Social Search is getting a huge upgrade today! Your +1s, your posts and your content now matter more than ever.
Social Search Part 1 - Connect All the Accounts
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Do you create content on the web? Do you want to make that content eligible for inclusion in Google's new social search? Of course you do!
Read on for the first part in my series of tips and tricks on how to make social search work better for your content.
1: Connect All the Accounts.
Social search uses your Google identity plus your extended social graph to help you find personalized content. The extended social graph is found via links everyone adds to their Google+ profile. More links means more personalized data.
Connect and Verify the accounts you use across the web on the Connected Accounts settings page. Then add these and other profile links on your Google+ profile. Remember to add links to accounts across the web, places where you actually create content: your postings, comments, photos, videos and so on.
The best results come from two-way links so consider adding links back to your Google+ profile. For best results paste in your Google+ profile and remove the /u/# and suffixes. Your profile link should look like this:
https://plus.google.com/117259934788907243749
I recently added links to my Google+ profile on these sites. I've included the direct link so you can too. I'd love to know about more, just leave the site name and link in the comments!
- Twitter
https://twitter.com/settings/profile - Facebook (add to Website setting)
http://www.facebook.com/editprofile.php?sk=contact - Wordpress / Gravatar
https://en.gravatar.com/profiles/edit/?noclose#verified-services - Typepad (use Other for your Google+ profile)
https://www.typepad.com/secure/account/profile/accounts - Windows Live
https://profile.live.com/Services/?productid=connectedtoprofile - Livejournal (edit Website)
http://www.livejournal.com/manage/profile/ - Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/profile_edit.gne - Soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/settings/advanced - 8tracks - (select profile settings, add as Website)
- Last.fm (edit Homepage)
http://www.last.fm/settings (homepage) - identi.ca
http://identi.ca/settings/profile - Klout http://klout.com/#/edit-settings/networks
And for those of you self-hosting your own blog or site you can manually put a link back to your Google+ profile by editing your HTML markup to include a link to your Google+ profile. Here's a simple example:
<a rel="me" href="https://plus.google.com/117259934788907243749">
My Google+ Profile
</a>
The important part is the rel="me" That tells Google that the linked page is your profile.
That wraps it up for Part 1 -- stay tuned for Part 2 where I go over how to mark up authorship for your content! Thanks for plussing!
Anyone want to help me fill out my DJ circle?
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Anyone want to help me fill out my DJ circle? ... especially artists that share Youtube content. Google+ shared videos are a great feature on the new Youtube home page.
Thanks!
Want to find some great new music? Load up this URL:
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Want to find some great new music? Load up this URL:
https://plus.google.com/s/remix/posts
Then click "Most Recent".
You'll find all sorts of interesting remixes scrolling by. There's enough content that you can't even listen to it all, so you can pick out the most interesting stuff.
(And feel free to substitute some suitable generic term if you're not really into DJs and electronic/pop music.)
Interesting article about how Peets, the progenitor of Starbucks, is becoming more and more like them.
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Interesting article about how Peets, the progenitor of Starbucks, is becoming more and more like them.
Luckily there's a plenty of alternatives brewing around here. Oakland's Blue Bottle Coffee is still tops for me. How about you? Have you seen places like Blue Bottle spring up in your area?
Skins, Updates, More
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Just caught up 10 days worth of Neighborhood posts. I now have Vox fatigue combined with Vox guilt. I didn't even read comments, for shame :( After this post I'll need to check on the 'ol LiveJournal Friends page. Don't even ask about the umpteem BlogLines blogs stuck at 200 posts...
Hi5 has a new Skins system that actually can make profile pages look good. I had some input early on and made sure Vox and the SixApart styles were part of the inspiration. It's coming out really well and we've received over 200 submissions. Check out the snazzy new profile page? Designers can check out the specs page.
Embeds are evil. They mess up divs and tables and are often pasted in haphazardly. Amit came up with an amazing solution. Use JTidy to clean up the user submitted content. Tags match and broken html goes bye-bye!
Now back to the super-secret Hi5 Project Funk.
Luxxury - "Sweet and Vicious"
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Baron von Luxxury is an old co-worker of mine from the Red Hat days selling ads for redhat.com. Check out the cute kitty in the youtube vid above.
I can't forget the time we accidentally ran run-of-network ads and you found banner ads for Dennys and some online Hair-Net website running next to Linux content.
Or the wonderful partnership with Keen.com to provide amateur linux support over the phone. I hear that they're mostly psychics and phone sex these days.
In any case check out Luxxury when you can get the chance. They play all over the Bay Area at times.