The heart was Made With Code #CodedWithLove and is meant to be animated like so:
I considered trying to work in an image based on this week’s very cool announcement of the first detection of gravitational waves, but a Valentine heart seemed more timely. Also, dear readers, I love you all!
Google Photos
- New Google retiring Picasa and Picasa Web Albums - changes begin May 1st (Picasa Blog)
- TIp X-Files demonstrates how NOT to use a smartphone camera (Gizmodo)
Google+
- Update Android Google+ app 7.2.0:: websites open in Chrome custom tabs, search history and autocomplete, tap on bottom bar to scroll to the top (Luke Wroblewski)
- Update Google+ Web Preview update: upload multiple images to a post, accept or reject spam comments, search for community members and more (Luke Wroblewski)
- Tip How to create a Collection in the Google+ Android app (Sooraj Wadhwa)
YouTube and Video Creators
- New Add a Poll Card to your YouTube video to get your fans' opinion (YouTube Creators)
- New YouTube Red Originals are now available: Scare PewDiePie, Lazer Team, Trip to Unicorn Island, Dance Camp (YouTube )
- Tip How to recover access to your YouTube Google account if you don't know the email username (The Lady from UNCLE)
- Tip How many people are watching? Check your video views in real time with YouTube Analytics Realtime Report (YouTube Help channel)
- News YouTube has acquired BandPage to help creators monetize their channels (The Next Web)
- New Instagram To Display View Count On Videos To Woo More Makers And Marketers (Tubefilter)
- Article 500 Million people are watching Facebook videos every day - average viewer watches 12 minutes per day (ReelSEO)
Go Live!
- New Updated Facebook Pages app for iOS lets you manage Facebook live broadcasts (The Next Web)
- Article Oregon militia standoff: FBI strategy meets YouTube live-streaming (The Guardian)
Google for Small Businesses
- Tip Add a tagline for your local business in the new Google+ (Joy Hawkins)
- Tip Google Launches Help Article That Lists all GMB Product Updates (Joy Hawkins)
Productivity: Gmail, Maps, Docs and more
- New New Gmail features to help keep your email secure (Gmail Blog)
- New Google forms update: templates, Individual Responses tab to view data, email notifications, Add-Ons and Apps Scripts (Google for Work blog)
- New Make, share and store your favorite places on the go with the Google My Maps app update for Android (Google Maps)
- Update You can now see your photos grouped with your reviews in Google Maps for Android (Google Local Guides)
- Update Add missing places to your Google Maps timeline in the Android app (CNET)
- Update Google Calendar update: it's now easier to delete events in the Android & iPhone app (Gmail)
- Update Google Mobile Image Search Adds Drop-Down & Other UI Changes (Search Engine Land)
Blogger and Webmasters
- TIp Deleting Your Blogger Account (The Real Blogger Status)
- TIp BlogLovin Has Problems With Some Blog Feeds (The Real Blogger Status)
- Tip Google Webmaster Central Office Hours (Google Webmasters)
- Tip 54 free social media icon sets - but only 3 include the current Google+ icon (Buffer Blog)
AdSense and AdWords
- Tip AdSense's recommendations for handling ad blockers and effective mobile ads from #AskTheAdSenseGuy John Brown (Search Engine Journal)
- Tip AdSense Publishers and YouTube Partners: When will you be paid? (Inside AdSense YouTube channel)
- Article Booting the bots: New botnet protections across our ads systems (Inside AdWords)
- New Google: Flash Ads Are Finally Going Out, HTML5 Ads Are In (Marketing Land)
Security
- Tip Keep your Android device secure (Official Android Blog)
- New New Gmail features to help keep your email secure (Gmail Blog)
Mobile Chat (no Hangouts this week)
- New Skype gets love Mojis by Sir Paul McCartney (Skype blog)
- New Remains of the Day: WhatsApp on Android Gets a Ton of Emoji (Lifehacker)
Project Fi
- New New for Project Fi: send and receive emails via text message on your Fi phone (Official Project Fi Forum)
- Tip New to Project Fi? Here is how you transfer your old phone number (Google YouTube channel)
Google updates and info for your entertainment
- Editions at Play sells books designed for your smartphone “Books that can’t be printed” (The Verge)
- Chromebooks, Chromebits and more. Learn about the newest Chrome devices on The Apps Show (The Apps Show YouTube channel)
- Google reportedly building a completely stand-alone virtual reality headset (The Verge)
- Google reportedly plans to release a Gear VR competitor later this year (The Verge)
- Google’s Self-Driving AI Counts as a “Driver,” According to the Feds (MIT Technology Review)
Other Social Media News
- Twitter begins rolling out its algorithmic timeline around the world (The Verge)
- Twitter Algorithmic Timeline: I For One Welcome Our New Overlords (Stone Temple Consulting)
- HERE’S HOW WELL TWITTER’S EXECS USE TWITTER—OR, UM, NOT (Wired Business)
- Twitter lets advertisers pay to be at the top of your feed (The Next Web)
- Account Switching: Now Available on Instagram (Instagram Blog via Jaana Nystrom)
- Myspace and its parent company just got acquired by Time Inc. (The Next Web)
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links
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