This week's top updates:
- Apple and Microsoft held special events, announcing new hardware and software
- Twitter announced that Vine will be shut down
- Just in time for Halloween: Facebook and Prisma demoed real time "masks" and artistic filters for live streams
- Google Allo got a bunch of updates, including Stranger Things stickers
- Google+ launched the new “Vanguard” program for Community Owners and opened a new Google+ Collections Community for India
Plus there are updates and tips for YouTube, Google+, webmasters, photographers, business owners, AdSense publishers, and much much more.
Image: my photo of Halloween Androids, all rights reserved
Upcoming
- 26 October Free webinar about Google Photos with Top Contributor Russ Buchmann (note: postponed)
- 26 October Google Small Business partners with the Small Business Administration to host a livestream training
- 31 October Post your #Googleween13 post on Google+ through the 31st, and the official Google+ Page may reshare it.
- 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!)
- 1 November Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
- 4 November Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
- 4 November Panoramio closing
- 7 November Google+ #DiscoveryChallenge deadline: Submit eligible Wanderlust-related Collections
Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, and more
- Google Parent Alphabet Gets Boost From Ads (Wall Street Journal)
- Google announces Jamboard: interactive touch display cloud-first whiteboard (Mike Elgan)
- Twitter will cut 9 percent of its workforce, or roughly 350 people (Recode)
- Twitter plans to get up close and personal, surfacing content for your special interests (TechCrunch)
- The Vine mobile app is being discontinued (Vine blog)
- Why Vine died (The Verge)
- Why Twitter is killing off Vine (CNET)
- Why Amazon's Rivals Should Be Scared (Fortune)
- Everything Microsoft Announced at Its Windows 10 Event Today That Actually Matters (Lifehacker)
- Empowering a new wave of creativity with the Windows 10 Creators Update and Surface Studio (Windows Blog)
- Windows 10 Creators Update Will Enable Any Gamer to Broadcast (Xbox Wire)
- Everything Apple Announced at the MacBook Event that Actually Matters (Lifehacker)
- Why It's Time to Stop Calling Apple a Hardware Company (Fortune)
- Apple says new MacBook Pro has only 16GB of RAM to save battery life (The Verge)
- Why Apple’s MacBook Touch Bar was the right thing to do (TechCrunch)
- Apple’s ‘TV’ (Not Just Apple TV) Wants To Be Your One-Stop Streaming Shop (Consumerist)
YouTube and Video Creation (and video consumption!)
- Which features is your YouTube channel eligible for? How to find out (YouTube Help)
- YouTube videos can SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT? Or My YouTube is slow! (Chris Plays Games)
- The Vine mobile app is being discontinued (Vine blog)
- Why Vine died (The Verge)
- Why Twitter is killing off Vine (CNET)
- Verizon is buying Jason Kilar's video startup Vessel and shutting it down (The Verge)
- Yahoo View arrives on Android to offer up a slice of Hulu's formerly free TV content (Android Police)
- Apple’s ‘TV’ (Not Just Apple TV) Wants To Be Your One-Stop Streaming Shop (Consumerist)
Go Live
- Windows 10 Creators Update Will Enable Any Gamer to Broadcast (Xbox Wire)
- Now you can put on a mask in Facebook Live (Facebook blog)
- Prisma demos its art filters working in real-time on Facebook Live video (TechCrunch)
Google+ and Spaces
- Google+ Community Owners: the new Vanguards program is for you! (Google+)
- Google+ #DiscoveryChallenge: Submit eligible Wanderlust-related Collections by November 7th (Faith Tan)
- Do you coach users on Google+? Share your #CreateBuddy experience in the official Google+ Collections Community (Faith Tan)
- Indian creators: Join the Google+ Collections - India Community (Sooraj Wadhwa)
- How to create a high quality Google+ Collection (Sophie Bonnet)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- When to “Join” an album in Google Photos (Robert Wallis)
- Editing Photos with Google Photos (What does this button do? With Geeks on Tour)
- Google confirms Pixel camera's excessive lens flare, fix incoming (Phandroid)
- Help train MIT's nightmare image algorithm, just in time for Halloween (The Verge)
- Research Blog: Supercharging Style Transfer (Google Research Blog)
- Facebook tests Snapchat-style camera special effects with ephemeral sharing (TechCrunch)
Google for businesses
- Get your business ready for the holidays: @GoogleSmallBiz live stream and Twitter chat
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Introducing #MaterialDesign's new home for tools, open source, and guidelines—all in one place (Google Design)
AdSense and advertising
- The AdSense Guide to Audience Engagement is Now Available in Spanish and Portuguese (Inside AdSense blog)
- Do more with Ads on AMP (AdSense blog)
- Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race (Pro Publica)
- Driving Relevance and Inclusion with Multicultural Marketing (Facebook Newsroom)
Hangouts and Messaging
- Google Allo now lets you chat with split-screen and reply from notifications in Nougat (Nexus)
- Allo 2.0 adds direct replies, emoji replies on Android Wear, GIF keyboard support, and more [APK Download] (Android Police)
- WhatsApp can now make video calls on Android (The Next Web)
- PayPal to integrate with Facebook Messenger for social commerce (Krishna De)
Nexus, Android, Project Fi
- Google confirms Pixel camera's excessive lens flare, fix incoming (Phandroid)
- Google Support Services now on the Play Store, only actually works with Pixel phones (Android Police)
- Android Pay partners with Visa and Mastercard to bring simple checkout to more places online (Google blog)
- Pixel retail support conundrum with uBreakiFix repair partnership (Android Central)
- Google Assistant: IFTTT, Pixel and Google Home (Scott Greenstone)
Productivity
- Google announces Jamboard: interactive touch display cloud-first whiteboard (Mike Elgan)
- New badge shows which Google Docs, Sheets & Slides need attention (Google Docs)
- Google Docs update: new ways to save time: create and open @googledocs without leaving your conversations in +Slack (Google Docs)
- Google Cast is now Google Home (Google Blog)
Privacy and Security
- The FCC just passed sweeping new rules to protect your online privacy+Washington Post (Dan McDermott)
- What Last Week’s Internet Shut Down Really Means (Backchannel)
More around the web
- Find (locations from) Fantastic Beasts on Google Maps (Daily Dot)
- Experiments and YouTube creators from the International Space Station (Google Asia Blog)
- Tech Execs are so relatable (Vice News on Twitter)
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links
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