On Social Media

Writing a Story About the Impact of Google+ -- and its Shutdown I'm writing a story about G+ and will be pitching it to magazines. I'm looking for stories about how Google+ deeply impacted people's lives. The other day, I heard from someone who had met his wife here. It could be anything, but what I'm most looking for is human connection. Please comment here briefly, and I will follow up separately if it seems like a match. Thanks.

Asking to create a new category a new category focused on data export within the Help community: https://plus.google.com/+GideonRosenblatt/posts/ZRD8mGtfY25

VCard Format and Google Takeout Just wanted to share a little tip, based on a mistake I made. When you are downloading Circles or Contacts using Google Takeout, you have the option to select CSV or VCF format. CSV is going to be more useful down the road, but the one thing that VCF is good for is importing into mail and address book clients. If you go the VCF route, you will see a bunch of files, each named after a G+ Circle (or if you are exporting from Contacts, it will be the various labels you might have used). It will look like a mistake and that Takeout didn't actually export the contacts. But all you have to do is double-click on that file and your address book should prompt you to import all the contacts for that specific Circle or Label. For example, I'm on a Mac and the below image was for my "Active Engagers" Circle here on G+. When I double click on it, the Apple Contacts app opens up and prompts to import the individual contacts for that circle. I at fir...

I have not tried this, and Solid is still early in its development, but here is code to migrate data from Google to Solid. https://github.com/solid/solid-takeout-import