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Hi John Colburn / Dennis Boehm -- Do you know each other? In any case I've been pondering how one might take the Spout experience into Google+ via video hangouts and connect with the nascent arts community that's developing here. There's so much potential to do fun things.
If either of you is interested let me know.
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TIL that the Jellybean "What's that Song" widget works with audio from Apps. Working great with TuneIn. Here's a track I grabbed off of Couleur3 Fun.
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Figures the day I leave early.... .
Hazardous driving conditions on I-880 at Hacienda
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Currently watching Trampled by Turtles via the magic of YouTube on Google TV.
And there's much more at Lollapalooza including Sigur Rós ...
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Has anyone else reripped their entire music collection lately?
Last time was in 2003 so I had bitrates as low as 96k. Everything is now 320k mp3 and I'm ready to re-import into Google Music. Some interesting observations:
- CD ripping must contribute to global warming.
- CDs are heavy ~40 lbs of CDs fitting in .1 m³ (about 3.5 ft³)
- Gracenote/CDDB has declined in quality (album art especially)
- Price stickers bring back memories. Tower records, FNAC and 32 CHF albums, oh my.
Nice thing is I can better judge the provenance of my collection and correct it. Just received 3 custom CDs from Twin/Tone including two albums from the late-80s Minneapolis band The Wallets.
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Hi, I hear that you're having problems importing.. here's a screen shot that shows where you can upload an address book on the Circles Page.
You can also upload at http://google.com/contacts
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Faces in more places!
If you link github directly to your Google+ profile it's a little easier.
Originally shared by Malte Ubl
Getting author annotations for your Github projects in Google search
See, there is my face next to my Github project :)
How did I do it:
My Github projects has www.nonblocking.io listed as my website. That website has this bit of markup:
So it says that both my G+ profile and my Github profile are both "me".
Now my G+ profile links to www.nonblocking.io as well (and actually to my Github profile). Those 3 things together establish a pretty safe link between my Google profile and my Github profile and Google starts to surface the association in search. Neat
PS: Only because I work for Google, absolutely positive does not imply that I know what I'm doing, so your experience may vary.
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A really well written, must-read article about Google's Authorship program.
And this applies to anything you author. For example, if you're an open source developer you should definitely link your github profile. Video and photo sites? Same thing.
Most sites are supporting XFN these days so the more links to your Google+ profile, the more often your face will show up next to your content.
