Obligatory entry. Here’s last year’s one.

Google’s new, optionally typed web programming language that can run in a VM or be translated directly to JavaScript.

Remember when Tim O’Reilly tweeted about a Google product named Google Circles? He later stated that “It’s not a product, per se, and it’s not a new social network. Just some research-y thinking about how you could better manage social data.” Apparently, Circles is a product; it’s a big part of Google+.

I don’t know what I’ll be working on. I expect it’ll be a bit of everything, seasoned with a large dose of grumpy curmudgeon.

Though it won’t be launching today, it appears that the lauch of Google’s social networking service is imminent. According to The Next Web, Tim O’Reilly tweeted that he has seen it and that it “looks awesome”, though his tweet has since been removed.

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

A tool by Google for accessing Google services via the command line. Works on Linux, Mac and Windows – though installation on the latter two platforms requires some trickery. On OS X, I used Homebrew to install pip (brew install pip) before installing googlecl (pip install googlecl).