- This week in the official Google+ Aspire Community, I talked about how to get your Google+ followers to subscribe to your YouTube channel, tips for sharing your videos to Google+, differences between following someone on Google+and YouTube and so forth. The #CreateConnection conversation is over, but you can still read the discussion.
- With last week’s announcement that Flickr will be limiting free accounts to only 1000 photos and videos, there was great concern that much of the Creative Commons content shared on the platform would be lost. Flickr has now announced that any images shared under a Creative Commons license before November 1st will not be deleted from the platform, the Flickr Commons archives from governments, universities, museums and other organizations will remain, and they are working with nonprofits to get them set up with Pro accounts for free.
- Google wants everyone to know how much they have invested in fighting piracy - the copyright infringing kind - with some numbers: they have paid more than $3 billion to rights holders who have monetized use of their content in others’ videos on YouTube, invested more than $100 billion in building the YouTube Content ID system, and paid out another $1.8 billion in advertising revenue to the music industry.
- More ways to play: the YouTube app is now available for the Nintendo Switch.
- AdSense has been posting a series of videos on “Understanding Policy” if you are an AdSense Publisher, you should check it out.
- This week was Google’s Android Dev Summit. Most of news is largely of interest to Android Developers, but there were some tidbits for users too, like that using apps in dark mode is confirmed to reduce battery usage and Android will support foldable phones.
Resources for people affected by the California wildfires
- Camp fire in Butte County: Google SOS Alert, Facebook Crisis Response
- Woolsey fire and Hill fires in Southern California: Google SOS Alert, Facebook Crisis Response
Upcoming
- November 13: Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
- November 15: YouTube Learning Fund application deadline
- November 16: Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
- November 18: Deadline to apply for the Google Podcasts Creator Program
- November 20: AdSense on Air: All you need to know about the HTTPS migration
YouTube and Video Creation
- The YouTube App is now available on Nintendo Switch! (YouTube)
- As part of anti-piracy efforts YouTube has paid more than $3 Billion to rights holders through Content ID (Google Blog)
- YouTube wants to know what you think about retiring legacy Annotations (Creator Insider)
- Smosh Co-Founder Anthony Padilla Shares Why He Departed “Evil And Shady” Defy Media After Sudden Shutdown (Tubefilter)
- Vine is being resurrected as Byte (DailyDot)
Go Live
Google+
- #CreateConnections: Getting your Google+ followers to subscribe to your YouTube channel (me in the Aspire Community)
- Eric Schmidt takes responsibility for Google's lack of success with social networks: "... because we didn’t collectively use it, I suspect we didn’t fully understand how to do it." (Interview with Tyler Cowan)/li>
Other social media
- Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says in retrospect that showing how many followers you have wasn’t ‘healthy’ (Recode)
- Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso (The Verge)
- Facebook removed 14 million pieces of terrorist content this year, and the numbers are rising (TechCrunch)
- Facebook joins Google, halts mandatory arbitration in sexual harassment cases (Ars Technica)
Google Photos and Photography in the Cloud
- Creative Commons and images in The Flickr Commons won't be affected by new 1000 photo limit (Flickr)
Bloggers and Webmasters
- Google Search Console Tests New Domain Property (SEO Roundtable)
AdSense and advertising
- Understanding AdSense Policy: Dangerous or derogatory content (AdSense on YouTube)
- Understanding AdSense Policy: Encouraging Accidental Clicks (AdSense on YouTube)
- Understanding AdSense Policy: Misrepresentative Content (AdSense on YouTube)
- Chrome 71 will block any and all ads on sites with “abusive experiences” (Ars Technica)
Hangouts and Messaging
- Invite people to an ongoing Hangouts Meet meeting (G Suite Updates)
- Hangouts Meet add-in for Microsoft Outlook available (G Suite Updates)
- Creating asynchronous bot requests in Hangouts Chat (Cloud Blog)
Made by Google, Android, Project Fi
- Unfolding right now at #AndroidDevSummit! (Android Developers)
- Google confirms dark mode is a huge help for battery life on Android (The Verge)
- End of an era: The final Nexus phones may have just gotten their last update (Android Police)
- Get your app ready for foldable phones (Android Developers)
- Introducing the Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report (Google Security blog)
Productivity
- Files Go is now Files by Google: the file management app for every Android user (Google Blog)
- Copy formatting to multiple objects in Google Slides (G Suite Updates)
- Chrome stable Channel Update for Desktop (Chrome Releases)
Privacy and Security
- Chrome Update: notifying users of unclear subscription pages on mobile (Chromium blog)
- Beware fake Google support numbers! (discussion on Google+)
- Scam Alert: Fake Customer Service Numbers Posted In Forums (Chris Andrews)
More around the web
- The Free Music Archive is closing this month (The Verge)
- Sundar Pichai’s note to Google employees regarding changes to handling sexual harassment (Google Blog)
- Continuing the fight against child sexual abuse online (Google Blog)
- Celebrating the next generation of game makers on the Google Play Store (Google Blog)
Updated March 2019 to remove Google+ links.
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