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Thursday, February 27, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Google Plus Pro Tip: Use a Title and a Subtitle It all shows above the fold on the post! When I post...
Google Plus Pro Tip: Use a Title and a Subtitle
It all shows above the fold on the post!
When I post on Google+, I post with a title in bold and a subtitle in italics for each post. All the text shows above the fold on the post and perfectly in the notifications drop down menu as well.
More of my Easy Steps to Bake the Perfect Google+ Post here: http://bit.ly/RJjPZj
See the original post example here: http://bit.ly/1cMhsPZ
#GooglePlusTips #googleplustipsandtricks 
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Saturday, February 22, 2014
Scientists just created some of the most powerful muscles in existence http://ift.tt/1gpSogA...
Scientists just created some of the most powerful muscles in existence
http://ift.tt/1cvdVp0
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An ultra tiny sensor could help doctors clean out your arteries http://ift.tt/1fpetxI...
An ultra tiny sensor could help doctors clean out your arteries
http://ift.tt/MJEaOW
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Friday, February 21, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014
#ElonMusk: Here's how we can fix #Mars and colonize it http://ift.tt/1cuYtrH...
#ElonMusk: Here's how we can fix #Mars and colonize it
http://ift.tt/1a3FBQX
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January 06, 2014 Quote of the Day "Action is the antidote to despair." – Joan Baez About Joan Baez...
January 06, 2014
Quote of the Day
"Action is the antidote to despair."
– Joan Baez
About Joan Baez
American singer Joan Baez, known for her clear soprano and her belief in music as a tool for change, is widely considered the godmother of modern folk-rock. She was born in New York in 1941. She is an ardent activist, working for civil rights, nonviolence, and worker's rights. She received the ACLU's Earl Warren Award for her commitment to international human rights and, at the 2007 Grammy's, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Her music includes the chart-topping version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and the album Diamonds and Rust. She has one son.
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Sunday, February 16, 2014
8 Smart Tips to Maximize Your Blog Content Working smarter, not harder is the way to go with blogging...
8 Smart Tips to Maximize Your Blog Content
Working smarter, not harder is the way to go with blogging and social media.
Creating a great article for your blog is a long process and it takes time to craft the perfect headline, write an interesting article and then find a photo. Many bloggers stop working once they hit publish and wonder why no one is coming to their blog or sharing.
Cross promoting your blog content across social media platforms sounds complicated but once you put it into your routine, you’ll find that it’s worth the effort.
Tip #1
Have the link to your latest blog post underneath your email signature using WiseStamp. You only need to set this up once and it will update via RSS feed. http://ift.tt/k3DNYE
While you are setting up your WiseStamp email signature, add your social media links as well so people can follow you.
Tip #2
Be tweetable.
Add a tweetable quote to your blog posts to engage Twitter users using Click to Tweet. http://ift.tt/M1O1dR
Try it here...click to tweet >> http://ctt.ec/q2IMD
What are your favorite ways to share your blog content? I'd love to hear in the comments below.
Read the whole article here
http://ift.tt/1cw4nJ3
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+Rebekah Radice and I are teaming up for another two part blog series. This is part one.
#blogging #blogcontent #contentmarketing
Photo credit: Big Stock Photos
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Saturday, February 15, 2014
Gonna try this, for adding multiple items that are similar, to Gcal.
Gonna try this, for adding multiple items that are similar, to Gcal.
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January 08, 2014 Quote of the Day "Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." – Oscar Wilde...
January 08, 2014
Quote of the Day
"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
– Oscar Wilde
About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde, the clever, colorful Anglo-Irish writer, is best known for the play The Importance of Being Earnest and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. He was born in Dublin in 1854 but left when his lady love became engaged to Bram Stoker. He was a leading member of the aesthetic movement and embraced its doctrine, "Art for art's sake." Though married with two children, Wilde was known to have affairs with younger men and was jailed in 1895 for "gross indecency." He died in November 1900.
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January 07, 2014 Quote of the Day "Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of...
January 07, 2014
Quote of the Day
"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."
– Judy Garland
About Judy Garland
Beloved American actress Judy Garland will always be associated with her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. She was born Frances Gumm in Minnesota in 1922 to vaudevillian parents. She made her stage debut at age two and a half. She starred in 26 films over 13 years and became a huge star. In 1950, MGM ended her contract. Though she primarily gave concerts after that, she did star in a few more films, including her famed role in A Star Is Born. She died in 1969.
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Some good news to hear as part of the new year http://ift.tt/1a30FU4...
Some good news to hear as part of the new year
http://ift.tt/1ckbPqy
and also a great set of charts to read
http://ift.tt/1eDRrR6
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Friday, February 14, 2014
Know your belly type - liver belly, adrenal belly, ovary belly, thyroid belly - and see how to get rid...
Know your belly type - liver belly, adrenal belly, ovary belly, thyroid belly - and see how to get rid of it!
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Know your belly type - liver belly, adrenal belly, ovary belly, thyroid belly - and see how to get rid...
Know your belly type - liver belly, adrenal belly, ovary belly, thyroid belly - and see how to get rid of it!
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January 08, 2014 Quote of the Day "Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." – Oscar Wilde...
January 08, 2014
Quote of the Day
"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
– Oscar Wilde
About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde, the clever, colorful Anglo-Irish writer, is best known for the play The Importance of Being Earnest and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. He was born in Dublin in 1854 but left when his lady love became engaged to Bram Stoker. He was a leading member of the aesthetic movement and embraced its doctrine, "Art for art's sake." Though married with two children, Wilde was known to have affairs with younger men and was jailed in 1895 for "gross indecency." He died in November 1900.
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Some good news to hear as part of the new year http://ift.tt/1a30FU4...
Some good news to hear as part of the new year
http://ift.tt/1ckbPqy
and also a great set of charts to read
http://ift.tt/1eDRrR6
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8 Smart Tips to Maximize Your Blog Content Working smarter, not harder is the way to go with blogging...
8 Smart Tips to Maximize Your Blog Content
Working smarter, not harder is the way to go with blogging and social media.
Creating a great article for your blog is a long process and it takes time to craft the perfect headline, write an interesting article and then find a photo. Many bloggers stop working once they hit publish and wonder why no one is coming to their blog or sharing.
Cross promoting your blog content across social media platforms sounds complicated but once you put it into your routine, you’ll find that it’s worth the effort.
Tip #1
Have the link to your latest blog post underneath your email signature using WiseStamp. You only need to set this up once and it will update via RSS feed. http://ift.tt/k3DNYE
While you are setting up your WiseStamp email signature, add your social media links as well so people can follow you.
Tip #2
Be tweetable.
Add a tweetable quote to your blog posts to engage Twitter users using Click to Tweet. http://ift.tt/M1O1dR
Try it here...click to tweet >> http://ctt.ec/q2IMD
What are your favorite ways to share your blog content? I'd love to hear in the comments below.
Read the whole article here
http://ift.tt/1cw4nJ3
Pin it for later
http://ift.tt/1lwzLMk
+Rebekah Radice and I are teaming up for another two part blog series. This is part one.
#blogging #blogcontent #contentmarketing
Photo credit: Big Stock Photos
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Next week, Chargers vs Broncos in Denver. No repeat of week 15 please!
Next week, Chargers vs Broncos in Denver. No repeat of week 15 please!
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"...a computer algorithm that predicts which genes can be "turned off" to create the same anti-aging...
"...a computer algorithm that predicts which genes can be "turned off" to create the same anti-aging effect as calorie restriction."
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Scheduled HOA Events are here! Jump up and down and rejoice! HOA Tips & HOA Events Tips The ability ...
Scheduled HOA Events are here! Jump up and down and rejoice!
HOA Tips & HOA Events Tips
The ability for you to plan a (HOA) Hangout on Air event ahead of time is now here for all of us to use. We now have a Real HOA Event Tool
This means the use of the old Event tool may go away for most people and the confusion of an event being a 'hangout' or 'on air' type vs. a hybrid HOA Event may become a thing of the past!
The new "Schedule a Hangout on Air" button creates a SHOAE (Scheduled HOA Event)... with lots of great options and integration so here are the main things you should know about...
Using the Scheduled HOA Event Tool lets you:
► Harvest a Reserved Video Link for an upcoming HOA (you can advertise that ahead of time... Way ahead of time)
► Schedule a HOA Event in advance and advertise that event page
► Add in a Video or Graphic 'Trailer' which will be automatically replaced with the Live HOA video when you start broadcasting (no more hunting around for a YouTube link pasting spot just before you go live)
► If you add a Graphic Trailer image, it can be an animated GIF
► With or without a Graphic Trailer there's a countdown timer when interacted with on the event page (not with a video trailer)
► You can swap out the trailer at any time before the show starts
► Q&A App is easily integrated into the SHOAE
Bottom Line here is that the new Scheduled HOA Event option is much smarter and more like what we've all been wanting for quite a while. Your Event it creates acts as a great landing page for live activity.
Read up on the official Help Page for the tool:
http://ift.tt/1lcbbjG
Check out some of my early testing I did re. the tool's options and uses:
Schedule Hangouts on Air - Posting Tips (10/26/13) http://goo.gl/C2iuHp
New HOA Tools coming our way; Scheduling, Control Room, URLs & more (11/21/13) http://goo.gl/tvubhJ
Testing out the HOA Scheduling tool's new Branded Graphic Feature (11/23/13) http://goo.gl/xeOfPb
Extra Tip: To start up an old style HOA instead, try using bit.ly/StartMyHOA ...
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#HOAtips #HOAevents #ScheduledHOA #GooglePlusTips #EventsTips
Much more training on this tool is available in the Membership site called Hangout Mastery... signup to keep up http://bit.ly/HangoutMastery
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Brand: Is it just your logo, your website, and your product packaging? The answer's no. In fact, there's...
Brand: Is it just your logo, your website, and your product packaging?
The answer’s no. In fact, there’s a whole lot more to it.
+Dustin W. Stout who is one of the most creative and engaging personalities not just here on Google Plus, but all over the web, was on +Jason T. Wiser HOA just a few weeks back here: http://ift.tt/1cuJvlY and he breaks it down for you.
Watch and you will learn:
How to convey your branded message to a community of new followers and loyalists using Social Media.
Key strategies that he uses to keep his brand fresh, exciting, and keep it from going stale.
Make this year 2014 the year you move from commodity ... to BRAND! (because your dad told you too)
#smallbusinessowner #Branding #Ontracktips #onlinemarketing 
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January 03, 2014 Quote of the Day "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."...
January 03, 2014
Quote of the Day
"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
About Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson helped spark the transcendentalist movement with the essay Nature, which described his belief in the spiritual essence of humanity and the natural world. He was born in Boston in 1803. He was a Unitarian minister until he resigned in 1832 to become a philosopher and writer. He suffered the untimely deaths of many of his loved ones: three brothers, his first wife at age 20, and his eldest son at age five. Emerson died in 1882.
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December 30, 2013 Quote of the Day "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." – Bertrand Russell...
December 30, 2013
Quote of the Day
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
– Bertrand Russell
About Bertrand Russell
British philosopher Bertrand Russell was greatly responsible for the shift toward logical analysis among philosophers; he introduced rigorous scientific methodology to the field and was best known for his books Principia Mathematica and The Principles of Mathematics. He was born in 1872 to an aristocratic English family but raised by a strict paternal grandmother after his parents died young. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Albert Einstein collaborated with him on a manifesto calling for nuclear disarmament. He died in 1970.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Quantum Internet: First Teleportation to a Solid-State Quantum Memory http://adafru.it/b95387 Via MIT...
Quantum Internet: First Teleportation to a Solid-State Quantum Memory
http://adafru.it/b95387
Via MIT Technology Review.
Quantum teleportation is the ability to transmit from one location to another without traveling through the space in between. Matter itself doesn’t make this journey, only the information that describes it. This is transmitted to a new body that takes on the identity of the original.
But while science fiction fans have focused on body involved, quantum physicists are more interested in the information. For them, teleportation is the enabling technology behind a new generation of information processing technologies including a quantum Internet that allows information to be transmitted with perfect security.
One of the building blocks of the quantum Internet will be quantum routers that can receive quantum information from location and route it on to another without destroying it. So the race is on to demonstrate this kind of technology, which has the potential to revolutionize communications.
Today, Felix Bussières at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and a few pals say they’ve taken an important step towards this. These guys have teleported quantum information to a crystal doped with rare-earth ions—a kind of quantum memory. But crucially they’ve done it for the first time over the kind of ordinary optical fiber that telecommunications that are in use all over the world.
One of the main requirements for widespread teleportation is entangled photons with a wavelength compatible with telecom fiber. That’s not so easy to produce since the entangled photons must be compatible with the discrete energy jumps in the quantum memory. “This wavelength is typically far away from the low-loss region of standard optical fiber,” say Bussières and co.
So the trick these guys have perfected is to generate entangled pairs of photons with different wavelengths. The first has a wavelength of 883nm (near-infrared), which is compatible with a type of quantum memory made of neodymium-doped yttrium orthosilicate crystals. The second has a wavelength of 1338nm (mid infrared), which passes easily through telecoms optical fiber.
The quantum state to be teleported is the polarization of a 1338nm photon. So these guys send the 883nm signal to the quantum memory where it is stored while transmitting the 1338 signal through a 12 km fiber to another apparatus that prepares a third photon (also at 1338 nm) with the polarization to be teleported.
This is when the teleportation takes place. When these two 1338nm photons are made to interact in a certain way, the polarization is teleported to the quantum memory at the other end of the experiment.
Read more: http://adafru.it/b95387
#quantuminternet #teleportation
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Welcome to Bronco country. This is the view for this Seahawks fan half way through the 2nd quarter. ...
Welcome to Bronco country. This is the view for this Seahawks fan half way through the 2nd quarter. Not very many happy faces right now - except for +Kittery Barrows and me.
#superbowl
#seahawks
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Who's gonna win the big game? Pick your favorite, he did the whole NFL in Star Wars Style! (via the...
Who's gonna win the big game? Pick your favorite, he did the whole NFL in Star Wars Style!
(via the awesome work done by John Raya. Find more of his work: http://ift.tt/1kq1exL)
#starwars #nfl #superbowl #superbowlxlviii #rebelsquadrons
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Happy Lunar New Year! Speaking of the Moon, have you had a chance to catch a showing of Google Lunar...
Happy Lunar New Year! Speaking of the Moon, have you had a chance to catch a showing of Google Lunar XPRIZE's dome show, Back To The Moon For Good? http://ift.tt/18vsgv6
Watch the incredible stories behind the teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE.
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New footage of Felix's jump back "home". This is absolutely incredible. Look how peaceful it starts ...
New footage of Felix's jump back "home". This is absolutely incredible. Look how peaceful it starts out only to become very violent. Wow!
#RedBull #GoPro #STEM #RedBullStratos
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7 Point Checklist to Dominate Your Personal Brand Using Google Plus As you build out your online presence...
7 Point Checklist to Dominate Your Personal Brand Using Google Plus
As you build out your online presence, adding Google+ is a key component to your marketing strategy.
Not only will it assist in improving website and blog traffic flow, but will allow you to dominate your personal brand by using Google Plus as the rocket fuel!
Google+ TIP
Pay attention to your ripples! Ripples are a Google+ feature that allows you to measure how your content is connecting with your audience.
On each post, click on the drop down menu and choose "Ripples" to see who is sharing your content and how far the reach on that particular post actually was.
The value here is in making personal connections with those sharing your content. Seek them out and thank them. Taking the time to reach out and connect shows how much you value those that assist in spreading your message.
Read all seven tips here: http://ift.tt/15Iu2bQ
#googleplustips #googleplus #socialmediamarketing 
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Self Confidence = Repetition, Repetition, Repetition Have you guys watched this? I think it may have...
Self Confidence = Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
Have you guys watched this? I think it may have changed my life a little...
(No more words needed - watch it, thank me later.)
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Dash, a Techstars New York-backed startup that wants to be like a Fitbit for your car, has now launched...
Dash, a Techstars New York-backed startup that wants to be like a Fitbit for your car, has now launched.
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An experiment in Auto Awesome - turned out pretty - well - awesome.
An experiment in Auto Awesome - turned out pretty - well - awesome.
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What is up with G+ today?! No messages in my stream (asking me to make a first post to get the conversation...
What is up with G+ today?! No messages in my stream (asking me to make a first post to get the conversation rolling), slow or no loading on pages, constant "There was a problem completing this action. Please try again.", and the list goes on. It is 100% useless today so far!
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In answer to a question from +Peter Hollens - what folk songs would you like to hear (or something very...
In answer to a question from +Peter Hollens - what folk songs would you like to hear (or something very close to that)!
Pretty much anything by Gordon Lightfoot. Like "Sundown", "If you could read my mind"
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Through to many errors the Seahawks are the NFC champs. I am stoked to see a Broncos vs Seahawks Super...
Through to many errors the Seahawks are the NFC champs. I am stoked to see a Broncos vs Seahawks Super Bowl in 2 weeks!
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If only this would work on Robin. And holy crap I need a lightsaber nightlight! FOR EVERY ROOM OF ...
If only this would work on Robin.
And holy crap I need a lightsaber nightlight! FOR EVERY ROOM OF MY HOUSE.
#starwars #parenting
PS Anyone else think, "Hey, you can't put a baby to bed in a wig, that's a SIDS risk!"?
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"...while light of any wavelength might slow down instantaneously in a medium, anything with mass won't...
"...while light of any wavelength might slow down instantaneously in a medium, anything with mass won’t. So if you’re moving at 80%, 90%, or 99.9999% the speed of light-in-vacuum and then you transition into water all of a sudden, you’ll find yourself moving faster than the speed of light in that new medium! And if that’s the case, something remarkable happens.
When a charged particle moving slower than the speed of light-in-vacuum enters a medium where it’s moving faster than light in that medium, it polarizes the surrounding molecules as it passes them. The excited molecules quickly drop back down to their ground state, emitting a very special type of radiation known as Čerenkov radiation, which shows up as a characteristic blue glow in, for example, the nuclear reactor shown above."
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January 14, 2014 Quote of the Day "A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice." – Edgar Watson...
January 14, 2014
Quote of the Day
"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
– Edgar Watson Howe
About Edgar Watson Howe
Pithy American newspaperman Edgar Watson Howe was known as the "Sage of Potato Hill." He was born in Indiana in 1853. He learned the printing trade at his father's shop. He left home at age 14 and by age 18, he was editing a local paper in Colorado. In 1877, he established the Atchison, Kansas, Daily Globe. He also wrote fiction; his most successful novel, The Story of a Country Town, was a bleak portrayal of life on the prairie. He died in October 1937.
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How to build quality circles Circle sharing is getting a bad reputation these days, mainly because ...
How to build quality circles
Circle sharing is getting a bad reputation these days, mainly because of the "+1 and reshare to get into this circle" phenomenon.
If you run such a circle, consider removing this criteria. It attracts a lot of spammers, and you don't want that?
Instead, take a look at a set of rules I have come up with for adding profiles with higher quality:
Profile completely filled out
No ifs or buts. The profiles in your circle will often be used by new people on G+, and we all need to know exactly who we add. And generally, spammers do not take the time to fill out their profiles!
Example: http://ift.tt/1kzhEYa
Profile picture of the person
Not their kid or pet. And not a company logo. I am talking about profiles here, not pages.
Coverphoto changed
May sound unnecessary, but as this will serve as examples for beginners, I want it all to be correct. It also gives you another possibility to learn to know the person behind the profile.
Posting frequency
Latest post should not be older than 7 days. This means that no inactive profiles end up in your circle.
High ratio of own content to resharing
Minimum 60%-40%. Meaning that for every 10 posts, minimum 6 should be original posts, not reshares. Why go for the resharers when you can go one step up and find the original content?
No memesharers or profiles that just shares tons of photos
If the photos are their own, it is good. But people that just steal other peoples pictures and post the are just content hoarders. It has nothing to do with real content. It is ok if someone posts a picture or meme now and then. But the photographer should always be credited!
No profiles that has a high count of circle sharing
If someone spend most of their time sharing circles, what is there to interact with? Google+ is all about interaction, not how many followers you have.
Only make circles with specific themes
You should have a reason for making a circle. And keep it small so that you have the time to maintain it. If you want photography, add 50-100 photographers in a circle and make sure they all follow the rules above. You could even be more specific and go for landscape photographers. Or 50-100 food bloggers/chefs. Or 50-100 writers. Find your own themes.
When I am considering adding someone to my circles, these are points I consider. I want people that I can learn something from and that I can interact with.
Can you think of any other things? What do you think of these rules?
Picture credit: Louis Tan - http://ift.tt/1iMeBHT
#ns #circleshare #qualitycontrol #quality #Google +
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January 13, 2014 Quote of the Day "Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality."...
January 13, 2014
Quote of the Day
"Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality."
– Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenens
About Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenens
Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenens played a major leadership role during the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s; his reforms include reciting the liturgy in modern languages, expanding the role of laypersons, and opening a dialogue with other religions. He was born in 1904 in Brussels. Wealthy relatives wanted him to study economics and manage their fortune, but instead he entered the priesthood. He was witty and charming, with an enthusiasm for soccer. He died in May 1996.
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The Week In Science: January 12 Sharing the the best science news and research we find each week. Please...
The Week In Science: January 12
Sharing the the best science news and research we find each week. Please, as always, let us know if we missed anything! Head to the post http://bit.ly/week-in-science-7, or click read more:
‘Superlens’ Extends Range of Wireless Power
Duke University researchers demonstrated the feasibility of wireless power transfer using low-frequency magnetic fields over longer distances. http://ift.tt/1iAS00G
Researchers Develop Artificial Bone Marrow
Artificial bone marrow has been developed and may be used to reproduce hematopoietic stem cells. http://ift.tt/1iAS00I
Ultra-Thin Flexible Transparent Electronics
Researchers at ETH are developing electronic components that are thinner and more flexible than before. They can even be wrapped around a single hair. http://ift.tt/1iARZd7
Quantum Mechanics Explains Photosynthesis
Light-gathering macromolecules transfer energy by utilizing molecular vibrations whose physical descriptions have no equivalents in classical physics. http://ift.tt/1iAS00K
Organic Mega Flow Battery
A team of Harvard scientists and engineers demonstrated a new type of battery that could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid. http://ift.tt/1iARZd9
Find out more: http://ift.tt/1iAS00M
#TheWeekInScience #SharedScience
#ScienceSunday with +Buddhini Samarasinghe +Rajini Rao +Chad Haney +Allison Sekuler +Robby Bowles +ScienceSunday 
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▶ Google Plus circles and communities Updated tutorial video about Google+ circles and communities!...
▶ Google Plus circles and communities
Updated tutorial video about Google+ circles and communities!
All you need to know from +martin shervington.
- YouTube http://bit.ly/19JCyzi
#Plushelp #Circles #Communities
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What are 'Google Circles'? The Ultimate Guide! Google Circles are a central feature to Google Plus...
What are 'Google Circles'?
The Ultimate Guide!
Google Circles are a central feature to Google Plus and in this user guide you will get a step-by-step approach to how you have use them best to tailor your experience even more...
- Martin Shervington
Learn more: http://bit.ly/18OaH0k
#Circles #BasicsForPlus #Tutorial #Plushelp
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What goes around, comes around On September 3, 2002, an amateur astronomer named Bill Yeung looked ...
What goes around, comes around
On September 3, 2002, an amateur astronomer named Bill Yeung looked into his telescope and discovered a strange object near Earth. Experts were surprised to discover that it was orbiting Earth! The orbit was unstable, which meant this object hadn't been here long. But there was no recently launched spacecraft that matched the orbit of this thing!
It got the name J002E3. It's fun to watch this animated gif and see how J002E3 came in from the Lagrange point L1 between the Earth and Sun, went around the Earth a few times, and then got kicked out.
But what was it?
University of Arizona astronomers found that its electromagnetic spectrum was consistent with white titanium dioxide paint - the same paint used by NASA for the Saturn V rockets. Tracing back its orbit, they found that it had probably been orbiting the Sun for 31 years. The last time it was near Earth was1971.
This seemed to suggest that it was a part of the Apollo 14 mission. But NASA knew the whereabouts of all hardware used for this mission! The third stage of that rocket, for example, was deliberately crashed into the Moon for seismic studies.
So, the most likely explanation seems to be that J002E3 is the third stage of the rocket for Apollo 12. NASA originally planned to shoot this into an orbit around the Sun. But they used more of the propellant than planned, and it seems that venting the rest didn't give this rocket stage enough energy to escape the Earth–Moon system. So, it ended up in a complicated orbit around the Earth after passing by the Moon on November 18, 1969.
It may hit earth someday! It weighs 10 tonnes. But don't worry: a 10-tonne meteor hits the Earth every few years, and most of them don't cause much trouble.
I think saw this animated gif in a post by Ole Olson. The explanation here is adapted from Wikipedia:
http://ift.tt/1lezCgz
and the animated gif was made by Paul Chodas & Ron Baalke of NASA.
#astronomy 
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The idea of a star-within-a-star is weird. Known as a Thorne-Żytkow Object, a nesting-doll star was ...
The idea of a star-within-a-star is weird. Known as a Thorne-Żytkow Object, a nesting-doll star was first proposed by two physicists, Kip Thorne and Anna Żytkow, back in the '70s. But no one has ever seen one. Now, though, Alexandra Witze reports at Nature, astronomers have found the best candidate yet. Although a neutron star is only ten miles or so across, its gravitational pull is so strong that it could draw matter away from its huge but more diffuse companion. In the process, it would slow down, like a ship dragging an anchor. Eventually the neutron star, in an ever-shrinking orbit, would plow into the outer layers of its neighbor. After a few thousand years it would spiral down into the star’s center, demolishing the existing stellar core but leaving the rest of the star essentially intact. A red giant that has been violated in this way has come to be called a Thorne-Zytkow object--even though no one has ever seen one.
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Lessons of the first follower. Are you the lone nut leader, one of the first followers or one of the...
Lessons of the first follower. Are you the lone nut leader, one of the first followers or one of the crowd?
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January 10, 2014 Quote of the Day "The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference...
January 10, 2014
Quote of the Day
"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, the second is disastrous."
– Margot Fonteyn
About Margot Fonteyn
Margot Fonteyn, the elegant British prima ballerina, is considered one of the truly great dancers of our time. She was born in 1919 in Surrey. She made her debut in 1934 as a snowflake in Nutcracker and was a leading ballerina within four years. She flirted with retirement in the late 1950's until Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union; he became her dancing partner for the next decade, a brilliant creative match despite their 20-year age difference. She died in February 1991.
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Apple Cinnamon Water Boost your metabolism naturally with this ZERO CALORIE Detox Drink -See the Recipe...
Apple Cinnamon Water
Boost your metabolism naturally with this ZERO CALORIE Detox Drink
-See the Recipe: http://goo.gl/DAqITf
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January 09, 2014 Quote of the Day "Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."...
January 09, 2014
Quote of the Day
"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."
– Lady Bird Johnson
About Lady Bird Johnson
Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson, the wife of President Lyndon Johnson, is known for her concern for the environment. She was born in Texas in 1912. Johnson asked her to marry him seven weeks after they met. She supported his career by keeping his congressional office running after his heart attack, stumping for Democratic candidates, and visiting 33 countries as his emissary. She founded the Wildflower Research Center and worked to pass the Highway Beautification Act. She lived in Texas until her death in July 2007.
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What will it take to set up colonies in space? http://ift.tt/K8ykor...
What will it take to set up colonies in space?
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Monday, February 10, 2014
Quantum Internet: First Teleportation to a Solid-State Quantum Memory http://adafru.it/b95387 Via MIT...
Quantum Internet: First Teleportation to a Solid-State Quantum Memory
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Via MIT Technology Review.
Quantum teleportation is the ability to transmit from one location to another without traveling through the space in between. Matter itself doesn’t make this journey, only the information that describes it. This is transmitted to a new body that takes on the identity of the original.
But while science fiction fans have focused on body involved, quantum physicists are more interested in the information. For them, teleportation is the enabling technology behind a new generation of information processing technologies including a quantum Internet that allows information to be transmitted with perfect security.
One of the building blocks of the quantum Internet will be quantum routers that can receive quantum information from location and route it on to another without destroying it. So the race is on to demonstrate this kind of technology, which has the potential to revolutionize communications.
Today, Felix Bussières at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and a few pals say they’ve taken an important step towards this. These guys have teleported quantum information to a crystal doped with rare-earth ions—a kind of quantum memory. But crucially they’ve done it for the first time over the kind of ordinary optical fiber that telecommunications that are in use all over the world.
One of the main requirements for widespread teleportation is entangled photons with a wavelength compatible with telecom fiber. That’s not so easy to produce since the entangled photons must be compatible with the discrete energy jumps in the quantum memory. “This wavelength is typically far away from the low-loss region of standard optical fiber,” say Bussières and co.
So the trick these guys have perfected is to generate entangled pairs of photons with different wavelengths. The first has a wavelength of 883nm (near-infrared), which is compatible with a type of quantum memory made of neodymium-doped yttrium orthosilicate crystals. The second has a wavelength of 1338nm (mid infrared), which passes easily through telecoms optical fiber.
The quantum state to be teleported is the polarization of a 1338nm photon. So these guys send the 883nm signal to the quantum memory where it is stored while transmitting the 1338 signal through a 12 km fiber to another apparatus that prepares a third photon (also at 1338 nm) with the polarization to be teleported.
This is when the teleportation takes place. When these two 1338nm photons are made to interact in a certain way, the polarization is teleported to the quantum memory at the other end of the experiment.
Read more: http://adafru.it/b95387
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Monday, February 3, 2014
Welcome to Bronco country. This is the view for this Seahawks fan half way through the 2nd quarter. ...
Welcome to Bronco country. This is the view for this Seahawks fan half way through the 2nd quarter. Not very many happy faces right now - except for +Kittery Barrows and me.
#superbowl
#seahawks
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Saturday, February 1, 2014
Who's gonna win the big game? Pick your favorite, he did the whole NFL in Star Wars Style! (via the...
Who's gonna win the big game? Pick your favorite, he did the whole NFL in Star Wars Style!
(via the awesome work done by John Raya. Find more of his work: http://ift.tt/1kq1exL)
#starwars #nfl #superbowl #superbowlxlviii #rebelsquadrons
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Happy Lunar New Year! Speaking of the Moon, have you had a chance to catch a showing of Google Lunar...
Happy Lunar New Year! Speaking of the Moon, have you had a chance to catch a showing of Google Lunar XPRIZE's dome show, Back To The Moon For Good? http://ift.tt/18vsgv6
Watch the incredible stories behind the teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE.
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New footage of Felix's jump back "home". This is absolutely incredible. Look how peaceful it starts ...
New footage of Felix's jump back "home". This is absolutely incredible. Look how peaceful it starts out only to become very violent. Wow!
#RedBull #GoPro #STEM #RedBullStratos
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