Weekly Update - August 13, 2016: GMB-G+, YouTube Live Events, Facebook vs AdBlock Plus

This week's top updates:

• Google My Business stops showing Google+ data in Insights for local businesses
• YouTube limits live stream embeds to established or monetized accounts
• Facebook does battle with AdBlock Plus.

Plus updates and tips for video creators, live streamers, Google+ posters, Gmail emailers, Google Maps users and much more!

Image: Browse the first website, created 25 years ago (August 6, 1991)

Upcoming:

• 12 August: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours in English
• 16 August: Google for Work Android N Hangout on Air
• 29 August: Comments on private YouTube videos are going away

Ongoing: Follow the 2016 Olympics in Rio

• Rio 2016 Celebrations on YouTube
• Let Google be your guide to Rio de Janeiro
• Google Maps goes for the win with Rio updates
• Follow the Rio 2016 @Olympics on Twitter, Vine and Periscope
• Bringing the World to Rio: How to Experience the Olympic Games on Facebook and Instagram

YouTube and Video Creation

• Congrats to the 2016 NextUp summer class at YouTube Space LA and NY! (YouTube Creators)
• Update: New tools for publishing 360-degree video on Facebook (Facebook Media blog)
• Update Facebook's ContentID Clone Had A Vulnerability That Opened Up Ability For Users To Game Others' Videos (Techdirt)
• Update Facebook introduces new metrics for live broadcasts and video on demand (Facebook Media blog)
• Tip Social Media Keyboard Shortcuts: Google+, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and more (Lifehacker)

Go Live

• New Embed your Hangouts on Air or YouTube live streams on your own website or blog by enabling monetization
• Tip Automatically share your HOA or YouTube Live Event to Google+ and Twitter 
• Tip Mobile live streaming data usage by Facebook Live & Periscope (Krishna De)
• Update All your Twitch clips in a single spot (Twitch blog) 
• Update Facebook introduces new metrics for live broadcasts and video on demand (Facebook Media blog)
• New Microsoft just bought a livestream service that's faster than Twitch or YouTube (the Next Web)

Google+ and Google Spaces

• Update Google My Business Insights for local businesses will no longer include Google+ data, focuses on Search and Maps (Google Small Business)
• Update Google My Business app no longer supports Brand Pages or other Google+ data
• Update Play Store app's "People" area, +1s on app pages may be getting phased out (Android Police)
• Update Google+ profiles may not be needed to post Play Store reviews anymore (Android Police)
• Tip Find your way around a Google+ Community on your mobile device
• Tip Find your way around a Google+ Community on your desktop computer 
• Tip Social Media Keyboard Shortcuts: Google+, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and more (Lifehacker)

Other social media

• Update FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Clear Ads (Bloomberg News)
• Update Facebook News Feed FYI: Showing You More Personally Informative Stories (Facebook Newsroom)
• Update Twitter will soon open up Moments to all users (Mashable)

Google Photos and Mobile Photography

• Tip How to upload photos from your desktop computer to Google Photos now that Picasa is retired
• Update How Google will keep morons from ruining your VR experience (The Next Web)

Google for businesses

• Update Google My Business Insights for local businesses will no longer include Google+ data, focuses on Search and Maps (Google Small Business)
• Update Google My Business app no longer supports Brand Pages or other Google+ data

Bloggers and Webmasters

• Tip Google: You'll Almost Never Restore Your Rankings To Previous State After Penalty (SEO Roundtable)
• How Twitter's "free speech" ethos grew out of Blogger, and has allowed harassers and trolls to thrive (Buzzfeed)

AdSense and advertising

• Tip Build a strong brand experience, engage your audience, and your AdSense earnings may rise (AdSense)
• A New Way to Control the Ads You See on Facebook, and an Update on Ad Blocking (Facebook Newsroom)
• Facebook prevents ads from being blocked, and Adblock Plus is unhappy (The Next Web)
• 48 hours later, Adblock Plus beats Facebook's adblocker-blocker (Boing Boing)
• Facebook will soon update code to nullify AdBlock Plus’ workaround (TechCrunch)
• No One Can Stop Ad Blocking. Not Even Facebook (Wired)

Hangouts and Mobile Messaging

• Update How to cast a Chrome tab to a Hangouts video call (Paolo Amoroso)
• Tip Invite phone participants to a Hangout video call

Nexus, Android, Project Fi

• Update Android Wear gets new update, includes July security patch (Android Authority)
• Tip 900 Million Android Devices 'At Risk' Of Quadrooter Malware? Nope. (Eli Fennell)

Productivity

• Update Save data, battery and storage with new Google Maps for Android offline features (Google Maps)
• Update Inbox by Gmail update: GitHub, Trello, Google Alerts and more (Gmail)
• Update Stay on top of your Google Alerts more easily with Inbox by Gmail (Inbox)
• Update Better tables and charts in the Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides Android apps (Google Apps Updates blogs)
• Update Google adds Explore Interests to Now with six categories to get updates on (Android Police)

Privacy and Security

• Update Making email safer with new security warnings in Gmail (Google Apps Updates)
• Update Bing to use location for Right to Be Forgotten (Bing blog)
• Tip How do hackers find your password? (themediashow)

More around the web

• The world's first website went online 25 years ago today (The Telegraph)
• Kansas couple sues IP mapping firm for turning their life into a “digital hell” (Ars Technica)
• What does the Google Brain team do? Their Reddit AMA gives some insight (Reddit)
• Kripa Krishnan's job is to try to break Google (Business Insider)

Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links