Weekly Update - September 30, 2017: YouTube Link Cards, Google Slides, AdSense in Bangla

This week was pretty quiet, but even so there are updates for presenters, webmasters, AdSense publishers, YouTubers, live streamers and more:

• My favorite update was the shiny new features for Google Slides. There are now add-ons, synced slides and drag and drop integration between Google Keep (Google Blog)
• For YouTube Creators, there’s been a change to the eligibility requirements for adding external link Cards - you now need to have monetization enabled to share any external links, including to Merch and Crowdfunding sites.
• অ্যাডসেন্স এখন বাংলা (বাংলা) বুঝতে পারে - AdSense now supports Bengali (Bangla)
• Google celebrated their 19th birthday, sharing fun Google Doodle games from years gone by.
• Outside the Googleverse, Twitter is testing out letting users have 280 characters to Tween. They explained why, but many Twitterers aren’t happy with the change.

Image: Detail from Atardecer en el mar [La ola roja] by Joaquín Clausell (~1910) (Public Domain)

Upcoming:

• 3 October: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
• 4 October: Made by Google phone event
• 5 October: Google Partners Academy on Air: Mobile App-Install: Getting started
• 6 October: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
• 12 October: Google Partners Academy on Air: Universal App Campaigns: Deep dive and best practices
• 19 October: Google Partners Academy on Air: User Acquisition: Maximizing apps via web
• 26 October: Google Partners Academy on Air: Leveling Up Your UAC Campaigns: The right game events

YouTube and Video Creation

• YouTube Creators: Enable monetization to link to merch and crowdfunding sites on your videos
• Susan Wojckicki: My First Video - Advice from Creators (Susan Wojckicki on YouTube)
• Meet the Google Jump Start creators, creating 3D-360º VR video (Google Blog)
• How to find out if your videos were featured on the YouTube Home page (YouTube Creator Academy)
• How YouTube democratized the job of content creator (Robert Kyncl)
• Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon Echo Show (The Verge)
• YouTube Launches Advertiser-Facing Campaign To Promote Six-Second Spots, Underserved Demographics (TubeFilter)
• Introducing Cloudflare Stream: Fixing the Streaming Video Market (Cloudflare Blog)

Go Live

• Nintendo Creators Program Will No Longer Let YouTubers Live-Stream (Kotaku)
• Vimeo Live: professional live streaming for events (Vimeo Blog)
• “Chat on Videos” feature expanding to all videos (Twitch Blog)

Google+

• This Month On G+: September Edition (Google+) 
• Google+ iOS update 6.18 (Rupert Wood)
• Google+ Android update 9.21 (APK Mirror)

Other social media

• Giving you more characters to express yourself (Twitter Blog)
• The Internet Doesn't Need—or Want—Longer Tweets (Wired)
• Twitter pledges to update public policies after Trump threatens North Korea (The Verge)
• Strengthening Our Commitment to Safety and Kindness for 800 Million (Instagram)
• Facebook’s racist ad problems were baked in from the start (The Verge)
• Microsoft finally starts doing something with LinkedIn by integrating it into Office 365 (TechCrunch)

Google Photos and Mobile Photography

• Google Photo books are now suggested from your best moments (US only) (Google Photos)
• Group On The Go With Flickr 4.4 (Flickr Blog)
• Google Photos 3.6.0.170073675 APK Download by Google Inc (APK Mirror)

Google for businesses

• Google Partners Academy on Air: Dashboards to show off holiday data
• Digital Transformation: Mobile Brand Strategy with Google Partners
• Google Top Contributors Q&A About Google My Business and Local Search (Bright Local)
• Google Reviews Need a Yelp Check (Online Ownership)
• Think Before you Post a Damaging or Fake Online Review (Online Ownership)

Bloggers and Webmasters

• Analytics Blog: Google Data Studio: quicker and broader access to data (Google Analytics blog)

AdSense and advertising

• Boost your multi-screen strategy with AdSense Responsive ads (Inside AdSense)
• অ্যাডসেন্স এখন বাংলা (বাংলা) বুঝতে পারে - AdSense now supports Bengali (Bangla) (Inside AdSense Blog)
• Know Their Intention, Get Their Attention: New Ways to Connect and Measure on YouTube (Inside AdWords blog)
• Now you can bookmark your AdMob custom reports (Google Developers)
• Facebook’s racist ad problems were baked in from the start (The Verge)
• Changes to Google Shopping in Europe (Google Blog)

Hangouts and Messaging

• Google Allo one year on (Android Police)
• Free phone calls to Puerto Rico and other support for those affected by Hurricane Maria 

Made by Google, Android, Project Fi

• Making Android better for kids and families: Family Link available in the US without an invite (Google Blog)
• Your Google Assistant is now on Android TV (Google Blog)
• Firefox 56 will drop support for Adobe Flash on Android (Android Police)
• Google extends Nexus 5X and 6P security updates until Nov. 2018 (Android Central)
• Google Store trade-in program adds Pixel and Pixel XL values ahead of next week (9to5 Google)

Productivity

• Google Slides gets add-ons, synced slides and more (Google Blog)
• New: Drag and drop integration between Google Keep and Slides (Google Blog)
• Use Google Drive and the Files app to organize content on your iOS 11 device (G Suite Updates)

Privacy and Security

• Updating our Transparency Report and electronic privacy laws (Google Blog)
• All the Ways Equifax Epically Bungled Its Breach Response (Wired)

More around the web

• When filters fail: These cases show we can’t trust algorithms to clean up the internet (Julia Reda)
• Google Celebrates 19th Birthday with 19 Google Doodle Games From The Past (G Tricks) 
• Working together to combat terrorists online (Google Australia blog)
• AI shouldn’t believe everything it hears (Technology Review)
• Russian hackers exploited a Google flaw — and Google won't fix it (Salon)

Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links