This week’s top updates:
- Project Fi now offers group plans
- Google Photos has more ways to discover images (and more)
- YouTube acquires Famebit
Plus tips and updates for Google+, Google Spaces, YouTube, Google Photos, webmasters, AdSense publishers, Business owners, emailers, Android phone owners and more!
Image: Postcard showing man and woman using telephones c. 1910 (Public Domain)
Image: Postcard showing man and woman using telephones c. 1910 (Public Domain)
Upcoming
- 7 October Google Webmasters office hours
- 17 October Everyone updated to the new Hangouts Chrome Extension experience
- 18 October Webmaster Central office hours Hangout
- 19 October Google Sheets Webinar with Top Contributor Ted Juch
- 21 October Webmaster Central office hours Hangout
- 31 October YouTube Data API v2 shutting down, will no longer be able to upload videos (make sure all your third party apps that upload to YouTube are up to date!)
- 4 November Panoramio closing
YouTube and Video Creation
- Google acquires Famebit, a company that connects Creators and Brands (Famebit, YouTube)
- Saying goodbye to the YouTube v2 Uploads API service (YouTube Engineering blog)
- Customize your YouTube channel with a channel art header (YouTube Help)
- YouTube phone verification is required for longer uploads, live streaming, custom thumbnails and other features (YouTube Help)
- YouTube just hired music legend Lyor Cohen to make peace with the labels - Recode
- (Recode)
- A New Way to Watch Videos From Facebook on Your TV (Facebook Newsroom)
Go Live
- Periscope Producer expands live streaming beyond mobile phones, aimed at the professional (Periscope blog)
- You can now enable "Slow Mode" for YouTube Live Chat (Ryan Watt)
- Why can I not host a Facebook Live on my business page? (Krishna De)
Google+ and Spaces
- Google+ iOS.app update: Create and edit communities (Luke Wroblewski)
- Google Spaces update: Start New Threads on Android (Luke Wroblewski)
- Understanding Google+ Posts (Alex Garcia)
Other Social Media
- ACLU exposes Facebook, Twitter for feeding surveillance company user data (Ars Technica)
- Dozens of police-spying tools remain after Facebook, Twitter crack down on Geofeedia (Daily Dot)
- Introducing Workplace by Facebook (Facebook Newsroom)
- Facebook's Workplace collaboration app for companies is here (The Next Web)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- Google Photos update: more photo highlights, animations from videos and rotate suggestions (Google Photos)
- This Google Photos album shows what the new Pixel phones camera can do (The Next Web)
- Google’s new Sprayscape app is purposely imperfect (TechCrunch)
- Google Photos is great for image distribution for work (Robert Wallis)
- Panoramio closing November 4th, link your account to Google for the images to be automatically archived
Google for businesses
- Fake surveys: A trick spammers use to create a fake Google Maps listing with your address (Joy Hawkins)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Google Webmasters: we removed the "Demote Sitelinks" setting in Search Console. (Google Webmasters)
- Webmasters: Using AMP? Try our new webpage tester & let us know how you like it! (Google Webmasters)
- Within months, Google to divide its index, giving mobile users better & fresher content (Search Engine Land)
- Webmasters: don't get caught by surprise. Set up Google Analytics Custom Alerts (Google Analytics)
AdSense and advertising
- The AdSense account interface gets a material design update (Inside AdSense)
- If the PIN you recently received from AdSense was incorrect, you can get a new one (AdSense)
- AdSense Publishers: Get your free all-in-one AdSense Policy Compliance Guide (Inside AdSense blog)
- How the Google AdWords app can help you stay connected with your ad campaigns, using your smartphone (Google Partners)
Hangouts and Messaging
Nexus, Android, Project Fi
- Have questions or a problem with the new Pixel phone? Get help in the new Pixel user community
- Project Fi introduces group plans for up to 6 family and friends (and get a discount on a Nexus 5X or 6P) (Google)
- Project Fi issuing service credit to all active users in counties affected by Hurricane Matthew (Project Fi)
- Update: Verizon says its Pixels will get updates at the same time as Google’s (Ars Technica)
- Here's Why Google Is Lying in its Pixel Ads (PCMag)
- Getting a Pixel phone? Check out this suggested USB-C peripheral list (Nathan K)
- Does Google's new Pixel phone make it time to try Project Fi too? - CNET (CNET)
- Android 7.1 Developer Preview coming soon(ish) to Nexus devices (Android Developers)
- The Galaxy Note 7 is dead (The Verge)
- So, the Note 7: What Will Happen to Those Recalled Phones? (Wired)
Productivity
- Learn about Inbox by Gmail from the experts (Scott Greenstone, Michael Daniels)
- Yahoo Mail isn't just insecure, it's also hard to leave (The Next Web)
- Teachers: Been wanting to give individualized feedback on quiz responses? Now you can! (Google Docs)
- Google releases Daydream Keyboard in the Play Store for VR typing (Android Police)
- Vectr, a vector image editor in the cloud (Paolo Amoroso)
- Google Chrome will finally eat less RAM from this December (The Next Web)
Privacy and Security
- Building on Surveillance Reform (Google Blog)
- Managing Your Yahoo Account Access is Easier than Ever (Yahoo blog)
More around the web
- Google News introduces fact check feature – just in time for US election (The Guardian)
- These are all the apps and services that will work with Google Home [Continuously Updated] (Android Police)
- Google is getting a sense of humor courtesy of Pixar and the Onion writers (The Next Web)
- Mossberg: Why does Siri seem so dumb? (The Verge)
- AI's blind spot: garbage in, garbage out (BoingBoing)
- The US National Archives are now on GIPHY
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links
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