This week’s big news is YouTube TV. It will offer live television on all the major networks, regional sports and many other cable network channels. Put that together with unlimited cloud DVR and availability on all your devices, and it sounds like a winner. US only though.
My top updates this week:
Did you miss the last few updates? Get a quick overview of the February updates for creators - Bloggers, YouTubers and Google Plussers.
Image: Composite with Hungarian televison set. ORION AT 602 - 1959 by Takkk - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link,
- YouTube TV: live TV wherever you are, plus cloud DVR with no storage limits (US only)
- Google Keep integration with Google Docs
- G+ Android version 9.6.0: Support for GBoard Animated GIFs
- Hangouts update: Jump right back into the conversation with redesigned unread messages indicators
Did you miss the last few updates? Get a quick overview of the February updates for creators - Bloggers, YouTubers and Google Plussers.
Image: Composite with Hungarian televison set. ORION AT 602 - 1959 by Takkk - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link,
Upcoming
- 3 March: Google Spaces becomes read-only
- 7 March: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
- 7 March: Firefox 52 release, which does not support Hangouts video calls
- 9 March: #AskAdSense office hours
- 10 March: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
- 14 March: AdSense livestream: Grow your online business in Latin America (Spanish)
- 14 March: AdSense livestream: Grow your online business in Brazil (Portuguese)
- 17 March: YouTube Works for Brands entries close
- 30 March: Google Partners Livestream: Digital Transformation: Audience with Tadej Udovic
- 31 March: Google Map Maker closing
YouTube and Video Creation
- YouTube TV: live TV wherever you are, plus cloud DVR with no storage limits (US only)
- Google Research, Daydream Labs, and YouTube team up to create "mixed reality" with headset "removed"
- Milestone: people watch a Billion hours of YouTube videos every day (YouTube Blog)
- Casey Neistat behind the scenes of his Oscars Samsung ad celebrating the YouTube community
- How YouTube Serves As The Content Engine Of The Internet's Dark Side (Buzzfeed)
- Facebook Has A New Ad Format That Will Ruin Every Video You Watch (Inc)
Go Live
- YouTube Product update: Mobile Live Streaming (YouTube Creator Academy)
- An Update on Periscope Groups (Periscope blog)
- Don’t Stream and Drive! (Krishna De)
Google+
- G+ Android version 9.6.0: Support for GBoard Animated GIFs (Andrew Brenner)
- Last month on Google+ (Google+)
- Do you use Hootsuite? Want to be able to post directly to Google+ Collections?
- A-B-C. Easy as 1-2- 3! The Google+ Alphabet (Alex Garcia)
- Five Reasons Why Aviation Professionals Should Consider Google+ (John Chvatal)
Other social media
- Twitter: Our latest update on safety (Twitter blog)
- Twitter Will Start Using Algorithms To Crack Down On Abusive Accounts (Buzzfeed)
- Get more social with Answers Now (Yahoo blog)
- When Facebook says, "Get off my lawn." The perils of pet profiles (Mark Traphagen)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- Google Photos now offers 6 more tools to improve your photos (Google Photos)
Google for businesses
- MozCon Local 2017 - Post-event Slide Decks & Highlights (Local Search Forum)
- Your Google My Business Page in 2017: How Hard Is It to Mess Up? (Phil Rozek)
- Take your business's website temporarily offline without affecting the site's search presence (Google Webmasters)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Welcome to Series, a new type of story on Medium (Medium blog)
- Import your Medium posts to Wordpress.com (Wordpress)
- How to block unwanted Blogger Followers (Chuck Croll)
- Select a profile for your Blogger blog: Google+ or Blogger-only (blog post or video)
- Take your business's website temporarily offline without affecting the site's search presence (Google Webmasters)
AdSense and advertising
- AdMob introduces monetization innovations for your apps (AdMob)
- Google AdMob Asks Why Publishers Aren't Using Interstitials (SEO Roundtable)
- Understanding AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic (Inside AdSense blog)
- How to address 'insufficient content' disapprovals on your AdSense application (Inside AdSense blog)
- Blogads.com 1.0 RIP (Racery)
Hangouts and Messaging
- Hangouts update: Jump right back into the conversation with redesigned unread messages indicators (G Suite Updates)
- Google Allo update: shortcut to Assistant, smarter GIF sharing (Google Blog)
- AOL disabling 3rd party access to AIM (Ars Technica)
Nexus, Pixel, Android, Project Fi
- Google Assistant coming to phones running Android 7.0 Nougat and Android 6.0 Marshmallow (Google Blog)
- Google Assistant is rolling out to Android 7.0 Nougat and Android 6.0 Marshmallow devices (Google YouTube channel))
- Project Fi app update (version N3.3) (Project Fi)
Productivity
- Google Keep integration with Google Docs (Google Blog)
- Gmail v7.2 adds your accounts to app shortcuts (Android Police)
- How to get help with Google Drive (Ms Drasby)
Privacy and Security
More around the web
- After 18 Years, DMOZ, The Web Directory, Is Closing Down (SEO Roundtable)
- The women missing from the silver screen and the technology used to find them (Google Blog)
- Collapsing "connected toy" company did nothing while hackers stole millions of voice recordings of kids and parents (BoingBoing)
- When computers learn to swear: Using machine learning for better online conversations (Google Blog)
- Google's troll-fighting AI can be defeated by typos (BoingBoing)
- Amazon cloud sputters for hours, and a boatload of websites go offline (Ars Technica)
- Amazon Employee Accidentally Took Down The Internet Earlier This Week (Consumerist)
- Why Typography Matters — Especially At The Oscars (benjamin bannister)
- The True Story of the “Ellen Selfie” (fred graver)
- Get a personalized history timeline from the Atlantic
- Boston Dynamics' Newest Robot Moves Like a Donkey on Rollerblades (Gizmodo)
- Assisting Pathologists in Detecting Cancer with Deep Learning (Google Research Blog)
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links
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