Weekly Update - September 10, 2016: Hangouts, Google+, Apple

New this week: 

• Apple announced the iPhone 7 - goodbye headphone jack! Plus there is a new Apple Watch, Super Mario and Pokemon and iOS10 coming soon.
• You can now opt in to the new Hangout Chrome Extension experience, which is much like the Hangouts app. Note that everyone will be updated October 17th.
• Google+ had multiple updates for the new web interface, including Chrome notifications, related Community suggestions and improved search auto-complete.
• On Monday, September 12th Hangouts on Air will be moved to YouTube Live Events, so this is your last chance to run a HOA from Google+

Plus there are tips and updates for YouTube, Google+, Live Streaming, Bloggers and Webmasters, AdSense, Local Business Owners, Map users and much more!

Image: We’re heading into apple season - both the fruit and electronic kind. The image is a detail from Levi Wells Prentice’s Harvest

Upcoming:

• 9 September: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours in English (the last Google+ Event)
• 12 September: Hangouts on Air move from Google+ to YouTube
• 23 September: French-speaking YouTube Creators - apply for YouTube NextUp Paris! (YouTube Space Next Up)
• 29 September: Google Feed API ceases operation
• 17 October Everyone updated to the new Hangouts Chrome Extension experience

Apple

• Everything you need to know from Apple’s iPhone 7 event (TechCrunch)
• Courage Is Just Part of Why Apple’s Ditching the Old Headphone Jack (Big Think)

YouTube and Video Creation

• Opportunity French-speaking YouTube Creators - apply for YouTube NextUp Paris! (YouTube Space Next Up)
• Tip YouTube for Creators Q&A Live Stream (YouTube Creator Academy)
• Tip Blunty (@BluntNate) explains why notification of non-advertiser-content on YouTube is a good thing
• A Day in the Life: BBC Worldwide's YouTube Channel Manager Thomas Martin (Tubular Insights)
• New Facebook announces New Features for Crossposting Video from one Page to another Page (Facebook Media blog)

Go Live

• Update Periscope Android app update: see who’s watching (Periscope)
• Update Kudos to Twitch for adding live captioning on Twitch-produced content (Twitch)
• Check out these Twitch Creative live streamers to see creators in action (Twitch)

Google+ and Spaces

• Update Google+ Web Update (September 9): Related Community suggestions, improved search autocomplete (Luke Wroblewski)
• Update Chrome browser notifications for Google+ (Luke Wroblewski)
• Update Share a Google+ post to Twitter! (Robert Wallis)
• After 9 months of updates Google+ has been reincarnated (Luke Wroblewski)
• Tip Jetpack for WordPress users: check your Google+ settings (Jetpack)
• Tip Google+ Tip: create a private Collection for bookmarking (Terence Chang)
• Tip Get help with Google+ from @GooglePlus , even when Google+ is down
• Tip Google+ Tip: find post options under the 3 dot "kebab" menu (Alex Garcia)
• Tip When a simple +1 isn't enough (an animated +1 GIF for commenting) (Google+)

Other social media

• Update Instagram is getting rid of photo maps (The Verge)
• Update Twitter Direct Messages are more dynamic than ever with read receipts, typing indicators, and web link previews. (Twitter)
• Update Facebook follows Twitter and dumps Post Pages. (Robert Wallis)
• Facebook’s Censorship Problem Is What Happens When a Tech Company Controls the News (Slate)
• Everyone Hated News Feed. Then It Became Facebook’s Most Important Product (Backchannel)

Google Photos and Mobile Photography

• Update Google Photos iOS: Live Photos smoother & more shareable, sort photos in albums, custom thumbnails for faces in People (Google Photos)
• Update Snapseed: Android update and official help forum (Snapseed)

Google for businesses

• Local business owners: How to contact Google My Business support (Joy Hawkins)
• Showcase your site’s reviews in Search (Google Webmasters blog)
• Google adds 'Reviews from the web' to critic reviews in local search results (Search Engine Land)

Bloggers and Webmasters

• Tip Webmasters and bloggers: make sure the widgets on your site don't have unnatural links (Google Webmaster blog)
• Tip Make your Blogger blog's background image responsive (So How Do I blog)
• Tip Jetpack for WordPress users: check your Google+ settings (Jetpack)
• Tip Webmasters: register your site in Google Search Console to be notified of security issues (Google Webmaster blog)
• In rare interview, Matt Cutts talks about his challenges at Google (Search Engine Roundtable)
• Tip Weird, Crazy Myths About Link Building in SEO You Should Probably Ignore - Whiteboard Friday (Rand Fishkin @ Moz)
• Update Is a big Google search update happening? Chatter thinks so. (Search Engine Land)
• Update Google Analytics mobile app now has automated insights for webmasters and business owners (Google Analytics blog)
• Update It’s now possible to move a Google Analytics property to another account (Bronwyn Vourtis)

AdSense and advertising

• Tip How to get started with AdSense (Google AdSense)

Hangouts and Messaging

• Update The new Chrome Hangouts Extension experience is like the App, but very different from the old extension

Nexus, Android, Project Fi

Update Android Nougat factory and OTA images are now available for the Nexus 6P (Android Police)
New Keeping Android safe: Security enhancements in Nougat (Android Developers blog)
New Google rebuilt a core part of Android to kill the Stagefright vulnerability for good (The Verge)
Let’s just admit Google's Project Ara was a terrible idea and move on (The Next Web)

Productivity

• Update Google Drive will now merge duplicate files and folders (Google Apps Updates)
• New Google and Box Partner to transform work in the cloud (Google For Work blog)
• Tip 10 most productive tips for working with Google Keep (Tech Republic)
• Update Hailing more ride service options in Google Maps (Google Maps blog)
• New Exclusive: New Contributions tab in Google Maps for Local Guides (Local Guides Connect)
• Update Google Maps now has a ‘Catching Pokémon’ feature in Timeline (The Next Web)
• Watch Google's response to Microsoft's Chrome battery complaints (The Verge)
• Privacy and Security
• New Beginning in January 2017 Chrome 56 will begin marking HTTP sites as non-secure (Google Online Security blog)

More around the web

• Chrome, Eddystone, Allo - an interview with Amanda Peterson, Google's Head of Naming (Business Insider)
• WaveNet: Deep Mind’s latest research on speech synthesis (Deep Mind)
• Chipotle and Alphabet Test Burrito Drone Delivery at Viriginia Tech (Fortune)
• Warner Bros. flags own site for piracy, orders Google to censor pages (Ars Technica)
• The Dropbox hack is real (Troy Hunt)

Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links.