New this week: Google Nearby lets you “discover the world around you”, Project Fi added new partner network US Cellular, the Motion Stills app converts Apple Live Photos into beautiful GIFs, and Tango gives devices a sense of space and motion.
Plus there are tips, updates and news for YouTube, Google+, Inbox by Gmail, photographers webmasters, AdSense publishers, local businesses and more.
Plus there are tips, updates and news for YouTube, Google+, Inbox by Gmail, photographers webmasters, AdSense publishers, local businesses and more.
And no, Google is not manipulating search results in favor of Hillary Clinton.
And outside the Googleverse there is change: Vimeo’s CEO stepped down, Facebook hired a "head of global creative strategy" and *really* wants you to install the Messenger and Moments apps on your phone, and Twitter replaced their head of product (again) and gave their Android app a big makeover.
Image: Photographing New York City - on a slender support 18 stories above pavement of Fifth Avenue[man with a camera]. (1906)
And outside the Googleverse there is change: Vimeo’s CEO stepped down, Facebook hired a "head of global creative strategy" and *really* wants you to install the Messenger and Moments apps on your phone, and Twitter replaced their head of product (again) and gave their Android app a big makeover.
Image: Photographing New York City - on a slender support 18 stories above pavement of Fifth Avenue[man with a camera]. (1906)
YouTube and Video Creation
- Event Can't make it to VidCon this year? Watch the free live stream! (SocialBlade)
- New YouTube Smart Offline lets Indian viewers save money by downloading videos overnight (Google India)
- Update YouTube Is Finally Doing Something About Subnetworks: It’s about time. (Preston McNair)
- Interview Here’s How Often YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Skips Pre-Roll Ads: Wojcicki discussed everything from her favorite app, her favorite meme, and her distaste for mornings (Tubefilter)
- Tip Change your YouTube channel icon + Google+ profile photo in the YouTube Android app (YouTube Help on YouTube)
- Tip Musicians and bands: take your YouTube channel to the next level (YouTube Creator Academy)
- News Facebook hires CollegeHumor's Ricky Van Veen to make its giant video business even bigger (ReCode)
- News Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor To Step Down (Tubefilter)
- News What Might a Post-Kerry Trainor Vimeo Look Like? (Videoink)
Live Broadcasting
- Update YouTube Gaming updates: "I'm feeling lucky" live streams, video sneak peeks and more! (YouTube Gaming on Reddit)
- Update Facebook To Challenge Twitch By Letting Users Stream Blizzard’s Video Games (Tubefilter)
- Update Find what you want faster on Twitch with updated Search (Twitch blog)
- News Twitter affirms focus on live-streaming and "core service"
- News Authorities cracking down on Facebook users streaming movies through Live (Polygon)
Google+
- New Google+ now has a process for claiming orphaned Communities (Google+)
- Update Optimizing screen space in the mobile Google+ app (Luke Wroblewski)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- Update Google Street View app now lets you blur portions of your 360 photos (Android Police)
- New Motion Stills app converts Apple Live Photos into beautiful GIFs (Research at Google blog)
- New Share 360 Degree photos on Facebook (Facebook Newsroom)
- Tip Three uses for your phone's camera other than snapshots: translation, scanning, stargazing (Gizmodo)
- Review Google Photos is Magic “You can be the boxes, I’ll be the arrow.” (UX Launchpad)
- Update Facebook pushes users to download its Moments app for auto-synced mobile photos (Engadget)
- Update Big VSCO Update With Even More Incomprehensible UI Now Rolling Out On Android (Android Police)
Google for businesses
- Tip NEW: Ads in Google Maps! 10 Things You NEED to Know (Larry Kim)
- Tip Local Businesses MUST Check their Images for Google Image Spam (Online Ownership)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Tip How Google helps webmasters secure their hacked sites and warns users of unsafe sites (Elie Bursztein)
- Tip The Best RankBrain Optimization Tip You'll Get All Year (AJ Kohn)
- Tip Find your website's top Twitter influencers using Google Analytics and Google Sheets (Martin Hawksey)
- Tip Twitter is making it ridiculously easy to embed timelines in Websites (The Next Web)
Google for Hillary?
- How Google Search Autocomplete Works (Google Inside Search blog)
- Google denies altering search suggestions for Hillary Clinton (The Verge)
- Hillary Clinton’s Search Results Manipulated by SourceFed, Not Google+ (Rhea Drysdale)
AdSense
- News Supreme Court Won’t Hear Out Google in Advertising Lawsuit (Wall Street Journal)
- Tip Monetizing for Multi-Screen: optimize AdSense ads for all screens (Inside AdSense blog)
- Hangouts and Mobile Messaging
- Update Facebook wants to force mobile users to use 'Messenger' by disabling in-app messaging (The Next Web)
Nexus and Android
- New Project Fi adds a new partner network US Cellular for better coverage and speed (Official Android blog)
- Update Project Fi update: the June Android security update is rolling out (Project Fi Help Forum)
- Update Moto 360 2nd Gen and 360 Sport get security patch plus updated features (Android Police)
- New Tango gives devices a sense of motion and space (Nat and Lo on YouTube, Official Google Blog)
- Update Google Says Marshmallow Memory Leak Is Fixed In A 'Future Release' (Android Police)
- New Google shows how Android apps will run on your Chromebook (Engadget)
- New Google will offer app developers the same revenue sharing terms Apple just announced — with one big advantage (ReCode)
Privacy and Security
- Tip PSA: Hackers targeting two-factor authentication codes for Google accounts (Ausdroid)
- Tip Keeping your Twitter account safe (Twitter blog)
Productivity
- New Google "Nearby" lets you find the right apps at the right place and time (Official Google Blog)
- Update Inbox by Gmail + Google Drive integration (Scott Greenstone)
- Update Inbox by Gmail now has rich text formatting on desktop (Inbox by Gmail)
- Tip Auto-generating Google Forms (Google Apps Developer blog)
Elsewhere on the internet
- People giving up on social media, or just realigning their time? (David Kutcher)
- Twitter for Android gets a refresh (Twitter blog)
- Twitter is replacing its head of product. Again (ReCode)
- Microsoft launches a project management app called Planner (The Verge)
- What Pinterest learned in two years working on its guided search engine (TechCrunch)
- This incredible new Pinterest feature could change online shopping … (Tech Insider)
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links
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