This week we celebrate Chrome’s 10th birthday (and Google’s 20th), and there are updates for Bloggers, Plussers, YouTubers and more.
Image: Go to chrome://dino for a special birthday version of the Chrome “no internet” dinosaur game.
- The official Google+ Collections community is now the Google+ Aspire Community. It’s new focus is to provide resources to learn how to better use Google+ features (profiles, images, hashtags and more), and creating and curating great content. It’s also a place to get feedback on your posts from other Plussers. Kicking it off is discussion on how to create recipe posts. Be sure to join the community to participate (https://plus.google.com/communities/104797282868426074024), and if you have content you think should be highlighted, you can submit it.
- Blog Compass by Google is a new Android app designed to help you manage your Blogger or Wordpress blog. You can get stats, moderate comments, and the app will suggest trending topic ideas for your next post. This beta version of the app is only available in India.
- The new Google Search Console has graduated from “beta”. Some features from “classic” Search Console are not available in the new version yet, but “the most common use cases are supported”. Google is encouraging users to use the new version, as old reports will eventually be removed if there is an equivalent feature in the new version. If you haven’t tried the new Search Console yet, be sure to check out the migration guide that compares the tools and reports in the two versions.
- Chrome turned 10 years old this week, and Google looked at changes over the past decade, and introduced an updated look and some new features, including an improved password manager and more helpful Omnibox address bar.
- Dark theme is finally available in the YouTube Android app, and YouTube wants your questions and feedback. If you want to let YouTube know what you think, head over to Twitter or the official YouTube help forum.
- If you need data for your next project, or just enjoy playing with numbers, check out Google’s new Dataset Search (https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch) that helps you find freely available datasets on the web. There is data for the environmental and social sciences, government data and data provided by news organizations, such as ProPublica. That includes data for weather, housing, education, health, businesses and much more.
Image: Go to chrome://dino for a special birthday version of the Chrome “no internet” dinosaur game.
Upcoming
- 12 September: Google Cloud On Air: Google Slides Tips and Tricks to Boost Productivity
- 13 September: Google Ads Academy on Air: Google Analytics Setup Best Practices
- 14 September: Deadline to apply for YouTube NextUp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 18 September: Google Cloud On Air: Google Slides Tips and Tricks to Boost Productivity
- 27 September: Google Ads Academy on Air: Prepping for the Holidays: Goal-optimized shopping campaigns
YouTube and Video Creation
- YouTube's Dark theme is rolling out to Android now - here's how to get it (The Next Web)
- YouTube's Chief Business Officer on why creators should care about European copyright rules (YouTube Creators blog)
- YouTube wants your questions & feedback about dark theme
- You can now pause your YouTube TV membership for up to six months (The Verge)
- Introducing the Class of 2018 for YouTube NextUp Delhi! (Google India blog)
- Meet the creators heading to three special editions of NextUp: #YouTubeLatino, #YouTubeBlack and #WomentoWatch (YouTube Creators)
- YouTube, Netflix Videos Found to be Slowed by Wireless Carriers (Bloomberg)
Go Live
- YouTube Live Update: Autoplay of embedded live streams from third-party sites will no longer count for concurrent viewers (Creator Insider)
- You can now do audio-only broadcasts on @Twitter and @Periscope (Matt Navarra)
- A Twitch in Time: Legal issues catch up with popular game-broadcasting platform (Above the Law)
Google+
- The Google+ Aspire Community is the official place to learn about creating and curating great content on Google+ (Google+ Aspire community)
Other social media
- A New Resource For the Parents of Teens on Instagram (Instagram)
- Instagram’s parents guide is helpful, but doesn’t go deep enough (The Next Web)
- Inside Twitter’s long, slow struggle to police bad actors (Wall Street Journal)
- Twitter has permanently banned Alex Jones and Infowars (The Next Web)
- Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system (Nolan Lawson)
- Can you spot the deceptive Facebook post? (New York Times)
- Reddit Ignored A Year's Worth Of User Warnings About Iranian Propaganda (Techdirt)
Google Photos and Mobile Photography
- Google Photos photo books are now available in Italy, Netherlands and Spain (Android Police)
- Google Photos updated to v4.0 with refreshed Material UI [APK Download] (Android Police)
- Flickr has a new and improved Galleries experience (Flickr)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Blog Compass by Google for Android lets you get stats, moderate comments and get trending topic ideas for your WordPress or Blogger blog (India only) (Google India)
- The new Google Search Console is graduating from beta with new reports and tools (Google Webmasters Blog)
- Google Webmasters Office Hours Hangout on Air (September 4) (Google Webmasters)
- Google Webmasters Office Hours Hangout on Air (September 7) (Google Webmasters)
AdSense and advertising
Hangouts and Messaging
- Skype introduces built-in video call recording (Skype)
- Simplicity and familiarity—updates to the Skype user experience (Skype)
- Skype drops Snapchat-like feature since people weren't using it (engadget)
Made by Google, Android, Project Fi
- Google sets October 9th for the Pixel 3 unveiling (Ars Technica)
Productivity
- Google Dataset Search is a search engine for “scientists, data journalists, data geeks, or anyone else” to locate online data that is freely available for use (Google Blog, Nature)
Chrome
- Happy 10th birthday Chrome! A new look, improved password manager and more helpful Omnibox (Google Blog)
- The ‘Capable Web’: A 10 Year Retrospective (Chromium Blog)
- Chromium Dash, an amazing website that gathers plenty of information about Chrome Data such as schedule, releases and more (Francois Beaufort)
- Stable Channel Update for Desktop (Chrome 69) (Chrome Releases blog)
- Chrome for Android Update (Chrome 69) (Chrome Releases blog)
- There’s a special surprise in the Google Chrome Dino game (Chrome)
Privacy and Security
- Chrome’s new password manager stops you using the same password for every website (The Verge)
- Google Wants to kill the URL (WIRED)
More around the web
- “It was us against those guys”: The women who transformed Rolling Stone in the mid-70s (Vanity Fair)
- Everybody Dance Now: amazing "do as I do" motion transfer (Caroline Chan)
- Marking 20(is) years of Google (Google Blog)
- Discovery and the Web (Building Feedly)
- Amazon adds Hindi language option as it tries to expand in India (The Verge)
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links
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