This week’s top Google updates:
This week I also attended the Google Top Contributor Program Meetup (#TCMeetups2016) in Mountain View. Check out the photos on Twitter, Google+, and Instagram. (You can see the YouTube RSs & TCs here)
- Google’s official blogs have a new home at blog.google with “The Keyword”
- Google Apps for Work is rebranded G Suite, launched along with Google Cloud (plus a Early Adopter program with an new Hangouts meeting experience)
- Google for India (making products work better for everyone): YouTube Go, Allo, Google Station and Chrome on Android
This week I also attended the Google Top Contributor Program Meetup (#TCMeetups2016) in Mountain View. Check out the photos on Twitter, Google+, and Instagram. (You can see the YouTube RSs & TCs here)
Image: Google Top Contributor Program Meetup Cupcakes! Interested in the Top Contributor program? Check it out!
Upcoming
- Last chance for 2016! Enter to win a spot at YouTube NextUp!
- 3 October Help pick the October Google+ Collection #FeatureFriday themes!
- 4 October Google teases that *something* will be announced - probably a new phone and maybe more?
- 4 October Google Webmasters office hours
- 7 October Google Webmasters office hours
- 17 October Everyone updated to the new Hangouts Chrome Extension experience
YouTube and Video Creation
- Last chance for 2016! Enter to win a spot at YouTube NextUp! (YouTube Creator blog)
- YouTube Creators: Enter to be part of the NextUp class in your region! (October-November classes)
- YouTube Trusted Flaggers are answering questions on Reddit - Ask Them Anything! (r/YouTube)
- YouTube Go -faster, more relevant, less data needed - now being tested in India (YouTube blog)
- How Boogie2988 got hacked - and how you can protect your YouTube and Google account (Boogie2988 on Daily Dot)
- Facebook apologizes for inflating video views (Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Facebook Blog)
- Google releases the YouTube-8M dataset for research (Research at Google blog)
Go Live
- Watch the presidential debates live on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook
- With nearly 2 million concurrent viewers and over 3 million live watch hours, first presidential debate breaks political record (YouTube Blog)
- Twitch introduces Twitch Prime for Amazon Prime members, plus more updates from TwitchCon (Twitch blog)
- Coming soon: the Periscope VIP Program (Periscope blog)
- Facebook to implement a major ad campaign for Facebook Live (Krishna De, Wall Street Journal)
Google+ and Spaces
- Help pick the October Google+ Collection #FeatureFriday themes! (Faith Tan)
- Get training Google+ and other Google Apps G Suite services! (Alex Garcia)
Other Social media
- Introducing Twitter Moments for Everyone (Krishna De, Buffer blog, Twitter blog)
- Top US Social Media Sites, 2008-16: Facebook crushes MySpace while YouTube expands (Viktor Bohush)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- Yahoo open-sources it's Deep Learning Solution for Detecting Porn and NSFW Images (Yahoo engineering blog)
- Google releases the Open Images dataset with 9 million annotated image URLs (Google Research blog)
Google for businesses
- Google My Business (Finally) Adds Advice for Working with SEO Companies | Imprezzio Marketing (Joy Hawkins, Imprezzio Marketing)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Create an animated GIF in Google Photos as a Slideshow replacement (Geeks on Tour)
- Blogger update: Slideshow gadget retired, Search gadget searches blog only
- Webmaster Forums Top AMP Questions (Webmaster Central blog)
- Business owners and webmasters try Google Optimize free! (Google Analytics)
- Announcing: Smart, Fast-Acting Analytics — For Everyone (Google Analytics)
AdSense and advertising
- AdSense updates the look of text and link unit ads (AdSense)
- Give your feedback on #AskAdSense
- Google pits YouTube impressions against TV with AdWords update (Marketing Dive)
- Google embraces the log-in, leaving cookies behind in new advertising updates (TechCrunch)
Hangouts and Messaging
- New Hangouts meeting experience for G Suite: join the Early Adopter program (G Suite Updates blog)
- Allo's missing features make sense if the target market is India (Ars Technica)
- Meerkat's stealth app Houseparty is designed for spontaneous togetherness (The Verge)
- Microsoft shuts down Skype office in London as it develops yet another client (Ars Technica)
- Messenger is about to get its own Snapchat-esque 'Stories' feature (The Next Web)
Nexus, Android, Project Fi
- Google Apps on my Chromebook Flip!
- Happy 8th Birthday Android!
Productivity
- Google Apps for Work is now G Suite (G Suite)
- G Suite: (artificially) intelligent tools designed for teams (Google Cloud blog)
- Follow G Suite on FacebookThe latest updates and improvements for the Google app for iOS (Inside Google Search blog)
- What you love about Google Search — now for Drive (Google Drive blog)
- Save time with Quick Access in Drive (Google Drive blog)
- Use regular expressions to search in Google Docs (Google Docs blog)
- Explore in Docs, Sheets and Slides makes work a breeze — and makes you look good, too (Google Docs blog)
- Chrome on Android: Do more on every phone and network (Chrome blog)
- Try the new Google Maps voice commands while navigating (Google Maps)
- Save time with Smart Scheduling in Google Calendar (Gmail blog)
- See your Google Calendar Events in Maps (Gmail)
Privacy and Security
- How Boogie2988 got hacked - and how you can protect your YouTube and Google account (Boogie2988 on Daily Dot)
- The Democratization of Censorship (Krebs on Security)
- Why the silencing of KrebsOnSecurity opens a troubling chapter for the ‘Net (Ars Technica)
More around the web
- The Keyword is the new blog for product news across Google (The Keyword)
- Google for India (making products work better for everyone) (Google India blog)
- Google Station wants to bring fast wifi to everyone (Google)
- How to become a "Best Selling" author on Amazon: all you need is $3 and 5 Minutes (Brent Underwood at The Observer)
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