Lots new in the Googleverse this week!
Image: Spring has sprung! Curved spring by Ingo Dierking on Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
- Blogger introduced 4 new modern template themes. I used the Notable theme to give this blog a new look. If you want to give one of them a try, it’s easy to switch!
- Google continued to be under fire from advertisers whose ads appeared with “extremist” content. Despite assurances from Google and YouTube that practices would be improved, big advertisers in the UK and US pulled millions of advertising dollars. And it’s not clear how much the changes will affect Creators.
- Google continues to refine its messaging strategy. SMS will be removed from Google Hangouts (except for Google Voice and Project Fi) and Google Talk will finally be completely retired.
- Google Photo was updated for faster backup and sharing, especially when you have a poor internet connection
- Snapseed got some nice new features, including Double Exposure and Face Pose
- Real-time location sharing is coming back to Google Maps.
Plus there are tips and updates for Webmasters, Live Streamers, YouTubers, and Google Voice, Gmail, Maps and more.
Image: Spring has sprung! Curved spring by Ingo Dierking on Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Upcoming
- 28 March: Google+ Collections 101 panel
- 30 March: #AskAdSense office hours
- 30 March: Google Partners Livestream: Digital Transformation: Audience with Tadej Udovic
- 31 March: Google Map Maker closing
- 4 April: Google Webmaster Central office hours hangout
- 7 April: Google Webmaster Central office hours hangout
- 15 April: Deadline to apply for YouTube Nextup 2017 (US, Canada, UK)
- 17 April: Google Spaces shut down
- 20 April: Update your Google Drive plug-in for Microsoft Office
- 25 April: Most Hangouts video call apps will be retired
- 2 May: YouTube Annotations editor retired
- 22 May: Carrier SMS removed from Google Hangouts
- 23 May: Google announcing the latest Analytics, DoubleClick and Ads innovations
- 26 June: Google Talk retired, replaced by Hangouts
YouTube and Video Creation
- YouTube updates ad policies and practices to benefit Advertisers and Creators (YouTube Creator blog)
- YouTube investigating why some LGBTQ videos blocked in Restricted Mode (YouTube Creator Blog)
- How to block someone from commenting on your YouTube videos or channel
- How Google uses machine learning to automatically caption sound effects in YouTube videos (Research at Google blog)
- Imagine Dragons wants to collaborate with YOU on their next music video (Adobe)
- Official YouTube Blog: Enjoy your personal concert with VR videos on YouTube
- Everything you need to know about Clips, Apple’s new video-editing app (Daily Dot)
Go Live
- Tips for live broadcasting from Facebook (but applicable to everyone)
- Facebook now lets you go live from your desktop computer (Facebook Newsroom)
- Instagram update: Save Your Live Video to Your Phone (Instagram blog)
- Twitch ads “auto” video quality option (Twitter blog)
Google+
- Google+ features in Gmail to be retired (G Suite Updates)
- Google+ wants help identifying the best Collections and Communities to feature (Carter Gibson)
- More organizations and celebrities can now post directly to the Google Search results (Google Blog, TechCrunch)
Other social media
- Reddit Is Now a Social Network For Exactly Three People [Updated] (Gizmodo)
- Instagram rolls out 2-factor authentication, screen over “sensitive” photos and videos (Instagram Blog)
- How to Use Instagram's Two-Factor Authentication (Wired)
- Facebook's 'Fake News' Feature Is Live (and Here's What It Looks Like) (Eli Fennell)
- New: Mute words, phrases, hashtags & more for a specific time period in your timeline & notifications. (Twitter Safety)
- Twitter’s 10th Transparency report (Twitter blog)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- Google Photos update: Faster backup and sharing, no matter the connection (Google Brazil blog)
- Snapseed 2.17 update with new tools: Double Exposure, Face Pose, Expand (SnapSeed)
- How Gcam started in Google Glass, and now powers the Pixel camera (X, the moonshot factory)
Google for businesses
- Google is automating business listings ownership conflict resolution (Google My Business, Mike Blumenthal)
- Google deriving information in your website to designate content in unique ways for Google My Business / Google Local data (David Kutcher)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Express your unique #bloggerstyle with new Blogger templates themes! (Blogger blog)
- Add Disqus commenting to your Blogger blog (So How Do I blog)
- Google Webmasters Office Hours Hangout (March 24) (Google Webmasters)
- Medium launches memberships for $5 per month (The Verge)
AdSense and advertising
- Expanded safeguards for advertisers (Google in Europe blog)
- YouTube updates ad policies and practices to benefit Advertisers and Creators (YouTube Creators blog)
- Google apologises after ads appear next to extremist content (BBC News)
- Havas Group freezes all Google and YouTube Ad Spend in the UK (AdAge)
- AT&T, other U.S. advertisers quit Google, YouTube over extremist videos (USA Today)
- YouTube’s $25 Billion ad problem (recode)
- As ad boycott picks up pace, Google knows it doesn't have to worry (The Register)
Hangouts and Messaging
- Hangouts will no longer support SMS, except for Google Voice and Project Fi (G Suite Updates blog)
- Gmail lab to listen to Google Voice or Project Fi voicemail in Gmail will be retired after April 24th (Scott Greenstone)
- Google Duo audio calling, Google Allo File Sharing and Smart Smiley in Brazilian Portuguese (Google Brazil blog)
- Introducing Message Reactions and Mentions for Messenger (Facebook Newsroom)
Nexus, Android, Project Fi
- Second public beta of Android 7.1.2 rolling out soon for Pixel and Nexus devices (9to5Google)
- Google announces Android O (Android Developers)
- Hands-on with Android O—A million new settings and an awesome snooze feature (Ars Technica)
- How Gcam started in Google Glass, and now powers the Pixel camera (X, the moonshot factory)
Productivity
- New shortcuts in Android Google Search help keep you in the know (Google Blog)
- Real-time location sharing comes to Google Maps (Google Blog)
- Google Maps can now save your parking spot (The Next Web)
- Google Maps could soon let strangers track your real-time location (The Independent)
- Chrome for Android Update (Chrome Releases blog)
- Stable Channel Updates for Chrome OS (Chrome Releases Blog)
Privacy and Security
- Google takes Symantec to the woodshed for mis-issuing 30,000 HTTPS certs (Ars Technica)
- Senate votes to let ISPs sell your Web browsing history to advertisers (Ars Technica)
- Thousands of Compromised Joomla Websites Leading to Fake Flash Player Update Sites. (Malware Breakdown)
- A new kind of malware forces users to say they like it (Technology Review, John Skeats)
More around the web
- Google’s Plan to Engineer the Next Silicon Valleys (Backchannel)
- YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki on How to break up the Silicon Valley Boy’s Club (Vanity Fair)
- Voice Is the Next Big Platform, Unless You Have an Accent (Backchannel)
- Clothing of the future? (9to5Google)
Moreover,my two adsense accounts and YouTube channels are suspended with more than $86 earnings in them.
ReplyDeleteThis all happened after these new changes.
As far as I know changes haven't gone into effect yet. And, in any case, they are mostly just stronger enforcement of existing policies around advertiser friendly content - they aren't about spam or invalid activity policies. You can try submitting an appeal, but do first try to figure out why exactly your accounts were disabled.
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