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+Matt Cutts and other security-minded folk: doesn't this introduce security vulnerability of "create phishing site with tagged fields, let browser fill in the data, and then steal it using javascript"?
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I hate, hate filling out web forms. Every time I start to buy something online and see a form with name, address, or email, I just sigh.

Here's a potential fix: a proposed way to mark up web forms so they're easier to fill out automatically. It's as simple as adding a rel attribute on your form fields. Read the blog post for more details, then tell everyone you know who runs a web site with forms. I look forward to the day when most web forms aren't a hassle to fill out.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 10:00 AM. Webmaster Level: Intermediate One of the biggest bottlenecks on any conversion funnel is filling out an online form – shopping and registration flows all rely ...
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Gretchen S.  -  I am hazy but seem to recall it stopping working and turning it back on again. I know it definitely asks now when you put something it wants to scoop into autofill.
  

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Way to go, American Airlines. Turning out the lights on every standing room only regional jet terminal shuttle bus at LAX is a great way to get people groped because peeps have a lot lower chance of anyone seeing :(
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13 comments  -  Gretchen S., Charles Ballowe, Ligon Liu, E L Weems, Liz Fong-Jones and 1 more
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Gretchen S.  -  Uuugh. :(
  

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:) - again, I'm really happy to have worked on this.
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Not shy, but retiring.

(edit to clarify: I mean Not Celia is retiring. Meirav is not going anywhere.)

#nymwars
At long last, I can retire this alias and move on. I've said a lot more on my G+ post last night, but the gist of it is: - There is no longer a requirement to use your real name on Google Plus, ......
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Cynthia Yeung  -  Difficult issue. Thanks for your work on this.
  

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I think this is probably a fair summary :)
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Nymwars Not Over, But Situation Much Improved

+Yonatan Zunger's mega-thread here: https://plus.google.com/103389452828130864950/posts

Key points:

Enforce Behavior, Not Names...
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10 comments  -  Meirav Berale, Ellen McManis, Peter da Silva, Liz Fong-Jones, Christopher Barth and 1 more
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Meirav Berale  -  Great summary by +Gretchen S. - very thorough, covered angles I hadn't even noticed.

I do wish we could get more clarity on what exactly is classed as name-shaped and on what constitutes an established identity for handles. I've just had a friend respond to my wordpress post, someone who had left G+ because of the names issue and she's not sure if she can come back or not, and I feel unsure about what to tell her - she has a long-term online identity but she hasn't got lots of followers, so would this count? And I'd really love to be able to tell her that at least she can come back as Firstname Initial, but I'd hate to say that and then find she gets challenged about it.
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+Anna Pearce and I had an interesting discussion about transit riders with disabilities being forced onto paratransit (with its associated scheduling inflexibility and high subsidy cost) because scheduled transit is hostile to use by people with disabilities who would otherwise want to use it. That begs the question of whether the marked rise in MBTA paratransit costs (which has been the immediate provocation for, but not long-term cause of this year's budget showdown) can be solved not by raising paratransit fees, but instead by simply spending a small amount of money/resources retraining transit operators so that more people with disabilities who want to use regular transit aren't forced onto paratransit by default.

Folks who have disabilities and ride the T: is this at all plausible?
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19 comments  -  Ligon Liu, Talia Johnson, Anna Pearce, Gretchen S., Brian Altschul and 1 more
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Ligon Liu  -  So the problem is: with current bus conditions, wheelchairs board so slowly that it affects service quality in puncture and speed. Can this problem be fixed technically? For example, let buses drag a trailer which allows wheelchairs to board in notime, or equip the bus with a powerful mechanical arm which grabs the wheelchair and quickly lift it inside?
  

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No need to download your docs one by one if you need a backup of your Docs account.
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New on the Google Takeout menu: all your Docs in lots of different formats:

http://dataliberation.blogspot.com/2012/01/now-offering-docs-for-takeout.html

Congrats to the Data Liberation Front and the Google Docs team for some really great work.
Choose to download all of the Docs that you own through Takeout in any of the formats mentioned above. We're making it more convenient for you to retrieve your information however you want -- you ...
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John Kessel  -  You don't even need data liberation to avoid downloading your Google Docs one by one. You can simply 1. check the box next to "Title" to select all Google Docs and 2. hit the "More" button and then click "Download..."

But this is a convenient step forward as far as tying Google's services into data liberation nevertheless.
  

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My +Electronic Frontier Foundation colleague +Eva Galperin has responded to Google's move to allow nicknames and some pseudonym support on Google+. I didn't write the post, but I fully agree with Eva's analysis.
Nearly four months after first announcing it would support pseudonyms, Google rolled out changes to the account creation process for Google+ yesterday. The changes will allow users the option of choos...
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It's been a grueling day. 3000+ miles from home and my +elly fong-jones. Watching as the 20% work that I've been doing for the past epsilon becomes part of a launch. Listening to what people I've been thinking of and advocating for have to say, now that the changes have publicly begun, offering some perspective where it's helpful, and taking notes on things to further improve. Preparing to say goodbye to Google next Tuesday by passing on everything I know to my coworkers. Getting face time with friends from back home by playing D&D over a hangout. Dinner with an old friend, and late night chatting with a new friend.

Thanks for being awesome, for pushing the envelope, and for challenging the world to keep up.
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Coyote Too  -  +Michael Comia I think they meant that my background is more seat-of-your-pants programming than theory-based. That was a long time ago. Twenty some years later I'm still doing software engineering and internet startups, and I still have only a couple CS classes in my history, so I can't deny it.
  
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Here are what appears to be the acceptable use cases under the new Google names policy.

* Use your name as given in any official documents.
* Not use your own name, but give another name that looks like a normal sounding name in any specific existing culture.
* Use a name that does not look like a normal name, but that you can document a sufficently large amount of people regularly call and reffer to ...
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Quinne James  -  The "real people behaving outrageously under their real names" thing is also found in the comment sections of local newspaper websites. And, um, in meatspace.
  
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Screenshot of the Q&A over the changes to Google's name policy at https://plus.google.com/103389452828130864950/posts/YJbzDptWGQt

Guys... I THINK WE WON!

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I make your intertubes work (or more specifically, Google eBooks). Also a feminist, trans rights advocate, disability rights ally, social justice activist, and occasionally a sex-positive blogger and poster of vegan food porn.

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Dropped out of Caltech. To work at Google.

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Site Reliability Engineer

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  • Google
    Senior Site Reliability Engineer, 2011 - present
  • Google
    Site Reliability Engineer, 2008 - 2011
  • Three Rings Design
    Technical Operations Manager, 2005 - 2007
  • College Preparatory Mathematics
    Systems Administrator, 2003 - 2005

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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Course 6-3, 2012 - present
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Special Student (Course 6), 2010 - 2011
  • California Institute of Technology
    Bio/CS, 2005 - 2008

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