what has been rebuilt.
Jeff Jarvis
+Google+ Idea - "The PLUSSER Initiative"
Hire a group of 500-1000 Active Google+ers for 3-6 months.
(maybe a little less and I'd love to be part of that group)
Fly us out to California and put us up in Mountain View
Meet with us, Watch us use the product G+, Listen to our ideas and experiences with Q & A sessions on all features on PLUS along with Google as a whole.
I'm talking in large groups, small groups and 1 on 1, over Ping Pong/Lunch ..recording all of it for use. Google+ is the center of Google based on the vision we've been shown and it is all related to making the experience better. Let us show you WHY and HOW we fell in love with Google+ in the first place & how that spirit can be captured, bottled and spread throughout all of Google 100 fold!
Even give us a pair of +Project Glass to walk around in designated areas to use for us to take pics, explore, hangout, interview employees/celebs and share to PLUS!
You can call it The Plusser Initiative and if it is successful, it can be extended and altered as needed.
What is the point of doing this you are asking yourself right about now?
Feedback comes in all shapes & sizes from ALL OVER but
have you ever been texting, emailing or instant messaging with someone .. to just get frustrated and pick up the phone instead?
By having a large amount of Plussers speak directly to Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, Marketing Teams, that work on +Google+ .. directly asking us questions and understanding our points of view, I believe Google+ can benefit in enormous ways.
We need to get it all out on the table and have those discussions which might get heated and NOT hold back for the best possible results.
We would share New ideas, shape Upcoming ones and improve Existing features TOGETHER. If there was enough of us, we would even test them out in our smaller group before they were released so they wouldn't completely confuse people or cause anyone to throw their keyboards out their windows (not that it has happened yet, has it?)
I love Google+ and many do that have been here since Day 1 or maybe just 6 months ago & as it keeps CHANGING, it should be getting EASIER TO USE with Features/Abilities connecting in a simple to understand way.
What do YOU+ think about this idea?
Hell, if they try me for say 1 week even.. to get a feel of what I can offer them in terms of Social, what's the worst that can happen, I set the PLUS on FIRE ! ! ! Seriously, I think it'd be worth the investment, not just me but a group of us to be more involved in the overall process. Sending Feedback to +Google+ Help or a Community Manager is not the same as being in a room having discussions about the WHY's. It's one thing to not listen to someone that WORKS on the product (for final release decicions) but when you have people that use almost every aspect of Google+ daily to extremes, you're going to get some very valuable information about why something IS working, IS NOT working and how it can be saved or why it should be trashed along with how certain product releases can cause unnecessary issues.
Let US HELP ! ! It would so be a #PLUS !
Thanks!
+matthew rappaport
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=114493841260376697895.00045dbb81c6cfb6e1dd5
matthew rappaport
+81 - 3 shares - 22 comments
And before you know it, the raspberries in your garden are ripe...
Karin Nelson
How to fold a shirt NEATLY and FAST! : )
Carmelyne Thompson
Note to tech companies based in the United States: I realize the federal government has put you in a tough spot. But you helped create the problem. If you want more trust from your customers/users, you can win it back this way:
1) Stop collecting vast amounts of data on us. 2) Do end-to-end encryption wherever possible. 3) Encrypt our cloud data so even you can't read it.
I realize these are not always trivial to do, and may conflict with your current business models. But if you want my trust -- never mind the countless millions of users outside the US and the clued-in ones here -- it's the bottom line.
Dan Gillmor
Visited +Moritz Tolxdorff at his new job at Google Ireland today!
#tiftakesdublin #tiftakeseurope
Moritz Tolxdorff
How virtual reality will transform your home.
If you’ve seen one of the advanced console games that have come out recently, such as Irrational Games’ BioShock Infinite, you know that they’re evolving into incredibly sophisticated, almost cinematic spectacles that create believable artificial worlds. The biggest limitation has been that they’re confined inside the TV.
All that is about to change, though, as new technologies and products are being developed that will make total-immersion virtual worlds a widely used form of entertainment. And home virtual reality won’t benefit just gamers. It will enable consumers in their homes to be immersed in virtual stores, take part in virtual events and take virtual tours of faraway buildings.
Virtual reality will have a big impact on regular reality, too. Chances are, you'll need to rearrange your living room.
http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/12485750/list/Emerging-Virtual-Reality-Home-Systems-Might-Blow-Your-Mind/
#virtualreality
Mike Elgan
Question of the Day
If you were asked to change the world, what would you change first?
I’d overhaul education!
#ftl #questionoftheday
Ayoub Khote
Have you seen Crash Test Mom? See it at http://www.crashtestmom.com/ - also subscribe to their YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/crashtestmomtv -- it's the brainchild of +Natali Morris - subscribe and check it out! :)
Trey Ratcliff
Presenter on stage throws robot at cameraman, hits him in the face.
Bloomberg TV Editor-at-Large Cory Johnson demonstrated the durability of an iRobot police and military robot by throwing it at a cameraman (the cameraman insisted in advance, according to Johnson).
I was in the audience here at Bloomberg's Next Big Thing summit when this happened: Johnson threw the robot. It bounce off the floor, hurled over the camera and clocked the cameraman right in the kisser.
Camera people just don't get enough credit. : )
Here comes the video:
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/irobot-and-cisco-unveil-a-telepresence-robot-8taaH21TQ2iXRkSGsz62ig.html
Mike Elgan
+33 - 5 shares - 28 comments
Let me introduce you to Rubber Man
Because gravity is overrated.
Alex Balcázar
Man in chains
one of my favorite artists: Yeong Deok Seo
Max Huijgen
New Sesame Street Muppet Has A Father In Jail
Grab your hankies: To help kids coping with a parent in prison, Sesame Street created a Muppet whose father can't play with him because he's in jail.
Sesame Street has always made it part of its larger mission to address all children, not just the ones with traditional families or easily digestible experiences. In the latest move toward that goal, the popular children's program created an online toolkit, titled "Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration," for those struggling to raise a child who has an incarcerated parent. Released just in time to help kids in need get through Father's Day, the toolkit has its detractors. Alex Jones naturally went into full-blown conspiracy theory mode, calling it a "propaganda program designed to help children accept the fact that daddy is in jail" by dangerously telling kids that "all you have to do is talk about your feelings, draw a few pictures, write letters to your dad, and toddle off to visit him in jail every now and then and everything will be all rainbows and lollipops." (Better to tell them ... what?) Mike Riggs at Reason was also angry, though not at Sesame Street but at the U.S. government for incarcerating so many people that these kinds of materials are necessary. He points out that nearly 7 million people are under correctional supervision in this country, writing, "congratulations, America, on making it almost normal to have a parent in prison or jail."
Obviously, Sesame Street can't do anything about the growth of the police state or the war on drugs that has resulted in the massive incarceration numbers in this country. The show is just trying to help innocent children deal with the repercussions. But Riggs is absolutely right: That this even has to exist in the first place shows how much pointless damage our prison system does not just to people who are caught up in the overly punitive, often racially biased justice system, but also to their families. As Jill Filipovic writes in the Guardian:
Since 1980, the US prison population has grown by 790%. We have the largest prison population of any nation in the history of the world. One in three African-American men will go to jail at some point in his life. Imprisoning that many people, most of them for non-violent offenses, doesn't come cheap, especially when you're paying private contractors. The United States now spends $50bn on our corrections system every year.
Sesame Street isn't the problem, but hopefully the very existence of this video and online toolkit can help wake people up to the way that excessive incarceration is destroying families and hurting the most vulnerable children.
#SesameStreet
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/06/17/sesame_street_reaches_out_to_kids_with_parents_in_jail_because_there_are.html
M Monica
Good Morning Toronto!
Just got some things done and am headed out to walk around Toronto. Think I'm going to start by seeing if I can get to +500px HQ. those guys are great. Was pumped to see there's a Ruth Chris steakhouse attached to my hotel. I'd soo want to go there.
Lemme know if anyone's out and about. If you want to do coffee...cool.
RC Concepcion
This Week in Tech - Sony NEX-7, Project Loon, Google Glass
I joined the show this week for the first bit... we talked all about Project Loon and I gave a little update on my Sony NEX-7 experiment. It was a fun convo with +Leo Laporte !
Trey Ratcliff
+72 - 5 shares - 5 comments
Dave Veffer, Gino Barasa, Nicole S. Young, Thomas Hawk, and Steven Levy
Trey Ratcliff
Yaaaaaaaay +Preston Reed 's Indiegogo campaign has hit 20% and passed the $5,000 mark! Thank you, thank you :D
33 days left to get him to $25,000.. Let's keep it rollin'
igg.me/at/prestonreed
Catherine Maguire
He is the reason I am.
Karin Nelson
Hanging with 500px
Got a chance to stop by the offices of +500px in Toronto. Excited to see +Evgeny Tchebotarev and +Andrey Tochilin . Andrey immediately forced me to shut down my computer and forced me to take in the sights and actually relax. A great day just walking and chatting with him!
RC Concepcion
Change Agents, going (difficult) places.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/100641053530204604051/posts/3QqGcBbyZs8
Alexander Howard
+53 - 5 shares - 7 comments
Yes, I'm a gTechie!
Found this on my desk today :-)
#gtech #google
Moritz Tolxdorff
"AdSense is officially ten years old! A little more than 10 years ago, I was part of the engineering team of five or six people that put together our initial AdSense product."
More by +Jeff Dean -> goo.gl/rKZl9
Denis Labelle
Hand Guided Video of ISS by Michael Stewart
Check out this amazing hand-guided video of the International Space Station captured by +Michael Stewart. This is just the raw video, centered on the station with a few bad frames removed.
Most people don't realize that you can actually see the structure of the station in binoculars or a small telescope.
Hat tip to +Cory Schmitz, who is ever vigilant, always surprising me with cool astro-discoveries.
Fraser Cain
Everywhere, Everything & Everyone (15 mins)
Hear +Amit Singh. President, +Google Enterprise, exploring why customers and employees are changing the way organisations work.
#sbw2013
Denis Labelle
After seven days in the Baltic wilds.
Jürgen Hubert
Note to tech companies based in the United States: I realize the federal government has put you in a tough spot. But you helped create the problem. If you want more trust from your customers/users, you can win it back this way:
1) Stop collecting vast amounts of data on us. 2) Do end-to-end encryption wherever possible. 3) Encrypt our cloud data so even you can't read it.
I realize these are not always trivial to do, and may conflict with your current business models. But if you want my trust -- never mind the countless millions of users outside the US and the clued-in ones here -- it's the bottom line.
Max Huijgen
You know what this building is for, you may just have never seen its rooftop
The guy on the phone is probably the owner's son and he is probably on the roof to get better reception on his mobile.
Hints:
- the building is a few centuries old
- two essential clues are on the roof itself, very visible
- there is no way you do not know what this is
- think "sensual pleasure"
- this is easy!
RULE:
- If you know the answer, please DO NOT give it outright, rather comment with an obscure hint that shows you know it to me but not to the other guessers! The real fun of this guessing game is your concealed answer.
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Getting to know Istanbul is like falling in love. While the troubles you are reading about in the news continue, I will post one image of the Istanbul I love per day.
See them all by clicking: #nomadistanbul
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#nomadimitritravel
nomad dimitri
Time. Nürnberg.
Jeff Jarvis
Yes, there's a problem here but I don't thing the problem is with any type of discrimination. It has to do with critical thinking skills.
Let's look at this way. This photographer was probably so used to doing things a certain way, each and every time that he/she did not either think anything was odd or didn't now how to make this picture better. I don't think it was malicious. There were solutions but the photographer in this case is clearly lacking certain skills.
Note: Why is the child in question the only one to not have his face blurred out in this picture beside the teacher?
Dan Soto
Back in March I spoke in Paris France on how startups can leverage early adopters and get their first press coverage, and just how you can find these first advocates for your product. I talked about +feedly and used examples from +Caleb Elston and others who were part of my ongoing coverage on +louisgray.com. Now the video is finally here and posted to the blog. The interesting video format also shows the slides.
Louis Gray
This is a very sad day. I just found out that J.C. Kendall just suddenly passed away. So, I just wanted to say a few words to honor this man.
Interestingly, I've never met J.C. in real life, but somehow, I feel that I know him. Enough at least, to feel a little heartache today at the thought of never seeing another post from this man.
J.C. could be cantankerous at times and he very rarely pulled his punches. And this is part of why I like him so very much. He was real. He was straight with you. And even when he and I disagreed on things, we were always able to do so in ways that were grounded in respect. You could just tell the guy had a huge heart.
My thoughts are with his fiance, +su ann lim. I'm very sorry for your loss, Su Ann. J.C.'s sudden death is a loss for many of us here, but I can only imagine what you are going through right now.
So, here is to this man, a man with a great big heart, a man who told it like it was.
A spark has just gone out on this network.
This place just won't be quite the same without you, man. I'll miss you, J.C.
Gideon Rosenblatt
Very proud
Denis Labelle
Reactions [through Glass]
I haven't been able to capture all the reactions I've experienced from others whilst wearing Glass. So, I thought I'd re-enact some of them instead.
#throughglass
Carmelyne Thompson
More than the Sum of Us
"When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you." said Nietzsche. He was talking about the connection between the observer and the observed (what Heisenberg enshrined in his Uncertainty Principle) where the more you look and the more you understand the less certain you become.
The moment everything devolves into the realm of statistical probability you get the manifestation of the Quantum Mechanical world where everything is possible but some things are more probable but only when viewed from a certain perspective which then makes everything relative.
A post I did not intend to write, for instance, (http://goo.gl/tyFzF) mentioned fishing and a fisherman I met on a chance encounter. I do not talk about fishing – like ever. +Bruce Marko mentioned his grandfather was a fisherman, +Nikolaos Bogioglou mentioned that he fishes and as throughout the day in threads and comments the fishing theme appeared to spread G+ started to resemble, for me, a digital fish market of sorts.
+Bruce Marko brought it up in a quantum entanglement question (noodle twister on a Saturday evening I am sorry) – (http://goo.gl/KdsL6) which then raised all sorts of possibilities on the way information spreads throughout a network.
+Gideon Rosenblatt added to the flames with two consecutive posts of rising brilliance, one on network density (http://goo.gl/g8mTa) and then another on the curation process and its importance within a network (http://goo.gl/DnKIC) both of which spread throughout the immediate net of connections and conversations were often carried out in triplicate with different insights being unleashed as a result. And in the midst of it all and my writing this together over a weekend a friend, +J.C. Kendall suddenly passed away (http://goo.gl/4rojl) shocking many of us who knew him here and prompting a flood of tributes from the G+ community.
We are all information. Layers of it, structured in a self-organizing way. Our DNA is a code. Our memories are encoded. Our thoughts become yet more code. Each layer adds to the abstraction that at some point becomes us. And we are open systems. Ideas come in, information essentially, from many different sources, all the time. Ideas (more information) go out. Without looking for the twistiness of quantum entanglement within us, we are data nodes in a sea of information changing those we figuratively bump against and being changed by many others in turn, and our contribution into that rich sea leaves a wake, an echo of our passage that persists long after we are gone.
It is easy to say that each community is the sum of its members. Yes, that’s true. But only when the community fails to rise beyond the technical definition of a collection of individuals. A true community is achieved when the discrete barriers between individuals (which are not hard defined in any case) become even more defuse. Then ideas, thoughts and most probably emotions ‘leak out’ to mesh with the community. Community members then identify those around them not just with a name (a label) but also a personal definition (helpful, difficult, knowledgeable, funny….). That makes the community then more than just the sum of us, it makes it an entirely new layer of information that is itself self-organising. And just like within the code of our DNA we carry all our ancestors from millions of years ago to the present, so does a community carry within it echoes of its members. In doing so it also transforms us into something more than we think we are.
Denis Labelle
Pagerank and SEO - understanding the web visibility:
AuthorRank or PageRank... Confusing?
From Wikipedia:
PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after +Larry Page and used by the Google web search engine, that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
In simpler terms:
PageRank is what Google uses to determine the importance of a web page. It is one of many factors used to determine which pages appear in search results.
My personal Google+ pagerank seems to be 5.
Get yours by pasting your G+ ID URL here:
http://www.prchecker.net/
In this format: https://plus.google.com/107742059751171695340
From business pages URL's, remove the b/u/ etc.
My pages:
+Gplussa has a pagerank of 4 and +Google+ Helper has 3.
Which is really strange as the latter is more active and gets much more interaction, has more +1's and followers.
The first because of Finnish language and less Pages?
The second because of new users interacting - users whose pagerank is low?
I think it all boils down to:
Not the quantity but the quality of Google+ interactions.
The best way to increase your PageRank is to have quality content that other people want to link. People with high PR, especially. They give you the Google+ Juice...
I try to do exactly that but I still don't understand the low PR for the Helper page... Hmm.
Google juice
A website's relevant value as determined by the Google search engine. The more "juice" a site has, the more likely it will turn up in search results. This is especially true when the search terms aren't the title of that site.
Google's particular method, known as PageRank, determines this importance according to who links what. If a high-ranking site links to a low-ranking one, that site will be given lots of juice. If a low-ranking site links to something, it doesn't have as much relevance. The text of the link also is taken into account.
Google Juice is very important in Search Engine Optimization. It's also the cause of cursed things like comment spam, link exchanges, and link blogs. This is collectively called spamdexing.
Source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Google%20Juice
Google: Stock Photos Don’t Hurt Your Rankings…Yet
This is an interesting video from +Matt Cutts:
http://www.webpronews.com/google-stock-photos-dont-hurt-your-rankings-yet-2013-06
Luckily I have created my own stock photos and use a lot of screenshots, so hopefully this will be implemented in the future! :-)
Useful Chrome Extensions:
Domain Page Rank : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pagerank-stats/mbhcjkbogigdohobnnhgojgfjjfeafjo
Nice little extension for viewing the page rank of the Domain
Page Page Rank : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pagerank-status/hbdkkfheckcdppiaiabobmennhijkknn
This extension will show you the page rank of the specific Page. This is possibly the only extension I found that will display the pages pagerank in the extension bar rather than the domain page rank.
No Follow Simple : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nofollow-simple/apkcjkicpemmmakhhpbglcdlgphcjpae
Great little extension for finding out which links are passing link juice and which are not.
(Via +Timothy Coxon )
Rich snippets testing tool may be of use to you:
http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/rich-snippets-testing-tool-bookmarklet
Interested for more? I'm not an expert, just trying to wrap my brain around all this.
I recommend you follow the PageRank experts on Google+: +Mark Traphagen +Joshua Berg
+Joshua Berg has written very thorough posts, in his own words Not very light reading :-)
I. Is Google+ Page Rank the culprit behind the current ... http://goo.gl/R4TZM
II. How PageRank in Google+ is Earned. Link Myths Busted!
http://goo.gl/0YcDp
Ⅲ. Why PageRank in G+ Matters To You & Connections
https://plus.google.com/110133760398936676625/posts/7zmCRMP7Uro
Ⅳ. PR in G+ - PageRank is Still Guts of Google Search
https://plus.google.com/110133760398936676625/posts/eDMsp6RNr69
Ⅴ. PageRank, Link Juice & SEO for G+ Communities.
https://plus.google.com/110133760398936676625/posts/QUhMwML8Ame
Ⅵ. Balance Returns to PageRank. Avoid The Dark Side
https://plus.google.com/110133760398936676625/posts/1YTrVBtPbF9
Social SEO - The Complete Guide to SEO with Google Plus
by +martin shervington
http://www.martinshervington.com/search-engine-optimization-seo-using-google-plus/
I hope you got some Google+ juice out of this post! :-)
Let's discuss!
#SEO #PageRank #Googleplusbusiness #Jaanatip
Image by Visual.ly
http://visual.ly/how-does-google-pagerank-work
Yifat Cohen
Watching +Marques Brownlee's cool review of the +Google Chrome Book Pixel inspired me to record a short list of things that I currently cannot do on a Chromebook, but can do on my MacBook Air. I am truly hopeful that ChromeOS updates will one day bridge these gaps. So, without further ado:
Things I can't do on my Chromebook (that I can do on my Mac):
1. Install a native application (except via Chrome browser)
2. Easily select a region of the screen to capture to a graphic file
3. Run an Android app
4. Run iTunes (come on Apple! Where's that Chrome browser app?) BTW, I've moved most of my listening to Google Play
5. Put icons (shortcuts) on the desktop
6. Run another operating system
(it's possible to have linux running at the same time - minor mod required)
7. Drag and drop (files, etc.)
That's all I can think of ... some of you might be able to show me how to do some of the above ... please do!
BTW, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna order a Pixel in the next five minutes (tag +Tina Vale +Jo Anne Thomas )
Jack C Crawford
Down The Aisle
#fujix100s #fujifilm #x100s
Ugo Cei
Brandon Campeaux
Facebook is dying and dying quickly...
http://jervisdabreo.com/thetechcorner/the-fall-of-facebook/
christopher rizzo
Yep it's #ToyTuesday
Hashtag you pictures with #ToyTuesday
+Mention the curator +Lars Clausen "me" :) ...so I can find and enjoy them.
Alone at last dear
Lars Clausen
I live a hard life ;)
Max Devine
So, now in week 2 of couch to 5k. Running stationary at 2am will do. My sleep schedule is off again. :( Forever a night owl? #couchto5k
I caught myself running in the 2 min walk interval. What?! I didn't know my unconscious likes to run. /crazy introspection.
Carmelyne Thompson
[Welcome to the Easter of Disco]
So between Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" (http://bit.ly/11Hie6S), Bruno Mars' "Treasure" (http://bit.ly/11V04CH), and Daft Punk's entire album, is it safe to say that we are experiencing the Easter of Disco? Because if so, I am running to get my goldfish-filled clear platform shoes RIGHT NOW, you guise, and I couldn't be happier about the entire thing. So fucking into this. <slaps on pink lip gloss and shakes out her hair>
Boogie oogie oogie, ya'll. It's happening. And I am tapping my gold-adorned feet in time.
(Also, "Blurred Lines" is totally to 2013 what "Bringing Sexy Back" was to 2006. +Sharon Strandskov knows what I'm talkin' 'bout.)
(Also, man, can we please all learn how to dance like this again? We are so banal in comparison.)
#musicmonday
Alida Brandenburg
Hi Folks, i could use some help for an interview i am doing on Friday (me being interviewed this time) for german Television Show Nano (3Sat)
I will be an "expert" on 3d Printing around the topic of 3d Printed Guns and i don't want to talk Bullshit nor encourage people to actually try and print Guns (because it's illegal in Germany ^^)
So any news on Codys project and the Status Quo of the Liberator is highly appreciated.
(plus i hope they actually send the interview and don't cut it out)
Nils Hitze
My not so secret SECRET when it comes to my NAME!
I guess I should've seen this coming . . I mean, really! Really? Yeah!
Name Crusher of Hopes & Dreams found via +Stacy Frazer and +Marc Jansen
Find out where YOUR NAME actually comes from :
http://en.seoi.net/yurai/
matthew rappaport
And there we have +Minuum
Testing it as we speak. Some getting used to but it works like a charm for now.
Watch the how-to;
- How the Minuum keyboard works
Want to be part of the next Beta release? Join here;
- http://whirlscape.us4.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=ca045cd04e580f1a87d5b9c63&id=ab05c713a9
Arvid Bux
Today is my 30th birthday, so I'm writing this letter to Google
I'm going to put all the jokes about my youth coming to a close aside and talk about something that I usually don't ever speak of. The wave of technology in the past couple decades has been amazing. I used a lite brite as a kid. Now 3 year olds are using iPads. We've reached whole new levels but have somehow managed to ignore people with disabilities who could really benefit from these advancements. I know we all want to create things for recreation, but how about helping some people out along the way.
Hearing disabilities are rarely ever talked about and if you watched that deaf girl hear for the first time on youtube about a year ago, you'd think that deafness had been cured once and for all. Less than 1% of hearing impaired people in the U .S. could even benefit from the type of surgery she received, a procedure which even then costs $100,000 and is not covered by insurance. The rest have a different type of deafness or disability. Hearing impairment is not just for old people and in the 23 years since I got my first pair of hearing aids, the technology has barely changed at all. The cost hasn't changed either. I am blessed to have many other advantages in life and I barely consider this one to be a disability, but having watched the rest of the world transform from the Flinstones to the Jetsons, I can't help but wonder if it's almost too late for progress to start being made. How can an ear microphone seriously cost 5 grand?
If I had to make one request for a birthday present this year, it'd be for Google to announce an initiative to tackle this problem. If they can make Google Glass for $1,500 and talk about making it cheaper, then surely they can make affordable hearing aids and upgrade the tech by 20 years. Today I am 30, but a part of me has felt 80 years old since I was 7.
People say your message can get heard on Google+. I'm curious to see if that's true.
+Google+ +Eric Schmidt +Vic Gundotra #hearingloss #hearingaid
Gregory Esau
+24 - 12 comments
Afternoon all.
(daughter's birthday today, so sort of half here.)
Thomas Morffew
+30 - 1 shares - 9 comments
I know this is just wrong. But that doesn't mean it isn't funny. hahaha
Mari Thomas
Woohoo :D
Too bad I won't have time until tomorrow evening to actually konstrukt it...
Gerwin Sturm
lol :D
Mari Thomas
I wanted a new lens for Father's Day...
...but all I got was a tawdry light switch.
Source: http://geektyrant.com/news/2013/6/6/the-force-is-hard-with-this-one-han-solo-carbonite-light-swi.html
#starwarstuesday +martin shervington +Linda Dee
Ugo Cei
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? FUUUUUUUUCK
Robert N. Lee
I'm not a Christian because there isn't a single doctrine or teaching in Christianity which doesn't offend me. I'm an atheist because every other religion is also bullshit, and likely to piss me off if examined in detail.
Matthew Graybosch
#AutoAwesome Pacific #RimJob Edition
Have you had your daily dose of Rim yet?
matthew rappaport
+Upstart : The Startup is YOU
upstart.com
#sbw2013
Denis Labelle
One of my fellow cyclists claims that sun screen with a protection factor greater than 10 contains ingredients that are actively harmful. I have not hard of such a thing, so do any of you know of any relevant research?
Jürgen Hubert
How a quantum computer works. Quantum computers are pretty hard to explain, but the Veritasium guy (Derek Muller), with help from his friend, Andrea Morello from the University of New South Wales, took a shot at it. They make the point that quantum computers are not a replacement for classical computers -- rather, they are a different class of computer that can solve particular types of calculations, particular algorithms.
Wayne Radinsky
Yes, I feel special
Even above the Presidential floor!
Arvid Bux
Foiled again...
Jeremy Hall
Jedi Mind Tricks
#StarWarsTuesday
Paul Spoerry
lulz at the first
steph wanamaker
Some friends of mine take one week off every year to bicycle along Germany's borders. This year is the second time they have invited me to come along, and this time we traveled along the Baltic Sea coast. Our itinerary was:
1st day: Schwedt (Oder) to Szczecin - 58.6 km
2nd day: Szczecin to Miedzyzdroje - 109.1 km
3rd day: Miedzyzdroje to Swinoujscie - 41.3 km
4th day: Swinoujscie to Greifswald - 84.4 km
5th day: Greifswald to Bergen (Rügen) to Prora to Bergen - 87.6 km
6th day: Bergen to Hiddensee to Bergen - 74.6 km
Total distance: 455.6 km
While the daily distances weren't as long as my earlier Erlangen-Kassel trip in May, the total distance was longer - and I coped much better with the strain. While I am a bit tired and sore, it's nothing compared to my earlier trip where it took me days to recover from the exhaustion.
I feel physically ready now to my upcoming four-week bicycle vacation in Norway - all that remains is to get all the necessary equipment. Starting with a new bicycle, because I really need derailleur gears for this one...
#NorwayOrBust
Jürgen Hubert
Irony: most wanted terrorist Mullah Omar authorizes talks with US
The US labelled Mohammad Omar as one of their arch-enemies after 9/11 for sheltering Bin-Laden, but after 12 years of war he is still in control of the Taliban in Afghanistan and is the one controlling the peace talks the US wants, now that they are leaving Afghanistan.
The Washington Post reports after more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, and nearly three years of sputtering and unsuccessful attempts at talks, the United States will open formal negotiations with the Taliban this week aimed at ending insurgent attacks, officials said Tuesday.
The new dialogue, with a Taliban delegation that U.S. officials said has been authorized by Taliban leader Mohammad Omar
#ironic #WarFails #10MillionRewardWouldHaveBeenCheaper #TalkingSavesLifes #ThinkBeforeYouShoot
Max Huijgen
The right to be forgotten, I suppose. (In Nürnberg)
Jeff Jarvis
assholes !!!!
shareeeeeeeeeeee please !!!!
Mari Thomas
JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER KENDALL (1962-2013)
With the greatest of sorrow I, +su ann lim , have to inform you that Jonathan Christopher Kendall, my fiancé and love of my life, died suddenly last night on 15 June 2013. Despite the incredible efforts of our friends +Suzanne Jacob +Gaynal Brierley , paramedics and ambulance personnel he could not be revived.
Jonathan lived as he believed, telling it like it is, with wit and humour, enjoying life to the hilt, with honour, directness and compassion. I was incredibly blessed to be the recipient of his immense love, and as each other's beloved, to share unbelievable happiness for too short a time. Jonathan, I LOVE YOU with all my heart and miss you desperately.
One of the favourite activities in his life was to engage with all you here on Google Plus. He thrived on the intellectual challenges, soaked up a vast amount of emerging knowledge, sparred with the best, and indulged in posts/streams/hangouts also for fun. Thank you all for your part in making his life more meaningful and worthwhile.
Jonathan would be pleased if we spent a little time reflecting together the words of Krishnamurti used to introduce his profile:
*"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life."
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti*
AJ Kohn
_rainy fence_ and some toxic thoughts about photography
Midnight post on Photographer's log.
btw.. i don't like the quality of this preview thumbnail and looking to fix this. hope that next time it's will much higher !
photo taken with Hasselblad 500cm, Planar 80mm on ilford HP5 400
dev and scan at home.
Victor Bezrukov
Testing Photoshop CC Shake Reduction Filter
First impression: It won't do miracles and I probably won't print an image deblurred with it, but for web use, it can work with some images.
Ugo Cei
Fullsize Google Now Wallpapers!
The actual artist behind Google Now's stock backgrounds has actually uploaded them uploaded to his Flickr Profile, plus some of his other artwork for everyone to enjoy. Check it out!
http://flickr.com/photos/brentcouchman/with/8781996742/
Ade Oshineye
"Here's what happened, as my daughter described it in text messages to us: she was at the station where the TSA checks IDs. She said the officer was "glaring" at her and mumbling. She said, "Excuse me?" and he said, "You're only 15, COVER YOURSELF!" in a hostile tone. She said she was shaken up by his abusive manner."
Is there a name for when people placed in positions of limited-scope "authority" begin to feel and behave as though they are global authorities?
Mari Thomas
My Astrophotography Circle
If you love space photos, here's a circle of almost 120+ astrophotographers. Some are very active, others less so, but all of them are capturing amazing pictures of the night sky.
Fraser Cain
They said I could be anything, so I became a fishtank
#wtf #tongueincheek via GagBay
Lars Fosdal
+27 - 2 shares - 4 comments
The #truth behind the MOON LANDING
+NASA , Please Confirm, #over !
matthew rappaport
CONTENT
matthew rappaport
[Think learning the Periodic Table of Elements is useless? This girl used it to execute the ultimate troll.]
As a scientist and hip-hop enthusiast, I applaud this girl's brilliant subversion. Click to see the hidden message cleverly disguised as nerdery in her yearbook quote.
#humor #lol
Ayoub Khote
#this Being offensive or dismissive doesnt make you right either.. Bring your A game or get out of the debate.. :P
Mari Thomas
Look at that! We got featured by Ouya!! v/ +Gareth Murfin
Sascha Pallenberg
Lots O'Latkes
Whadya mean they should take #AutoAwesome away from me?!
Maybe they .. err.. I mean here's some +foodporn I enjoyed tonight.
Pick +1 Up and Dip and enjoy . . a perfect formula . .
Yes, Mr. Costanza, I use my hands . . despite forks being in the #awesomesauce ..apple sauce!
matthew rappaport
What would it look like if Earth had rings like Saturn?
Funnily enough, our planet did once have rings. Going by current theories millions of years ago a planet-sized body called Theia collided with Earth. A huge amount of material from Earth was blown up into orbit by the impact, where it formed a ring. Because this material was orbiting outside of earth's Roche limit, it eventually coalesced into the Moon.
These illustrations by Ron Miller show what our skies would look like if we had rings that were the same proportional size and position as Saturn's.
(Source: http://io9.com/if-earth-had-a-ring-like-saturn-508750253)
Kellya Clanzig
Acquiring this much wire. Well, it's a curse. It's always calling me to do the next custom Android DIY. I have other things to do!
Carmelyne Thompson
Kathy Morlock
Paige Keaton
Am kinda overwhelmed with all the happy birthday wishes here at G+ (and other places ;)). Thanks to all of you for being so considerate!
Michael van der Galien
My new set up :)
Max Devine
22 language maps. How do you say "caramel", "been", "bowie knife", "crayon", "lawyer", "(cole)slaw", "y'all", "mayonnaise", "pajamas", "pecan", "soda/pop", "crawfish/crawfish/crawdad", "traffic circle/roundabout", "syrup", "sub/hoagie/hero", "water/drinking fountain", "tennis shoes/sneakers", "highway/freeway", "the City", "drive-through liquor store", "Mary/merry/marry", ...
Interesting... I pronounce "caramel", "lawyer", "pajamas" using the southern pronunciation and I sometimes even use the plural you "y'all".
Wayne Radinsky
+54 Days until MOAR Good Pizza & the FINAL 8 +Breaking Bad ! !
Walter, Walter, WALT!
Also, hey W.W., NICE THROW!
matthew rappaport
I have to show this letter to my two daughters. I've successfully manage to convince one to go into a STEM field. She's taking up CS but would like to concentrate on cyber forensics and security.
With my other daughter still in high school entering senior year this coming school year, I've been terribly badgering her with her career path to the point of using her love of Minecraft. How? I keep telling her that Architecture or Industrial Engineering will bring her the same joy. It's just like Minecraft in real life. :D
Carmelyne Thompson
Witty title not required
#StarWarsTuesday
Paul Spoerry
+15 - 1 shares - 7 comments
$129 for a 7" tablet that works with the +Google Play store ...
Jack C Crawford
1944: This factory worker in Van Nuys, CA will soon call herself Marilyn Monroe.
http://inktank.fi/28-of-historys-most-fascinating-photos/
Laurie M
Dirk TalamascaDaily 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