Ten years ago today I walked into the lobby. I got my photo taken and picked up my badge and a laptop. Or, as we say at Google, today is my tenth Googleversary.

Less than a month later Google's security team discovered Operation Aurora, an advanced cyberattack campaign conducted by China aimed at obtaining intellectual property from U.S. companies ( Read more... )

Public Google+ is shutting down in a week. If you're a user, make sure to request your content through Takeout. At some point I hope to get all my Plus Posts up on my website as an archive, but I don't have time to do that before traveling next week. But here's all 172 pages that I +1ed†, in case you have a shortage of things to read on the ( Read more... )

November 30th was my 8th Googleversary. 8 years is longer than my direct involvement with any other institution, beating my 7½ years at CU and 6 years at Uni Hill. In that time, the Boulder office has grown from around 150 people to more than 700 and my team has grown from a couple rows of cubicles of folks working on the "Google Docs document ( Read more... )

If you've put off migrating from Google Reader until this weekend, you're running out of time to pick a replacement. First, be sure to export your feed list with Google TakeoutGoogle Reader had a lot of subtle bits that I really liked, and none of the replacement options perfectly replicate that experience. They have, however, had feature ( Read more... )

Google Reader will be retired on July 1st. This makes me very sad.
Google products I use as a consumer, sorted by how much my life would suck without them:

• Search
• Maps
• Reader
• GMail (I host my primary email address and forward to gmail)
• Docs
• Google+
• Calendar
• YouTube
• Blogger (other people's blogs)
• Chrome
• Android

I used Reader to find the current and ( Read more... )

... it's not the self-driving car project. But it is what I've been working on for quite a while.

Google Drive includes file sync programs for Mac and Windows; smart phone apps, online viewing of PDFs, Office documents, images, videos, and text; an updated organizational UI for the Google Docs list; a folder-focused UI; file search using OCR and ( Read more... )

Here's something I've been working on recently at work: captions for videos in Google Docs. In addition to helping deaf and hard of hearing viewers understand your video, automatic translation lets anyone grok your video in their native language. Plus, having captions or a transcript associated with your video makes search easier.

Edit: oh yeah ( Read more... )

Google announced the Google+ project today, which is a collection of features to make it easier to connect and share with people you know. At the heart of this is circles: groups of people that mirror some of the groupings we make in real life. There's the straightforward "I don't want to share the pictures of Saturday night's party with my ( Read more... )

The feature I've been working on for the last several months launched today: Upload and watch videos from anywhere with Google Docs. From family videos to corporate meetings, videos can move from your desktop to the cloud!

Facebook announced this week that when you visit Pandora for the first time, they'll hand over all of your friend information so Pandora can set up your station with music your friends like. This is the sort of "What were they thinking!?!" news I hear about Facebook every six months or so. The frequency of such moments is the main reason I don't ( Read more... )