The Gmail Android app now offers rich text formatting, Google Docs lets you type and format with your voice on desktop, archived Google data can now be directly uploaded to Dropbox or OneDrive, and you can live stream from the Facebook Android app.
All that, plus tips for Google+, YouTube, Blogger, Google Analytics, AdSense, Google Drive and more!
Image: In honor of leap day (Monday, February 29th): Deer leaping among flowers by Franz Marc (1912)
- Learn more about the TC Program with Gmail and Chrome Community Managers Andy, Crystal, Megan. Kameron, Spencer & Michael! (Google Top Contributors)
YouTube
- US & UK YouTube creators with at least 10,000 subs: you could in the YouTube NextUp class of 2016!
- Event YouTube Creator Academy grow your audience boot camp (March 4-20): Sign up now: https://goo.gl/Lxui75
- New Blur moving objects in your videos with the new YouTube video editor Custom Blurring tool (YouTube Creator blog)
- Tip How do I get a custom URL? (YouTube Help on YouTube)
- Tip How do I get free music and sound effects? (YouTube Help on YouTube)
- New Vimeo Plus and PRO users can now share unlisted videos with private links (Vimeo blog)
- New Have you been affected by a DMCA takedown on your YouTube channel, blog, or social media account? The Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to hear from you (EFF blog)
- Article Cloud storage services need better hard drives -for example, YouTube needs more than 1 million GB of new storage every day! (Google Cloud Platform Blog)
- Tip Fund your film: how to make a successful crowdfunding video (Vimeo)
Google+
- Update Android G+ app 7.3.0: faster web page loading on wifi, filter notifications, community moderation mode and more (Luke Wroblewski)
- Update Android G+ app update: Pre-rendering of web pages on wi-fi (Luke Wroblewski)
- Update G+ Web Preview update: clearer access to profile info, visible Community "About" info, create Collection when posting (Luke Wroblewski)
- Update Google+ Community update: public member lists will no longer display suspended accounts (Luke Wroblewski)
- New Google+ Developers should now follow the Google Developers for announcements about the Google+ API, buttons and developer tools (Google+ Developers - also see Google Developers)
- Tip Alex Garcia is explaining the Google+ settings in detail in his How to Google+ Collection (Alex Garcia)
- Tip Give your Google+ posts a catchy title & interesting description to pique people's interest (Sooraj Wadhwa)
- Tip Select a quality cover image for your Google+ Collection (Sooraj Wadhwa)
Google for Local Businesses
- Tip Did your local business move? Google My Business support can help get the old listing marked Moved, instead of Permanently Closed (Search Engine Land)
- Tip 8 Google URLs Every Local SEO Needs to Know (Joy Hawkins)
- Article Review Stars, Zen and the Art of Local Search (Mike Blumenthal)
Google Photos and VR
- Article Can you ID photo locations better than Google's geo-locating neural net PlaNet? Google AI doesn’t need location data to determine location in a photo (MIT Technology Review)
- Tip Turn your GoPro into a super-macro wide angle camera (Rob & Jonas' Filmmaking Tips & Adafruit Industries)
- New Adobe Lightroom can now shoot RAW photos on Android (The Verge)
- A Coke, a smile, a cardboard VR viewer… (The Next Web)
- Article Google’s secret VR weapon is Project Tango (The Verge)
Live Broadcasting
- New Facebook Live Broadcasting comes to Android devices and more countries (Facebook)
- New Blab lets you share the last 30 seconds of the video you are watching on Facebook and Twitter (Shaan Puri)
- Tip How to start your first Blab (Brittany Metz)
- New Twitch.TV introduces Chat Replay - chats are recorded along with the live broadcast (Twitch.TV Blog)
Bloggers & Webmasters
- Tip Verifying Blogger Blog Ownership In BlogLovin (The Real Blogger Status)
- Update Blogger “Export/Import” is now “Import & Back Up” (The Real Blogger Status)
- New A Faster Mobile Web for All WordPress.com Users: AMP Is Here (WordPress.com blog)
- New Announcing Google Analytics support for Accelerated Mobile Pages (Google Analytics Blog)
- TIp Make your Blogger blog stats in Google Analytics easier to read by combining mobile and desktop views (David Kutcher)
- Tip Today's Google Analytics PSA: excluding traffic from bots and spiders (David Kutcher)
- New Google Analytics Academy has a fresh look -- and lots of useful content to improve your analysis skills (Google Analytics)
- Article Have you been affected by a DMCA takedown on your YouTube channel, blog, or social media account? The Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to hear from you (EFF blog)
AdSense and Advertising
- Event Publishers/Bloggers in Africa: Join this AdSense HOA on February 29th to learn about monetizing your site (Google AdSense)
- New Announcing the launch of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in Search, including ads support (Inside AdSense)
- Update AdSense and AdMob Publishers: Google wants your opinion! Check your AdSense settings to make sure you get the survey! (Inside AdSense)
- Article Google accuses 9to5Google website of trademark violation, (briefly) disables AdSense (The Verge)
- New Google To Close Google Compare On March 23rd After 4+ Years (SEO Roundtable)
Mobile Messaging
- New Google's upcoming new Android messaging client that supports RCS, along with SMS and MMS (TechCrunch)
- Article Security Experts Criticize RCS, Google's New Android Messaging Rival to Apple, Facebook (Re/Code)
- From the past: Committing to RCS, the latest standard in carrier messaging (September 2015, Official Android Blog)
- New Facebook Messenger for Android now officially supports multiple accounts (The Next Web)
Productivity: Gmail, Docs and more
- Update Gmail Android app update: rich text formatting and instant RSVPs (Gmail blog)
- Update Inbox by Gmail: Saving time with Snooze - new snooze times (Gmail blog)
- New Type, edit and format a document with your voice in Google Docs on your desktop computer (Google Docs)
- Update A simpler way to view teammates and sharing settings in Google Drive shared folders (Google Apps Updates)
- New Simpler user options, improved Trash support, and viewing your teammates in the new Google Drive for Android app (Google Apps Updates)
- New: Now your archived Google data can be directly uploaded to Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive
- Update: Flakiness of syncing of extension uninstalls is getting fixed in the latest chromium build in order to prevent uninstalled extensions to come back to life. (François Beaufort)
More around the web
- Twitter now lets you capture & share videos in your Direct Messages on iOS & Android (Twitter Support)
- Why computer voices are crafted to sound not-quite-human (The New York Times)
- Not everything in life is Likable - but designing Facebook's new reaction icons wasn't easy (Geoff Teehan on Medium)
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links
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