Most interesting new feature launched this week? The ability to “Gmailify” your Yahoo, Hotmail and Outlook emails. Come over to the Google side Microsoft and YouTube users!
Are you interested in the Google Top Contributor Program? Check out this Hangout on Air with four Google Community Managers (Google Top Contributor Program)
Are you interested in the Google Top Contributor Program? Check out this Hangout on Air with four Google Community Managers (Google Top Contributor Program)
Image: Black and white reproduction of 夜の雪 by Hayami Gyoshū (1894-1935). This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.
Google+
- New Google Play Games new Gamer IDs let you create a unique gaming persona (goodbye Google+ profiles) (Official Android blog)
- Tip How to increase your following on Google+ (John Skeats)
- Tip How to create a new Google+ Collection on Android (Sooraj Wadhwa)
- Tip How to create a Google+ Collection on an iPhone or iPad (Sooraj Wadhwa)
- Article Why you should stop asking "Is Google+ dead?" (Jennifer Beese @ SproutSocial)
- Article Google Plus Lives - Nope, It Isn't Dead (Julie Bee @Bee Smart Social Media via Paolo Amoroso)
Google and Your Business
- Verify your small business's website in Google Search Console to be eligible for instant verification through Google My Business (Mike Blumenthal)
- Businesses and Brands: Fuel your growth with YouTube (Hangout on Air with Google Partners)
YouTube and Video
- New More Playlist metrics in YouTube Analytics (Ted Hamilton)
- Tip How YouTube picks videos to recommend and how you can influence the recommendations (YouTube Help)
- New Facebook adds watch time minutes viewed to video metrics in Page Insights (Facebook)
- Tip Build your YouTube channel's brand (YouTube Creator Academy)
- New The Android Vimeo app finally gets Chromecast support! (Vimeo)
Live Streaming
- Update Facebook live streaming rolls out around the world - to iOS users (Engadget)
- Article What The Guardian learned from comparing Facebook Live and Periscope for event coverage (The Guardian via Niilo Alhovaara)
Google Photos
- New Google opens its Vision API in public beta to give any app the power of Google Photos (The Next Web)
- Tip Use Google Photos to promote your live event - people who follow your event's album will be notified when new photos are added
- Tip ;) The camera never lies? The truth behind online photos (Bí Kíp Sống Ảo)
Hangouts and Messaging
- Tip How to copy text or a transcript from a Hangout chat
- New Skype introduces group video calling and invite links for mobile phones and tablets (Skype)
- Rumor Facebook plans to launch ads within Messenger (TechCrunch)
- Tip 10 Tricks to Master Google Hangouts (Gizmodo)
Blogger
- Tip Sharing Blog Content, With Photos, To FaceBook (Chuck Croll)
- Tip Known issue with Disqus comments: Blogger syncing (Disqus)
- AdSense and Advertising
- Article Tumblr, teens, AdSense fraud & affiliate schemes (The New Republic)
- New Confirmed: Google To Stop Showing Ads On Right Side Of Desktop Search Results Worldwide (Search Engine Land)
Productivity
- New Gmailify your Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, or Outlook.com email! (Gmail)
- Update Microsoft’s Outlook.com now has an overhauled look and features : now with add-ins, like Giphy, Yelp, Wunderlist, Uber, PayPal, and Evernote. (The Verge)
- Update Google Translate Learns How To Speak Hawaiian, Pashto, And 11 Other Languages (Android Police)
- New Microsoft Translator app now works offline and with your camera (The Next Web)
- New Export Google Fit Data with Google Takeout (Google Operating System blog)
- New Animated GIF files are now supported in the Chrome Files App Editor (François Beaufort)
Around Google
- Google Ideas becomes Jigsaw (Jigsaw)
- Inside Google's expanded Kirkland campus: 'Like a Willy Wonka chocolate factory' for technology (GeekWire)
- The Secret to Moonshots? Killing Our Projects (Astro Teller @ Backchannel)
More Social Media Updates
- Instagram Adds Two-Factor Authentication (Wired)
- The GIFs are coming! Get ready to search and send GIFs in Tweets and Direct Messages (Twitter)
- Everything You Need to Know About The Latest Twitter Features (And Some Thoughts on Its Future) (Buffer Blog)
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