Happy holidays everyone! It’s pretty quiet this this week, but there are a few nice updates:
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- There is now a YouTube Comment history feed where you can find all your own comments
- Google Spaces has new invite controls and allows text with (almost) no limits
- The iOS Motion Stills app now has Motion Text for very cool titling, and better details and loops
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Holiday cheer:
- Sharing the Project Fi love: Get $20 when you join!
- Project Fi subscribers: if you are flying through San Jose, CA stop by the #FlyWithFi Travel Trolly
- Project Fi has holiday treats for subscribers! A World of Thanks (Google blog)
- Bing offers holiday treats and celebrates the spirit of giving (Bing blog)
- Santa's Village is now open! (Google Blog)
More 2016 in review
- YouTube 2016 ad leaderboard (Think with Google)
- What’s Trending, Tubular Labs Pick Out The Top YouTube Videos Of 2016 (tubefilter)
- Top 16 Earth Images of 2016, taken from the International Space Station
- The 5 most dramatic moments for Team Internet in 2016 (Mashable)
Upcoming
- 27 December: Google Webmaster Central office hours hangout
YouTube and Video Creation
- New! View and manage your YouTube Comment history! (YouTube)
- Use iOS? Want to help make YouTube better? Sign up for TestFlight (YouTube)
- Here’s A Chart That Shows The Viewership Dip YouTube Stars Are Complaining About (tubefilter)
- You've heard Kevin MacLeod's music, even if you don't know his name (Tubefilter)
- Join immersive Journalists from around the world as they share "Lessons Learned in 360" (Journalism 360)
- New Creators for Change ambassadors and resources are here! (YouTube blog)
Go Live
- Introducing Live Audio (Facebook Media blog)
- Facebook Live Updates for Mentions: Team Prompts, Comment Moderation, Status Bar, Trimming (Facebook media blog)
- Twitch update: Announcing: IRL, Mobile Broadcasting (next year) , and Updated Community Guidelines (Twitch)
- Twitch introduces Cheermotes (Twitch)
Google+ and Spaces
- Google+ View Number Back Again On CircleCount (CircleCount)
- How to manage the Google+ Settings for your Blogger blog
- How to make a Private Post on +Google+ (Robert Wallis)
- New invite controls for Google Spaces (Luke Wroblewski)
- Google Spaces update: Starting Text Threads with no Limits (Luke Wroblewski)
- Google Spaces use cases: HOA Events, taxes, project management, bookmarking and more (Oleg Moskalensky)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- Google Motion Stills app update: Motion Text, better detail and loops for beautiful video and GIFs (Research at Google blog)
- Prisma now supports higher resolution and rectangular images, adds a new location based shared image feed (The Next Web)
- Mrs. Geek’s Guide to Google Photos Book Launch (Geeks on Tour)
- 32 tips and tricks for Google Photos (Computerworld)
Google for businesses
- Did Google get it wrong? How to report wrong social media profiles in Google's Knowledge Panel (Joy Hawkins)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Small update to the AMP reports in Search Console (Google Webmasters)
- Google Webmasters Office Hours: Search Console (December 20) (Google Webmasters)
- How to manage the Google+ Settings for your Blogger blog
AdSense and advertising
- Russian hackers ran elaborate ad click fraud scam with sophisticated bots that went undetected for months (MIT Technology Review)
Hangouts and Messaging
- Facebook introduces group video chat in Messenger (Facebook News blog)
Nexus, Pixel, Android, Project Fi
- Coming in 2017: Android Wear 2.0 plus two new Google watches (The Verge)
Productivity
- Learn about Google Sheets from Top Contributor Expert Ted Juch (Michael Daniels)
Privacy and Security
- How not to build a digital archive: Lessons from the Dark Side of the Force (Preservica)
More around the web
- Google studying ways to deal with "fake news", inappropriate search suggestions and results (Danny Sullivan)
- Official: Google makes change, results are no longer in denial over ‘Did the Holocaust happen?’ (Danny Sullivan)
- A Journey to the Bottom of the Internet (Nat and Lo)
- How magicians and cognitive scientists manipulate what you pick (or what you thought you picked) (Scientific American)
- Here’s why Facebook’s massive drone crashed in the Arizona desert (Recode)
- Tim Cook On Why He Met With President Elect Trump (TechCrunch)
Updated March 2019 to remove links to Google+
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