It’s been relatively quiet in the Googleverse this week. It’s so much easier to keep up with the changes when new features and updates aren’t launched one on top of the other!
What’s new in the Googleverse (and beyond) this week?
Plus there are more tips and updates for video creators (and watchers), live streamers, webmasters, and much more!
Image: Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) by Henri Rousseau (1891) (Public Domain)
More information about the painting from the National Gallery of Art.
What’s new in the Googleverse (and beyond) this week?
- Google+ Communities got a nice update. You can use the new Community Member Activity View to see all the posts from a member of a particular Community. It’s useful for moderators, and helpful if you want to see what a specific person posted about.
- And if you love Google+, and want to give feedback on features under development, you can apply to be a Google+ beta tester!
- Android early adopters and developers: Developer Preview 4 now available, official Android O coming soon! My big question: what will “O” be? Orange Marmalade? Oreo? Oatmeal Cookie?
- Adobe announced they will be saying goodbye to Flash by the end of 2020. Even though the use of Flash on the web has decreased significantly in the past few years, but it’s still in use for videos and games. Google (Chrome), Mozilla (Firefox), Apple (Safari), Microsoft (Internet Explorer, Edge), and Facebook (games) all posted more information about how they will be handling the change over the next couple of years. Up for discussion is whether it’s worth trying to preserve old Flash content, especially from the early days of the internet.
- Alphabet (Google's Parent Company), Facebook and Twitter released their quarterly reports this week. That has lead to some speculation as to how many daily users Twitter actually has (guesstimated to be about 134 million, but Twitter won't confirm). In comparison Facebook reports 1.3 billion daily active users and 2 billion monthly users, and YouTube has 1.5 billion monthly users. And no, Alphabet has not released any Google+ user stats (but the best guess is that the user base is closer to Twitter than YouTube). At least Google+ers are more satisfied than Twitterers, YouTubers or Facebookers.
Plus there are more tips and updates for video creators (and watchers), live streamers, webmasters, and much more!
Image: Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) by Henri Rousseau (1891) (Public Domain)
More information about the painting from the National Gallery of Art.
Upcoming:
- 31 July: CineSpace short film competition using NASA imagery deadline
- 2 August: YouTube NextUp applications deadline for Jakarta (Indonesia), Manila (Philippines), Mexico City (Mexico)
- 21 August: Become a citizen scientist and contribute photos to the Eclipse Megamovie
- 13 September: Web clipboard to be removed from Google Docs, Sheets and Slides
- 20 September:YouTube Video Editor and Photo Slideshows retire
YouTube and Video Creation
- Tip How to move your YouTube channel from one Google account to another Google account (The Lady From UNCLE)
- Tip YouTube's Fix It Week (Creator Insider)
- Tip Social Map Explorer lets you see YouTube videos shared from a particular location
- New YouTube’s head of music confirms YouTube Red and Google Play Music will merge to create a new service (The Verge)
- YouTube wants to fix its awkward relationship with the music industry (The Verge)
Go Live
- New Introducing the Live 360 Ready Program and new features for Live 360 (Facebook Media Blog)
- Update Twitch Stream shares now automatically show Past Broadcasts after the stream (Twitch Blog)
- Tip Twitch Studios Hosting and Interview Workshop (Twitch)
Google+
- New Google+ update: Community Member Activity View (Leo Deegan)
- Apply to be a Google+ beta tester! (Google+)
- Google+ has the most satisfied users, even if there aren't that many of us (relatively speaking) (Washington Post)
Other social media
- Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2017 Results (Facebook Newsroom)
- This Facebook ad tried to do in Patrick Stewart and I'm not having it (Lance Ulanoff @ Mashable)
- Wall Street thinks Twitter’s business shrank again last quarter (Kurt Wagner @ ReCode)
- Twitter is having a very bad day (Matthew Lynley @ Techcrunch)
- How many people use Twitter every day? (Kurt Wagner @ ReCode)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- Update Google Photos albums can now have more than 2000 images (xda-developers)
- Tip Google Photos "High quality" vs "Original": What's the difference and should you care? (PhotoArena)
- Update GoPro app updated to v4.0 with new 'QuikStory' video feature (Android Police)
- NVIDIA Shares How AI Helps Bing Search for Images Within Images (Bing Blog)
Google for businesses
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Tip Use Google Drawings to create an image with a text overlay for your blog or social media post (Ms Drasby)
- Update Saying goodbye to Flash by the end of 2020
- Instead of killing Flash, we should save it for posterity (Abhimanyu Ghoshal @ The Next Web)
- FLASH & THE FUTURE OF INTERACTIVE CONTENT (Adobe)
- So long, and thanks for all the Flash (Chromium blog)
- Saying goodbye to Flash in Chrome (Google Blog)
- Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-of-Life (Mozilla)
- Adobe Announces Flash Distribution and Updates to End (Apple Webkit Team)
- Flash on Windows Timeline (Microsoft)
- Migrating Games from Flash to Open Web Standards on Facebook (Facebook Developers)
- A Brand New Editor for the WordPress Mobile Apps (WordPress.com News)
AdSense and advertising
- Tip: Learn more about the new AdSense Native Ads (AdSense on YouTube)
Hangouts and Messaging
- Update Telegram 4.2 brings self-destructing media, profile bios, and more (Android Police)
Made by Google, Android, Project Fi
- New The Project Fi referral challenge: race to Google Headquarters (Projecct Fi)
- Update Developer Preview 4 now available, official Android O coming soon! (Android Developers)
Productivity
- Tip Copy text from your images using Google Keep (Michael Daniels)
- Update Chrome Stable Channel Update for Desktop (Chrome Releases Blog)
- Update Google has dropped Google Instant Search (Search Engine Land)
- Update The latest Google Feed may have removed the swipe to dismiss card gesture (Android Police)
- New Bing Offers Historical Knowledge Box: Search "On This Day" (SEO Roundtable)
- Update Microsoft Paint is getting killed off in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (The Verge)
Privacy and Security
- Update Trusted Contacts now on iOS (Google Blog)
More around the web
- The digital native is a myth (Nature)
- Wikipedia bots spent years fighting silent, tiny battles with each other (Popular Science)
- Five great reads to understand the age of cyber conflict (Jigsaw)
- Making the internet work better for everyone in Africa (Google Blog)
- Behind the Scenes: mapping the International Space Station with Google Street View
- Google SOS Alerts: Helping people in a crisis (Google Blog)
- Steve Bannon Wants Facebook and Google Regulated Like Utilities (The Intercept)
- Who owns Snopes? Fracas over fact-checking site now front and center (Ars Technica)
- A DNA App Store Is Here, but Proceed with Caution (MIT Technology Review)
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links
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