- YouTube launched 360-degree live broadcasting (live from Coachella this weekend) and introduced #hashtag search.
- Google Play Music now hosts podcasts - you can even play podcasts inside the Google Search app
- There's a new home in your Google account for the list of people you’ve blocked in Hangouts and Google+, plus hovercards are back in the Google+ web preview.
- Google helping people in Japan and Ecuador stay informed and connected after the recent earthquakes (Official Google Blog)
- Know about Chromebooks? Like to help people? Maybe the Google Top Contributor program is for you! (Google Chrome)
Live Events
- Live 360 video from Coachella this weekend: The Kills, Guns N’ Roses (select songs), Ice Cube, and more. (Coachella)
- D∆WN: the first ever YouTube Live 360 performance (The Verge on YouTube)
- Behind the scenes with D∆WN at the first ever YouTube Live 360 broadcast (The Verge)
- Follow the Olympic Flame 24/7 on Periscope and Twitter (Twitter Blog)
Live Broadcasting
- New YouTube launches 360-degree video live streaming and spatial audio, available to creators at YouTube Space (YouTube Blog)
- New Farewell to Katch: Katch will shut down May 4th. Export your videos to YouTube or download them. (Katch Blog)
- Updated Blab Gets Screen Sharing for Chrome users (Blab Blog)
- Update Twitch announces Friends List, new Creative Directory, Ad Free viewing for Subs (Twitch Blog)
- Tip How to set up a Hangout on Air with the Q&A app (Michael Daniels)
YouTube
- New YouTube now supports #hashtag search!
- Article A look into YouTube’s video file anatomy (YouTube Engineering and Developers Blog)
- Tip YouTube's secret algorithm for recommended videos (Computerphile)
- Tip 7 Expert Tips: How to Get YouTube to Recommend Your Video (Reel SEO)
Google+
- New It's now easier to view and manage people blocked in Google+ and Hangouts in your Google account
- New Google+ Web Preview update: Hovercards are back! (Luke Wroblewski)
- New Google+ Android App update: design updates, bug fixes (Luke Wroblewski)
- Google+ has the same proportion of Millennial users as Twitter, but only "for SEO" according to @taictran - a lost opportunity for businesses? (Mike Elgan)
Google and Your Business
- Google Small Business Community introduces 2016 Google Small Business Advisors (Google Small Business)
- Tip Small businesses: what do you know about SEO? Local SEO myths busted! (Joy Hawkins @ The Moz Blog)
- Tip How to optimize your Google My Business listing: expert tips (Search Engine Watch)
Google Photos
- Update Google Camera app update (Artem Russakovskii)
- Thanks a million for following my Google Photos Tips & Tricks Collection!
- Article Microsoft's New AI Mistakenly Identifies Photos, Ignores Hitler (Slashdot)
AdSense
- What should you do if your AdSense account is suspended or disabled for invalid activity? (Inside AdSense Blog)
Google Advertising
- Google Says YouTube Ads Deliver Better Return On Investment Than Their TV Counterparts (Tubefilter)
- Google just pissed off the entire TV industry (The Next Web)
- DoubleClick Dynamic Ad Insertion - Addressable TV ads (DoubleClick on YouTube)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- New Blogger post editor now has a "mixed content" warning tool to help you find and fix links without HTTPS (Blogger Buzz)
- Bloggers & Webmasters: get the official AdSense guide to audience engagement (Inside AdSense blog)
- New Medium adds to Board and Bank Account (Ev Williams)
- Tip Use Google Slides to embed a slide show or presentation on your blog or website and how to add a link to an image in Google Slides (Ms Drasby)
- Tip Learn how to embed Cardboard Camera photos with VR view (Patrick Catanzariti @Sitepoint)
- Tip Blogger Magic - Set Main Page Size (Chuck Croll)
- Analytics and SEO
- New Google Analytics' new User Explorer report shows individual, anonymized website interactions (Marketing Land)
- Tip Why Google doesn't offer #SEO certification...and probably never will (Stone Temple Consulting)
- Tip The great UTM campaign hack - show a site owner you're an you influencer (David Kutcher)
- Update Big Google Analytics 3.0 Update Brings A New Icon, Material Design, Report Sharing, More [APK Download] (Android Police)
Hangouts and Mobile Communication
- It's now easier to view and manage people blocked in Google+ and Hangouts in your Google account
- Google offering free phone calls to and within Ecuador via Hangouts, Hangouts Dialer or Google Voice to help people communicate with loved ones
- Facebook Messenger launches Group Calling to become your phone (Tech Crunch)
- Viber Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption Verification, Hidden Messages, And Contact Authentication (Android Police)
- WeChat just launched a Slack competitor, but there's a catch (The Next Web)
Project Fi
- Project Fi App Update: home screen widget, call forwarding toggle, bug fixes (Project Fi)
- Happy Birthday Project Fi!
Productivity: Browsers, Search, Mail, Docs and more
- New Podcasts are finally live in Google Play Music in the US and Canada! (Official Android Blog)
- New Chrome: 50 releases and counting! (Chrome Blog)
- Article Wait! The Web Isn’t Dead After All. Google Made Sure of It The app universe and the web are not mutually exclusive. We use the both. Just maybe, the web is more alive than ever. (Wired)
- New Google Search is getting live TV listings (Venture Beat)
- New You can now play podcasts directly from Google's search app for Android (The Verge)
- New? Google's Package Tracking Card (Google Operating System)
- New Google makes it mandatory for Chrome Apps to tell Users what Data they collect (The Hacker News)
- Update Choose specific files to access offline from Google Docs, Sheets and Slides (Google Apps Updates)
- Update Google Keep introduces #Labels and Chrome extension for link saving (Google Docs Blog)
- Update Inbox by Gmail: a better way to keep track of events, newsletters and links (Gmail Blog)
- Update Microsoft’s Android Translator app now works on images too (The Verge)
Google in the News
- Canada closes investigation into anti-competitive practices at Google (The Verge)
- Antitrust chief: Google’s limits on Android device makers breach EU law (Ars Technica)
- Android’s Model of Open Innovation (Google Europe Blog)
- News Corp lodges fresh antitrust complaint against Google in Europe (Ars Technica)
- Alphabet releases Google's Q1 2016 earnings: $4.2 billion income on $20.2 billion revenue (Android Central)
- Microsoft and Google have agreed to play nice (The Next Web)
- Silicon Valley’s Legendary ‘Coach’ Bill Campbell Has Died (Re/Code)
And more around the web
- The Fascinating Origin Story of Prince’s Iconic Symbol (WIred)
- News Feed FYI: More Articles You Want to Spend Time Viewing and How News Feed Works and what it means for publishers (Facebook Newsroom)
- After years of intensive analysis, Google discovers the key to good teamwork is being nice (Quartz)
- Montage is a new tool for journalists that enables teams to work together to analyze and tag YouTube videos (Jigsaw)
- AccuWeather's 90 day forecasts less useful than the Farmer's Almanac (Ars Technica)
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links
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