What's new this week? Going Live: Facebook and YouTube announced updates for live streaming. Facebook is continuing its focus on mobile live broadcasting, with a major launch this week of new livestream features, new tools for finding broadcasts, and better live stream metrics. YouTube rolled out improvements in live chat moderation tools and more livestream stats for nerds.
HTTPS everywhere! HTTPS is coming to all blogspot.com Blogger blogs by late April. And Wordpress now offers HTTPS for custom domain blogs hosted by wordpress.com.
If you are interested in the Google Top Contributor program, there is a new series of videos with TCs from different Google Products talking about their experiences.
Plus there are tips and updates for Google+, YouTube, Google Photos, Google My Business, Google Calendar, Webmasters and more!
And also this week my Video Creator Tips & Updates Google+ Collection reached 1 million followers - thank you!
Image: Bluebonnets in Spring, by Julien Onderdonk (1882-1922), Public Domain
HTTPS everywhere! HTTPS is coming to all blogspot.com Blogger blogs by late April. And Wordpress now offers HTTPS for custom domain blogs hosted by wordpress.com.
If you are interested in the Google Top Contributor program, there is a new series of videos with TCs from different Google Products talking about their experiences.
Plus there are tips and updates for Google+, YouTube, Google Photos, Google My Business, Google Calendar, Webmasters and more!
And also this week my Video Creator Tips & Updates Google+ Collection reached 1 million followers - thank you!
Image: Bluebonnets in Spring, by Julien Onderdonk (1882-1922), Public Domain
- Limited time: Get the Nexus 5X for $199 if you activate with Project Fi (through May 8th)
Google Top Contributor Program
- The Google Top Contributor program is about helping people!
- Google Top Contributors: How did you join?
- Google Top Contributors: Connections
- Google Top Contributors: Favorite Memory
YouTube
- Have a story to tell? Apply for the Sundance Institute | YouTube New Voices lab (YouTube Creators - deadline April 25th)
- New Congrats US and UK YouTube Next Up class of 2016! (Japan-based creators: YT is still accepting submissions!) (YouTube Creator Blog)
- Update YouTube Gaming update: more countries, improved live chat moderation and more (YouTube Gaming)
- Tip YouTube Creators: add a description and tags to help viewers find your videos (YouTube Creator Academy)
- Tip Tips for creating customer support and software "how to" videos (Vimeo Video School)
- Tip How to permanently delete your YouTube channel (YouTube Help)
Live Streaming
- Update YouTube Gaming update: more countries, improved live chat moderation and more
- Update YouTube update: end-to-end live streaming latency monitoring in Stats for Nerds
- New Facebook Live update: Live for groups & events, interactive features, live map and more (Facebook Newsroom)
- New Facebook introduces video search and more ways to discover live video (Facebook Newsroom)
- Article Zuckerberg Botches Broadcast To Promote Facebook Live, Alludes To Monetization Opportunities For Creators (Tubefilter)
- Article Why Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg Went All In On Live Video (Buzzfeed)
- New Facebook Live for Pages: Introducing New Metrics for Live Video in Page Insights and Video Library (Facebook Media)
- New Attention Broadcasters: Channel Feed Beta is now available to make Twitch more social (Twitch Blog)
Google and your Photos
- Update Google Photos desktop updates: upload directly to an album, keyboard shortcuts (Google Photos)
- New Google's new VR View lets you embed 360-degree images and video on your website or mobile app (Google Developers blog)
- Tip Search your photos by keyword in Google Drive
- New Facebook's iOS app now uses Artificial Intelligence to help the visually impaired 'see' photos (Facebook Newsroom - Google should do this!)
Google+
- Submit your pranks and jokes Google+ Collection to the #FeatureFriday contest by 8AM April 13 (Sophie Bonnet)
- Tip How to create a Poll in the Google+ Android app (Sooraj Wadhwa)
- Article We Need To Talk About Daniel Radcliffe's Use Of Social Media... only Google+ (Buzzfeed via Jaana Nystrom)
Google and Your Business
- New Easier Google Business reviews: no G+ Profile required (Mike Blumenthal at Get Five Stars)
- Update Google My Business iOS app now lets business owners manage holiday & special hours (Search Engine Land)
- Tip Tips for creating customer support and software "how to" videos (Vimeo Video School)
- Update Google Testing Review Snippits in 3-Pack (Local Search Forum)
- Tip When Fake Good Reviews are Bad for Business (Online Ownership)
Blogger and Webmasters
- New HTTPS coming to all Blogspot domain Blogger blogs in late April
- New WordPress now offers free HTTPS for all custom domain blogs hosted on wordpress.com (Wordpress)
- Tip Google Webmasters Event Calendar for April (Google Webmasters)
- Tip English Google Webmaster Central office-hours hangout (Google Webmasters on YouTube)
- New Medium launches "Medium for Publishers" with branding, advertising, and paid content (but no banner ads) (Medium)
- New Google's new VR View lets you embed 360-degree images and video on your website or mobile app (Google Developers blog)
- New Etsy launches Pattern, an online store builder to take on Squarespace and Shopify (The Next Web)
Productivity
- Reminders in Google Calendar come to the web (Gmail Blog)
- Become a Gmail Ninja (Hangout on Air with the Gmail Team)
- Google Drive plugin for Microsoft Office now supports Outlook (Google Apps Updates blog)
- Search your photos by keyword in Google Drive
- Edge to follow Chrome’s lead, make Flash ads click-to-play (Ars Technica)
- We recently got help from some of our top YouTubers to spread the word about online safety. Here's what they said (@TeamYouTube)
Chat and Video calls
(no Hangouts this week)- WhatsApp has enabled full end-to-end encryption (WhatsApp blog)
- Facebook has launched scannable profile codes for Messenger, just like Snapchat's (The Verge)
- Microsoft backtracks, resumes development of a modern Skype app (Ars Technica)
Elsewhere on the internet
- Google reveals own security regime policy trusts no network, anywhere, ever (The Register)
- Tilt Brush: paint in 3D space in VR (Google Blog)
- An easier way to share Tweets privately (official Twitter blog)
- The Google Play family of apps get new colorful and consistent icons (Official Android blog)
- Nest is disabling Resolv home smart hubs purchased as recently as October 2014 (Business Insider)
- Memo to Nest: How 3 connected hardware companies killed their devices (Stacey Higgenbotham)
- Nest was supposed to lead the next computing revolution. It's looking like a bust. (Vox)
- Using Google Maps API, Companion app helps users virtually walk their friends home safely (Google for Work blog)
- I doomed mankind with a free text editor (Morton Just)
- The AP Finally Realizes It’s 2016, Will Let Us Stop Capitalizing ‘Internet’ (Wired)
- I’ll stop calling algorithms racist when you stop anthropomorphizing AI (Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe)
- Reddit introduces new user blocking feature...11 years too late (The Next Web)
- Yachts, jets and stacks of cash: super-rich discover risks of Instagram snaps (The Guardian)
Updated March 2019 to remove G+ links
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