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Trying (and failing) to get Ubuntu to work

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Most un-helpful message of the month: "daemon exit: live and let die" - Bill Strathearn

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Desktop Linux is hopeless. - Paul Buchheit

I agree with Paul. - Akiva Moskovitz

I think desktop Linux has actually gotten worse since the kernel 2.4 days (Redhat 8-9). - Tudor Bosman

Paul's right. Just reading http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/... will give you a good idea why. - Gabe

I don't want to agree Paul, but I'm being dragged kicking and screaming to that conclusion. - Matt Cutts

I gave up a few years ago and don't miss it at all. Now I use OSX with a Linux vm running under Parallels, and find that the combination works well. Linux is great for server work, but unfortunately the Linux "community" has usability instincts that are the opposite of good. - Paul Buchheit

The worst thing about bad usability instincts is that no one thinks they have bad usability instincts :) - Chris Lamprecht

I've just about run out of hard drive space on my Ubuntu machine (it's the SCP machine for backups/storage). Since I recently moved to a faster Wintel machine, the old Wintel is sitting around waiting to become the new Linux box. I've got a larger hard drive waiting to do it's job. I'm thinking openSUSE this time. The old Linux box will become my FreeBSD box, I think. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

Tamar Weinberg posted a message on Twitter

“wtf? google opted me into searchwiki? I DON'T WANT IT.”

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Everyone was opted in and, as far as I know, there's no way to opt out unless your use Greasemonkey or Greasekit. - Akiva Moskovitz

I call it SearchIcky. - Tamar Weinberg

Tamar, I find that after using it a few days, it gets more and more useful. So you might want to give it a week before concluding that it's not helpful. - Matt Cutts

Observed a strange thing. it is enable when I use it on Firefox but not on Chrome. Anybody else seeing the same issue. - Atul Arora

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“Must... stop... playing... with.. Gmail... Themes... http://bit.ly/JqLM”

Thursday at 9:54 am - Link

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Still no themes on any of my Gmail or Google Apps accounts. If anyone listening has the power to make it happen, flip the switch for me :) - Benjamin Golub

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None for me yet either... refresh, log out, log in,... *crickets* - Logical Extremes

I changed my GMail theme last night.When I got to the computer this morning, a grin crept to my face. Like a snowy morning... - Jorge Escobar

Bahh themes, I'm looking forward to the day where I can't stop playing with my Gmail SMIME integration... - Michael Zehrer

so...which one are u using? - Saad Kamal

Saad, I use the "Minimalist" theme. I like the gray gradient. - Matt Cutts

I'm using Shiny - like the logo and the contrast with the blue, - Roberto Bonini

I still cant figure out what theme to use. - J.D.

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“@steverubel , from all we can tell now, not a Gmail flaw. More like malware, phishing, too-easy password, same pw at multiple sites, etc.”

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Any thing to be done on the GMail end to prevent this? - Roberto Bonini

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Roberto, the Gmail security stuff is really far afield from my area, but I know the Gmail folks think hard about this. Not much to be done about malware/keyloggers/phishing/same pw at multiple sites. On too-easy password, the tension is between ease of use vs. security. If it's too hard to sign up for Gmail (e.g. require a backup email address), fewer people will do it. But I know the Gmail team thinks about this a lot. - Matt Cutts

It is a pity, cause not everyone has good pw security. And everyone has some important emails in gmail. looking like the only "solution" to this is remove important stuff from gmail. - Roberto Bonini

What if Gmail somehow flagged the account so the user could see it (and the hacker couldn't dismiss it) if someone signed in from an unusual IP? Gmail already has IP tracking at the bottom of the screen, but it is relatively unnoticeable unless you are looking for it. - Kelly Johns

What if setting filters and fowarding could be enabled to require a CAPTCHA of some kind to ensure changes user generated? Or have an option to replace the password every so often with a totally new and unique one you have not used in the past, like windows security policies do. - Roberto Bonini

You can also see the recent account activity information in the footer of GMail. It'll tell you when the last time was it was accessed, which IP address (and if that was on the same computer). If you see anything strange there, be paranoid and change passwords, etc. - John Mueller

You are right John, I think Gmail should somehow bring it to your attention though in a way that a hacker wouldn't be able to get around. Like by sending an email to an alternate account and making you approve that IP for use...otherwise I never even pay attention to the IP at the bottom - Kelly Johns

also, if you login via https to gmail does that solve most security issues? - Kelly Johns

Kelly, from what Matt wrote it looks like this was not from a "GMail security issue" but rather something more generic (like someone getting to your password). Yes, using https is certainly better, especially when you are worried about the hacker being in your network (say at a public access point, in a hotel, etc), but you still have to stay secure (use a good password, change it regularly, keep your system's software up to date, etc). There are certainly ways to improve it & I'm sure the team is always working on that though. I like your idea of bringing "new IP addresses" to the user's attention, I'll pass that on :). - John Mueller

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Google’s campus as seen from the Google satellite » VentureBeat

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"Google recently hitched a ride up to space with the GeoEye-1, the new imagery satellite built by the company GeoEye. Today, the company sent us a picture (above) that the new satellite snapped of the Google’s Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, Calif." - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet

Must have been a weekend. Hardly any cars in the parking lot. I miss skateboarding those lots. - Chris White

Hey, look at all those solar panels. That's cool. No solar on B44, but I guess it's a rented building. And what are those structures in the parking lot near B41 & B42? Are those carports so they can have solar on top, or are they bungalows? I need to go visit. - Chris White

Chris White, those are indeed carports so that they can have solar on top. - Matt Cutts

Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter

“Report: Major security hole in Gmail remains unplugged - check your filters! http://tinyurl.com/5ackpj”

Friday at 7:15 pm - Link

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I mentioned this to Gmail people at Google, but it's unclear how the bad guys added malicious forwarding rules to Gmail. It could also have been password guessing or other low-tech attacks, too. I'm sure that we'll be looking into this, though. - Matt Cutts

Looks like leftovers from http://bit.ly/11s5Q - Michael Zehrer

Oh dear, not good! Go check your FILTERS and make sure there is no *surprise* ones in there - Susan Beebe

Apparently, there is no security hole in Gmail --> http://friendfeed.com/e/b6c0d8... - Susan Beebe

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Oh my god. It finally happened: Gmail Themes

Wednesday at 1:31 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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My eyes! They burn... - Bill Sodeman

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Quite surprised they would mess with the logo like that. - Andrew Smith

ditto Andrew - Shey

Wait, as in I don't need a Firefox add-on? Sweet!! - zoblue (Zulema)

Shark? Jumping? - Mark VandenBerg

'Bout time! Sadly it's not on my account yet -- I guess I'm no longer on scary-canary :( - Paul Buchheit

I really wish they would get the problems of adding features to Google Domain Apps accounts fixed before working on new features. I love my Domain Apps account, except for the fact that I don't get the Labs features, even though I've followed the steps to enable them. :-( - Joey Gibson

can we now bitch and moan publicly about how long it took to launch? :) and it's not on my account either. - Tudor Bosman

It's not on mine either. I am sad. :( - Jason Shultz via twhirl

@Joey I'm not sure why you don't. Mine works. Did you email support? - Jason Shultz via twhirl

Not here yet either :( Hopefully it'll be there in an hour or two. - Brandon Titus

It's rolling out over time, so not everyone's going to get it simultaneously. If you don't see it on your account yet, hang on -- it'll be there soon. - Paul Wilcox

Can people create their own themes? I see this as being really nice for companies that use Google For Domains to customize the look/feel. I assume the themes just change the look, not functionality. For that, I'm not really a "Themes" kind of guy. Default is just fine. - Cyrus Lendvay

One of my accts has it now. Planets is my favorite theme so far... - Ray Metzen

It'll be harder to spot Gmail in coffee shops now. Also: hooray for green on black! - seth

The new default is bad. Why was is changed? I like the mountains theme though. - Paul Buchheit

Am I the only one who thinks most of those themes are FUGLY? I wish the themes allowed UI customizations instead of just generic colors/buttons/backgrounds. - Pras Sarkar

Darn, I don't have yet either :( - Sally Church

Themes can't help make Gmail's awful UI better. But I use it for it's functionality not its looks. - Peter Simard

Paul can you confirm is this http://blogoscoped.com/files/g... and this http://blogoscoped.com/files/g... the new default theme? (Ignoring the right-hand side labels position, which might be a labs thing.) - Philipp Lenssen

Excellent! Both teal and cyan are represented. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

I got it.. Hey but i think the classic theme is the best :-) - Karthick R

LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE!! Not on my personal account yes but I seriously LOVE the themes. Too much white on my screen at once makes my eyes start burning. /me makes pointed looks at FriendFeed. - Erica Baker

The pink flowered one is my favorite but I'm highly biased. ;-) - Erica Baker

@Phillip -- yes, those look like the new defaults. Disclosure: I work for Google, but I don't work on Gmail. - Paul Wilcox

So what did everyone pick? I picked Desk... we'll see how long it lasts before I get tired of gimmickry. - Rebecca Sun

Yay! I gotted my themes, too! I'm using Tree. It's soft and blue and pretty. - Ladybug Heather

I used Ninja for a few hours for sentimental reasons, but an using Mountain now. I'll probably rotate around a bit and see what I really like most. - Kevin Fox

Themes tab showed up for me at some point in the last few hours, but I'm sticking with Gmail Redesigned v2 for now... - abacab

"We'll be rolling out themes to everyone over the next couple of days, so if you don't see them yet, check back soon." Ugh :) - Mike Reynolds

looking forward to the RTM add-on playing nice with these themes...using pebble right now, but will switch it up every now and then i'm sure... - Trent Olson

My personal favorites are Mountains and Planets. Planets also happens to be one of my favorite iGoogle themes. - Paul Wilcox

hax! I don't see 'Themes' under Settings yet - nouhad

"Minimalist", baby. I'm all about the Minimalist. :) - Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“I submitted my "iPhone tips" post to digg: http://bit.ly/htpa . Social media gurus, let me know if I did anything wrong. :)”

Tuesday at 11:04 am - Link

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My favorite tip was the "translate a cat's meow into English." :) - Matt Cutts

@sharding 's cat searched for Paris?????? Funny. http://twitter.com/sharding/st... - Roberto Bonini

Matt Cutts posted a message

“The Google Mobile App with voice recognition is live. Go to the App Store and search for Google Mobile App to install it.”

November 17 at 8:08 pm - Link

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Blog post is here: http://googlemac.blogspot.com/... and I found the help documentation online at http://www.google.com/support/... - Matt Cutts

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woah Matt Cutts on friendfeed - nice to see you on here! :) - Zee.

I just saw the voice search is turned off by default for non-U.S. users. To turn it on, click "Settings" and slide "Voice Search" to the ON position. - Matt Cutts

this app is really great. g did an amazing job. - felix

felix, glad it works well for you! I'll pass the feedback on to the team, but they probably read here anyway. :) - Matt Cutts

I've been trying various addresses and it works pretty well with them too though sometimes if I pause too long while saying the address the search starts too soon. - Loren Heiny

Loren, after some practice you start to get a feel for what timing works best. - Matt Cutts

got a video here giving a run through, works great! http://www.seanpercival.com/bl... - sean percival

this app just made 5 or more apps I was using obsolete! - Kelly Johns

the local search aspect of this is amazing, it knows your location so you just speak the listing you are looking for and it appears on your iphone, brilliant! - Kelly Johns

agree with Kelly. I wouldn't use it for regular search queries but for local search its great. Saves opening up Maps, hitting the locate me button and then typing your query. - Jamie

Android is the elephant in the room here. Will the G1 be getting a voice search app soon? - David Erickson

This looks amazingly cool - andy brudtkuhl

Just curious, what about Nokia devices version? - Majento

David Erickson, I'm guessing that Android support is high on the want-to-do list, but I'll mention it to them. - Matt Cutts

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9 tips for the Google Mobile App for iPhone

November 18 at 12:20 am - Link

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Great tips Matt, I just asked google what the square root of 1000 was and it told me in less than a second with NO typing, now we need voice for Gmail and Google Talk! Awesome app - Kelly Johns

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I just added one more bonus tip that I forgot. :) - Matt Cutts

Kelly, I do like how the voice recognition works with the calculator. :) - Matt Cutts

Yes, and it works great for conversions, I asked it how many ounces in a pound and it gave it to me fast, the accuracy is amazing -- not to mention how good the local search is with easy to click telephone numbers and everything. A "restaurant" search comes up with some great local info. - Kelly Johns

Hey Matt, the app is not remembering or asking for location like it did in the beginning -- where is the best place to post bugs/enhancements? - Kelly Johns

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Google Adds Voice Recognition to iPhone App

November 17 at 9:21 pm - Link

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It doesn't seem to like British accents sadly. - Sally Church

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Sally, I think they wanted to launch with good U.S. accent recognition, but I'm sure that the team will be looking at making it work well for as many people as they can. - Matt Cutts

This would be nice for taking quick notes and reminders too (if it had/has that feature) - Paul Buchheit

How about opening the browser 'internally', like in twitterrific for example, instead of redirecting to the safari app? in any case, great job :) - george tziralis

Paul and george, I'll pass on the suggestions.. - Matt Cutts

Yes, keeping the browser within the app would be great, also the cool thing about the app is when I type one of my contact's name, it pulls them up on the list and I can click to call them -- however, if I speak their name it goes direct to a google search. The suggestion feature is amazing... - Kelly Johns

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A word about metrics, part III: market share of Google Docs?

November 16 at 6:22 pm - Link

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Louis Gray, hope you don't mind that I mentioned you as a typical tech-savvy user. - Matt Cutts

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A hard-to-block spammer: I need help

November 15 at 1:10 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Lu Tao liked this

"Many of my clients have been spammed by La Capitana Real Estate lately. And I mean many. Hundreds. However, they seem to have found a way to spam that works. And that sucks. They have created a Google Group, added all their victims there, and let google do the dirty work." - Ionut via Bookmarklet

I passed this url to the relevant person on the Google Groups team to ask if we can do anything. - Matt Cutts

Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

Man Writes Software, Blogs About it, Makes $100k in 5 Months

November 15 at 2:47 am - Link

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Cool guy. - Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“Google iPhone app has voice recognition: http://bit.ly/eTX8 . I've been using it tons and consider it amazing. I think it will be pretty big”

November 13 at 11:07 pm - Link

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Wow. - Robert Scoble

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Matt, that's very cool but where is the native gmail app for iphone? - David Jacobs

Comes out tomorrow. - Paul Colligan

I can't wait for the voice recognition app to come out so I can talk about it. David, I like the web version of Gmail on the iPhone, personally. - Matt Cutts

yes, gmail on the iphone is really cool, I actually like searching for things better on the Google iphone app than on my computer. - Kelly Johns

Err Matt, waiting for something to come out just to blab about it is a bit...boring!? And voice recognition has been around as long as google...on phones even. Nothing new. It was probably reverse engineered from Dragon Naturally Speaking v10 anyways. Hehe. - Adam

Matt, I like the iphone web version of gmail too, but sometimes it doesn't format the mail correctly. maybe that's a problem with the senders html, but Apple mail app on the iphone works perfectly - David Jacobs

Still not in itunes yet! Will this be an update to the Google Mobile App if I already have it on my phone or is it a new app? - Kelly Johns

This is cool, but like most iPhone apps only popularizes stuff that's been around for a while on other hardware, and makes it work nicely. - David Hulbert

Marshall Kirkpatrick posted a message

“it's really hard to find new, good podcasts. Just went through 2 pages of search results here at FriendFeed and didn't find anything I wanted to listen to more than Stack Overflow and twit. Those i already knew about. :( What's your iTunes podcast window look like? hint hint, suggestions?”

November 13 at 7:37 pm - Link

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Geeks and God for Drupal CMS and general technology implementation - Peter Kelley

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I don't see the ReadBurner podcast on there. FAIL. :-) - Louis Gray

humorous: http://youlooknicetoday.com/ - Paul Arterburn

Have you tried Mur Lafferty or Scott Sigler? - ha3rvey

try out one of the shows at http://randomchatter.com - they have movie, tech, and other topic-centric podcasts - nice guys - Nathan Chase

Buzz Out Loud isn't too bad. - Jared B. Luther

I enjoy BOL too. Been a fan since the beginning. However, if you're looking for something different, try On Digital Media http://odmcast.com (shameless plug ;-) - Steven Hatch

john cleese, stephen fry, kevin smith, Andrew Denton. Get to it!! - thomasrdotorg via twhirl

awesome, thanks for all the suggestions! - Marshall Kirkpatrick

NOVA Science Now, Scientific American, The Naked Scientists, the Pragmatic Podcasts, Hanselminutes, SE-Radio (though I skip most of them), Core Intuition, Late Night Cocoa, Mac Developer Network, Grammar Girl - Denton Gentry

NPR's All Songs Considered, NPR's Science Friday, Magnum in Motion - samgrover

No Agenda. - Mark VandenBerg

I like TWIT,CAGcast, Smodcast (duh), 1up yours, LAN party (formerly GFW radio), the transmission (Lost podcast). I hear good things about FFFundercats ;) - John Cozen

I like the BBC news podcasts.... - Mitch

I love BOL (Buzz Out Loud)...also Loaded, Twit, The Social Geeks (of course), Diggnation, Grammar Girl, The Answer Bitch, LostCasts (when LOST returns that is), ReadBurner, CNET TV, CNET Mailbag (Molly Wood is damn funny) and the occasional Tekzilla and Security Now. - Sarah Perez

BOL is great, CNET has some damn good podcasts. - Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl

FFundercats??? Ho??? - Lindsay Donaghe

Good call Lindsay, FFundercats, HO! Go grab it. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

My one must-have podcast is Danny Sullivan's SearchCast: http://dailysearchcast.com/ - Matt Cutts

I listen to the Gillmor Gang (I'll be on tomorrow at 1 p.m. from China, by the way) and TWiT. Otherwise I "snack" on other audio shows here and there. - Robert Scoble

NY Times Front Page, Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing (both are good first thing in the morning), NewsGang Live / Gillmor Gang. Leo Laporte has a few good ones like TWiT, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now. - Rolf Schewe

I feel bad for not listening to TWiT very much while everyone else does. It is in my podcatcher but I almost always listen to it part way and then move on. The podcast is a lot of fun, but it just feels like BOL got the same things already and talked about them days earlier. I have a lot of podcasts (I do love NPR and I've found a number of great book world and fiction podcasts) and I'd rather listen to something new. - Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl

Aram: I understand that. I don't get to all of them either. usually I just listen to the ones that get talked about on Twitter or FriendFeed. Speaking of which, http://www.fastcompany.tv is my video podcast. - Robert Scoble

These are all great suggestions -- I just scarfed up a mess of them and added them to iTunes. Thanks! - Mitch Wagner

If you're not already listening to This American Life you're missing the best radio show ever. Fresh Air is good, too. And Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. - Leo Laporte

gdgt - rob

NPR is all sorts of awesome. I second "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" - Amy

Wait, Wait is my fav! Plus I have Cranky Geeks, BOL, Buzz Report, TWiT & Loaded. - adventureran

TED Talks (video) always has great stuff - Virtual Bird's Eye via twhirl

If you like listening to non-work related podcasts (i.e. NOT tech), check out The Moth. Also This American Life. - Aaron Uhrmacher

"WFMU's Best Show On WFMU" is HILARIOUS! I also like Studio 360 and many of the ones mentioned above. - IAmGHOSTBLOGGER.com-BradW

In the same vein as WFMU are the podcasts from RESONANCE FM, "the art of listening" - Brad

Oh my - where's NPR's "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me", and NPR's Car Talk, and Leo's "Security Now!" podcast? And if you're not only twisted, but actually sprained, check out Merlin Mann's podcast "You Look Nice Today". - mamapadawan

If you are into Social media, PR and communication, then check out For Immediate Release (FIR). Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson host this bi-weekly podcast and it is without a doubt the best communications podcast out there. - morten saxnaes

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“BTW, I'm sitting next to a Microsoft person in the audience. Slightly awkward.”

November 5 at 6:03 pm - Link

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For you or him/her? - John Honeck

Both for me and for him, I imagine. :) - Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“Larry Page writes a blog post about the 5-0 "white spaces" decision: http://bit.ly/2X8JYE”

November 4 at 7:36 pm - Link

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It's a great day! - Robert Scoble

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Yes! - imabonehead

Also, Firefox 3.1 adds Private Browsing, which is good news. - Matt Cutts

Also, Firefox reaches 20% market share, which is also good news. - Matt Cutts

This is great news! FCC opens up white space spectrum! - Dave Gilbert

Google Code: an entry from Google Open Source Blog

Gerrit and Repo, the Android Source Management Tools

November 3 at 4:14 pm - Link

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"We don't want our most technical people to spend their time as patch monkeys." I liked that quote. - Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“Here's my 2008 Halloween Costume: http://bit.ly/2ucqiG”

October 31 at 1:55 pm - Link

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You really need to click through to get the full Rick Astley Halloween costume experience. - Matt Cutts

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Something is broken at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ now in firefox, no sidebar, no other posts. Works fine in IE however. - John Honeck

Awesome! - Paul Buchheit

@John I think the audio embed is breaking it (also in Chome it breaks) - Jorge Escobar

Yup, I couldn't find a trivial way to embed that worked in Firefox and Chrome, but it's worth it to get the audio for a day. - Matt Cutts

Bret Taylor shared an item on Google Reader

Google's Robots.txt Halloween Entry

October 31 at 5:46 am - Link

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"User-agent: zombies Disallow: /brains" - Bret Taylor

It's working, too. We haven't see zombies anywhere near the Googleplex today. - Matt Cutts

Looks like it didn't work here in ATL though.. our office has at least one confirmed zombie today. - Thomas Stromberg

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“Happy Halloween, everyone! Now if only we can get rid of these pesky zombies! X-/ X-/ X-/”

October 30 at 11:00 pm - Link

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Heh. Is that a subtle reference to Google's robots.txt file? ;-) - Tony Ruscoe

Sharp eyes, Tony. Glad someone made the connection. :) - Matt Cutts

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Google's Robots.txt Halloween Entry

October 31 at 2:39 am - Link

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User-agent: zombies Disallow: /brains - Tony Ruscoe

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Cool! - John Mueller

That is so absurdly nerdy! - Richard Bradshaw

I'm changing my browser's user agent :-) - John Mueller

I think Google Blogoscoped was the first site to notice this. We know that people watch our robots.txt file, so we thought that folks would enjoy a nice Halloween easter egg. :) - Matt Cutts

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Google protects itself from zombies

October 31 at 7:24 am - Link

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That rocks! - imabonehead

Better to be safe than sorry with zombies on the prowl today. - Matt Cutts

Keith Coleman posted a link

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Calendar and Docs gadgets

October 27 at 7:05 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Gmail Labs has been a really fun way to easily try out new ideas and get some of our pet feature requests implemented quickly. We wanted to take this to the next level and let you start adding your own stuff to Gmail. Today we're launching a few Labs experiments that let you add gadgets to the left-nav, next to Chat and Labels." - Keith Coleman via Bookmarklet

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I really like this one. Earlier today it showed me that a meeting was cancelled while I was reading email; no need to check my Google Calendar tab at all.. - Matt Cutts

FTW! - ♣genieyclo♣

See, now I'm wondering if that would show up as a notification on my G1. Must test! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

This is so much better than iGoogle! Now FriendFeed needs a Google Gadget. - Pat Hawks

Pat, directions to get FriendFeed into Gmail here: http://friendfeed.com/e/75f41e... - Benjamin Golub

Pat: you are right, this does feel nicer than iGoogle; does away with the annoying issue of being logged out of Gtalk when I go to a full canvas view on the Gmail gadget and I don't want to bother popping out the Gtalk gadget. - Brett Cannon

Don MacAskill posted a message on Twitter

“Just landed LAX for PDC - big cloud computing stuff tomorrow. Anyone want Pinks hot dogs?”

October 26 at 9:42 pm - Link

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Hmm, Don, are you speaking at PDC? (He's CEO of SmugMug which famously uses Amazon's cloud services, so if he switches to a different cloud supplier it'll be huge). - Robert Scoble

Hope to see you here. - DeWitt Clinton

Don, I'm curious--what are you most interested to see at PDC? - Matt Cutts

Sorry guys, didn't check FF until just now. Haven't seen you yet DeWitt, but I'll keep my eyes peeled. :) Matt, I'm interested in cloud computing, and especially competition in the cloud computing arena. - Don MacAskill

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“At SIGGRAPH, Takeo Kanade said that in 7 years, 1 terabyte of storage = 1 inch square, & will hold 1 week of video => everyone will lifecast”

October 19 at 5:01 pm - Link

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Tera storage doesn't just enable lifecasting--it enables computercasting too. Our computers ought to be storing everything we do. - Loren Heiny

Hallelujah, Loren. The amount of typing data that I do every day is so minuscule that it would be nice to archive all of it. - Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“If you took images and stacked them so that time is the third dimension, what cool stuff could you do with that? Plane detection = movement?”

October 19 at 5:43 pm - Link

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Matt, you should check out this page from MIT - http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/... - imabonehead

imabonehead, thanks for the link. Ramesh and I were in grad school together and even had a SIGGRAPH paper together. He's a great guy. :) - Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts posted an entry on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO

Join the webmaster chat today!

October 22 at 12:00 am - Link

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We're starting in ~5 minutes! - Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“In nine hours we're going to do a live webmaster chat. Hundreds of people will be there. I hope you'll join us too: http://bit.ly/3DhJCN”

October 21 at 11:58 pm - Link

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If you have friends with search questions, let them know about this free Google webmaster chat at 9 a.m. Pacific time. This is our third one, and I think 500+ people had registered for it yesterday. - Matt Cutts

Starting soooooon! - John Mueller