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Google+
- Update Were your Google+ posts missing +1s? They should be restored now (Luke Wroblewski)
- Update Google+ addresses accessibility issues (Luke Wroblewski)
- Tip How to share your own - or someone else's - Google+ Collection (Sooraj Wadhwa)
- Article Why I Walked Away From 500,000 Followers On Google+ (Mykal Hall)
Google and Your Business
- Tip What does the new Google+ mean for your business? (Joy Hawkins)
- Tip FREE online marketing does exist, just take your Blinkers OFF (Online Ownership)
YouTube and Video Creators
- New Play your favorite video over and over and over - you can now loop YouTube videos (The Next Web)
- New Customize the layout of your YouTube channel to enable tabs (The Lady from UNCLE)
- Update Pakistan lifts YouTube ban: new local version makes it easier for government requests to block "offending material" (Reuters)
- Tip Creative collaboration Google style, using Hangouts and Google Docs (Google Docs)
- Article YouTube buys a large office park - expansion? (San Jose Mercury News)
- Update Facebook introduces “next-generation video encoding techniques for 360 video and VR” (Facebook)
Live Broadcasting
- Update Improvements to Live in Facebook Mentions: Use landscape format, save your live video to Camera Roll (Facebook)
Google Photos
- Tip Give your photos a vintage technicolor look with Snapseed filters (Snapseed)
- Article Deep neural networks colorizing b&w photos. Modern-day Technicolor! (Clay Bavor)
AdSense and AdWords
- Article How Google Fought Bad Ads in 2015: Google rejects both bad ads and AdSense applications for sites and apps that don't comply with policy (Inside AdSense)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- New The new Google Webmasters site has support and learning materials. Check it out! (Google Webmasters)
- Update February 15th several Google Search APIs (Image, Blog, Video, News, Patent) will stop working (Google Developers)
- TIp SEO and Search Q&A with Google Search Quality Senior Strategist Andrey Lipattsev (WebPromo.Expert)
- Tip Webmasters: not sure how to set up Google Analytics? This beginner's guide will get you started (Google Analytics)
Android, Nexus, Project Fi
- New Manage Project Fi voicemail greetings in the updated Fi app (Scott Greenstone)
- New Install Android Apps From Google Search (The Next Web)
- Promo If you purchased a Nexus5X or 6P, get 90 days Google Play Music free (Google Store)
Productivity: Maps, Docs and More
- Tip How to cast the Chrome OS screen with Chromecast (Paolo Amoroso)
- New Prepare for the next storm with a new weather experience on Android (Inside Search)
- Article Go behind the scenes of Waze with Nat & Lo (Nat & Lo)
- Tip Hundreds of free fonts are available in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides (Google Docs)
Interesting reading
- Why are some people so much luckier than others? — Signal v. Noise
- The Donald Trump programming language is not for dummies or losers (The Verge)
- From self-portraits to street art: 1,000 museums at your fingertips at the Google Cultural Institute (Official Google Blog)
- Network Inequality: The way we build and grow social networks and apps can amplify and exacerbate the existing inequities in society. But it doesn’t have to be that way. (Anil Dash)
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