Week in Review - May 28, 2016: I/O Recap, Google Photos, Data Studio

A week after Google I/O there is much discussion of Google’s big announcements: Spaces, new mobile apps and Firebase. But that isn’t all - this week’s top stories:

• Meet the Google Top Contributors
• Google I/O recaps and analysis of Google’s mobile messaging strategy
• YouTube Gaming Event Pages
• Google Photos Turns One
• Google Data Studio for free, beautiful reports
• AdSense Automatic Experiments
• Facebook continuous live video
• Google Wins Trial Against Oracle

Plus more tips and updates for YouTube, Google+, Blogger, Webmasters, Google Photos, Firebase, AdSense and more

Image: Detail from Butterflies and poppies by Vincent van Gogh (Public Domain). Learn about the Veterans behind the Buddy Poppy for Memorial Day.

Meet the Google Top Contributors

• Passionate Google users helping others with Google products (Official Google Blog)
• Meet more of our Top Contributors (Official Google Blog)
• Who are the Google My Business Experts (Online Ownership)

More From Google I/O

• 10 things you may have missed at Google I/O (Official Google Blog)
• Google I/O 2016 Highlights (Google Developers on YouTube)
• The year ahead in Global Tech Policy, and why it matters to you - Google I/O 2016 (Google Developers on YouTube)

YouTube and Video Creators

• New YouTube Gaming launching Event Pages (YouTube Blog)
• Update Playlists coming to YouTube Music (YouTube Forum)
• Update Facebook bought a startup to make its 360-degree videos sound better (Re/Code)
• Tip Change your YouTube channel art on your mobile device (YouTube Help on YouTube)
• Tip How Vimeo uses video SEO to help your video get found on the search results (Vimeo Blog)

Live Streaming

• Update Facebook enables Continuous Live Video to power puppycams and more (TechCrunch)
• Update Facebook Live lets you skip to the good part (TechCrunch)
• Update Announcing Clips: Be the First to Share the Very Best Twitch Moments (Twitch Blog)
• Update Periscope: Search for places on the Map to find broadcasts around the world! Now available on iOS and coming soon to Android. (Periscope)
• Update Update your Periscope app to permanently save your broadcasts by default (no #save needed). (Periscope)
• Tip HOA Basics (Vivekananda Baindoor Rao on YouTube)

Google+ and Spaces

• Contest Design a new cover image for the official G+ Collections Community (May 30th deadline) (Google+ Collection Communiy)
• For all that is said about the "failure" of Google+ as a social platform, this week alone… (David Kutcher)
• Tip Google+: Discover amazing things and find your people (Google+)
• Tip Disable comments and reshares of your Google+ posts (Sooraj Wadhwa)
• Update “Google+ Local pages” are are now officially “Google My Business listings” (Imprezzio Marketing)
• This is why you need Google Spaces (Mike Elgan)

Google Photos

• Update Google Photos now shows a timeline on desktop (Whiskey Schulze)
• Update Google Photos web update: change the date & time on multiple photos (Google Photos)
• Update Snapseed 2.5 for Android and iOS rolling out (SnapSeed)
• Tip Happy Birthday Google Photos - 10 top tips! (Official Google Blog)

Bloggers and Webmasters

• Event Small businesses: Get your website reviewed by Google! (May 31st) (Google Webmasters)
• Update Blogger template designers: new Lambda Expressions offer more custom template flexibility (Blogger Buzz)
• Update New in Search Console: "property sets" let you combine multiple properties (Google Webmasters)
• New Google Data Studio lets you create beautiful, informative reports - free (US only) (Google Analytics Blog)
• Tip Google's Journey into Machine Learning: What Marketers Need to Know (eMarketer)
• Tip English Google Webmaster Central office-hours hangout (Google Webmasters on YouTube)
• Update Speeding up the Google app for iOS users with Accelerated Mobile Pages (Google Search Blog)
• Update WordPress.com bloggers can now include share buttons for WhatsApp, Telegram, and Skype (Venture Beat)

AdSense

• Event: Live Hangout on Air on May 30th: Learn how to get started with AdSense (Inside AdSense blog)
• Update AdSense Publishers: Google can run experiments on your behalf (Inside AdSense Blog)
• Tip What do you want to learn about AdSense? (Inside AdSEnse Blog)

Hangouts and mobile communication

• Tip Seeing some overlay apps not working in Hangouts video calls? There is a fix soon! (Already updating for Windows and Mac, soon for Chrome OS) (Sage LaTorra)
• Update Skype 7.0 for Android: new tablet design and ways to add friends (Skype Blog)
• The real problem with Google's mobile messaging strategy (Computer World)
• Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, But Google Didn’t Know What It Had (Slate)
• Allo Messenger is a big deal for Google's mobile-first strategy (Android Central)

Android

• Tip Post I/O Event - Answers to Firebase Questions #AskFirebaseLive (Google Developers on YouTube)
• Tips AndroidWear may be for you, even if you have an iPhone (Lifehacker)
• Google wins trial against Oracle as jury finds Android is “fair use”

Productivity

• New Your vacation needs a soundtrack! (Official Android Blog)
• Update Google Maps Directions Could Soon Include Ads For Businesses Nearby (Consumerist)

More around the web

• How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist (Tristan Harris)
• Science Journal lets you explore and experiment with your Android phone
• More characters coming soon to Twitter : @ names, links and GIFs don’t count, plus no more .@ needed (Twitter blog)
• Facebook’s Response to Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee John Thune’s letter on Trending Topics (Facebook Newsroom)
• Facebook is now tracking non-users around the internet (The Verge)

Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links