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Get ready for Google I/O (May 18-20):
- Google I/O schedule with livestream links (all live streamed talks)
- Google Developers YouTube channel and Google+
- Here's the I/O 2016 request team! Post your request on Twitter or Google+ with #io16request
- Key sessions recommended by AdMob
Get help with Google Products!
- Have a problem with a Google product? Here is how forum escalations work (John Mueller via SEO Roundtable)
YouTube
- New YouTube’s New Messenger Means You’ll Never Have to Leave YouTube (Wired)
- Update Machine learning for video transcoding (YouTube Engineering and Developers Blog)
- Tip WTF Is Watch Time?! Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The YouTube Algorithm (TubeFilter)
- Tip 5 tips to improve your video compositions (Vimeo Video School)
- New Amazon Video Direct lets creators upload and monetize videos (Amazon.com)
Live Streaming
- Update YouTube Gaming update May 2016: Embed live chats, subscribe links and more (YouTube Gaming)
- Tip Live Streaming Google Slides Audience Questions (Mike Downes)
- New Soon on Periscope: Broadcast Search, Drones, Save Beyond 24 Hours (Periscope Blog)
- New Twitter's AI knows what's happening in live Periscope streams (MIT Technology Review)
Google+
- Update Google+ iOS app update 5.6.0 : faster GIFs, easier to share webpages and more (Luke Wroblewski)
- New Google Account settings now let you easily see who you've blocked on Google+ and Hangouts (Amber Yust)
- Tip How to share a YouTube video into a Google+ Collection (Sooraj Wadhwa)
Google Small Business
- New Forgot Where you Verified Your Listing? Google is Making it Easier to Track Down. (Joy Hawkins @ Imprezzio Marketing)
- Tip Edit places on Google Maps with Local Guides (Google Local Guides on YouTube)
Google Photos and VR
- New Google Photos gets social! Commenting and smart suggestions in shared Albums (Google Photos)
- Tip Google Photos turns your random photos into a visual diary (Austrailan Financial Review)
- New Google's top Google for Work guy will now be leading Google’s new virtual reality team (Business Insider)
- Update Experience VR with Cardboard, now at the Google Store in US, Canada, UK, Germany and France (Google Cardboard)
- New Facebook announces support for 360 degree photos (TechCrunch)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Tip Change the landing page of your Blogger blog (Luke Bjerring)
- New More SEO data in Google Analytics with Search Console integration (Google Webmaster Blog)
- Tip Changes to clicks, impressions, and CTR in Google Analytics (John Mueller)
- New Google's Structured Data Testing Tool gets new design and address (Avner Pinchover)
- Update Google fully rolled out the mobile-friendly updates as mentioned in March (Google Webmasters)
- Update Google Increases Width of Main Search Results Column (Jennifer Slegg @ SEM Post)
- New Automattic to offer .blog domain names, WordPress not required (Marketing Land)
AdSense and AdMob
- New AdSense introduces Impression Charts in the Ad Review center (Inside AdSense blog)
- Tip Banner Ad Best Practices - Mobile Ads Garage #3 (Google Developers on YouTube)
Android, Nexus, Project Fi
- Update May 2016 Android security update rolling out (Project Fi Help Forum)
- Update Google lets you download Nexus upgrades without waiting (Engadget)
- Update Project Fi Call Blocking (Scott Greenstone)
- Update Google Fi Updates Fix Data Toggle Bug, Allow Users To Block Incoming Calls (Android Police)
Hangouts and Mobile Communications
- New Hangouts "Dense roster" setting lets you view a compact chat list (Caio Tenca)
- New Google Account settings now let you easily see who you've blocked on Hangouts and Google+ (Amber Yust)
- Tip If you can't meet in person, add a Hangout video call to your Google Calendar Event (Ms Drasby)
- New WhatsApp now has a desktop app for Windows and Mac (The Next Web)
Account Security and Privacy
- New Google Account settings now let you easily see who you've blocked (Amber Yust)
- Tip What to do if you use 2-factor authentication and lose your phone (Lifehacker)
Productivity
- Tip Gboard: Google Keyboard with search GIFs, emojis and more (iPhone only) (Official Google Blog)
- New Get instant answers on your Android M phone with Google Now on Tap
- New Translate where you need it: in any app, offline, and wherever you see Chinese (Official Google Blog)
- Tip Google Translate Updates Could Benefit Travelers (New York Times)
- New See event locations at a glance with Google Calendar on the web (Google Apps Updates blog)
- New Google Calendar now offers "gentle notifications" in your browser (Google Apps Updates blog)
- New When you dial in to your conference call, Google Calendar can now automatically add the passcode for you. (Google Apps Updates)
- Tip If you can't meet in person, add a Hangout video call to your Google Calendar Event (Ms Drasby)
- Tip Make Google Calendar even more useful by adding specialized Calendars (John Skeats)
- Update Google Maps Driving Mode Appears To Be Rolling Out Worldwide (Android Police)
- New Grow your ideas with Evernote and Drive (Google Drive Blog)
- Tip If You Use Free ES File Explorer, You Might Want to Reconsider (John Skeats)
More from Google and around the web
- Google proposes expanding emoji professions to include women (Google Design)
- Inside “Emojigeddon”: The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium (Buzzfeed)
- Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source (Yonatan Zunger)
- Don't laugh: Google's Parsey McParseface is a serious IQ boost for computers (CNET)
- Google Is Feeding Romance Novels To Its Artificial Intelligence Engine To Make Its Products More Conversational (Buzzfeed)
- Google is beautifying its data centers by turning them into giant art projects (The Next Web)
- Facebook relies on editors' judgment for trending news feed, documents show (The Guardian)
- A new look for Instagram (Instagram Blog)
- Instagram is rolling out the kind of ads that Snapchat thinks are 'creepy' (Re/code)
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