My top updates this week:
- Get a sneak peek at YouTube's new design, including a dark theme
- Update to AdSense policy: more mobile web options
- How Google protects your account from phishing (and how this week's attack worked)
- Use Google Photos to automatically create a Mother's Day movie
Plus there are tips and updates for YouTube, Live Streamers Google+, Webmasters, Maps users and more!
Do you know what happened last month? Check out my overview of April Creator Updates!
I take a look at: Google+ Topics, updates to the YouTube Partner Program, AdSense content policy, Custom URLs, and more.
Image: Detail from Mother Galanda by Mikuláš Galanda (Public Domain)
Do you know what happened last month? Check out my overview of April Creator Updates!
I take a look at: Google+ Topics, updates to the YouTube Partner Program, AdSense content policy, Custom URLs, and more.
Image: Detail from Mother Galanda by Mikuláš Galanda (Public Domain)
Upcoming
- 11 May: #AskAdSense office hours
- 17-19 May: Google I/O 2017
- 17 May: Deadline to apply for NextUp Paris, NextUp Tokyo and NextUp Mumbai
- 19 May: Deadline to submit your video to the Best.Cover.Ever competition
- 22 May: Carrier SMS removed from Google Hangouts
- 22 May: Deadline to apply to the Google Jump Start program (360 video)
- 23 May: Google announcing the latest Analytics, DoubleClick and Ads innovations
YouTube and Video Creation
- Get a sneak peek at YouTube's new design, including a dark theme (YouTube)
- The YouTube video Annotations Editor is retired (YouTube)
- Are you an aspiring singer? The Best.Cover.Ever competition on YouTube could be your big break!
- YouTube launching new exclusive ad-supported shows: Kevin Hart. Rhett and Link. Ellen DeGeneres. Katy Perry. The Slow Mo Guys. Demi Lovato. Ludacris (YouTube blog)
- Arabic language Creators: بث مباشر: بناء قناة تنتشر في جميع أنحاء العالم (YouTube Creator Academy)
- How to get started with YouTube End Screens for your videos (Ileane Smith on YouTube)
- Here’s How The YouTube ’Adpocalypse’ Is Affecting Top Creators (Tubefilter)
- Google expected to discontinue YouTube Accelerator to focus on deploying WiFi networks (Android Police)
- Maker Studios Is Officially Dunzo — Replaced by Disney Digital Networks (The Video Ink)
- These YouTube parents pulled disturbing ‘pranks’ on their kids. Now, they’ve lost custody. (Washington Post)
- Facebook shuts down Oculus' award-winning film studio (The Next Web)
- Hulu’s Live TV Service Launches To Save You From Your Cable Bill (Wired)
Go Live
- YouTube Gaming news: Sponsorships and Custom Emojis coming this year (YouTube)
- YouTube Live stream archives: setup, troubleshooting, and processing issues
- Twitter's first 24/7 video channel will be powered by Bloomberg (The Next Web)
- The Twitch chat experience is coming to uploads (Twitch blog)
- When Fans Take Their Love For Twitch Streamers Too Far (Kotaku)
- Video Chapter Markers: Setup & URL Sharing (IBM Cloud Video/Ustream)
Google+
- Finding a Community on Google+ (Spencer Wade)
- Enhancing your Google+ Collections (Peter Quinton)
Other social media
- Facebook Reports First Quarter 2017 Results (Facebook Newsroom)
- Mark Zuckerberg finally addresses the string of violent deaths on Facebook (The Next Web)
- Facebook is hiring another 3,000 people to pull down violent and inappropriate content (Recode)
- Facebook enters war against “information operations,” acknowledges election hijinx (Ars Technica)
- Facebook Handed Over Data on 'Insecure' and 'Overwhelmed' Teenagers to Advertisers (Gizmodo)
- Facebook Says It Shouldn’t Have Told an Advertiser How to Reach Insecure Teens (Slate)
- Ja Rule’s music festival disaster is a good reminder not to trust Instagram sponcon (The Verge)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- Use Google Photos to automatically create a Mother's Day movie (Google Blog)
- Computer Vision and Object Recognition: how computers are learning to understand what that see (Nat & Friends)
Google for businesses
- National Small Business Week: Get your business online (Google My Business)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Meet Blogger expert and Top Contributor DarkUFO (Blogger Help Forum)
- How to monetize your Blogger blog with AdSense ads (video, blog post)
- Group items vertically in the new Google Sites (G Suite Updates)
- An update on the classic Google Sites deprecation timeline (G Suite Updates)
- How Google assesses the ‘authority’ of web pages (Search Engine Land)
- Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (May 2) (Google Webmasters)
- Google Webmasters Office Hours Hangout (May 5) (Google Webmasters)
- Mobile in the Future: Optimizing mobile design for improved engagement (Luke Wroblewski)
- Get Luke Wroblewski’s latest book “Mobile & Multi-device Design” for free (Luke Wroblewski)
- Refocusing and looking forward on Google Custom Search Engine (Custom Search Blog)
AdSense and advertising
- Update to AdSense policy: more mobile web options (AdSense)
- AdSense wants to know how you think they are doing! (AdSense)
- Link your AdSense to Google Analytics to figure out what content works (AdSense)
- AdSense 101: Building your brand (Inside AdSense)
Hangouts and Messaging
- Scheduling is easier with the meet bot in Hangouts Chat for G Suite (Google Blog)
- Google Allo gets chat backup and restore (Derek Ross)
- Backup/restore, group Incognito chats, and more now rolling out in Google Allo (9to5Google)
- First look at Google Allo’s new selfie-generated sticker pack feature [Gallery] (9to5Google)
Nexus, Android, Project Fi
- Sort your Android Apps by “Last Used” (Android)
- Android Wear 2.0 is finally rolling out to the Huawei Watch (Android Police)
Productivity
- Gmail for Android adds new anti-phishing security check for external links (G Suite Updates)
- Web clipboard to be removed from Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides on September 13th, 2017 (G Suite Updates)
- Updating Google Maps with Deep Learning and Street View (Research at Google)
- With Map Maker closed, road segment editing is available to all users on Google Maps (Android Police)
- Doing more with your Google Location History (Gerwin Sturm)
- How do I Create a Calendar for an After School Club? (Ms Drasby)
- Slack introduces a new search feature powered by artificial intelligence (The Verge)
Privacy and Security
- How Google protects your account from phishing (and how this week's attack worked) (Google blog)
- Now is a good time to run a security checkup on your Google account (Ian Tang)
- Don't click on unexpected Google Docs links, even if they appear to be from someone you know (Motherboard)
- Gmail for Android adds new anti-phishing security check for external links (G Suite Updates)
- Microsoft announces the Surface Laptop, a gorgeous Chromebook competitor (the Next Web)
More around the web
- How to Detect Fake News in Real-Time (Krishna Bharat)
- Magic is an art, . . . But the core of every trick is a cold, cognitive experiment in perception (Smithsonian)
- Brands Taking a Stand (Think with Google)
- Google rater fired after speaking to Ars about work conditions (Ars Technica)
- Niantic forming a multi-year partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Niantic Labs)
- Too little, too late? FCC wins net neutrality court case (Ars Technica)
- Researching the Definition of Good Online Conversations and How They Should Rank with the Yahoo News Annotated Comments Corpus (Yahoo blog)
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