There were also a number of updates on Facebook, Twitter, and Twitch for business, brands, live broadcasters, and writers.
Contacting Turkey in the aftermath of the Istanbul Airport attack (mostly through July 5th)
- Google offering free calls to Turkey via Hangouts & emergency information
- Major carriers ATT, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile offer free texts and calls to Turkey
Upcoming:
- Upcoming Google Webmaster Central Office Hours in English
- Products and services being retired:
- August 1, Picasa Web Albums
- September 29, Google Feed API
YouTube and Video Creation
- Tip YouTube broken? Follow @TeamYouTube for updates
- New Shimrit Ben-Yair@ VidCon: Building a Global Community at YouTube (VidCon)
- Tip How to add Cards to your YouTube video (YouTube Help)
- Tip How To Get Custom YouTube Subscription Notifications for Mobile and Email (Video Creators)
- Movie Pirates Try To Game YouTube’s Content ID With 360-Degree Videos (Tubefilter)
Go Live
- New Twitch launches Cheering and Bits (Twitch Blog)
- New Twitch introduces Creative Communities (Twitch Blog)
- New Twitch launched a new "Social Eating" live streaming category (Polygon)
- Update Facebook is getting closer to putting ads in Live videos (Marketing Land)
- New Now you can live stream to Facebook with MSQRD app (Krishna De)
Google+ and Google Spaces
- Update Google+ web preview update: Recently visited Communities, Collection Follower Counts (Luke Wroblewski)
- Tip See how many people are following your Google+ collections (Robert Wallis)
- Update It's now easier to add the Google Spaces Chrome extension (Luke Wroblewski)
- Some tasty G+ 5th birthday cover art for you (Luke Wroblewski)
- Happy 5th birthday Google+! Good times on Google+! (me)
- Google+ tip: set the audience of your post (Alex Garcia)
Other social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
- Building a Better News Feed for You (Facebook Newsroom)
- Why do people (say they) hate algorithmic social media feeds? (Science Friday)
- Facebook is shuttering its news app Paper on July 29th (The Next Web)
- On second thought, Facebook doesn’t care so much about news publishers (Ars Technica)
- New Ways to Share, Save and Engage (Facebook for Developers)
- Soon Facebook Will Instantly Translate Your Posts Into 44 Languages (Wired)
- New Translation Tool Will Help Facebook Master International Slang (Technology Review)
- Facebook now lets you raise funds for your favorite charities (The Next Web)
- Instagram Will Start Offering Translations For Captions, Comments, & Bios (Consumerist)
- Introducing Twitter Dashboard (Twitter blog)
- Introducing #Stickers on Twitter (Twitter blog)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- New Update on Picasa and the new Album Archive for Picasa Web Album Data (Picasa)
- UpdateWhen you delete photos from your phone, Google Photos now suggests also deleting the backups (Android Police)
Google for businesses
- Tip Partner with agencies, marketers & specialists certified by Google to help your business succeed
- New The Google Small Business Community has moved (Google Small Business)
- Article Google Maps has Lost the Spam War and They Explain Why (Online Ownership)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- New Announcing turndown of the Google Feed API September 29th (Google Developers Blog)
- Tip Google Feed Deprecation Replacement Scripts (blogger xpertise)
- Tip Embed your YouTube live video or Hangout on Air on your Blogger blog
- Tip "Loading third-party elements on your site (whether they are static images or executable scripts) always make your site less secure." (Sucuri Blog)
AdSense and advertising
- Tip Google Analytics for AdSense Publishers (HOA) (AdSense on YouTube)
- Tip Four ways to boost your ad viewability on mobile (Inside AdSense blog)
Hangouts and Mobile Messaging
- Google offering free calls to Turkey via Hangouts & emergency information
- Bots for Messenger: New Blog, Features, and More (Facebook for Developers)
Nexus and Android
- New Introducing Android N - Nougat (Official Android)
- Tip Top security researcher recommends you only buy Nexus or Samsung devices (Android Authority)
Privacy and Security
- New The new Google "My Activity" page lets you easily view and manage your activity history
- New Uh Oh: Google Expands Its Ad Tracking. But, Yay: It’s Opt-In (Wired)
- Symantec 'dropped the ball' on antivirus software vulnerable to hackers, Google says (CBC)
Productivity
- New Create Quizzes in Google Forms (Google Docs)
- Update Respond quickly with improved Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides comment notifications on Android and web (Google Apps Updates)
- Update Google Keep gets smarter, with automatically created topics (Google Docs)
- Update Google Maps gets multi-stop navigation and Your Timeline notes (Google Maps)
- Update Keeping Earth up to date and looking great (Google Maps)
Google Search
- OK Google (an interactive list of commands) (Jim Bentley)
- #BREXIT, Google Trends And The Two Faces Of Google AdWords Data (Forbes)
- Did you feel that? Earthquake details now summarized at the top of Google search (Inside Google Search)
- You can now flip between English and Hindi in Google Search (Google India blog)
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