Category Archives: technology

Google+ Profile Link Chrome Extension

One of the goals I set for myself this quarter was to get more familiar with the various development platforms that we support at Google. I use a number of Chrome extensions on a regular basis, and I’ve built a simple “Hello World” style extension before, but never anything that was all that useful. So […]

Outsourcing comments to Google+

A few weeks ago I quietly (or not so quietly, as it were) disabled comments on my blog. It was something I’d been considering for a while, and I finally resolved to do it after talking with Shane Becker at IndieWebCamp back in June. Shane takes the stance that his site should be about him […]

Launching the Google+ Platform

A couple of months ago, I mentioned how excited I was to reveal to family and friends what I’ve been working on at Google for the last year or so, Google+. Well, that was only partly true. What I’ve really been working on is the Google+ Platform, which we are finally starting to roll out […]