- YouTube adds new comment features, which should help build your channel’s community
- YouTube’s improved Content ID dispute process ensures creators won’t lose money
- YouTube comes to an agreement with the Germany-based music rights organization, GEMA, meaning that more music videos will play for German viewers
- YouTube now offers Chrome notifications on desktop
- Project Fi app now displays improved real-time data
- Photo editing app Snapseed can now edit photo spheres without them losing their sphereiness
- Microsoft launches a Slack competitor, and Slack seems pretty concerned
- Did you know there is an election in the US on November 8th?
- Facebook, Google and Twitter all provide US Election tool
- Watch the election results live on YouTube
- Periscope lets you “wear” a Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump mask in your live broadcast
Upcoming
- Google Webmaster Central Office Hours
- 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
- 9 November Google Photos webinar with Russ Buchman
- 17 November AdSense Hangout on Air (Register now!)
YouTube and Video Creation
- New YouTube comment tools: pinned comments, highlighted creators, hold for review (beta) and more! (YouTube Creators)
- Update: improving Content ID for YouTube Creators (YouTube Creators)
- Get YouTube Chrome notifications on your desktop computer
- YouTube and GEMA finally come to an agreement, meaning more music in Germany (YouTube)
- Google’s Earnings Beat Expectations, And YouTube Is A Big Reason Why (Tubefilter )
- Unsatisfying: life's little disappointments - animators submit your own! (Parallel Studios)
- Supreme Court Asks Feds To Chime In On Decade-Old “Dancing Baby” YouTube Case (Consumerist)
- Facebook video pays off - for Facebook (TechCrunch)
- Vine may be going away, but Vine’s stars had already moved on (Recode)
- Giphy is trying to save all your vines (Daily Dot)
Go Live
- Periscope now lets you broadcast live with a Trump or Clinton "mask" (Periscope blog)
- An Update on The Periscope VIP Program (Periscope blog)
- U.S. election results LIVE on YouTube (YouTube blog)
- Vine co-founder launches live streaming app HYPE (Fortune)
Google+ and Spaces
- You posted in a Google+ Community: why isn't your post visible? (John Skeats)
- FYI for +CircleCount users: Your profile photo is back (CircleCount)
Other social media
- Facebook video pays off (TechCrunch)
- This car insurer wants your Facebook data to determine if you're a risky driver [update: they're denying it] (The Next Web)
- Facebook slaps down Admiral’s plan to use social media posts to price car insurance premiums (TechCrunch)
- Instagram Testing Feature That Makes It Easier To Buy Stuff Tagged In Brands’ Photos (Consumerist)
- Voted yet? Facebook wants to help you prepare for US voting and Google will help you find your polling place
- Find your voting info with @gov on Twitter (Twitter blog)
- Twitter finally blocks attempt to disenfranchise voters (Buzzfeed, Charlie Warzel)
- Twitter users frustrated by disappearance of "@-replies" (Consumerist)
- Speed up customer service with quick replies & welcome messages in Twitter Direct Messages (Twitter Blog)
- You Watching, Twitter? YouTube Just Cleaned Up Comments (Wired)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- Snapseed 2.12 is rolling out on Android and iOS: improved HDR Scape (Snapseed)
- You can now edit panoramas in Snapseed (John Nack)
- Adobe Photoshop Fix comes to Android (The Next Web)
Google for businesses
- Local Business SEO Checklist for Christmas (Online Ownership)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Here’s to more HTTPS on the web! (Google Webmasters blog)
- Google Webmasters Office Hours Hangout: November 1 (Google Webmasters)
- Google Webmasters Office hours Hangout: November 4 (Google Webmasters)
AdSense and advertising
- Register now for the next AdSense Hangout on Air (AdSense)
- Did you receive an AdSense policy violation warning? Don't panic! (Inside AdSense blog)
- Publishers are rethinking "Around the Web" type ads (New York Times)
Hangouts and Messaging
- Google Duo 4.0 update (Justin Uberti)
- Hangouts v14 for Android rolling out: new group chat setup and more (Android Police)
- The genesis of Google Hangouts (Ars Technica)
- Google and Sprint launch RCS messaging to customers with Android devices (Google Blog)
Nexus, Android, Project Fi
- Why the Nexus 5X and 6P didn't get Pixel fingerprint swipe gestures (Android Police)
- The (updated) History of Android (Ars Technica)
- Improved real-time data usage info in the Project Fi app (Project Fi)
- Webinar learn more about Project Fi with Top Contributor expert +Ziggy Dziegman !
- (Michael Daniels)
- Daydream View: In stores November 10th with launch lineup (Ian Lake)
Productivity
- Google Classroom: Handwritten Feedback for Realz, LOL!!! (David Noller)
- Chrome OS 54 adds support for image preview (Paolo Amoroso)
Desktops aren’t dead!
- How Google, Apple and Microsoft just saved the PC (Mike Elgan)
- Apple's software engineering chief tells us why there's no touchscreen Mac (CNET News)
- Microsoft And Google Reveal Great New Skills -- And Threaten To Leave Apple Behind (Forbes)
Privacy and Security
- Google’s Chrome Hackers Are About to Upend Your Idea of Web Security (Wired)
- Our Role in Protecting the Internet — With Your Help (Mozilla Blog)
- Keeping the Play Store trusted: fighting fraud and spam installs (Android Developers blog)
More around the web
- Microsoft announces its Slack competitor - Microsoft Teams (The Next Web)
- Slack sounds scared as hell in its open letter to Microsoft (The Next Web)
- Slack shows it’s worried about Microsoft Teams with a full-page newspaper ad (The Verge)
- Voted yet? Facebook wants to help you prepare for US voting and Google will help you find your polling place
- Find your voting info with @gov on Twitter (Twitter blog)
- Have we reached peak cat video? Impossible! (YouTube Trends)
- Visit spooky places around the world via Google Street View (Google Blog)
- Making the web a more interesting place (Pocket Blog)
- Pushing That Crosswalk Button May Make You Feel Better, but … - The New York Times
- Emojis are becoming hyper-realistic, and that's a bad thing (Charlie Warzel)
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links
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