- In a nutshell: Facebook’s F8 in 90 Seconds (Mashable on YouTube)
Image: Android N Developer Preview emoji, via Emojipedia
Google+
- New New Google+ Community content controls keep out more spam (Frank Rodriguez)
- Update Google+ Search update removes nearly identical posts in search results (Luke Wroblewski)
- Article Facebook Experiencing 'Context Collapse' As Users Share Fewer Personal Posts ( Eli Fennel)
YouTube and Video Creators
- New Facebook launches video Rights Manager, its equivalent to YouTube Content ID (Facebook & TubeFilter
- New Facebook Built a 360-Degree Video Camera. Oh, and the Design Is Yours for Free (Wired)
- New Creepy or cool? Facebook will soon automatically tag your friends in videos (TechCrunch)
- New Instagram now highlights videos in Explore (Instagram)
- Tip How to help your kids make Minecraft (or other game) videos for YouTube (Stuart Dredge in The Guardian)
- Article My 4-year-old speaks fluent YouTube (New York Magazine)
- Tip 3 reasons your YouTube channel's subscriber count is dropping
- Tip How To Feel Comfortable and Confident On Camera (Video Creators on YouTube)
Live Streaming
- New Facebook announces Live video hub, opens streaming to more devices (including drones) (Re/Code, Facebook)
- Tip Facebook Live using Wirecast is Big News (Bern Rexer)
- Tip Live stream to Facebook using OBS (Craig Long)
- New Meet Skype TX 4, the latest studio-grade broadcast solution from Skype (Skype)
- Tip How to use IP Webcam in a Hurry for a Conference (Mike Downes)
Google Photos
- New Manual backup and more in Google Photos for Android (Google Photos)
- Article 20 Random Thoughts on Google Photos in a Rambling Stream of Consciousness Format (Thomas Hawk)
- New Microsoft's new AI writes descriptions of your photos (Gizmodo)
- Google and Your Business
- Update Special Hours Now Available in Google My Business Dashboard (Online Ownership)
- Update Google local results get additional search filters on mobile (Search Engine Land)
Blogger and Webmasters
- New Google penalizing sites that don't nofollow links in free product reviews (Search Engine Land)
- New Google Analytics’ new User Explorer report shows individual, anonymized website interactions (Marketing Land)
- New Google expands Safe Browsing protection to protect you from such deceptive embedded content, like social engineering ads (Google Webmasters Blog)
- Tip Hide Email Address Online with Google's reCAPTCHA Tool (GTips)
- New Facebook Instant Articles Now Open to All Publishers (Facebook)
- Tip Blogger Magic - Reading A Dig Log for troubleshooting custom domains (Chuck Croll)
AdSense and Advertising
- New Maligayang pagbati mula sa AdSense! Filipino is now an AdSense supported language (Inside AdSense blog)
- New AdSense rolls out defenses against Clickjacking (Inside AdSense blog)
- New Google expands Safe Browsing protection to protect you from such deceptive embedded content, like social engineering ads (Google Webmasters Blog)
Android and Nexus
- New Turn your favorite photo or Google Maps location into Nexus "Live Case" (Official Android Blog)
- New Android N Developer Preview 2, out today! (Android Developers blog)
- New A software fix for dangerous USB-C cables is coming (The Verge)
Mobile Chat
- New Attach Google Drive files to your WhatsApp and Yahoo email messages (Google Drive blog)
- New Facebook Messenger and Dropbox are now best friends (The Next Web)
- New Facebook launches Messenger platform with chatbots (TechCrunch)
- New How to try out a Facebook Messenger Bot (The Next Web)
- Article Facebook’s bots are already revolting Op-Ed: The social network is betting billions on users talking to bots instead of people (Ars Technica)
- Article Facebook Believes Messenger Will Anchor a Post-App Internet (Wired)
- Article Facebook 'Bot Shopping' Fails Early User Testing (Eli Fennell on G+, Lukas Thoms on Medium)
- New Skype now works on the Web without plugins, but only if you use Edge (The Next Web)
- Article Are you sure the emoji you use are sending the right message? (GroupLens)
- New Android N’s emoji don't look like melted Lego minifigs anymore (Gizmodo)
Productivity
- New Google Drive now lets you select which subfolders you sync to your PC or Mac (Google Drive blog)
- Update Upload directly to a folder with inline uploads in Drive for Android (Google Apps updates blog)
- Review Cloud storage: Google Drive vs Dropbox vs OneDrive (Lifehacker)
- New Attach Google Drive files to your WhatsApp and Yahoo email messages (Google Drive blog)
- New Add Goals in Google Calendar (Official Gmail Blog)
- Update Chrome 50 ends support for Windows XP, OS X 10.6, other old versions (Ars Technica)
- New "Save to Google" extension lets you save web pages to your Google account with a single click (The Next Web)
- Update Using URL Shorteners Might Make You Vulnerable to Privacy Invasions and Malware Attacks (John Skeats)
And more around the internet...
- The dark side of Guardian comments (The Guardian)
- Guardian Series: The Web We Want (The Guardian)
- YouTube and Facebook's moderation teams help shape policy while viewing the very worst of the internet (The Verge)
- Susan Wojcicki Discusses Upbringing, Humor, Insecurities In New Interview With Her Mother, Esther (Tubefilter)
- Google’s Skunkworks [ATAP] Loses Its Leader to Facebook – And Has Yet To Produce Any Hits (MIT Technology Review)
- The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure (X: The Moonshot Factory)
- Building more accessible technology (Official Google Blog)
- Creating a world that works for everyone with Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities (Official Google Blog)
- An Impressive Walking Google Robot Tries to Vacuum the Stairs (MIT Technology Review)
- How an Internet Mapping Glitch Turned a Random Kansas Farm Into a Digital Hell (Fusion)
Updated March 2019 to remove G+ links
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