- YouTube now lets creators fix videos with unrelated or misleading tags
- YouTube Star PewDiePie lost lucrative deals with Maker/Disney and YouTube after the Washington Post wrote about his anti-Semitic stunts. Much hand-wringing ensues. (Posts are collected below)
- Twitter begins implementing new anti-harassment measures
- Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has a manifesto: Building a global community
- Google Maps gets social,now lets you create and share location lists
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Upcoming
- 21 February: Google Webmasters Office Hours Hangout
- 23 February: Google Partners Livestream: Digital Transformation: Brand Solutions with Elisabet Manyosa Blasi
- 23 February : #AskAdSense office hours
- 24 February: Google Webmasters Office Hours Hangout
- 28 February: YouTube Fan Funding retired
YouTube and Video Creation
- Update: Fixing videos with unrelated or misleading video tags (YouTube)
- Update: Browse for another video while in fullscreen on mobile (YouTube)
- YouTube Kids turns 2, coming soon to Smart TVs (YouTube blog)
- Social Blade: YouTube 30 day views will be off through February 24th (Social Blade)
- Research Blog: An updated YouTube-8M, a video understanding challenge, and a CVPR workshop. Oh my! (Research at Google)
- Maker Studios Reportedly Slashing Its Creator Network Of "Thousands" To Just 300 (TubeFilter)
- In 2018, YouTube Will Stop Showing 30-Second Unskippable Ads (Tubefilter
- One billion captioned videos (YouTube blog
- How to add Closed Captions to your YouTube videos (Kate’s Adventures)
- Reverse engineering the YouTube Recommended Videos algorithm (Matt Gielen)
- Businesses: make a Professional Video with YouTube Director Onsite (Google Partners)
- Google's VR filmmaker Jessica Brillhart explains what the new medium does that film cannot (MIT Technology Review)
- Major Facebook Video update: Auto-play audio, watch and scroll and more (Facebook)
PewDiePie’s “Fall”
- Disney Drops Pewdiepie Over Anti-Semitic Jokes (Kotaku)
- YouTube, Disney come down hard on PewDiePie after anti-Semitic stunt (Ars Technica)
- PewDiePie Isn’t A Monster; He’s Someone You Know (Buzzfeed)
- YouTube’s Monster: PewDiePie and His Populist Revolt (New York Times)
- PewDiePie’s Fall Shows the Limits of ‘LOL JK’ (Wired)
- PewDiePie calls out media “attack” in response to Disney fallout (Ars Technica)
- PewDiePie Says WSJ Took Anti-Semitic Content Out of Context (WSJ response) (Wall Street Journal)
Go Live
- How to edit your YouTube Live video archive (Ileane Smith)
- What is Super Chat? (YouTube Help)
Google+
- How to check your Google+ Views and other stats
- Google+ tip: Keyboard shortcuts (Robert Wallis)
- The Messy Divorce Between Google+ & Google My Business - Online Ownership (Online Ownership)
- Основы работы с новой версией Google+ (Yuriy Hlopko)
Other social media
- Building Global Community (Facebook)
- Read Mark Zuckerberg’s full 6,000-word letter on Facebook’s global ambitions (Recode)
- One of Twitter’s new anti-abuse measures is the oldest trick in the forum moderation book (The Verge)
- Twitter Is Now Temporarily Throttling Reach Of Abusive Accounts (Buzzfeed)
- Starting today, you won't get notified when you are added to a list. (Twitter Safety)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- Google Photos on the web now shows which album a photo is in (Android Police)
Google for businesses
- Google Updates GMB Guidelines - Virtual Offices are NOT Allowed for SABs (Joy Hawkins)
- Business owners: check out the Google Small Business Community Office Hours! (Google Small Business)
- Missing your Business Page Stats, check your promotions Inbox (Tim Capper)
- The Complete Guide to your Google My Business Dashboard (Tim Capper)
- Make a Professional Video with YouTube Director Onsite (Google Partners)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Check your Blogger blog pageview stats with just a few clicks
- What does a good website test look like? The essential elements of testing (Google Analytics blog)
AdSense and advertising
- If your income depends on an online platform, keep up to date with the terms! (and diversify!) (NPR)
- Discover the next generation of programmatic advertising technology (Inside AdSense blog)
Hangouts and Messaging
- Google Partnering with Telenor to launch RCS messaging in Europe and Asia (Google Blog
- Free webinar: Learn the basics of Google Allo and Duo (Dencil Smith with Michael Daniels)
- Facebook Messenger can insert GIFs from Google's Gboard (Android Police)
- Skype for Insiders becomes Skype Preview, the beta app aiming to replace the regular sluggish Skype (Android Police)
- Encryption App Signal Adds Video Calls—And a New Privacy Tradeoff (Wired)
Pixel, Android, Project Fi
- Project Fi is testing VoLTE (Project Fi)
- Google posts list of changes for Play Services 10.2, drops Gingerbread support and improves several APIs (Android Police)
- You can now share personal info with others in Allo via Google Assistant (Android Authority)
- Editorial: Neither Android Wear nor a Pixel Watch Can Succeed Without a Stronger Pixel (XDA Developers)
Productivity
- The official Chrome OS Camera App now allows you to switch between all your connected cameras (Francois Beaufort)
- Experience Virtual Reality on the web with Chrome (Google Blog)
- Your music. Your home. Better together. (official Google Blog)
- Link to cell ranges in Google Sheets (G Suite Updates)
- Google Maps now lets you create and share location lists (Google Maps)
- Time to discover new places in Africa. Ghana, Senegal and Uganda now on Street View (Google Blog)
- Yahoo Mail Update: Never Guess Who’s Calling or Email Yourself a Photo Again (Yahoo blog)
- Gmail tips to organize and streamline your email (G Suite)
Privacy and Security
- Understanding differences between corporate and consumer Gmail threats (Google Security Blog)
- Shielding you from Potentially Harmful Applications (Google Safety & Security blog)
- Samsung warns customers not to discuss personal information in front of smart TVs(The Week)
- Yahoo Hacked Once Again! Quietly Warns Affected Users About New Attack (The Hacker News)
More around the web
- A 7-year-old girl asked Google for a job — and got a personal response from CEO Sundar Pichai (Business Insider)
- Feel in need of a fun fact? Google Search has got them (Google blog)
- What Happens When the Computer That Keeps You Alive Can Also Put You In Jail? (Gizmodo)
- The Truth About The Trump Data Team That People Are Freaking Out About (BuzzFeed News)
- Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site (Ars Technica)
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