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You will eventually own a smart watch.

July 23, 2014 · by gguuss · in gadgets, Google, hardware, history, productivity, rants, Tools

Until recently, I was convinced smartwatches are cute gadgets but they are not very useful. I mean, you have a cell phone already. After spending some time with Android Wear, I’m sold, these are going to become very popular. I’ll try and explain why in this blog post.

Passive Sharing: Writing app activities without target URLs

May 16, 2013 · by gguuss · in best practices, Google+, history, Schema.org

It is a best practice to target your shares to target pages containing Schema content but sometimes you cannot do this. For example, if you are referencing content that is not on your site or if you are writing app…

Quick Demo: Back-filling moments to Google+ History

September 14, 2012 · by gguuss · in Google+, history, Plus

We talked about it briefly before, but it’s now possible to write moments in the past so that publishers can back-fill a user’s history with all the moments that they could have created. The following code shows an example payload…

Rendering schema.org microdata for content behind a paywall

August 15, 2012 · by gguuss · in best practices, Google, Google+, hacks, history, Perl

  One of the challenges with writing moments to a user’s Google+ history page is that you need a target URL to pass to the API and that target URL needs to contain appropriate microdata for Google+ to use for…

Describing history with moments

July 20, 2012 · by gguuss · in best practices, history, Schema.org

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…

The how and why of Google+ History

July 13, 2012 · by gguuss · in Google+, history, programming

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…

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