The blog of Abraham Williams

Google's ownership of my digital self is ever increasing and with the introduction of Google+ I don't see this trend changing. After taking a quick gander at my Google Dashboard I decided to write up a list of Google products to see how much of my online life touches Google's datacenters. Primary tools I use these Google tools more often then competing products Gmail - My primary email client for many years. Calendar - Keeps my events synced between everything. Chrome - Fast and clean with great developer tools. Reader - Keyboard commands Google+ - Quickly taking the place of Twitter and Facebook. Search - # 1 since I switched from Dogpile. Openid delegation - I use http://abrah.am as my OpenID delegated to my Google Account. Analytics - Wish it was realtime but I use it to track all my sites. Blogger - Primary blog platform since I realized hosting my own Drupal site was a PITA. Contacts - Tight integration with Gmail and sync to my phone. Docs - Hos...

Identity in the Browser Originally uploaded by azaraskin

Idea Rate Google Group post from Gmail so the rating system can be used without visiting the Group  web interface. Use a Google Chrome extensions to display 5 stars next to each email from a Group and allow the user to click on one submitting the rating to Google. Flow The general flow of the extension. User loads Gmail. Extensions finds Message ID from email. Extension fetches did and tok from Groups. Extensions presents 5 stars next to email. User rates post. Extensions GETs request to rate post. Find post on group The following url can be used to find the did and tok needed to rate posts. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Message-ID Message-ID example:b3ba2f35-7537-4b8d-91db-61ac20a85fd5@v30g2000yqm.googlegroups.com Message-ID example:MPG.1a749350f6d8bb7a9897f4@news.freeserve.net Rate post Using the did, rat, and tok you can rate a Group post with a GET request. The did is the short id for the post. The rat is a number of 1-5. The tok is available from the h...