tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580631073884126992024-02-18T21:00:43.847-05:00Daily ByoogleNew York’s Finest Daily BlogBrian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-76607600309973435772014-03-09T18:57:00.000-04:002014-03-09T18:57:24.271-04:00A 60 Minutes Cameo!<p>Disconnect is on tonight’s episode:</p><blockquote><embed src="http://www.cbsnews.com/common/video/cbsnews_player.swf" scale="noscale" salign="lt" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" background="#000000" width="425" height="279" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" FlashVars="pType=embed&si=254&pid=aBY4eGZ7du0F&url=http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/preview-the-data-brokers" /></blockquote>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-42262665633695928292012-04-22T19:16:00.000-04:002012-04-22T19:16:49.588-04:00Collusion for Chrome<p><img class="left" width="200" height="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLrzDpX9ZAeoua8u0C8spnEvIFSKH-_i804GbwyENzROrp9_kuqeyMemPxvnzcGtlxTayqN0xLBq9qiU9btY6sXWEeiGmlYBq5DoSjAp_BD1pUS3VZjnm_TZAQomV-u-X4qwhQXXzU8SOo/s400/chrollusion.png" alt="Collusion for Chrome" /><strong>Disclaimer:</strong> Half my blogging these days, it’d seem, has to do with usage stats. What can I say, I’m obsessed with numbers and have been since I could reel off the career pitching and hitting lines of “Three Finger” Brown and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson as a kid. I should also note that all the usage stats come from Google and Mozilla (not us!) but are nonetheless anonymous, to the best of my knowledge.</p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/disconnectere/posts/341389835922171">I mentioned</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/disconnectme/status/192721384223412224">here, too</a>) that, five days post launch, <a href="https://blog.disconnect.me/collusion-for-chrome">Collusion for Chrome</a> had scored 20,000 installs, a 5-star rating, 10,000 video views, and 98% video likes. After a whole week, we landed on some nice, (almost) round numbers:</p><ul><li>29,440 installs</li><li>a 5-star rating</li><li>15,586 video views</li><li>99% video likes</li></ul><p>And we racked up some sweet press coverage:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/13/2945920/collusion-for-chrome-disconnect-me-site-cookie-tracking">The Verge</a></li><li><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5901674/collusion-for-chrome-shows-you-where-your-personal-data-is-going-on-the-web-as-you-browse">Lifehacker</a></li><li><a href="http://mashable.com/follow/videos/1562359312001-collusion-for-chrome-is-a-browser-extension-that-maps-out-where-you">Mashable</a></li><li><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5902855/collusion-for-chrome-reveals-whos-spying-on-your-surfing">Gizmodo</a></li></ul><p>If you’ve already added or reviewed Collusion for Chrome, thank you. If you haven’t, <a href="https://disconnect.me/tools">what are you waiting for</a>! You can likewise <a href="https://github.com/disconnectme/chrollusion">watch the progress of or contribute to</a> the (open-source) project.</p>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-52926606219060916762012-01-31T17:11:00.000-05:002012-01-31T19:01:10.661-05:00A Wall Street Journal “Dot Drawing”!<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Uf0O8_QMSGlx8xEl7sW2POEzI29vyNqOfqtQvSOmszsDo62OpTxNk3m-EIo7P9XQYHDY-efaUkmVYR9XOruV10uS4lJ3rHDkw4wzhAxFtxPP8MZJ4OjO-KktshLOLCn4EbXQpb1oFurH/s1600/hedcut.jpg"><img width="240" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Uf0O8_QMSGlx8xEl7sW2POEzI29vyNqOfqtQvSOmszsDo62OpTxNk3m-EIo7P9XQYHDY-efaUkmVYR9XOruV10uS4lJ3rHDkw4wzhAxFtxPP8MZJ4OjO-KktshLOLCn4EbXQpb1oFurH/s400/hedcut.jpg" alt="Brian Kennish Hedcut" title="Did you know they’re drawn by hand?" /></a></p><p>“You don’t generally get [one] unless you’re a major CEO or commit some kind of massive fraud.”</p><p><strong>Update (7:01 p.m.):</strong> Duh. I got a drawing because I’m helping run <a href="http://datatransparency.wsj.com/">this event</a>, which will be majorly massive and you should sign up for.</p>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-80390047694696606842011-12-16T22:23:00.000-05:002011-12-17T04:29:06.971-05:00Frictionless<p><img class="left" width="128" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6naMTuqW5XueDRpDn5WeulN2VXOVUdUudYeUHjl5HN5IrFqwDcJ-NGxLDgr72I4Bcw6J-Szs3RGH6aENK-MNiNGRAwulIBwxj4AbmWgJvl8Khnl_ZVXmGJkt-qIrogK5pLjAlVznmXZ3M/s200/frictionless.png" alt="Frictionless" />Last week, <a href="http://nikcub.appspot.com/">Nik Cubrilovic</a> and I put out a side project called <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ajingfifiphifhhjfmfcpklnphcijocg">Frictionless</a>. Frictionless is a browser extension that lets you read articles shared on Facebook without being nagged to add newfangled social-reader apps.</p><p>Ironically (I live in constant fear of misusing this word), the project started with a Facebook status update and comment thread then was finished in a few days over Facebook chat. We originally named the extension Frictionless Clicking but <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/01/frictionless-kills-facebook-social-article-readers-dead/">got scooped by TechCrunch</a>, who chopped off the “Clicking”. We adopted the truncated name.</p><p>Here are a couple more articles that describe Frictionless better than I — and require no apps to read:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.theverge.com/web/2011/12/5/2612432/frictionless-facebook-extension-google-chrome-news-reader">Frictionless Facebook extension lets you bypass app installers when reading news</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/google-chrome-extension-lets-you-bypass-facebook-news-apps/6028">Google Chrome extension lets you bypass Facebook news apps</a></li></ul>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-87906836112787646612011-10-24T20:21:00.001-04:002011-10-24T20:21:44.960-04:00The Secret History of Facebook Disconnect<blockquote><em>I’ve been meaning to tell the origin story of Facebook Disconnect for a while now. The extension’s first birthday gave me an excuse to. This post is republished from the <a href="http://disconnect.me/blog">shiny, new Disconnect blog</a>.</em></blockquote><p><img class="left" width="140" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGb9wW0uNkVvMdAxQzw650Lv9pjRkpAAjQ6WAfwHaqpRT7toDcCJKZrmcDcbq6VSKh5jpD70eoRvAKX0ag2_viyDqmmurbWmCpNhCtxhH3MhgW0tO-Pmtt7QQ51aHx9TZnwgpk7_2pRogn/s200/fbdc140.png" alt="Facebook Disconnect" />Exactly one year ago, I noticed a <a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/09/24/facebookIsScaringMe.html">virus infecting the web</a>. Facebook widgets, mostly Like buttons, were popping up <em>everywhere</em> — alongside the articles I read, the music I listened to, the videos I watched. Worse, Facebook was (and is) serving these widgets off the same domain (<code>facebook.com</code>) as their login cookies.</p><p>Being a tracking aficionado (I developed DoubleClick’s mobile ad server and the, kludgy, precursor to Google’s AdWords API), I recognized Facebook’s strategy — <a href="http://www.seobythesea.com/2011/09/facebook-patent-application-target-ads/">collecting user browsing habits to sell to advertisers</a>.</p><p>That night, I spent two hours writing 53 lines of JSON and JavaScript (and two more hours making a <em>Ghostbusters</em>-inspired logo) to inoculate my browser. I called the Chrome extension, which works by stopping the flow of personal data from third-party sites to Facebook, Facebook Disconnect.</p><p>I’d done side projects before, including another extension that had 37 users. But I was thinking big this time. I imagined Facebook Disconnect could have 50 users.</p><p>I was off by three orders of magnitude and change.</p><p>Today, Facebook Disconnect has over 150,000 <em>weekly</em> users. And the extension has been Chrome only, till now.</p><p>To celebrate Facebook Disconnect’s birthday, we’ve created <a href="http://disconnect.me/facebook">versions for Firefox and Safari</a> and open-sourced the <a href="https://github.com/disconnectme/fbdc">code as usual</a>!</p>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-57612436327758504362011-09-19T03:23:00.000-04:002011-10-24T20:19:52.791-04:00fear GoogleBehold this awesome sticker I found last week at <a href="http://disrupt.techcrunch.com/SF2011/">TechCrunch Disrupt</a>:<blockquote><img width="263" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBVaiXAzppXiiPTyRGOO-KIb91f_L2Awi6rDebe8uM44cnFTZo2IqUWDxglsaffHNkAvY62iKKOcMpFOzikZLAVZEgvIp1jPt0igUY1s2Oldw_AkK-OS36fGpMNAAzfCRcEi5etWMnsX0/s400/feargoogle.png" alt="fear Google" title="If you’re XVALA, let’s talk." /></blockquote>Or did the sticker find me?Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-62876303652377912222011-02-28T23:43:00.006-05:002011-03-01T00:59:39.475-05:00Google — Clueless or Misleading?<p>Disconnect was covered by the <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/02/27/wall-street-journal-privacy-series-inspires-one-start-up/">Wall Street Journal (blog)</a> today (note to future Disconnect scribes: this underline thing is called a <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_7.html#SEC7">hyperlink</a>). The post features the work of one of Google’s master bunko artists, whom I’d like to debunk for you:</p><blockquote>Google spokesman Chris Gaither declined to comment on Disconnect, but said that users can also turn off search personalization by removing their Web history. (Instructions are <a href="http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=54048">here</a>.)</blockquote><p>The change Google suggests is <em>strictly cosmetic</em> — their search results will be displayed differently (i.e., not personalized), but your queries and cookies will still be logged by them and kept for 18 months.</p>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-40096093009534850062011-01-13T23:11:00.000-05:002011-01-19T21:41:53.607-05:00Disconnect: Month One<p>On <a href="http://byoogle.blogspot.com/2010/12/meet-disconnect.html">Disconnect’s one-month birthday</a>, I thought I’d share some usage bits and bobs. Here’s a performance snapshot from Monday — <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhlakheieifhpjdfeo">Disconnect</a> is now the 112th most popular and 67th highest rated of the 11,000-odd extensions and themes in the Chrome extension gallery and <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambagiibghpglaidiec">Facebook Disconnect</a>, the 84th most popular and 10th highest rated (the user and install data is anonymous and collected by the extension system not the extensions themselves):</p><blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxyvaWmkWIs7Otwo5QXQXt_PYrre_RnqIZNt4vLCQkxeUXu8PRLM5m8ew56k6ONLC88k_wK8fzBgkpaQjKWs4FZ0pDNDQBR0J5YULNPIf6MszImzXugDYJyEpXm0WYWneDQI5cF1HjCYQm/s1600/disconnecters.png"><img width="400" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxyvaWmkWIs7Otwo5QXQXt_PYrre_RnqIZNt4vLCQkxeUXu8PRLM5m8ew56k6ONLC88k_wK8fzBgkpaQjKWs4FZ0pDNDQBR0J5YULNPIf6MszImzXugDYJyEpXm0WYWneDQI5cF1HjCYQm/s400/disconnecters.png" alt="Disconnect’ers" title="Look at a bigger picture of the big picture" /></a></blockquote><p>More importantly, <a href="http://byoogle.blogspot.com/2010/12/100000-disconnecters.html#comment-121238798">commenter Chris</a> dug up this mind-blowing video about Facebook Disconnect (the Facebook Blocker extension noted in the video <em>hides</em> rather than <em>blocks</em> Facebook resources so isn’t a suitable privacy-protecting substitute for Facebook Disconnect on Firefox or Safari):</p><blockquote><object width="400" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/NJAlrV804Ac?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="250" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/NJAlrV804Ac?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object></blockquote>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-23986553449060944142010-12-20T23:29:00.002-05:002010-12-21T06:33:21.522-05:00100,000 Disconnect’ers<p><img class="left" width="128" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia3qhgBH0iD1Fn2eABJwyl4eWTaOo4_asUJzWunOmutkU6TYR5BvLHbftwRy1bTDtUC4EOYWue-ybtqzUU9zYplF8tbNEqnq5gfAD-yjp_DXKF0Cg_q7jgQ_j9F0f1Evb7epflf2c8-flX/s200/128.png" alt="Disconnect" />Sometime today, <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhlakheieifhpjdfeo">Disconnect</a> and <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambagiibghpglaidiec">Facebook Disconnect</a> combined got their 100,000th active user on Chrome. Disconnect was released exactly one week ago and had 25,170 users as of yesterday. Facebook Disconnect was released exactly two months ago and had 74,417 users.</p><p>That the extensions, with no viral features, marketing, or PR (I just gave TechCrunch an <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/13/former-googler-launches-disconnect-browser-extension-that-disables-third-party-data-tracking/">exclusive preview of Disconnect</a>), are now being run by 100,000 people each week is a clear message to Facebook, Google, and every other Internet company that they can’t take our data without our permission anymore.</p>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-11440783427830994142010-12-13T14:20:00.003-05:002010-12-13T14:41:43.950-05:00Meet Disconnect<p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/13/former-googler-launches-disconnect-browser-extension-that-disables-third-party-data-tracking/"><img width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS6kXrqPNNeqBtkjH1fW2iwL_qe5xTy2o0BOFZwAwauqbAQ8fBiaUz67AjmiBqzVYOao17u7c7nIWWEgQentwad1j-mjXslH0KQs1x2Iei1UHovMSomIwBlOvGT96uorYSDmZ5RrhtLnQj/s400/disconnect.png" alt="Disconnect Features" title="As Seen on TechCrunch" /></a></p>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-7355444432596514232010-12-12T22:32:00.007-05:002010-12-20T03:54:34.783-05:00My 2,686th, and Last, Day at Google<p>I left Google a month back (and have been doing a <a href="http://byoogle.blogspot.com/2010/12/meet-disconnect.html">little hacking</a> since). I’m told posting your farewell email is all the rage, so here goes:</p><blockquote><p>From: Brian Kennish <bkennish@google.com><br />Date: Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:15 PM<br />Subject: My 2,686th, and Last, Day at Google<br /><br /><br />(Some of those were Saturdays, Sundays, and days I was pretending to be sick.)<br /><br />Seven years, six jobs, four teams, three offices, and two coasts later, I’m turning in my Google badge. I’ve been getting asked for three-and-a-half years, “Why are you still here?” The answer was simple: devrel.<br /><br />I’m certain the developer-relations job and team are the best things about Google. I can finally admit: I can’t believe you can get paid to help startups and independent developers build cool stuff — I’d do so for free. The people on this team and those we work closely with are amazingly talented and dedicated and I’m feeling lucky I got to learn from many of you. Most of all, I want to thank Mike for turning this ragtag bunch of misfits into an important and respected part of Google. We’ve come a long way and I don’t know another manager who would’ve gotten us so far.<br /><br />I wish I could say goodbye to everyone and have hardly had a chance to to anyone. But if I linger, I might end up changing my mind. Please stay in touch. You can get a hold of me by replying-all to this message (my personal address is in the “To:” field). And I’m pretty easy to find on the web now — a year and a half of developer advocacy and I’ve totally pwned the other three Brian Kennishes in Google search results.</p></blockquote>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-3654167760209909202010-10-31T23:26:00.006-04:002010-12-03T23:08:40.544-05:00Boo! Facebook Disconnect’s Scary Install Dialog<p>It’s Halloween, a good time to answer a frequently asked question about this scary confirmation box that pops up when you install <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambagiibghpglaidiec">Facebook Disconnect</a>:</p><blockquote><img width="388" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggi1DxQoG1e_CB5S7YfGrC-cfOnlqysQBmaFbXOdsG-VTgyz6y2p_eHLxFXFMk2r-45bfbVpP6anciC9OEXJFV7hAXh4_-I0FppFTDjxQJEDJAr8xfwCZ3T2fA7HWMmHktxUDSNZlcUEaR/s400/confirmation.png" alt="This extension can access: Your data on all websites" title="Also, your innermost thoughts and emotions" /></blockquote><p><a href="http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/">Google Chrome Extensions</a>, like all installable software, can potentially do bad things and the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions">extension gallery</a> displays accordingly dire warning messages. Unlike compiled programs, though, extensions let you easily view their (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) source code to make sure they <em>don’t actually</em> do anything malicious.</p><p>Facebook Disconnect triggers a warning because the extension has to inject JavaScript into every page you browse to disable the component Facebook links. There are three ways to get a packaged extension’s code (a topic worthy of its own post), but you can just look in <a href="http://code.google.com/p/byoogle/source/browse/trunk/google/chrome/fbdc/">my repository</a> since I’ve open-sourced Facebook Disconnect.</p><p><strong>Update (December 3, 2010):</strong> If you’d rather take my word for it than read my code — Facebook Disconnect doesn’t store your personal data and never will, unless you opt in to anonymously provide data for diagnostic purposes in the future.</p>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com70tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-26401841333556838102010-10-21T15:21:00.001-04:002010-10-21T17:03:59.701-04:00Facebook Disconnect Logo<p>I’ll have more to say about the making of and response to the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambagiibghpglaidiec">Facebook Disconnect extension</a> later. For now, I’m dumping all different sizes of the logo I made for you to post. These images are licensed under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</a> (the same license <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> marks their own work with).</p><p>Spread the word!</p><p>140 x 140:</p><blockquote><img width="140" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGb9wW0uNkVvMdAxQzw650Lv9pjRkpAAjQ6WAfwHaqpRT7toDcCJKZrmcDcbq6VSKh5jpD70eoRvAKX0ag2_viyDqmmurbWmCpNhCtxhH3MhgW0tO-Pmtt7QQ51aHx9TZnwgpk7_2pRogn/s200/fbdc140.png" alt="Facebook Disconnect Logo (140 x 140)" title="Right-click / Ctrl-click > Save image as..." /></blockquote><p>128 x 128:</p><blockquote><img width="128" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyLvW5N_R3CA2LzQvC9sg-ijowmECxM2OYIykzLwPUeWimRVIp7BVnJDSIInQUJBP0YRiDSAerFHmG-HTBrjr-8z1pZNeJvzirLMN5TrDWAY7qmAaz8DYeD6F-jmSkn5RMld9C23CYa_dG/s200/fbdc128.png" alt="Facebook Disconnect Logo (128 x 128)" title="Right-click / Ctrl-click > Save image as..." /></blockquote><p>64 x 64:</p><blockquote><img width="64" height="64" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUt6Ds2CRA-Zq0ZnaeBu2e5_nCVa9lbFHDJGtf7m4_DalMPfau8wPF2A1PLK5X5n9nrXiVJ4YDanPJ7sBm1e-h2yW-G7qdJh9lJOb7zbBcuIrdGsXy1jOl7TORyJEf58APWd46cYZ7mqca/s200/fbdc64.png" alt="Facebook Disconnect Logo (64 x 64)" title="Right-click / Ctrl-click > Save image as..." /></blockquote><p>48 x 48:</p><blockquote><img width="48" height="48" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0mb2yP2sJY-haVNEMa8sJlHF09AgkiiVj3orSnugYKvfC9u8yAXyRigt1HkKUrd0nSSYAV-zE96i9wINP-GDNJMezL6b_1iXE1pjl_uO1xcd955lG3QeL-Pp9EXBTro4qEa47Lv5EgreF/s200/fbdc48.png" alt="Facebook Disconnect Logo (48 x 48)" title="Right-click / Ctrl-click > Save image as..." /></blockquote><p>32 x 32:</p><blockquote><img width="32" height="32" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Dg71fYDAtz5wqlhQCHvuHI-R1a0CDE5oS-BKtiMDDyCeLOsDXgEuAQuF-igA67X666TzHyst-yWJk_44NwtBNpcQf-1cZDz6bVAe-xfewIMgnTG5NILu-evmN-dmcanLGL3YFRRdCETQ/s200/fbdc32.png" alt="Facebook Disconnect Logo (32 x 32)" title="Right-click / Ctrl-click > Save image as..." /></blockquote><p>16 x 16:</p><blockquote><img width="16" height="16" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRgr4UpfxlMjtyG-ubC2z-tp_qQi3DgYV_i2zFzGuyt08anVVJMOj517wY9tmEKPTcciixhzeuxfbb2w14-Hx9Y9r4eCDniovWwB12o_j-C-TS49mc6jiBv5uwfAuLmxFJ4EYTSZM9kCK6/s200/fbdc16.png" alt="Facebook Disconnect Logo (16 x 16)" title="Right-click / Ctrl-click > Save image as..." /></blockquote>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-11277241902734530852010-10-15T14:40:00.001-04:002010-10-15T16:53:41.482-04:00HTML5 Game Jam in 20 Pictures<p>Last weekend, we ran <a href="http://www.html5gamejam.com/">Google’s first-ever game jam</a> in the Netherlands (with Spil Games) and San Francisco. We put food, beer, and developers in and <a href="http://www.html5gamejam.com/games">fun games</a> came out. Here’s a look at the sausage being made in San Francisco:</p><blockquote><object width="400" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></param><param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbyoogle%2Fsets%2F72157625043687599%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbyoogle%2Fsets%2F72157625043687599%2F&set_id=72157625043687599&jump_to="></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbyoogle%2Fsets%2F72157625043687599%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbyoogle%2Fsets%2F72157625043687599%2F&set_id=72157625043687599&jump_to=" allowFullScreen="true"></embed></object></blockquote>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-62728871516993627492010-10-06T18:48:00.004-04:002010-10-06T19:32:17.008-04:00Mobile Lawsuit T-Shirt<p><a href="http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1252039209">George Kokkinidis made an awesome infographic yesterday</a>, which shows who’s suing who for infringing their mobile patents. Since <a href="http://blog.android-android.net/2010/10/03/android-bootcamp-at-ctia-agenda/">I’m speaking on a panel at the CTIA wireless conference tomorrow</a>, I turned George’s chart into a shirt to wear there:</p><blockquote><img width="400" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUwF60Fmn0lqCzFeBNtqwHbNk6onVRu94ux1q5IeJmpkfCP7ALXA1C-qB5XTU48GLJsgBGj39-_4HoQ6fJEa0FtVusSMzo1iDXxaiUafzPnniIYsSfWU9RuGicAmlyrUWvONw7COvoHLmi/s1600/suitshirt.png" alt="Mobile Lawsuit T-Shirt" title="Corporate corporations still suck." /></blockquote><p>P.S. You can pretty much calculate how screwed (or not) a company is using the chart. Here’s an equation to do so:</p><blockquote><img class="text" width="278" height="33" src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chco=666666&chl=screwed%=\frac{arrows_{out}}{arrows_{in}%2Barrows_{out}}\cdot100" alt="screwed%=\frac{arrows_{out}}{arrows_{in}%2Barrows_{out}}\cdot100" /></blockquote><p>E.g., Kodak is:</p><blockquote><img class="text" width="67" height="34" src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chco=666666&chl=\frac{5}{0%2B5}\cdot100" alt="\frac{5}{0%2B5}\cdot100" /></blockquote><p>100% screwed.</p>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-91057762225162082012010-10-03T20:12:00.003-04:002010-10-03T21:11:18.592-04:00Almost Resignation Letters on TechCrunch<p><a href="http://scobleizer.com/2010/09/28/techcrunch-disrupted-by-aol-the-end-of-an-era-in-tech-blogging/#comment-81512866">I thought TechCrunch’s acquisition by AOL was a Bad Thing</a>, for pretty much everybody involved — the readers, the writers, the startups, AOL. Paul Carr voices what must be the prevailing feeling among his peers: “Like most serious writers, I’ve always dreamed of working for AOL.”</p><p>So I can’t say I’m surprised by the ha-ha-only-serious letters of resignation that have been popping up on the site since. Already, three of TechCrunch’s dozen staff writers have posted all-but-goodbyes:</p><ul><li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/30/i-cant-work-under-these-conditions/">“I Can’t Work Under These Conditions :-)”</a> — Michael Arrington</li><li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/01/eh-oh-well/">“NSFAOL: Highlights From Yesterday’s Secret ‘Welcome To AOL’ Meeting”</a> — Paul Carr</li><li><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/03/if-web-1-0%E2%80%99s-kryptonite-was-the-bust-web-2-0-kryptonite-was-the-grind/">“If Web 1.0’s Kryptonite Was the Bust, Web 2.0 Kryptonite Was the Grind”</a> — Sarah Lacy</li></ul>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-15673000431593444532010-09-24T10:29:00.005-04:002010-09-24T11:32:02.272-04:00Of Fail Whales and Other Fine Feathered Friends<p>(OK, so whales don’t have feathers. What are you a fucking marine biologist?)</p><p><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2010/09/23/2010-09-23_no_poking_allowed_facebook_website_goes_down.html">Facebook introduced their error page to the world yesterday</a> and they certainly set a new standard among social networks for animal-themed whimsy.</p><p>First, Twitter threw down the gauntlet:</p><blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvMN4-qwovdZJnraPvMmXMN-Tf8WFuMLadVnxcUtBRU5y7hZH3wcxg6fqbI2ExS64c38Q1EQolbc9vw0-MltXsoJC9SDRVWZGGU_aoarnQn4lunc6ynD9B5z4KsOdn6SyTMghyYXwG5Crv/s1600/twitter.png"><img width="400" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvMN4-qwovdZJnraPvMmXMN-Tf8WFuMLadVnxcUtBRU5y7hZH3wcxg6fqbI2ExS64c38Q1EQolbc9vw0-MltXsoJC9SDRVWZGGU_aoarnQn4lunc6ynD9B5z4KsOdn6SyTMghyYXwG5Crv/s400/twitter.png" alt="Twitter’s Error Page" title="Fail Whale" /></a></blockquote><p>Then, Digg:</p><blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7CDwBy7YvYql6qR8AJZprkHoFUf1CP0ZF3Og-lG4E4KqcJB0I2A2xWWJcnWvwiheixg4Hz42FDWEKw5M4m-jGExtGFp04Y1EuNN477rSKi9Gn5s3SWQUhsSbxEvzviqnqq0MTKrjdUQA_/s1600/digg.png"><img width="400" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7CDwBy7YvYql6qR8AJZprkHoFUf1CP0ZF3Og-lG4E4KqcJB0I2A2xWWJcnWvwiheixg4Hz42FDWEKw5M4m-jGExtGFp04Y1EuNN477rSKi9Gn5s3SWQUhsSbxEvzviqnqq0MTKrjdUQA_/s400/digg.png" alt="Digg’s Error Page" title="Fail Trail" /></a></blockquote><p>And now, Facebook:</p><blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCiyS-XA8-KtFGUWwSe20LBNMJDsO0PjWTZtaYnHwZYNDfINZg-FSBRA1P9kdjeycaDvJSwO1C1HLh_nBN8lV1upFLkI_HJ6szdKefFpElHAIPBIOmn8MoS51WTF2MXWcL-O4Dr6s-OkST/s1600/facebook.png"><img width="400" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCiyS-XA8-KtFGUWwSe20LBNMJDsO0PjWTZtaYnHwZYNDfINZg-FSBRA1P9kdjeycaDvJSwO1C1HLh_nBN8lV1upFLkI_HJ6szdKefFpElHAIPBIOmn8MoS51WTF2MXWcL-O4Dr6s-OkST/s400/facebook.png" alt="Facebook’s Error Page" title="Fail Fail" /></a></blockquote>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-6069461382244657722010-09-06T15:53:00.006-04:002010-09-06T16:22:25.523-04:00Shouldn’t Hulu Be Saying “Congratulations”?<p>As in, “Congratulations, we’re unable to load a message from our sponsors!”</p><p><a href="http://www.hulu.com/"><img width="400" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT2cYdDcbT7eXb4GRrQrQjJk0bXMeWc2X9Hs9fQmb28LFMhP3eoYJ2RN9oXHDQjQfLgdy_JqorGoiqutfZrJQEp4RqBHl7w-LV3k8lhIvtT67FgbiM3EbB8yG2k_RXI9UHM_LLNFXfl68H/s400/hulu.png" alt="Sorry, we’re unable to load a message from our sponsors." title="Hululujah!" /></a></p>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-71015293657075229512010-03-10T13:21:00.003-05:002010-03-10T13:45:09.406-05:00Upcoming Speaking Gigs<p>I'm giving a few talks in the next couple weeks. Here are my session titles and abstracts, the where and when, and my speaker bio:</p><ul class="indented"><li><p><strong>Extensions5: Advanced Google Chrome Extensions with HTML5</strong><br /><em>Google DevFest Japan<br />March 11th</em></p><p>A deep dive into advanced techniques for developing extensions — like communicating within and between extensions, effectively injecting content, and integrating HTML5 features.</p><p><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/devfest2010japan/session">More Info</a></p></li><li><p><strong>HTML5 101</strong><br /><em>South by Southwest Interactive<br />March 14th and 15th</em></p><p>An overview of the latest HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features being built into modern browsers — including audio, video, typography, animation, notifications, and more.</p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/events/sxsw2010/theatre.html">More Info</a></p></li><li><p><strong>Advanced Google Chrome Extensions</strong><br /><em>South by Southwest Interactive<br />March 14th</em></p><p>[See above.]</p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/events/sxsw2010/theatre.html">More Info</a></p></li><li><p><em>Brian Kennish was the first support engineer at Google back when the AdWords API was launched. Since then, he's helped launch four more Google developer products — gadget ads, the Analytics API, Wave, and Chrome Extensions. Brian is currently a developer advocate for Google Chrome.</em></p></li></ul>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-36767668780273818312010-02-10T16:31:00.002-05:002010-02-10T17:07:51.333-05:00Since the Google Buzz Logo Looks Like a Pie Chart …<p><a href="http://www.google.com/buzz"><img width="400" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNSiIhdDX3xEhB3gUBWZmci8lvJ_fvflGjzYWLdPipy2-uODVUbCm9S33R0Tr13zp6IXdWppNyaX9wulJgU1Dub5Wmsy_R6dUOYtyx_ORU3a8EKMyQt9cW7scrkZVoKeSlyvRG21iqw6VT/s400/buzzpie.png" alt="Google Buzz Pie Chart" title="Go to Google Buzz." /></a></p>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-59757333370911735752008-05-27T13:01:00.003-04:002013-11-19T23:43:47.075-05:00What Twitter Says about the Presidential Candidates<img alt="Barack Obama: Following 34,253" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOhB0W0jUBTAJdiyVJ2_r7JQ7OQlM0brqOq4WU8mrpE5k7xpSPB-iu7ul683guWXOrK_tUAR8wohk58AH6MQ8QiNd7_iIAP8C-0vT7-g0W79nRcRoTTbG7A9wk_2AnNY_bmvNR7P47qPcp/s320/obama.gif" style="display:block;margin:0 0 10px" width="185" />Barack Obama wants to know what you think (or, at least, make it look like he does).</p><p><img alt="Hillary Clinton: Following 0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpoWcIMCMfw3zh9ZYX5PBCxlVlBX2CAs_NYOwj8rlTGtcVYneSJAu4No1N08miJYNCLwuEjIlT8VpAi29A1bFTfa9Jp8ovdZZ2ZWiAastyov079CqSFlHFTzeP1fJtkeQzGRcAJmRZlG7d/s320/hillary.gif" style="display:block;margin:30px 0 10px" width="185" />Hillary Clinton doesn't give a shit what you think.</p><p><img alt="John McCain: That page doesn't exist!" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFIFJcOrmowTOM0scVf1uA3qeOrKvZ7Bo8ke1HZPkMnZOowUBHo-gz7v0ZFPemvFJpy0Bf62nGja5lE9FfQLZqBksETz6nFXD9Z2ydfwef9gSXg8SqpBkIMGJtrEU1QccwB7_GT4AnBtP5/s320/mccain.gif" style="display:block;margin:30px 0 10px" width="266" />John McCain is busy watching Matlock.Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-77131767087929636982008-05-04T13:01:00.003-04:002008-05-04T13:11:18.994-04:00Gone Twitterin'Be back soon.</p><p>In the meantime, <a href="http://twitter.com/byoogle">follow me on Twitter</a> (and I'll follow you back*).</p><p>* Unless you're a bot, update as much as Robert Scoble, or offend my delicate sensibilities.Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-9594333891602351842008-03-07T23:23:00.003-05:002008-03-08T00:22:38.034-05:00What We Learned about Jimmy Wales in the Last Week<ol style="margin:0;padding-left:25px"><li>He's a <em>randy</em> Randian (source: <a href="http://valleywag.com/362564/transcripts-of-wikipedia-founders-sex-chats">Valleywag</a>).</li><li>He stinks (source: <a href="http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&&item=290211080341">eBay</a>).</li><li>He steals money from college kids to pay for happy endings and home appliances (source: <a href="http://allswool.blogspot.com/2008/03/money-for-nothing-chicks-for-free.html">All's Wool that Ends Wool</a>).</li></ol>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-53845319653097576782008-02-14T13:50:00.004-05:002008-12-12T17:29:50.283-05:00Happy Valentine's Day<a href="http://www.denverpost.com/celebritybuzz/ci_8249557"><img alt="If Gary Coleman can get hitched, anything is possible." height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWpjWOdfyLN2Pi4nqb5c9mfBYBdnoP6m2jhgUMrxaI5UfarzyMM-SWhiXySet9CP5p7qAibtRAAPE7JkcdziwP49JcMMQnMBdc_8u3NPc5FStvB9j0nuT6OVPJBsfwxk9qBEtUbF_ILT41/s320/20080213_082847_garycolman2p_300.jpg" width="300" /></a>Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658063107388412699.post-78504759385850153942008-02-04T11:39:00.000-05:002008-12-12T17:29:50.519-05:00Thank God We Turned This Place Around<img alt="Sayed Pervez Kambaksh" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKDw3lGcMk_yHLw5UAfRMTTHihvAA7gA4ccBbwAAUURbfq1bX6m-SyHpsqYsyhMaukGhSBDEYm5QDSc-7v4l1rHWszc-cCRs9zmvPG3fKixUzLyl-viN8CfYdUVhPy0fGB6TUG9gP84I5f/s200/Pervez-Afghan-journa_14575t.jpg" style="float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0" width="200" />A student has been <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/sentenced-to-death-afghan-who-dared-to-read-about-womens-rights-775972.html">sentenced to death in Afghanistan</a>, and the decision upheld by our puppet government there, for downloading a report about women's rights and distributing it to his teachers and classmates.Brian Kennishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307656626082241893noreply@blogger.com0