This week there are updates and tips for Plussers, Business owners and managers, VR video watchers, along with tips for YouTubers, AdSense Publishers and more.
Image: Detail from a Poster for the Works Progress Administration that shows various items that can be purchased at a five and dime store (Public Domain)
- You can now embed a Google+ Stream from a Profile, Community, Community Category, Collection or search result on a Google Sites web page. I’m hoping this option will be available to other types of websites as well.
- If you own or manage a Brand Account for a YouTube channel or Google+ Page, you can now see the email addresses of other owners and managers.
- Google My Business launched Post Insights, which lets you see views, clicks and the percentage change for individual posts and all posts over the past week or month.
- Google announced several updates for the DayDream VR viewer, including the ability to watch YouTube videos with other people.
- Google Maps no longer shows the Earth as flat in 3D Globe mode.
- Google is reportedly working on a censored version of its search engine for China, and employees are in an uproar.
Image: Detail from a Poster for the Works Progress Administration that shows various items that can be purchased at a five and dime store (Public Domain)
Upcoming:
- 6 August : Deadline to submit application for VR Creator Lab at YouTube Space London
- 6 August: Deadline to submit application for YouTube Nextup in Dubai, UAE
- 15 August: Chrome Bookmark Manager extension retired
- 21 August: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
- 22 August: YouTube Enhancements (other than Blur and Trim) removed
- 22 August: AdSense on Air: Monetization for eCommerce
- 24 August: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
- 31 August: Deadline to submit application for YouTube Nextup in Bangkok, Thailand
YouTube and Video Creation
- Report bad predictions in YouTube search
- DayDream together - watch YouTube videos in VR with other people, plus more VR updates (YouTube Blog)
- Brand Account Owners and Managers can now view the emails of other owners and managers
- Everything you need to know about YouTube Premieres (Creator Insider)
- The inside story on YouTube channel Memberships (formerly Sponsorships) (Creator Insider)
- YouTube Music is about to get a lot better (engadget)
- YouTube Music Is Seriously Bulking Up Its Senior Leadership On A Global Scale (Tubefilter)
- YouTube Hires Derek Blasberg to Lead New Fashion and Beauty Partnerships Division (Business of Fashion)
Go Live
- Safer conversation for live video: Twitter more aggressively enforcing live broadcast chat guidelines for Periscope (Twitter)
- Twitch introduces Creator Camp: learn how to grow and improve your streams (Twitch)
Google+
- Embed a Google+ Stream - profile, community category, collection, or search results - in your Google Sites website (G Suite Updates)
- Navigate Google+ with this neat cheat sheet (G Suite Learning Center)
- Brand Account Owners and Managers can now view the emails of other owners and managers
Other social media
- Musical.ly app shuts down as users get moved over to Tik Tok (The Verge)
- New Tools to Manage Your Time on Facebook and Instagram (Facebook Newsroom)
- The expensive education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley (Kara Swisher @ NY Times)
- Removing Bad Actors on Facebook (Facebook Newsroom)
- Facebook's Censorship Of Legit Activists Shows The Policing Of Propaganda Is Going To Be A Fucking Mess (Techdirt)
- PSA: Automatic cross-posting of tweets to Facebook no longer works as of today (TechCrunch)
- How Twitter is fighting spam and malicious automation (Twitter)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- Google Photos on the web starting to suggest face merging for the same person (Neowin)
- How computers find naked people in photos (SciShow)
Google for businesses
- Google My Business launches Post Insights (GMB Community)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Google is making it easier to discover data on web pages in the search results (Google Blog)
AdSense and advertising
- How to use the AdSense Matched Content recommendations on your site (AdSense on YouTube)
- Understand the AdSense address verification PIN process (AdSense on YouTube)
- How to ensure you are set up to receive a wire transfer payment (AdSense on YouTube)
- Google slowly lifting ban on addiction center ads after adding vetting process (TechCrunch)
Hangouts and Messaging
Made by Google, Android, Project Fi
Productivity
- PSA: Your @Mac.com, @Me.com, or @iCloud.com Emails Sent via Gmail Might Be Marked as Spam Now (MacRumors)
- Google Maps’ location sharing feature now tells your mates if your battery’s dying (The Next Web)
- Google Maps is no longer #flatearth (TechCrunch)
- Start your day on a high note with musical alarms on the Google Clock app (Google Blog)
- Propose a new meeting time in Google Calendar (G Suite Updates)
- Chrome stable Channel Update for Desktop (Chrome Releases)
- The origins of the "Anonymous Animals" in your Google Docs (Mental Floss)
- Plan your next trip - Customize Bing itineraries to make them your own (Bing blog)
- Bing update: Intelligent Search that can save you money: hotel booking, home services price ranges, and more (Bing Blog)
Privacy and Security
- We had a security incident. Here's what you need to know (Reddit r/announcements)
- How criminals recruit telecom employees to help them hijack SIM cards (Motherboard)
More around the web
- Patreon Creators See Dip In Earnings Due To Payments Being Mistakenly Marked As Fraudulent, Company Says (Tubefilter)
- Look up in the night sky - what do you see? A giant? Old man? Throne? (datasketch.es)
- Don’t feed the trolls, and other hideous lies (The Verge)
- When a stranger decides to destroy your life (Gizmodo)
- What happened to General Magic: Oral History of the Influential Tech Company (NY Magazine)
- Google Struggles to Contain Employee Uproar Over China Censorship Plans (The Intercept)
- What’s at stake for Apple in China (NPR)
- Apple is America’s first trillion-dollar company, thanks in large part to China (Technology Review)
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links
Wow, had no idea the cross-posting of Tweets to Facebook was disabled now. It was convenient for Bloggers to have FeedBurner automatically post their new posts to Twitter, and then have Twitter connected to Facebook. Seamless and no third-party like IFTTT. Looks like that's over. Thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteNot at the moment. But I am slow at reviewing comments caught in the spam filiter.
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