Retrieving Google+ profile data client side with the sign-in button
Overview profile data retrieval As you might have noticed, the sign-in button, used in the Client Side Flow Example for Google+ history and the Server Side Flow Example, is a very easy and lightweight way to integrate Google+ communication into…
The Google Wallet API from Hangouts
This week, we recorded an episode of Google+ office hours where I have a chat with Jonathan Beri about a demo he created where the Google Wallet API is used from within a hangout app for payments. Check it out!…
Describing history with moments
Great moments in history In a previous post on Google+ history, I discussed why publishers should pay attention to what is happening with Google+ history and explained what the feature is at a high level. In this post, I will…
Google+ Office Hours on Schema.org Markup
This was my first time on the office hours broadcast, I’ll be on again next Tuesday with a special demo I have been working on. There were various hiccups like the audio cutting out when the cameras switch but I…
The how and why of Google+ History
What is Google+ history? At I/O 2012, Google quietly introduced a new feature and an accompanying API for Google+, history, signaling a big push in the near future to what Google believes could be the next big shift for the…
Even more schema.org markup examples
In my last post, I introduced the basics for OpenGraph and Schema.org markup. In this post I’m going to look at more examples of content types. Some background on Schema.org markup Schema.org markup lets you specify objects to let search…
Schema.org, Open Graph, and making links to your site from social look pretty
I have only been working on Google+ for two weeks and I have already learned so much about what Google is doing in this space and why they are doing it. I recently started learning more about the publishing features…
Novel uses of the Google+ button widget
I’m still learning the Google+ features for publishing but I realized how useful and simple it would be to perform various cool things using the + button. The following examples are just the tip of the iceberg for what is…
Pimp my MacBook
I recently started at Google and the first thing that happened on start for me was I was issued a brand new MacBook Air. I just barely missed the newly released version based on the Ivy Bridge and including a…
How I added article G+ buttons to my WordPress site
In my last blog post I mentioned that I added G+ buttons to my blog. Yes, I know there are plugins for WordPress that do this but I felt that it would be a fun experiment. I was able to…