tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52126443340162458612024-03-18T12:04:32.108-07:00Peggy K's Creator NewsNews, tips and tutorials for Creators, Collectors and CuratorsPeggy Kolmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01466907398485574017noreply@blogger.comBlogger834125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-24550713042590761282024-03-16T06:25:00.000-07:002024-03-16T06:25:00.136-07:00Creator Weekly: YouTube Clips, Google Web Core Vitals & Search, BlueSky Moderation<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Cheers to all celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this weekend. Wearing of the green
will get you into the mood for Spring, which comes around on Tuesday.
<br /><br />This week there are updates to Google Search for web publishers,
businesses and visitors; YouTube updates for finding your Clips and watching
on TV; updates for Instagram, Pinterest, X, Bluesky and other social media
and, of course, AI. And more!<br />
<h4 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h4><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Google’s Core Web Vitals now includes Interaction to Next Paint (yes, I
try to explain what that means)</li><li>Chrome can now better detect
malicious sites.</li><li>You can find your video Clips and Clips made
from your videos in your YouTube Library.</li><li>YouTube has a new
design for your biggest screen - your TV.</li><li>TikTok has a new
Creator Search Insights tool to find topics with “search value”.</li><li>Google
Search's “Perspectives” filter is becoming the “Forums” filter.</li><li>Google Business Profiles may show social media posts.</li><li>The head of Instagram explains why monetization isn’t for
small creators.</li><li>Bluesky open-sourced its collaborative
moderation tool.</li><li>OpenAI’s CTO is cagey about the source of
training data for Sora text-to-video generative AI.</li><li>Gmail
has a new layout editor</li><li>Google Meet’s touch-up mode is now available
on the web </li></ul>Read
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What do you know about Google’s Search spam policies?
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxovub8mAt_r-zlppe9Jc3TxIYonQgLaeo">Take this week’s quiz</a>.<br />New Tips and Tutorials<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">To Do & Try</h2>
<b>Didthis</b> is a new app from Mozilla that lets you document your hobby
projects, creating a timeline of photos, links and notes. The content is
private unless you choose to share a link or share with the new Didthis
community. Try it at <a href="https://didthis.app/">didthis.app</a> (currently
iOS only) or
<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/introducing-didthis-a-new-app-for-hobbyists/">learn more.</a>
<br /><br /><b>Google I/O 24,</b> Google’s annual developer conference, is May
14th. It’s a free virtual event.
<a href="https://io.google/2024/">You can now register </a>to keep track of
the topics you are interested in and get a shiny badge. There’s
<a href="https://io.google/2024/puzzle/">also a puzzle</a>, which shouldn’t be
too difficult if you play “pipes” type games.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Update to Google’s Core Web Vitals</h2>
<b>Google’s Core Web Vital </b>metrics show how your web pages perform based
on real world data. The metrics include Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), which
is the time to render the largest visible content element, Interaction to Next
Paint (INP), which is responsiveness to user interactions, and Cumulative
Layout Shift (CLS), which measures how the layout shifts as it loads.<br /><br />Why
does it matter?
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/core-web-vitals">Google explains</a>: <br /><br /><i>We highly recommend site owners achieve good Core Web Vitals for success
with Search and to ensure a great user experience generally.
<b>This, along with other page experience aspects, aligns with what our core
ranking systems seek to reward.</b>
(emphasis added)<br /></i><br /><a href="https://web.dev/blog/inp-cwv-launch?hl=en">INP is a new metric</a>
that replaces First Input Delay (FID), which will be fully deprecated by
September 9. <br /><br />Does your website fail? Don’t feel too bad,<a href="https://groups.google.com/g/web-vitals-feedback/c/2GMaraXRHc8/m/mcvqDKCOAAAJ">
Google’s sites also fail</a>. And any sort of advertising <br /><br />Note that
<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78046780/first-input-delay-fid-and-interaction-to-next-paint-inp-showing-n-a-in-the-g/78052424#78052424">you may see a N/A</a>
or “No Data”, rather than stats, if your website doesn’t have enough
traffic.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Check any site (not just your own) using
<a href="https://pagespeed.web.dev/">PageSpeed Insights</a>
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<li>
Learn more about the
<a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9205520">Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console</a>.
</li>
<li>
Give feedback or ask questions in the
<a href="https://groups.google.com/g/web-vitals-feedback">Web Vitals Feedback Google Group</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Safer Browsing in Chrome</h2>
Did you know that the average malicious website only lasts 10 minutes? Now, if
you use <b>Chrome</b> on desktop or iOS (or Android soon),
<a href="https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-safe-browsing-real-time/">it will check sites against Google’s server-side list of known bad site</a>s in real time. <br /><br />Previously Chrome used a list of bad sites stored
on your device that updated every 30 to 60 minutes (did you know Chrome did
that? I did not). <br /><br />Google encrypts the URLs so they do not know
what sites you are trying to visit. The
<a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2024/03/blog-post.html">system matches hashed URLs</a>
against Google’s database and returns results to Chrome using a third party
Fastly OHTTP (“Oblivious HTTP”) relay. <br /><br />Ultimately, Safe Browsing
sees the hash prefixes of your URL but not your IP address, and the privacy
server sees your IP address but not the hash prefixes. No single party has
access to both your identity and the hash prefixes. As such, your browsing
activity remains private.<br /><br />For even safer browsing, there is also
an<a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/9890866">
Enhanced Safe Browsing mode </a>that “uses additional information together with advanced machine learning
models to protect you from sites that Safe Browsing may not yet have confirmed
to be unsafe...”. It also scans extensions and downloads. <br /><br />What
that means for you:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Google should be able to block more potential phishing sites, more
quickly, so you may see the red “Dangerous Site” notice more often.
</li>
<li>
This process “requires some additional horsepower from the browser” so
there may be (hopefully minor) slowdowns, especially if you have many tabs
open.
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Video Creator and Live Streaming Updates</h2>
You can find all viewer-created <b>Clips</b> made of your
<b>YouTube</b> videos and the clips you made from other’s videos in your
Library. To find Clips on desktop, open the left menu and click “Your Clips”
under “You”, or
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/feed/clips">bookmark the Clips page</a>. In
the YouTube app, tap your channel icon at bottom right to open your Library.
<a href="https://youtu.be/7ACVZ7VVUXg?t=30">More info from Creator Insider.</a><br /><br /><b>YouTube</b> is<a href="https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/designing-a-richer-youtube-experience-for-your-tvs/">
rolling out a new design for TVs </a>that makes it easier to read comments and the video description without
disrupting the view of the video. The new design may be used to introduce
shopping, viewing sports live scores and other features.<br /><br /><b>TikTok</b>
<a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/creator-search-insights">launched their new Creator Search Insights tool,</a>
which shows topics that are frequently searched for on the platform. Results
can be filtered by topic or “for you”. TikTok factors “search value” in their
updated Creator Rewards Program, which could mean greater rewards for creating
content that addresses what people are looking for. The Creator Rewards
Program requires videos to be longer than a minute, so this also encourages
longer videos.<br /><br /><b>Vimeo</b>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/blog/post/introducing-vimeo-central/">announced Vimeo Central</a>, a central hub for collaborative work on videos, with a video library
(integrated with Zoom, Dropbox, Google Drive and other 3rd party sources),
AI-powered video editing tools, virtual recording studio with teleprompter,
analytics, and the Venues video event platform. <br /><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and Search</h2>
Last year<b> Google Search</b> added a “Perspectives” filter that pulled in
results from Reddit, forums and blogs. They are now changing the tab to
“Forums”, and it will only include results from, well, forums. You may still
see the “Perspectives” label for a carousel of videos, for example. And blog
posts will be in the regular search results. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine
Land
<a href="https://searchengineland.com/google-to-replace-perspectives-filter-with-forums-filter-438473">has the story.</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2>
<b>Google Business Profiles</b>, which show brick-and-mortar and service area
businesses in Google Maps and Search, can now
<a href="https://support.google.com/business/answer/13580646">show a selection of social media posts.</a>
There can be one of each of the following social profiles linked to a business
profile: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, X (Twitter), and
YouTube. Note that this option is currently only available in “select
regions”. Google may also automatically add social media links, which can
either be removed (by contacting support) or replaced with a different link to
the same social platform.<br /><br /><b>Instagram</b> head Adam Mosseri raised
eyebrows
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4apC34rCCR/?igsh=MXZyeGhydTJxdDlscQ==">with a Reel addressing the platform’s monetization options</a>. For “large accounts” with more than 100,000 followers, he emphasized fan
funding (paid subscriptions or Reels “gifts”) and brand deals, with payments
from Meta (bonuses in Japan, Korea and the US or maybe ad revenue) a distant
third. He suggests smaller accounts should focus on growth and that direct
payments “will never be available to every creator everywhere” as it’s not
“economically sustainable” to pay everyone directly. There’s a lot of
unhappiness in the comments.<br /><br /><b>LinkedIn</b> is
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/1-year-10-million-contributions-unlocking-worlds-somasundaram-qqiae/">enhancing its year-old collaborative articles feature</a>. This starts with AI-generated conversation prompts which are then matched
with “relevant member experts” who contribute a response based on their
professional expertise. They are trying to boost the quality by generating
better prompt questions, letting readers mark contributions as unhelpful, and
making it easier for people to find relevant prompts to answer. They are also
making it easier to find collaborative articles in search.
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<br /><b>Pinterest</b> now lets you<a href="https://newsroom.pinterest.com/news/pinterests-new-body-type-ranges-deliver-better-more-inclusive-search-results/">
filter women’s fashion and wedding-related search with body type ranges</a>, rather than just individual body types. The platform
<a href="https://newsroom.pinterest.com/news/pinterest-announces-industry-first-body-type-technology/">uses AI to identify body types</a>. This is currently available in the US and Canada, and will be made
available more widely (and for men’s fashion) later this year.<br /><br /><b>Bluesky’s</b>
collaborative moderation tool,
<a href="https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderation">Ozone, is now open-source</a>. That means that in addition to Bluesky’s basic moderation, you will be able
to install additional 3rd party moderation filters. Their example is a filter
that makes sure you don’t see any spider photos in your feed. But the
possibilities seem endless.<br /><br /><b>X</b> is testing a “Pinned by people
you follow” shelf in the For You feed. Social Media Today
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-tests-display-pinned-posts-in-feed/710401/">has more details</a>.<br /><br />Former CNN anchor Don Lemon had his <b>X</b> video show
canceled<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/don-lemon-elon-musk-cancels-x-show-after-interview-1235851490/">
just hours after he completed his first interview</a>
- with X owner Elon Musk, who apparently wasn’t happy about how it went. When
the show was
<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/don-lemon-jim-rome-shows-x-twitter-1235782996/">announced in January,</a>
Lemon called X the “biggest space for free speech in the world.” You can
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeExj2ZW_Yg">watch the interview on YouTube</a>
(where it surprisingly has less than 1000 views at the moment). <br /><br /><b>Snapchat</b>
is
<a href="https://newsroom.snap.com/infinite-retention-mode">testing a new option</a>
to set individual conversations to retain indefinitely (so they won’t
disappear).
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<br /><b>Reddit</b>
<a href="https://www.redditinc.com/blog/keeping-our-platform-safe">explained how they are working </a>to keep the platform “safe and welcoming for everyone”, especially
highlighting the moderator tools they developed over the past year. This seems
likely to be aimed at investors, with
<a href="https://mashable.com/article/reddit-ipo-everything-you-need-to-know">the Reddit IPO planned for March 21</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates</h2>
Wall Street Journal reporter Joanna Stern interviewed <b>OpenAI’s</b> CTO Mira
Murati about the company’s <a href="https://openai.com/sora">Sora</a> AI video
generation tool. When asked about the data used to train <b>Sora</b>, Murati
would only acknowledge they “used publicly available data and licensed data.”
She would not confirm if YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or other specific
sources were used. Stern also points out the similarity between some generated
videos and commercial TV shows and movies.
<a href="https://youtu.be/mAUpxN-EIgU">Watch the interview.</a><br /><br /><b>Wikimedia</b>
CTO Selena Deckelmann explains to MIT Technology Review reporter Rebecca
Ackermann:
<a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/26/1088137/wikimedia-wikipedia-cto-selena-deckelmann-ai-human-contributions">In the age of AI, human contributors still matter </a><br /><br />Professor of Entrepreneurship Ethan Mollick wrote about
<a href="https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/captains-log-the-irreducible-weirdness">the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs</a>. (It is very weird)<br /><br /><b>Microsoft</b> now offers a
<b>Copilot Pro </b>subscription for individuals that
<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2024/03/14/bringing-copilot-to-more-customers-worldwide-across-life-and-work/?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=nOD/rLJHOac&ranSiteID=nOD_rLJHOac-Hghk.ArrNile65UFF5glyA&epi=nOD_rLJHOac-Hghk.ArrNile65UFF5glyA&irgwc=1&OCID=AIDcmm549zy227_aff_7593_1243925&tduid=%28ir__ltzybpfcikkfdkuxjgyp2x6zc32x9f90o6pzy6vf00%29%287593%29%281243925%29%28nOD_rLJHOac-Hghk.ArrNile65UFF5glyA%29%28%29&irclickid=_ltzybpfcikkfdkuxjgyp2x6zc32x9f90o6pzy6vf00">gives you access to Copilot in the free Microsoft 365 web apps</a>
(Word, Outlook, etc). It also includes the option to build your own Copilot
GPTs, faster AI image creation in Designer and faster performance of GPT-4
during peak times. That costs $20 per month in the US (similar to Google’s
Google One + Gemini subscription). <br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
<b>Gmail</b> has a
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/03/create-fully-customized-email-campaigns-new-layout-tool.html">new email layout editor</a>
that lets you customize templates for professional-looking email messages.
Email layouts can be saved in Drive to edit or share, with a standalone editor
at
<a href="https://docs.google.com/email-layouts/create?title=newDoc">docs.google.com/email-layouts/create?title=newDoc</a>
. If you use a personal Google Account, this is available with<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2022/10/workspace-individual-google-one-meet-gmail-calendar.html">
a Google Workspace Individual</a>
subscription. It’s also available for Google Workspace Business Standard,
Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, and
Education Plus. Note this is gradually rolling out over the next few weeks.<br /><br /><b>Google Meet</b>’s
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/03/google-meet-portrait-touch-up-web.html">portrait touchup mode (to smooth your face) is now available on the web</a>, in addition to the Meet mobile app. This is available to personal accounts
with a Google Workspace Individual subscription, or most Google Workspace
business and education editions.<br /><br />In a small update to
<b>Google Docs, Slides and Drawings</b>, you can<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/03/release-notes-03-15-2024.html">
now input a number when adjusting images</a>, rather than just moving a slider. <br /><br />Nina Trankova explains
<a href="https://ninatrankova.com/google/how-to-assign-group-tasks/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-assign-group-tasks">how to assign tasks in your group’s <b>Google Chat Space</b></a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
Sarah Wild in Nature reports
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00616-5">Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet</a>.<br /><br />Digital marketer Ian Lurie explains why
<a href="https://www.ianlurie.com/digital-marketing/social-media-isnt-owned-media/">Social Media is not owned media.</a>
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<br />Dylan Matthews @ Vox profiles the Samotsvety group:
<a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/2/13/24070864/samotsvety-forecasting-superforecasters-tetlock">How a ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world
events</a>
(despite the Russian name, they are all based in the US).<br /><br />Fortesa
Latifi @ Cosmopolitan asks
<a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a60125272/sharenting-parenting-influencer-cost-children/">What's the Price of a Childhood Turned Into Content?</a>
“In the unregulated world of vloggers, children are, for the most part, not
entitled to a single cent they help earn. We spoke to creators—and a former
kid influencer—to understand how this unusual family business actually
works.”<br /><br />In 2021 Kickstarter made an odd announcement that they
would be moving everything to the blockchain. Turns out<a href="https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=kickstarters-a16z-induced-pivot-to-blockchain">
it was to get a $100 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz.</a>
The blockchain was never implemented.<br /><br />And for this week's top
gossip: Ellie Hall @ Nieman Lab:
<a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/03/this-is-just-weird-buzzfeed-news-former-royals-reporter-on-kate-middleton-palace-press-and-distrust-in-the-media/">It’s getting weirder: BuzzFeed News’ former royals reporter on Kate
Middleton, Palace PR, and distrust in the media (updated)</a><br /><br /><b><i>Thanks for reading! 🌼<br /></i></b>---<br />That’s all the updates for this week.
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Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-5034549717221960232024-03-09T06:29:00.000-08:002024-03-09T06:29:00.124-08:00Creator Weekly: Google Search Spam, Twitch Roadmap, TikTok Creator Resources<p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmdTu6fB7dwqLffHyQJRacO6Pi3tAa-nwmPbvKk7AdqlOECOqZheJpOXej46_Lk2iLJP_m2cDE86yWax8ps1RxWpyzy8N0ZClSQfJb_My9zLAdsEPg4L4u4Gs7MfH6jdXh9-EfGojtthWp5ZxsWR7Moo45PBnUR251GWHYMx1spXcAxjYuzMoM2kCw5QY/s1200/030924.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Creator Weekly March 9, 2024" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmdTu6fB7dwqLffHyQJRacO6Pi3tAa-nwmPbvKk7AdqlOECOqZheJpOXej46_Lk2iLJP_m2cDE86yWax8ps1RxWpyzy8N0ZClSQfJb_My9zLAdsEPg4L4u4Gs7MfH6jdXh9-EfGojtthWp5ZxsWR7Moo45PBnUR251GWHYMx1spXcAxjYuzMoM2kCw5QY/s800/030924.png" width="640" /></a></p>What's new this week? Google’s updated spam policy and core update aims to reduce spammy
Search results, Twitch shared their 2024 roadmap, TikTok updates resources for
creators, X gets Articles and more. Plus I’ve collected a bunch of interesting
writing and interviews about social media, blogging, newsletters and websites.<div><br /></div><div>It’s enough reading to keep you out of trouble, for a few days anyway. <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Top
news and updates this week</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Celebrate International Women’s Day</li><li>Google’s
updated spam policy and algorithm update aim to reduce spammy content in the
Search results.</li><li>Twitch announced their roadmap for the
upcoming year.</li><li>TikTok announced new creator resources and an
updated monetization program.</li><li>Learn about optimizing your
YouTube thumbnails.</li><li>The AdSense Policy Center now shows CMP
Adoption Notifications.</li><li>AdSense for Search has a new site
approval process.</li><li>X launched blog-like Articles (a subscriber-only feature)</li><li>Threads
let you save post drafts and take photos from the app.</li><li>There is
a new free Adobe Express mobile app with Firefly AI.</li><li>Pixel
device users will be able to choose to share just an app, rather than their
entire screen in video calls, and while casting or recording.</li><li>And
there’s lots of reading (and watching) this week about social media, blogging,
the computer industry and more.</li></ul><div>Read on for details and additional
updates!<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Creator Weekly Live 🔴</h4>
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<h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Take this week’s quiz ✅</b></h4>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx1hXZ6DZ9boFLIZ0BaGh1wK5LpSf7y5XZ">Take this week’s quiz.</a><br />New Tips and Tutorials<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">To Do & Try</h2>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Bob Danley @ OnEBoard<a href="https://news.oneboard.network/2024/02/create-icons-with-google-gemini-for-free.html">
explains how to create icons using<b> Google Gemini</b> </a>(<a href="https://gemini.google.com">gemini.google.com</a>) for free.
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">International Women’s Day</h2><img border="0" data-original-height="1504" data-original-width="2256" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXgbY7gk4Ga0D0yTEvYTYMTl_JaeIkz9aou7cgfzV8bq5DV3c6uPnDmKfJsYhZx9xZqP69AC5fYJrfOnPUngUZRqmRZTYmNuRpt34qQ59rGbDZer1W2p7svo0PHUvevp0pXrG5f3J6xoQpgW2NDxqEqDSGMhyx_wYGzgGSjGfDJ-e2SAwAiYoJI_y3j9k/s320/Meet%20background%20highlighting%20women.png" style="color: #0000ee; text-align: center;" width="320" />
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #0000ee;"><br /></span>
</div>
Image: Google Meet background highlighting
<a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/diversity/womens-history-month-2024/">13 groundbreaking women</a><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
TikTok is<a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/celebrating-womenoftiktok-and-advocating-for-the-power-of-we">
celebrating #WomenOfTikTok </a>for International Women’s Day.
</li>
<li>
YouTube’s
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/youtube">Spotlight channel</a> is
highlighting women creators.
</li>
<li>
Google Play
<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/editorial?id=mc_iwd2024_xfn_fcp">is highlighting </a>women in games and women authors.
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
Google takes aim at spammy content in Search
</h2>
There has been some chatter that the <b>Google Search</b> results have been
getting worse. Some of that is due to high volumes of low quality automated
and AI-generated content.<br /><br /><a href="https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-update-march-2024/">Google announced two changes </a>that should improve the search results. <br /><br />The first is the March
2024 core update, which is an update to Google’s Search algorithms to better
show
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/help/helpful-content-faq">helpful content</a>
in the search results. As a website owner, you can use Google’s
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content">self-assessment questions</a>
to make sure your site is providing quality “people-first” content. Note that
this update
<a href="https://status.search.google.com/incidents/1jW2F89qC2NxJBWGiKxE">may take up to a month to roll out</a>, so you may not see changes to your site’s search rankings immediately.<br /><br />The
second change is an<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/03/core-update-spam-policies">
update to the spam policies</a>, with a focus on three types of spam:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
<b>Expired domain abuse.</b> This is when an expired domain is purchased
and used to host low-quality content. It depends on retaining the search
ranking for the content that was originally on the domain.
</li>
<li>
<b>Scaled content abuse.</b> This is when a large number of pages of low
quality content are generated to manipulate the search results. This
covers content created both automatically and by humans. The issue isn’t
automation or use of “AI”, but that it’s low quality and not created for
people.
</li>
<li>
<b>Site reputation abuse. </b>This is when a site publishes third-party
content without any oversight with the intention of manipulating the
Search rankings.
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies#site-reputation">For example</a>, that could be an education site that has a page about “best casinos”
that was not written or overseen by the host site. The third party content
is riding on the quality of the host site to rank higher in search.
</li>
</ul>
The spam update will<a href="https://status.search.google.com/incidents/iXz2PJfodvyjaVUeqxZE">
take about 2 weeks</a>
to roll out.<br /><br />On top of these changes, Google Search handed down a
large number of
<a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-manual-actions-spam-policy-updates-37016.html">manual penalties to sites with spammy content.</a>
<br /><br />It’s a good time if you hate to see spam in your search
results.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Twitch Plans for 2024</h2>
<b>Twitch</b> CEO Dan Clancy shared
<a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2024/03/06/our-plans-for-2024-an-open-letter-from-twitch-ceo-dan-clancy/">the platform’s plans for 2024</a>. The main takeaway: “<i>This year, we’re prioritizing ways to help you grow and stay connected with
your community with discovery and collaboration products and improved mobile
experiences.”</i><br /><br />These are the specific updates Twitch is working on:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Easier ways for streamers and viewers to share Clips to social media,
including direct sharing to Instagram.
</li>
<li>A new Clip Editor on mobile.</li>
<li>
Improving Stream Together, that lets up to 6 streamers go live together.
Improvements will include easier setup, merged chat and combined
viewership.
</li>
<li>
Redesigned Twitch mobile app, with the discovery feed the “main landing
experience", new stories features, easier purchase of subscriptions, gifts
and Bits; and Mobile Mod View for moderation on iOS.
</li>
<li>Working with more brands for more sponsorship opportunities.</li>
<li>More Twitch promotional events, milestones and rewards.</li>
<li>
Improving mod tools, updating the Community Guidelines, and better
identifying harassment.
</li>
</ul>
This is in addition to changes to monetization
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/01/creator-weekly-twitch-monetization-ai.html">announced in January</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">New Creator Resources from TikTok</h2>
In an
<a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/thank-you-creators-adam-presser">open letter to creators</a>, TikTok Head of Operations Adam Presser wrote “Together, we are transforming
storytelling by creating space for authentic, unknown voices to break through
the barriers that previously limited creative power.”<br /><br />At the TikTok
creator summit in Los Angeles,<a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/for-creators-future-format-summit">
the video platform announced</a>
a number of upcoming updates meant to expand resources for creators:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>A new Creator Academy with courses and resources.</li>
<li>
The Creativity Program is leaving beta and is renamed the Creator Rewards
Program. This allows creators with original content over a minute long to
earn monetary rewards.
</li>
<li>
Paid subscriptions will be available to non-Live creators. This will start
out as an invite-only program.
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Video Creator and Live Streaming Updates</h2>
<b>YouTube’s</b> Creator Insider has a new podcast (or “podcast” since it
seems to just be a video), and
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP-rqigfw2s">the first episode</a>
about thumbnail design is long, but well worth watching. It features a
discussion with Todd, head of YouTube’s growth and discovery team, and Chucky,
who creates thumbnails for Mr. Beast. If you are interested in understanding
more about designing thumbnails and the YouTube algorithm, this is for you.
(Even if you aren’t a fan of the thumbnails on Mr. Beast videos.)<br /><br />MrBeast
says
<a href="https://www.tubefilter.com/2024/03/04/mrbeast-editing-style-number-of-cuts-per-video/">he’s changed his video editing style,</a>
to have fewer quick cuts, and more storytelling and “views have skyrocketed!”.
Steven Asarch @ Passionfruit asks
<a href="https://passionfru.it/youtube-editing-mrbeast-54202/">MrBeast Changed <b>YouTube</b> Editing Forever, Can It Go Back?</a>
<br /><br />Abbie Richards @ Media Matters
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X66MGRN364c">Why <b>TikTok</b> Is Becoming A Conspiracy Playground</a>
(it has to do with TikTok’s Creativity Program for monetization).
<div><br /></div>
<div>
Jason Koebler @ 404 Media reports on <a href="https://www.404media.co/inside-the-world-of-tiktok-spammers-and-the-ai-tools-that-enable-them/">Inside the World of TikTok Spammers and the AI Tools That Enable Them</a> (and yes, it's also in part because of the monetization options)<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and Search</h2>
An <b>AdSense</b> update: If your website or blog is not compliant with the
new Google consent management requirement for serving ads in the European
Economic Area and UK, you will now
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/thread/262353932">see a Consent Management Platform (CMP) Adoption Notification in your
AdSense account’s Policy Center.</a>
If you are using Google’s CMP,
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/14660912">you can troubleshoot</a>
any issues.<br /><br /><b>AdSense for Search </b>has<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/14629700">
a new Site approval process</a>. Your sites that are monetized with AdSense for Search will appear on the
Sites tab in your AdSense account where you have until August 30th to submit
them for approval. If you want to monetize a new site with AdSense for
Search you can submit it on the Sites tab for review, just like you would
for adding AdSense for Content to a new site.<br /><br /><b>Bing Webmaster Tools </b>now shows Top Insights with
<a href="https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/March-2024/What%E2%80%99s-New-Top-Insights-for-Maximum-Visibility-and-Performance">recommendations on how to optimize y</a>our website.<br /><b><br /></b>Kevin Nguyen @ The Verge
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/24085737/tinyletter-mailchimp-shut-down-email-newsletters">writes a remembrance</a>
for the recently shut down <b>TinyLetter</b> newsletter service.<br /><br />Publishing
industry expert Jane Friedman explains why
<a href="https://janefriedman.com/substack-is-both-great-and-terrible-for-authors/"><b>Substack</b> Is Both Great and Terrible for Authors</a>. Substack is more part of the creator economy than email marketing, and
that can be bad if your newsletter is designed to promote your books,
lectures or other offerings.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Photos and Image Design on the Web</h2>
In the latest
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/media/protocol/index.html">Pixel feature drop</a>, P<b>ixel 7, 7 Pro, 8 or 8 Pro phone</b> owners can directly share Ultra
HDR photos to their Instagram feed, and 10-bit HDR videos directly to
Instagram Reels.<br /><br />The <b>Getty Museum </b>has
<a href="https://petapixel.com/2024/03/07/gettys-open-content-program-has-88000-images-you-can-use-for-free/">added 88,000 artwork images</a>
to its Open Content database. These are free to use with a CC0 license.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2>
<b>X</b>
<a href="https://twitter.com/Write/status/1765884209527394325">launched Articles,</a>
a new option for paid subscribers with text formatting (bold, italic,
strikethrough) and the ability to insert video and images. I’m not sure why
you would want to essentially blog on X, unless that is where your audience
is. There are a number of free blogging platforms that let you reach a much
wider audience. <br /><br /><b>Threads</b> now lets you
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@threads/post/C4OLepFrI2-">save post drafts</a>
and you can<a href="https://www.threads.net/@threads/post/C4OPLR1Pdug">
take a photo from the Threads app</a>.<br /><br /><b>Instagram</b> announced
<a href="https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/new-dm-improvements">new features for DMs,</a>
including pinning chats to the top of the inbox, message editing, turning
off read receipts, saving your favorite stickers for easy access, and more
themes.<br /><br />Tech journalist Taylor Lorenz looks into
<b>Instagram fatigue </b>and the rise of “resentment Reels” (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIqOLehArVw">YouTube video</a>). She notes
<i>“... we are all pressured to commodify every aspect of our lives, our
relationships, our careers, our passions, our interests and our art into
shareable, marketable, monetizable content. Perhaps this was always the
natural end point of capitalism, the commercialization of the very things
that make us human.” </i>and<i>
“succeeding in this new landscape requires a level of effort and skill and
frankly knowledge of the media landscape, that few people have.”</i><br /><br />Andrew Hutchinson @ Social Media Today
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/correlation-between-social-media-engagement-content/709565/">reports on a new study </a>that shows that more<b> social media engagements</b> don’t mean more clicks
on the links you share. <br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates</h2>
If you have Google One AI Premium or Gemini for Enterprise or Business, you
can n<a href="https://support.google.com/docs?p=slides-image-background-removal-gemini">ow remove an image background</a>
in <b>Google Slides</b>. This is also available with
<a href="https://workspace.google.com/labs-sign-up/">Workspace Labs</a>
(free for testing Google AI tools).<br /><br />There is now an
<b>Adobe Express mobile app</b><a href="https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/New-Adobe-Express-Mobile-App-Brings-Firefly-Generative-AI-Models-Directly-into-Mobile-Workflows-/default.aspx">
that Adobe says </a>is an “all-in-one, AI content creation app” with access to Firefly AI
tools. In addition to creating and editing images and videos, you can
publish directly to social media, access Adobe Creative Cloud files, and
collaborate in real time. While the app is in beta for Android and iOS, you
can use premium features for free.
<a href="https://helpx.adobe.com/express/system-requirements.html#system-requirements-mobile-beta">See the device requirements.</a><br /><br />Microsoft employee Shane Jones<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/microsoft-engineer-warns-companys-ai-tool-creates-violent-sexual-image-rcna142012">
is raising public concerns </a>about sexual and violent images created in <b>Copilot</b>, Microsoft’s AI
tool (powered by Open AI’s DALL-E 3)<br /><br />Anthropic<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family">
announced their new</a>
AI model, <b>Claude 3</b>, which compares well to GPT-4V and Gemini 1.0.<br /><br />Simon
Willison writes
<a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/8/gpt-4-barrier/">the <b>GPT-4 barrier</b> has finally been broken</a>, with four new models that benchmark favorably against GPT-4: Google’s
Gemini 1.5, Mistral AI’s Large, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus, and Inflection
2.5.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
If you have a <b>Pixel 5G or newer, Pixel Fold or Pixel Tablet,</b>
<a href="https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-feature-drop-march-2024/#pixel-portfolio">you will soon be able to share just one app at a time </a>(rather than your entire screen) in a video call, or while casting or
recording.<br /><br />You may have noticed that when you hover over a Group
Chat or Space in the <b>Google Chat</b> menu, a
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/03/release-notes-03-08-2024.html">hovercard with member names and avatars </a>pops up. <br /><br />There is now<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/03/smooth-scrolling-in-google-sheets.html">
improved scrolling</a>
in <b>Google Sheets</b>. And you can
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/03/set-up-dropdown-chips-more-easily-google-sheets.html">add pre-set dropdowns </a>to your sheets.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
The<b> European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) </b>went into effect this
week. If you are in the EU you can learn about the changes being made at
<a href="https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/complying-with-the-digital-markets-act/">Google</a>,
<a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/">Apple</a>
and
<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/offering-people-more-choice-on-how-they-can-use-our-services-in-the-eu/">Meta</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.theverge.com/24087834/hank-green-decoder-podcast-google-youtube-web-media-platforms-distribution-future">Hank Green interviewed</a>
Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel about platforms, blogging, publishing
news, the YouTube algorithm and more. There are too many interesting bits to
pull a quote.<br /><br />Doc Pop interviewed Chris Messina on the “Press
This” podcast (<a href="https://torquemag.io/2024/02/press-this-hashtag-creator-future-of-wordpress-open-web/">listen or read the transcript</a>), where they discussed the early days of the web, where things are going
and hashtags. Messina is famously the inventor of the hashtag, and he thinks
they can be an important part of the social web:
<i>“Just like when you mentioned someone, … you have an identity for a
person that lives at a domain, a hashtag actually is a global identifier
that works across the entire social web.”</i><br /><br />Kelsey McKinney @ Defector explains
<a href="https://defector.com/the-money-is-in-all-the-wrong-places">The Money Is In All The Wrong Places </a>for creative work: <br /><i>“The money that sustains all this is, in enough cases that it is worth
noting here, coming from young rich people's even richer parents. It is
coming from giant corporations awarding it, whether out of ideological
commitment or just force of habit, to people who sit behind desks all day.
Some of those people might also make art, but they are not the norm. The
structure built around these valuable creative products is bloated in ways
that starve and imperil that creative process, but those privations also
hold it in place.”<br /></i><br />Do you know about the <b>Osborne effect</b>? Gereth Edwards writes
about
<a href="https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-rise-and-fall-of-steve-jobs-s-greatest-rival">The Rise and Fall of Steve Jobs’s Greatest Rival</a>, Adam Osborne (“one of Silicon Valley’s first true tech celebrities”).<br /><br /><b><i>Thanks for reading! 🌼<br /></i></b>---<br /><h4>Creator Weekly In Your Inbox 📨</h4><a href="http://newsletter.peggyktc.com/">Subscribe</a> to get the Creator Weekly by email.Miss last week’s
update? Get
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/03/creator-weekly-wordpress-tumblr-privacy.html">the March 2 edition here</a>.<br /><br />Image via Canva. Free for commercial use, no attribution
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March is coming in like a lion, with strong wintery weather here in California.
I’m looking forward to Spring! <br /><br />This week there are updates for
YouTubers, bloggers, social media and a lot more.<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The YouTube Create video editing app for Android is available in 14 more
countries. Try it!</li><li>Opt out your WordPress.com or Tumblr blog from AI
training.</li><li>Get the inside scoop on how the YouTube algorithm
works.</li><li>UMG pulls more music from TikTok.</li><li>Substack
is adding DMs</li><li>AdSense for Search reports will no longer break
out subdomains</li><li>X will boost pinned posts</li><li>Instagram
added more safety tools</li><li>Facebook expanded its Performance Bonus
program, but is killing the News tab</li><li>You can bookmark Threads
posts and managing posting from services with access to the new API (like
Hootsuite and Sprout Social)</li><li>Bluesky added hashtags and word
muting.</li><li>Google is having small news organizations test AI
content creation</li><li>Add handwritten annotations to Google Docs on
Android</li><li>Mosaic is the new “IMDB for everyone”</li></ul>Read
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">To Do & Try</h2>
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<li>
The YouTube Create video editing app is
<a href="https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/how-to-use-youtube-create/">now available in 13 new countries</a>. Check out
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/09/easily-create-movie-youtube-create.html">my tutorial video</a>
and give it a try! It’s available for Android devices with at least 4GB RAM.
</li>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">
Opt out your WordPress.com or Tumblr blog from AI training
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This week there were reports that <b>Automattic</b>, parent company to
<b>WordPress</b> and <b>Tumblr</b> made a deal to share public data with an AI
company. Disappointingly, Automattic has not done a good job in making clear
what content is being shared and with whom. <br /><br />404 Media
<a href="https://www.404media.co/wordpress-firehose-allows-ai-companies-to-buy-access-to-a-million-posts-a-day/?ref=weekly-roundup-newsletter">has also reported</a>
that Automattic has been selling access to<a href="https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/firehose">
a “Firehose”</a>
of public content for years (primarily via third party company SocialGist),
including Tumblr, WordPress.com and - notably - self-hosted WordPress sites that
use the Jetpack plugin. The terms for that data access were updated in September
2023 to explicitly allow AI training. But this won’t be relevant for long, as
Automattic is “in the process of winding down the [Firehose] service for all
current customers.”<br /><br />So what is happening now?<br />
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<li>
<a href="https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/">404 Media reports</a>
that public Tumblr and WordPress.com data is being sold to AI companies
Midjourney and OpenAI. Automattic
<a href="https://automattic.com/2024/02/27/protecting-user-choice/">has only disclosed</a>
that they are “working directly with select AI companies as long as their
plans align with what our community cares about: attribution, opt-outs, and
control.”
</li>
<li>
Sites hosted on WordPress.com can
<a href="https://wordpress.com/support/privacy-settings/#public">opt out of third-party sharing</a>, which restricts your site from being used for AI training (at least by
companies that allow opt-outs).
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Sites hosted on Tumblr can also
<a href="https://help.tumblr.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011611747-Privacy-options#01H692KHGF5N3SVHDV02P5W34P">opt out of third-party sharing</a>. Additionally the following types of content are not shared with third
parties for AI training, research or other use: posts and reblogs of deleted
blogs, password-protected blogs, explicit blogs, suspended or deactivated
blogs; private posts; drafts; messages; subscriber-only posts; or explicit
posts.
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<li>
If your WordPress.com or Tumblr blog is set to not be visible to search
engines, third-party sharing is already disabled.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://mas.to/@kraft@religious.social/112010842002846316">Brandon Kraft, a Director of Product Engineering at Automattic
clarified</a>
that self-hosted WordPress sites using the Jetpack plugin are not included
in this deal. Automattic later clarified that sites not hosted on
WordPress.com that use the WooCommerce and related plugins are also not
included in this deal.
</li>
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<br />Automattic announcements:
<a href="https://automattic.com/2024/02/27/protecting-user-choice/">Protecting User Choice</a>
and
<a href="https://staff.tumblr.com/post/743510217982083072/hi-tumblr-its-tumblr-were-working-on-some">Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things...</a>
<br /><br />While it’s good that there is an easy way for bloggers to opt out of
third-party sharing, it seems distasteful that platforms sell user content for
AI training as that doesn’t provide any benefit to the content creator. Search
engines provide traffic back to the original content. Researchers can use
content for analysis that can benefit the public good. AI models are trained on
content and then are touted as a replacement for human creators. <br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Video Creator and Live Streaming Updates</h2>
If you are a <b>YouTube</b> creator, you need to watch this chat between Creator
Liaison Rene Ritchie and Todd Beaupre, lead of the YouTube growth and discovery
team. They answer common questions about the YouTube algorithm.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrIlifWnKDs">Watch on the Creator Insider channel.</a><br /><br />In its dispute with <b>TikTok,</b> Universal Music Group is
removing more music from the platform. Now songs that had input from songwriters
or artists signed to UMG are being muted.
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68412642">The BBC reports</a>
that includes songs by artists on other major labels, as well as independent
artists. UMG wants TikTok to pay more, and TikTok isn’t budging. The fallout is
that artists and creators who used UMG music are now muted.<br /><br />Google is
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/release-notes-03-01-2024.html">improving video playback</a>
in <b>Drive</b>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and Search</h2>
<b>Substack</b> is moving towards being a social platform, rather than just a
newsletter platform. The latest is Direct Messages (DMs). People you are not
connected to (via subscription) can only send you a message request. You can add
a “Send me a message” button to a post, limit DMs to paid subscribers or use
them to build community and connections.<br /><br />For <b>Blogger</b> bloggers:
Product Expert Adam explains
<a href="https://too-clever-by-half.blogspot.com/2024/02/making-sense-of-pagelist-widget.html">how to make a horizontal navigation menu using the Pages gadget</a>.<br /><br />Starting March 4, brands
<a href="https://checkmyads.org/branded/google-gsp-pmax-transparency/">will be able to audit their ad placements </a>on the <b>Google Ads</b> Google Search Partner (GSP) network. They will also be
able to apply account-level placement exclusions when
<a href="https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/11465047">using Performance Max</a>, Google's “AI-powered” ad product.<br /><br />On March 13,
<b>AdSense for Search</b> reports will no longer show separate reports for
subdomains. So, for example, the ad on adsense.google.com would be reported as
google.com. For more detailed tracking you can<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/10078316">
use custom channels</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2>
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-pinned-posts-to-all-of-your-followers-in-the-app/709001/">Social Media Today reports</a>
that<b> X</b> will soon boost pinned posts, so that all of your followers will
be shown that post. Only one post every 48 hours can be boosted that way. Andrew
Hutchinson is skeptical this will work well: “If I had to guess, I would predict
creator backlash about two weeks after this is rolled out, then X will roll it
back.”<br /><br />If you are monetizing your content on <b>X</b> there is a
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-monetization-tab-help-creators-keep-track-of-pending-payout/708667/">new monetization tab where you can see your estimated revenue</a>.
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<br /><b>Instagram</b> is offering more safety tools, including warnings on
potential scams and unsafe links, a new
<a href="https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/keeping-instagram-safe-and-secure">Security Checkup</a>
and privacy setting notices. If you can’t access your account, you can get
support at
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/hacked">instagram.com/hacked</a> (even if
it wasn’t hijacked).<br /><br /><b>Facebook</b> is
<a href="https://creators.facebook.com/helping-creators-earn-from-more-types-of-content?locale=en_US">updating its Performance Bonus program</a>, to remove the earnings limit, earn from all formats (photos, text, videos,
live, Reels), and expanding to more countries (while remaining invite-only).
They are also continuing to move towards
<a href="https://creators.facebook.com/how-performance-based-payouts-reward-creators?locale=en_US">performance-based earnings on Reels</a>, rather than ad revenue sharing.<br /><br /><b>Facebook</b> is moving away
from news. They will soon
<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/02/update-on-facebook-news-us-australia/">remove the dedicated News tab</a>
in the US and Australia. It was removed in the UK, France and Germany last
year. Why? Facebook says “The number of people using Facebook News in
Australia and the U.S. has dropped by over 80% last year.” And they “will not
enter into new commercial deals for traditional news content in these
countries and will not offer new Facebook products specifically for news
publishers in the future.” Ryan Broderick points out that the news media’s
reliance on social platforms was at least partially driven by those platforms
offering expertise and deals. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.threads.net/@threads/post/C30eveaOmoJ">You can now bookmark </a><b>Threads</b> posts. Yay! I use this feature a lot.<br /><br /><b>Threads</b>
is working on an API. It’s currently in Beta, and being tested by Grabyo,
Hootsuite, Sprout Social, Sprinklr and a few other sites. It
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@0xjessel/post/C3-0CAkJlOg">should be widely available to developers by June</a>. Why is this useful? You can now use
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@sproutsocial/post/C3_MkYmprV1?hl=en">Sprout Social</a>
or
<a href="https://blog.hootsuite.com/how-to-schedule-threads-posts-instagram/">Hootsuite</a>
to schedule and manage posts on Threads.<br /><br />The latest version of
<b>Bluesky</b>
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kmjbfqrrbu2t">is now available</a>
with hashtags (yay!), word muting, sharing from your mobile apps, updated
desktop homepage and compose intent URLs (links that open Bluesky with the
post composer open and the text pre-filled).<br /><br />Why <b>Bluesky</b>?
Marine biologist David Shiffman wrote about
<a href="https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/macroscope/the-burgeoning-bluesky-science-community">The Burgeoning Bluesky Science Community</a>
for American Scientist.<br /><br /><b>Bluesky’s</b> new head of Trust and
Safety, Aaron Rodericks,
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/28/bluesky-hires-former-twitter-trust-safety-co-lead-aaron-rodericks/">previously co-led the Trust and Safety team at <b>Twitter</b>.</a>
He lost his job there after Musk’s takeover, when the Election Integrity team
was cut.
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<br /><b>Mastodon</b> for Android now
<a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/02/mastodon-for-android-update/">lets you generate a QR code</a>
for easier profile sharing.
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<br />If you are on <b>Post</b> you can now
<a href="https://post.news/@/janete/2d3CBXcZG4czHd769d5AzonQwxV">react to posts with different emoji.</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates</h2>
<b>Microsoft</b> announced the
<a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/02/26/microsoft-ai-access-principles-responsible-mobile-world-congress/">Microsoft’s AI Access Principles: Our commitments to promote innovation
and competition in the new AI economy</a><br /><br />Adweek reports that Google is
<a href="https://www.adweek.com/media/google-paying-publishers-unreleased-gen-ai/?utm_source=www.garbageday.email&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=it-is-happening-again">paying news organizations to test a new AI platform</a>. It creates new articles from published data and articles from other
news sources, with no requirement to label it as AI-generated. It’s meant
to be reviewed by human editors before publication, but it is always based
on already-published content. Not a great look.<br /><i>“The beta tools let under-resourced publishers create aggregated
content more efficiently by indexing recently published reports
generated by other organizations, like government agencies and
neighboring news outlets, and then summarizing and publishing them as a
new article.”<br /></i><br />Marques Browlee gave the <b>Sora</b> AI video generator a spin. You
can see how it worked for him
<a href="https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1763332752836047234">in this thread on X.</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
You can now
<a href="https://too-clever-by-half.blogspot.com/2024/02/making-sense-of-pagelist-widget.html">add handwritten annotations </a>to <b>Google Docs </b>documents on your Android device, using either a
stylus or your finger.<br /><br /><b>Google Meet</b> 1:1 calling (not to
be confused with formerly-Duo Meet legacy calling) is expanding so that
Google Workspace
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/google-meet-1to1-video-calling-outside-your-domain-admin-control.html">users can be called by people outside their organization</a>. This is not available to personal accounts.<br /><br /><b>Microsoft Teams</b>
has a
<a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-february-2024/ba-p/4067761">bunch of new features</a>, including deeper integration of the Copilot AI and Chat, a new Meeting
layout that puts participants at the bottom of the screen as you present,
integrated apps (AI Assist by InFeedo, Bigtincan, Culture Amp, EY Catalyst
Connect, Jira, Zoho), and support for Android Auto. There’s more at the
link. <br /><br /><b>Microsoft Copilot </b>for <b>OneDrive</b> will
<a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-onedrive-blog/copilot-in-onedrive-a-new-wave-of-file-interaction/ba-p/4070738?ocid=usoc_TWITTER_M365_spl100005306072152">start rolling out at the end of April</a>. It can answer questions about and summarize your documents, create
outlines, tables and FAQs, and create a brief summary when you share a
document.<br /><br />If you are using <b>StreamYard on Air</b> to host a
webinar, you can now
<a href="https://new.streamyard.com/on-air-pinned-comments-390qGY">pin On Air chat messages.</a>
<br /><br />In <b>Google Chat</b> you will
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/see-participant-avatars-unread-threads-in-google-chat.html">see the avatars of people who posted</a>
in your unread in-line threads. <br /><br /><b>Google Drive </b>mobile app
is getting
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/release-notes-03-01-2024.html">new and improved search</a>. Currently on iOS, and soon for Android.<br /><br />If you are doing a
<b>Google Search</b> in <b>Chrome</b> you’ll see s<a href="https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-update-february-2024/">uggestions based on what other people are looking for</a>
and images next to suggested searches.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
Mosaic is <a href="https://try.onmosaic.com/">a new platform </a>(in Beta)
that calls itself “the IMDB for everyone”, but especially contract workers
in the creative space. After creating a profile, you can add a “<a href="https://support.onmosaic.com/blocks/what-is-a-block">Block</a>” for each project you have worked on, which is then authenticated by the
client or company you worked for. It’s for photographers, videographers,
songwriters, editors and other roles that don’t always get recognized. It
looks interesting!<br /><br />Matt Webb @ Interconnected writes
<a href="https://interconnected.org/home/2024/02/21/adams">Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age</a>. “AI is the most Douglas Adams of all technologies.”<br /><br /><a href="https://putnamdoc.com/">Join or Die</a>
is a documentary on the work of Robert Putnam, who popularized the idea of
social capital. “A film about why you should join a club — and why the
fate of America depends on it.” (via
<a href="https://kottke.org/24/02/join-or-die">Kottke</a>)<br /><br />I
love visualizations of the future. Open Culture shares
<a href="https://www.openculture.com/2024/02/how-french-artists-in-1899-envisioned-what-life-would-look-like-in-the-year-2000.html">How French Artists in 1899 Envisioned What Life Would Look Like in the
Year 2000</a>. Some of it isn’t too far off!<br /><br />East Bay Times reports on
librarian Mychal Threets, who went viral on TikTok, but who is resigning
for mental health reasons (bullies on TikTok and X, sadly).
<a href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/02/27/award-winning-librarian-leaves-solano-county-library/">Award-winning Bay Area librarian and TikTok star resigns</a>. He’s continuing his work for literacy and libraries.<br /><br /><b><i>Thanks for reading!</i></b>
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Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-3842467764792771882024-02-24T06:29:00.000-08:002024-02-24T06:29:00.238-08:00Creator Weekly: Google Gemini AI Subscriptions, YouTube on TV, Reddit's Deal with Google<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmYGF3mjGutg-T0rK3aA0iEGz1cyyEFvEcPJAhN4MJk5Gz2z0X2gtwKjlM862x8oUSUcFqz9ytwzJkYGMiectcQtifVCPi4S_E6ceMkC_8GH08qgRzSgKEb7C7cVq2sIs1yz56EfGWCVUE7aoZRpMl6EK_Xug_THz5dM_dTGf6XCtGYpPil5NjhVnUpY/s1200/022424.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Creator Weekly February 24, 2024" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmYGF3mjGutg-T0rK3aA0iEGz1cyyEFvEcPJAhN4MJk5Gz2z0X2gtwKjlM862x8oUSUcFqz9ytwzJkYGMiectcQtifVCPi4S_E6ceMkC_8GH08qgRzSgKEb7C7cVq2sIs1yz56EfGWCVUE7aoZRpMl6EK_Xug_THz5dM_dTGf6XCtGYpPil5NjhVnUpY/s600/022424.png" width="640" /></a><br /><br />This week was all about AI. You can access Google’s Gemini in
different Google products and services (if you pay and don’t mind that it’s
still learning), Google is paying Reddit for data access for AI training, get
Chrome’s AI writing tools, use the AI image editor in Windows Photos, AI AI
AI!<br /><br />There are also important updates for YouTube creators, website
owners, and social media folks so don’t miss those!<br />
<h4 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h4><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
Make sure your YouTube channel has a TV-ready cover image.</li><li>YouTube Partners can see their top earning content by format.</li><li>Google
now offers Gemini AI subscriptions for Google Workspace and personal
accounts.</li><li>Reddit has a data deal with Google that includes AI
training and announced their IPO.</li><li>You can now make Remixed
“Collabs” in the YouTube Shorts editor on Android.</li><li>Glen Gabe
shares how to find the experimental Notes left on sites in Google Search.</li><li>Windows
Photos has a new AI-generative erase tool.</li><li>Bluesky is
federating.</li><li>Instagram creator marketplace expands.</li><li>X
is rolling out audio and video calls to non-subscribers.</li><li>Chrome’s
AI “Help me write” tool is now available.</li><li>The Google Account
sign-in page has a new look.</li><li>Find Google Chat 3rd party apps in
the Google Workspace Marketplace.</li><li>Signal now lets you use a username instead of your phone number. </li><li>Articles about the death of
Vice, how Google is killing independent review sites, how censorship works, AI
search and the death of the internet and more.</li></ul><div>Read on for details
and additional updates!<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Creator Weekly In Your Inbox 📨</h4><a href="http://newsletter.peggyktc.com/">Subscribe</a>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Get your YouTube channel TV-ready. </b>The
YouTube TV App<a href="https://www.threads.net/@youtubeliaison/post/C3k5SkTL0ao">
now uses a full 16:9 cover image</a>
for channels, rather than the small strip used on desktop and mobile. How
does your channel look? You can update it in YouTube Studio >
Customization > Branding.
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10456525#zippy=%2Cchange-your-banner-image">Learn more.</a>
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<br /><b>Create your own 3D Android Bot:</b> For the Mobile World congress
(happening now), Google launched a tool to create a cute 3D Android bot. You
can personalize your own at
<a href="https://www.android.com/build-android-bot/">www.android.com/build-android-bot/</a>. (via the<a href="https://theintelligence.com/android/">
Android Intelligence newsletter</a>)<br /><br /><b>Download your Keens</b>. In June 2020, Google’s experimental
Area 120
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2020/06/weekly-update-june-20-2020-meet-duo-keen.html">launched Keen</a>, a site for collecting and sharing content for interests you are passionate
about. It has social features, including a feed, comments, follows and
collaboration. Plus “smart” suggestions from Google Search for content to add
to your collections. But it looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2021, so
not surprisingly it’s
<a href="https://staykeen.com/sunset">shutting down on March 24</a>. If you
used it, you can download the Keens you own or collaborated on at
<a href="https://staykeen.com/download">staykeen.com/download</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Gemini Subscriptions (and Growing Pains)</h2>
Google is integrating its Gemini Large Language Model (LLM) everywhere and,
probably not surprisingly, if you want full access you’ll have to pay for
it.<br /><br /><br /><b>Free Accounts<br /></b><br />Personal Google Accounts
can access the Gemini chatbot at
<a href="https://gemini.google.com">gemini.google.com</a>, but it only uses
the “Gemini Pro” model, and not the more advanced “Gemini Ultra” model.<br /><br />Workspace
Labs is
<a href="https://workspace.google.com/labs-sign-up/">still available for signup</a>
in the US to test AI tools in Docs, Slides, Sheets, Meet, Drive, Keep and
Gmail. This offers<a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/13447104">
trusted tester access to some experimental AI features.</a><br /><br /><b>Google One AI Premium<br /></b><br />
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Adults (18+) with personal accounts can subscribe to the
<a href="https://blog.google/products/google-one/google-one-gemini-ai-gmail-docs-sheets/">new Google One AI Premium plan</a>
for $19.99 per month (after a 2 month free trial).
<a href="https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14517446">That includes</a>:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Google One Premium with 2 TB of data, including more
<a href="https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6128850">Google Photos editing features</a>,
<a href="https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/12351029?hl=en#zippy=%2Ccountries-where-google-workspace-premium-is-available">advanced Google Meet features in eligible countries</a>
and a discount in the Google Store. This is
<a href="https://one.google.com/about/plans">$9.99 per month</a> on its
own.
</li>
<li>
Gemini Advanced chat. That’s the updated Bard chat with Gemini Ultra.
</li>
<li>
Gemini in Gmail and Docs (help you write), Meet (enhance video quality
and generated backgrounds), and Slides (create original images)
</li>
</ul>
There’s currently no option for Google Workspace Individual users to add
Gemini to their subscription.<br /><br />This seems pretty spendy, but if
you already pay for Google One Premium, it’s probably worth the 2 month free
trial to see if it’s useful to you.<br /><br /><b>Google Workspace for Business<br /></b><br />Google’s Duet AI
<a href="https://blog.google/products/workspace/google-gemini-workspace/">is now Gemini for Google Workspace</a>. There are two add-on options available to Google Workspace for Business
and Non-Profits: Gemini Business ($20 per user per month) and Gemini
Enterprise ($30 per user per month).<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Both have access to Gemini chat for business with Gemini Ultra at
<a href="https://gemini.google.com">gemini.google.com</a> .
</li>
<li>Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Meet</li>
<li>
Gemini Enterprise also offers Meet meetings with translated captions in
15+ languages and “full access and usage of Gemini” (I’m not sure what
that includes exactly).
</li>
</ul>
Businesses will have to assess whether this is worth the cost. For example a
Business Starter user is only $6 per month, and adding Gemini would more
than triple that to $26 per month<br /><br /><b>Advertisers</b><br /><br />Advertisers using <b>Google Ads</b>
<a href="https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/gemini-models-are-coming-to-performance-max/">will have Gemini-powered tools</a>
for ad creation, including image editing, headlines, sitelinks and
auto-generated videos from brand assets.<br /><br /><b>So how is Gemini doing?<br /></b><br />There was also a bit of a fuss this week (driven mostly by
right-wingers) when Google’s Gemini chatbot (formerly Bard)
<a href="https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-ai-gemini-white-people/">generated images of racially diverse</a>
Nazis and US founding fathers.<br /><br />
<a href="https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-image-generation-issue/">Google apologized</a>
and said there were two problems that they are working on fixing: “our
tuning to ensure that Gemini showed a range of people failed to account for
cases that should clearly not show a range. And second, over time, the model
became way more cautious than we intended and refused to answer certain
prompts entirely — wrongly interpreting some very anodyne prompts as
sensitive.” They have “paused” the option to generate people until there is
an update. Casey Newton’s
<a href="https://www.platformer.news/google-gemini-ai-photos-diversity-pause/">Platformer has some context.</a><br /><br />My thoughts? Generative AI tools are not actually intelligent,
and there is no indication they are currently able to reliably generate any
sort of “historically accurate” images, people or no, so that shouldn’t be
expected.<br /><br />That’s important to keep in mind whether you are using
Gemini to chat, to draft documents, or search the web.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
Reddit Does a Deal with Google, Announces IPO
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<b>Google</b> and <b>Reddit</b> announced a deal, where Reddit integrates
Google’s Vertex AI and Google gets access to the Reddit Data API.
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<br />This<a href="https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/expanded-reddit-partnership/">
gives Google access</a>
to the latest new content on Reddit to “better understand Reddit content
and display, train on, and otherwise use it in the most accurate and
relevant ways.” Which they note is well within what they normally do:
“This expanded partnership does not change Google's use of publicly
available, crawlable content for indexing, training, or display in Google
products.”<br /><br /><a href="https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-and-google-expand-partnership">Reddit adds </a>this will support “new ways to display Reddit content and [provide] more
efficient ways to train models”.<br /><br />So what does that mean? I’m
pretty sure Google and other companies have already been using public
Reddit content for AI training. This deal gives Reddit some money and in
return Google has better access to the content. <br /><br />I’ve noticed a
lot of Redditors who are unhappy about the deal, but it’s not clear to me
this really changes anything.<br /><br /><a href="https://fortune.com/2024/02/23/reddit-ipo-google-api-data-deal/">Probably not coincidentally</a>
Reddit also
<a href="https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-files-registration-statement-for-proposed-initial-public-offering">announced their proposed IPO this week</a>, with
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1axhbye/announcing_the_directed_share_program/">the added twist</a>
that top users will be able to purchase stock at the initial IPO price.
The requirements? Users must be US residents, and
<a href="https://redditforcommunity.com/directed-share-program">there will be priority invitations</a>
to top creators (starting with those with 5000+ mod actions or 200,000+
karma) to pre-register. Pre-registration opens to everyone on March 1, but
slots are limited.<br /><br />Is it worth investing in? Reddit has never
been profitable, but its revenue has been growing and it<a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-makes-us-ipo-filing-public-2024-02-22/">
“only” lost $90 million in 2023</a>. <br /><br />In looking for a comparison,
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/SNAP/">SNAP</a> (parent of Snapchat)
launched its IPO in 2017 at $17 per share. After peaking at $83 per share
in September 2021, the value has plunged and is now trading at about $11
per share. My conclusion is don’t invest money you can’t afford to
lose.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
Video Creator and Live Streaming Updates
</h2>
<b>YouTube Analytics </b>now lets you
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg5jJlwN3B4">see your top earning content by format</a>
(Video versus Live versus Shorts). <br /><br />The<b> YouTube Shorts</b>
editor on
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtubecontributors/thread/247405783?msgid=259933418">Android now lets you Remix videos with the “Collab” option</a>, showing up to 60 seconds of the remixed video along with your reaction
or other content. This launched for iOS devices in December.<br /><br /><b>YouTube</b>
is<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/18138167?hl=en">
testing different desktop watch page layouts</a>. If you are in the experiment, be sure to send feedback to YouTube to
let them know what you think.<br /><br />TV audience measurement company
Neilson noted that <b>YouTube</b> has been the
<a href="https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-number-one-streamer-nielsen/">top streaming platform by watchtime</a>
in the US for the past 12 months. This is streaming on TVs, and comparing
viewership to Netflix, Peacock and other TV streaming services.<br /><br />The
<b>TikTok</b> Short Film Competition is
<a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/the-tiktokshortfilm-competition-returns-for-a-third-year-now-open-to-us-creators">now open to submissions </a>and for the first time is open to creators in the US. There are cash
prizes and an awards ceremony in Cannes.<br /><br /><b>VideoPrism</b> is a
<a href="https://blog.research.google/2024/02/videoprism-foundational-visual-encoder.html">new video foundation AI model (ViFM)</a>
from Google that can describe the content in video.<br /><br /><b>Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro </b>is pretty impressively a<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa0MT8OwHuk">ble to find and describe specific moments in a video,</a>
from either a text prompt or even a crude sketch.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and Search</h2>
In November 2023,
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/creator-weekly-youtube-ai-music.html">Google added <b>Notes</b></a>
to the experimental <b>Google Search Labs </b>features. This lets people
add a note to websites in Google Search or Discover (<a href="https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/13876743">Learn More</a>). If you are a website owner there is no easy way to see the Notes for
your website. But Glen Gabe
<a href="https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/how-to-find-google-notes/">shares a quick trick </a>to find all the Notes on any site.<br /><br /><b>Substack</b> is
<a href="https://on.substack.com/p/substacks-recommendations-network">expanding the Recommendations</a>
to other newsletters that a newsletter author can offer during newsletter
sign-up.
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<br />If your website uses Product structured data, note that<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/02/product-variants">
<b>Google Search</b> now supports Product Variants</a>
structured data.<br /><br />The latest version of <b>WordPress</b> logs
style revisions, makes it easier to manage your site editing preferences
and adds randomized images to the Gallery Block.<br /><br />Does
advertiser <b>“brand safety”</b> go too far? The Branded blog writes
<a href="https://checkmyads.org/branded/jezebel-paste-advertising-blocklist/">Jezebel’s new owner has a request for advertisers: Please stop
hurting journalism</a>. <br />Photos and Image Design on the Web<br /><br /><b>Windows Photos</b>
is
<a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/02/22/windows-photos-gets-generative-erase-and-recent-ai-editing-features-now-available-on-arm64-devices-and-windows-10/">getting AI-powered generative erase</a>
(erase elements in your photos), to go along with blurring, removing or
replacing the background. This is available for Windows 10 and 11 on
Arm64 devices.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2>
<b>Bluesky</b><a href="https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web">
is federating</a>. This is similar to the way Mastodon and other ActivityPub platforms
federate - people on one platform can follow and engage with content
from people on other platforms. Bluesky’s federation is less individual
instances as separate entities and more a global experience with
different data hosts.Read how
<a href="https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web">Bluesky’s AT Protocol differs from ActivityPub</a>.<br /><br />The <b>Instagram</b> creator marketplace connects brands
with creators. Instagram is testing “machine learning-based
recommendations” to help brands discover creators, and the marketplace
is expanding from the US to include Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the
UK, Japan, India and Brazil.
<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/02/creator-marketplace-for-brands-and-creators-to-collaborate-on-instagram/">Learn how it works.</a><br /><br />Will Oremus at the Washington Post has
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/21/meta-is-downplaying-political-content-heres-what-that-really-means/">clarification on what <b>Meta</b> means</a>
when they say they downplay “political content” on <b>Instagram</b> and
<b>Threads</b>. Political content isn’t just about elections or
politicians, but also some “social topics”, which apparently includes
“content that identifies a problem that impacts people and is caused by
the action or inaction of others, which can include issues like
international relations or crime”. That seems both broad and vague.<br /><br /><b>X</b>
is<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-expands-audio-and-video-calls-to-non-paying-users/708442/">
rolling out video and audio calls t</a>o non-subscribers. Even (or maybe especially) if you don’t plan to use
the service, check your X Messages settings to limit who can call you.
To do that, sign into your account in the mobile app, open Messages
(envelope icon at bottom right), then click the gear icon at top right
to open the messaging settings. You can choose to allow video and audio
calls from people in your address book, people you follow, verified
users or everyone.
<a href="https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/direct-messages/audio-video-calls">Learn more about audio and video calls on X.</a><br /><br />The latest scams on <b>Facebook</b> and other social media
prey on people with<a href="https://www.404media.co/email/a4daf938-89e2-4f3f-ad96-ad51d89144ed/">
fake live streams of funeral services</a>
and
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2024-02-12/the-internet-told-my-dad-ai-obituary-hoax">fake obituaries</a>
(of people who haven’t died!).<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates</h2>
<b>Chrome</b> is
<a href="https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-ai-help-me-write/">rolling out its “Help me write”</a>
AI-powered writing tool you can use anywhere on the web. Will this be
useful? Maybe. Will it allow easy creation of low quality comments and
reviews? Probably. It is available in Chrome M122 for Mac or Windows in
the US in English. It can be enabled in the Chrome settings.<br /><br />If
you are an <b>Amazon Associate</b> (sharing Amazon affiliate links), be
sure to read the
<a href="https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/compare">updated operating agreement</a>. Among the changes are new language to clarify that Program Content
and Special Links are not allowed to be used with generative AI.<br /><br />StabilityAI
has launched <b>S</b><a href="https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-3"><b>table Diffusion 3</b> text-to-image generator.</a>
You can join their waitlist to use the early preview.<br /><br />At last
week’s <b>Munich Security Conference</b> Google, Meta, Microsoft,
OpenAI, TikTok and X
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/tech-companies-limit-impact-ai-deepfakes-accord/707863/">agreed to the Tech Accord to Combat Deceptive Use of AI in 2024
Elections.</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
The <b>Google Account </b>sign-in page
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/new-google-sign-in-page.html">has a new look</a>. If you have signed into your Google Account over the past few weeks
you probably saw a notice this change was coming. There’s no change in
functionality.<br /><br />Google Workspace Marketplace
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/updates-to-google-workspace-marketplace.html">now includes apps for <b>Google Chat</b> </a>(such as Jira for Google Chat) and the Marketplace can be opened from
inside Chat. Developers can also publish apps to the Marketplace, which
could provide some useful additions to<a href="https://support.google.com/chat/answer/9649420?hl=en">
the current selection</a>. Note that despite the name, this update is available for personal
Google accounts, as well as Google Workspace users.<br /><br /><b>Google Docs </b>is adding<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/release-notes-02-23-2024.html">
a smart chip that auto-completes inserted email addresses</a>, and optionally lets you replace the email with a people chip.<br /><br />Google
Workspace customers and developers
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/google-meet-api-now-generally-available.html">now have full access</a>
to the <b>Google Meet API.</b> This can be used to create and configure
Meet meetings, retrieve information about past meetings, and generate
real-time updates on meetings.<br /><br />If you use <b>Signal</b> your
<a href="https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/">phone number will no longer be visible by default</a>, with the introduction of Signal usernames.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
<b style="background-color: #04ff00;">Read this! </b>Owners of digital
news site Vice have shuttered the site. Christ Thompson at Defector
writes
<a href="https://defector.com/vices-avaricious-stewards-finally-succeeded-at-bleeding-it-dry">Vice's Avaricious Stewards Finally Succeeded At Bleeding It Dry </a>: “It is entirely possible for journalists to earn enough from the sale
of their work to make a living and to continue in their vocation; it
just may no longer be possible for the sale of that work to also fund
the extravagant ambitions of swirly-eyed, would-be moguls and grifting
MBA-havers and entire constellations of make-work consultants.”<br /><br />Meanwhile,
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080215/engadget-layoffs-tech-news-blogs-editorial-restructuring">Yahoo laid off </a>the editor-in-chief and managing editor of Engadget, in addition to a
number of other staff.<br /><br /><b style="background-color: #04ff00;">Read this! </b>Product review site HouseFresh writes
<a href="https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/">How Google is killing independent sites like ours: And why you
shouldn’t trust product recommendations from big media publishers
ranking at the top of Google</a>. <br /><br />Ethan Zuckerman @ The Prospect reflects on the
<a href="https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/64916/steve-jobs-history-of-apple-mac">40th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh.</a>
<a href="https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/64916/steve-jobs-history-of-apple-mac">We still live in Steve Jobs’s brave new world</a>.<br /><br />Ada Palmer writes about
<a href="https://reactormag.com/tools-for-thinking-about-censorship/">Tools for Thinking About Censorship</a>.<br /><br />This is a disturbing report in the New York Times:
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk0.xsiF.09rii_5z25od&smid=url-share">A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by
Men</a><br /><br />Read this! Ryan Broderick explains why
<a href="https://www.garbageday.email/p/ai-search-doomsday-cult">AI search is a doomsday cult</a>.<br /><br />Jason Kottke
<a href="https://kottke.org/24/02/hows-it-going-today">celebrated 19 years </a>of the kottke.org blog as his full time job. Amazing!<br /><br /><b><i>Thanks for reading!<br /></i></b>---<br /><br />That’s all the updates for this week.
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<br />This week’s updates include new features for YouTubers, OpenAI’s new
text-to-video AI, a better way to create presentation videos in Google Slides
and more.<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h4><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New YouTube posts-only
feed.</li><li>Speaker Spotlight in Google Slides for more engaging
presentations</li><li>OpenAI’s Sora, an impressive text-to-video AI
model</li><li>Upload YouTube videos and shorts in the YouTube Studio
app</li><li>Remix music videos into YouTube Shorts</li><li>Co-stream
the Twitch Streamer Awards</li><li>TikTok Creative Assistant in Adobe
Express</li><li>Changes to Google Search in the EEA</li><li>Android
app photo picker can access images in the cloud</li><li>X’s poor ad
performance (maybe bots?)</li><li>A look back at Twitter’s last days</li><li>Pinterest
color trends</li><li>Filter your Instagram DMs to only see people you
follow</li><li>A look at robots.txt and how it’s not keeping up with
technology</li></ul>Read on for details and additional updates!<br /><br /><b>Creator Weekly In Your Inbox 📨</b><br /><a href="http://newsletter.peggyktc.com/">Subscribe</a>
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favorite platform. Everyone is welcome to join the discussion, and I’d like to
hear your thoughts about live streaming from both the live streamer
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Do you know how to secure your important accounts? Take
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxCEXXhZViLd4BNpz1Mr6xuQCibdGJibLN">this week’s account security quiz</a>. <br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Black History Month</h2>
Google Arts & Culture:
<a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/diversity/black-history-month-2024/">Celebrating Black History: Past, Present and Afrofuturism</a>
<br /><br /><a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/explore-alvin-ailey-and-the-performing-arts-on-google-arts-culture/">Explore Alvin Ailey and the performing arts on Google Arts &
Culture</a>
<br /><br />TikTok:
<a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/celebrating-visionary-black-voices">Celebrating Visionary Black Voices</a><br /><br />YouTube:
<a href="https://blog.youtube/creator-and-artist-stories/13-standout-black-creators/">13 standout Black creators you need to follow</a>
<br /><br /><a href="https://blog.youtube/creator-and-artist-stories/youtube-black-history-month-2024/">A platform for Black voices to shine: How YouTube is celebrating Black
History Month</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">YouTube Posts-Only Feed</h2>
YouTube has launched a new way to view Community posts in their own feed.
Posts can include images, quizzes, polls or links to videos, in addition to
text. <br /><br />In the Home feed in the YouTube mobile app for Android or
iOS, tap “View all posts” to view the Posts feed. In my experience, engaging
with a Post on the Home feed (by liking or commenting) makes that button
appear. <br /><br />YouTube says the feed includes “posts from channels that
you’ve engaged with before or posts we think you’ll like”. <br /><br />I’m a
fan of posts (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/peggyktc/community">check out the quizzes and announcements </a>on my channel), and I’m hoping this gives them more visibility.<br /><br /><b>Learn more <br /></b><br />YouTube Help Center:
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7124175">Interact with creators on Community Posts.</a><br />Announcement on
<a href="https://youtu.be/yVjoJIZojdA&t=59">Creator Insider on YouTube.</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Speaker Spotlight in Google Slides</h2>
Speaker Spotlight is a new feature in <b>Google Slides </b>that lets you<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/create-immersive-presentations-in-google-slides.html">
insert your Meet meeting video feed into your presentation</a>.<br /><br />You can add a placeholder to a slide for your video feed, and
then when you are in slideshow mode, your camera feed appears there. So you
are in your meeting, and people see you talking on the slide itself, rather
than in a separate video feed.<br /><br />A related feature,
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/create-shareable-video-presentations-in-google-slides.html">Slides recordings</a>, became available earlier this month. That lets Google Workspace users
<a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/14221290?">record presentations up to 30 minutes</a>
from inside Slides. Add Speaker Spotlight to that to create a compelling
presentation.<br /><br />I’m disappointed these features are only available
to a limited set of Google Workspace editions (Google Workspace Business
Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus,
Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Education Plus) so I can’t try it
out.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">OpenAI’s New Text-to-Video Model</h2>
<b>OpenAI</b> announced <b>Sora</b>, their new text-to-video AI model that
can create fairly realistic looking minute-long videos with just a text
prompt. This is not available for use -- yet. <br /><br />
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i>Today, Sora is becoming available to red teamers to assess critical
areas for harms or risks. We are also granting access to a number of
visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to gain feedback on how to
advance the model to be most helpful for creative professionals.</i>
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<br /><a href="https://openai.com/sora">Check out the examples.</a> Pretty
wow, right?<br /><br />But tech reporter
<a href="https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/lets-not-do-this-again-please">Brian Merchant points out</a>
that it’s important to not be distracted by the hype. <br /><br />For one
thing, Sora generates videos that are very similar to Midjourney for the
same prompts, and sometimes very similar to stock videos. Why? Because they
use the same content for training the AI model. Plus it’s more likely to be
used to replace people in special effects editing and video production than
“unleashing creativity”.
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Is this better than Google’s text-to-video model Lumiere?
<a href="https://lumiere-video.github.io/">You be the judge</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
Video Creator and Live Streaming Updates
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You can now upload videos and Shorts in the
<b>YouTube Studio mobile app.</b> You can set monetization status in the
app as well if your channel is in the YouTube Partner Program. (More from
<a href="https://youtu.be/yVjoJIZojdA&t=31">Creator Insider on YouTube</a>)<br /><br />If your <b>YouTube</b>
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12257682#eligibility&zippy=%2Cchannel-eligibility-to-promote-your-own-products">channel is eligible for <b>Shopping</b></a>, and the promotion of products from other brands (not just your own
channel merch), you can now
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12299016">tag affiliate products in live streams</a>. This is currently only available to channels in the YouTube Partner
Program in the US and South Korea with more than 15,000 subscribers.<br /><br />You
can
<a href="https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-shorts-remix/">now Remix music videos </a>into <b>YouTube Shorts.</b> In the YouTube mobile app, look for the
Shorts Remix button on your favorite music videos. You can choose to use
the sound, “collab” to make a side-by-side video, greenscreen to use it as
the video background, or cut a 5 second clip to add to your Short. Other
than “clips”, you can use 15 seconds of the music video in the Shorts
editor.<br /><br />Tonight (February 17) is the <b>Twitch</b> Streamer
Awards. Viewers can<a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2024/02/15/celebrate-the-streamer-awards-with-exclusive-incentives-on-twitch/">
co-stream to share live reactions and watch with their community</a>. Plus there is a special Marvel Snap “quest”.<br /><br /><b>Adobe Express </b>has a
<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/business/en/blog/adobe-express-creative-assistant">new <b>TikTok</b> Creative Assistant integration</a>. Creative Assistant is TikTok’s AI tool aimed at businesses and brands.
It can show what’s trending, give ad examples and provide tips for
creating ads. You can try it by going to Adobe Express on desktop (<a href="https://express.adobe.com">express.adobe.com</a>), starting a new project, then clicking the Add-On option on the left
menu. Select TikTok Creative Assistant from the Add-On list.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Podcasting and Audio</h2>
For authors who use <b>Spotify’s</b><a href="https://www.findawayvoices.com/"> Findaway Voices</a> to sell
audio books, romance author
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/courtneymilan.com/post/3klitiabuoc2p">Courtney Milan pointed out</a>
the updated terms of use would give Spotify a royalty-free license to
translate the work, generate transcripts and create derivative works. This
may be a problem if you want to make exclusive deals for translation or
film rights or other uses of your book, or don’t want your book used to
train AI tools. Authors who already have those exclusive deals in place,
may need to withdraw their books from the platform. After an outcry
Spotify rolled back those new terms within a day. It may be that Spotify
does not understand how book licensing agreements work, but it also shows
how important it is to understand any changes to terms, and speak up if
there is a problem.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and Search</h2>
Business owners and web developers should check out
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/02/search-experiences-in-eea"><b>Google’s</b> updated documentation</a>
for changes to <b>search</b> coming to users in the European Economic
Area.
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<br /><b>WordPress</b> has an upcoming free webinar on
<a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/02/12/february-webinars/">how to use Block Patterns to design your own theme.</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Photos and Image Design on the Web</h2>
Android developers can now
<a href="https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/02/cloud-photos-now-available-in-android-photo-picker.html">update their app’s photo picker to allow users to access their images
in the cloud.</a>This means, for example, being able to select an image that is in your
<b>Google Photos</b> library, but not stored on your device. This is
available for devices on Android 12 or higher. This is great for Android
users!<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/15/x-paid-post-promotion-advertising">Guardian</a>
and
<a href="https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic">Mashable</a>
report from advertisers that engagement and supposed traffic from X
seems to be massively inflated by bots. Social Media Today
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/new-report-finds-that-x-may-be-inflating-its-ad-performance-results/707860/">takes a closer look</a>. The bottom line: “If you’re noting that your<b> X</b> insights
include a lot of clicks and engagement, but you’re not seeing the same
reflected in your own analytics and performance data, then it could be
that something’s not right, and that <b>X</b> is inflating those
figures.”<br /><br />If you are following the trends, <b>Pinterest</b><a href="https://business.pinterest.com/blog/introducing-the-pinterest-palette/"> says this year’s trending color palette </a>is Desert Orange, Gummy Pink, Aqua Blue, Moss Green and Mocha Brown.
This is based on actual images and searches on the platform, and they
link the colors to specific trends (so Desert Orange is associated with
the “<a href="https://business.pinterest.com/pinterest-predicts/2024/jazz-revival/">Jazz Revival</a>” trend). I find this much more evocative than<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/01/podcasters-youtube-adsense-SEO.html">
the Pantone color of the year,</a>
which doesn’t really put the color into context of other trends.<br /><br /><b>Instagram</b>
now lets you
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3VCvjNvCvb/">filter your DMs </a>to only show messages from people you follow.<br /><br />If you boost
your posts on <b>Instagram</b> or <b>Facebook</b>, <b>Meta</b> is
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/business/news/new-ways-for-small-business-to-boost-and-avoid-apple-service-charges">recommending that you do that on the Facebook or Instagram website</a>
(rather than the app) to avoid Apple’s 30% service charge (which Apple
will start charging for in-app boosts later this month). You can pre-pay
for boosts on the website, you can then boost from the iOS app without
any additional fees.<br /><br />There are two new Twitter-related books
out with available online excerpts: <br /><br />"Battle for the Bird:
Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul" by
Kurt Wagner<br />
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<li>
<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-retreat-jack-dorsey-elon-battle-for-the-bird-book-2024-2">A behind-the-scenes look at the Twitter company retreat that
brought Jack Dorsey out of his shell</a>
(Business Insider)
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</ul>
“Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter” by Zoe Schiffer<br />
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<li>
<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-changed-twitter-algorithm-tweets-didnt-get-attention-book-2024-2?amp">Elon Musk attacked my article accusing him of gaming Twitter's
algorithm for more attention. In some ways, it gave him exactly
what he wanted.</a>
(Business Insider)
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<li>
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-twitter-rate-limits-extremely-hardcore/">The Story Behind Elon Musk’s Tweet Restriction Fiasco
</a>
(Wired)
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<b>Mastodon’s</b> Eugen Rochko spoke with Zoe Schiffer
<a href="https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/">about federation with Meta’s <b>Threads</b> and more</a>.<br /><br />From TechCrunch:
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/as-threads-deprioritizes-politics-blueskys-ceo-touts-custom-feeds-and-user-choice-in-social-media/">As <b>Threads</b> deprioritizes politics, <b>Bluesky’s</b> CEO touts
custom feeds and user choice in social media
</a>
<br /><br /><b>Spoutible</b> is
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/12/twitter-alternative-spoutible-clashes-with-critics-over-security-breach/">trying to do damage control after a serious data breach</a>, and it’s not a good look. <br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates</h2>
Google released <b>Gemini 1.5 </b>with “<a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-next-generation-model-february-2024/#sundar-note">dramatically enhanced performance”</a>. One of its big improvements is<a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/long-context-window-ai-models/">
its long context model</a>, or “how many tokens — the smallest building blocks, like part of a
word, image or video — that the model can process at once”. The latest
model increases the number of tokens it can process from 32,000 to up to
1 million tokens. Gemini 1.5 Pro is in limited preview for
developers.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
You can now
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/release-notes-02-16-2024.html">drag and drop an image </a>to replace the background in <b>Google Slides.</b><br /><br />Comments
are one of the most useful collaborative tools in <b>Google Docs</b>,
<b>Sheets</b> and <b>Slides</b>. Now Google is i<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/manage-comments-faster-google-docs-sheets-slides.html">mproving the comment view</a>, so you can see all comments, expand the comments to view with the
related content, or minimize comments to just icons.<br /><br />You can
now join a <b>Meet</b> meeting
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/google-meet-companion-mode-mobile-android-ios.html">in Companion Mode from your mobile device</a>. If you are in a meeting room with virtual meeting attendees, you can
join in Companion Mode to share emoji reactions, raise your hand, turn
on captions (including translated subtitles), participate in the
in-meeting chat, zoom in on presented content on your device, and be
identified in the hybrid meeting by name.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
<b style="background-color: #01ffff;">Read this!</b> David Pierce @ The
Verge writes about
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders">The text file that runs the internet</a>: “For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But
as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic
social contract of the web is falling apart.”<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/pronounced_kyle/status/1757215139550605713">Christian Keil pointed out </a>on X that GitLab’s Zoom meetings posted to YouTube have hundreds of
thousands of views, because people are using them to pretend they are in
a work call. Just
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVtvOpU80Q">read the comments on one of their videos</a>.<br /><br />Author Charlie Jane Anders writes:
<a href="https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/how-to-build-your-online-brand-without-burning-out/">How To Build Your Online "Brand" Without Burning Out</a><br /><br /><b><i>Thanks for reading!<br /></i></b>---<br />That’s all the updates for this week.
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This week has three celebrations to brighten your winter.
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Today is Lunar New Year, which is celebrated in China, Korea, and Vietnam and
in Asian communities around the world. Tomorrow is the Super Bowl, which might
as well be a holiday here in the US (go Niners!) and Wednesday is Valentine’s
Day. <br /><br />I hope you have a fabulous week and prosperous year! I ♥️ you
all!<br /><br />This week there’s news for YouTubers, Google’s Gemini replaced
Bard, Threads shared how its recommendations work, BlueSky opened to everyone,
and much more.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Get Super
Bowl ads and music without having to sit through the football.</li><li>To try this week: Make a Valentine movie in Google Photos,
add a dragon to your Meet meeting, use Opus Clip Captions for free.</li><li>YouTube
CEO Neal Mohan shared the platform’s priorities for 2024.</li><li>You can now go live in the YouTube Shorts feed.</li><li>Google
Bard and (soon) Duet AI are now Gemini.</li><li>Google is turning
down Web Stories.</li><li>Meta will identify and label
realistic-looking AI content.</li><li>Meta is shutting down the
Facebook Groups API, so third party tools for posting, messaging and live
streaming to Groups will likely stop working.</li><li>Threads shared
information on how their recommendation algorithms work. The default is that
“political content” will not be recommended to people who don’t follow the
poster.</li><li>BlueSky is now open to the public and ready for you
to create feeds.</li><li>LinkedIn will be removing Creator Mode from
profiles.</li><li>There are lots of interesting articles this week
about the creator economy, the fediverse, posting platforms and more.</li></ul>Read
on for details and additional updates!<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Creator Weekly In Your Inbox 📨</h3><a href="http://newsletter.peggyktc.com/">Subscribe</a>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;">Take this week’s quiz ✅</h3>
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Do you know what you need to focus on to get your website to rank in Google
Search? Take
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxrDxWY_SJtbxOplnyVqSItFiaRuU3X9xG">this week’s SEO quiz</a>.
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<br />Bonus: How well do you know the YouTube Partner Program? Take<a href="https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/are-you-ready-to-make-money-on-youtube/">
the quiz on the official YouTube blog</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Super Bowl Celebrations</h2>
Whether you love football, look forward to the halftime show, hope to get a
<a href="https://www.garbageday.email/p/taylor-swift-vs-manosphere">glimpse of Taylor Swift</a>, appreciate clever ads, or just like afternoon beer and snacks, watching the
Super Bowl is a great way to spend the afternoon. Or, if you hate the Super
Bowl, it’s a good time to visit places where people aren’t. Of course the tech
companies want a piece of the action.<br /><b><br />TikTok</b> has an official
live pre-game party with
<a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/gwen-stefani-will-perform-at-super-bowl-lviii-tiktok-tailgate">headline performer Gwen Stefani</a>.<br /><br /><b>YouTube</b> has the Super Bowl ads
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/adblitz">on its AdBlitz channel</a>,
including Google’s own
<a href="https://blog.google/products/pixel/superbowl-ad-2024-watch-javier-in-frame/">Pixel ad</a>.<br /><br /><b>YouTube</b> also lists<a href="https://blog.youtube/culture-and-trends/the-most-viewed-super-bowl-halftime-shows/">
the most viewed Super Bowl halftime shows</a>, which, of course, you can watch on YouTube.<br /><br /><b>SnapChat</b> is<a href="https://newsroom.snap.com/get-ready-for-super-bowl-lviii-with-the-nfl-on-snapchat">
teaming up with the NFL</a>
to offer special Camera Kit lenses in the NFL app (and in person, in Las
Vegas). On SnapChat you can use a lens to put you in your favorite team’s
uniform and share your Touchdown Celebration for a chance at winning part of
the $20,000 prize.<br /><br /><b>Apple Music</b>
<a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/02/ushers-road-to-halftime-on-apple-music-launches-today/">launched USHER’s Road to Halftime</a>
with exclusive playlists, mixes from Las Vegas DJs, and a new USHER album.<br /><br />I’m
not seeing any official events on <b>X</b> or Meta’s <b>Facebook</b>,
<b>Instagram</b> or <b>Threads</b>, but there’s sure to be discussion during
the game.<br />
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Make a movie for your Valentine in <b>Google Photos</b>. This is currently
only available in Google Photos on desktop, under Utilities > Highlight
Movie (not the new app) or at
<a href="https://photos.google.com/movies/create">photos.google.com/movies/create</a>. It requires face grouping to be enabled, and works best if you have a lot
of photos. Older, still mostly correct instructions
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2021/02/google-photos-valentines-movie.html">here</a>. You can also use the updated Photos app to create a highlight movie using
selected people, places, dates or search terms and add music ❣️.<br /><br />Celebrate
Year of the Dragon in <b>Google Meet</b>. There isn’t a new Lunar New Year
background or effect in Meet (at least not as I’m writing this), but there is
a dragon. In your next Meet meeting, open the Effects settings, then scroll to
Backgrounds > Fantasy and select the animated dragon on the castle (see the screenshot).<br /><br /><b>OpusClip Captions</b>
is a new free tool to add automatic captions to your short videos. It doesn’t
even require a sign-in.
<a href="https://clip.opus.pro/captions">Try it now</a>!
<a href="https://twitter.com/OpusClip/status/1755690800447365243">More info on X</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">YouTube’s Priorities for 2024</h2>
<b>YouTube</b> CEO Neal Mohan shared the platform’s priorities for 2024, along
with some stats. <br /><br />The numbers:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>More than 3 million channels are in the YouTube Partner Program.</li>
<li>
YouTube has paid out “over $70 billion to creators, artists, and media
companies over the last three years”.
</li>
<li>
Viewers watch more than 1 billion hours of content every day on their TVs.
</li>
<li>
“Shorts is averaging over 70 billion daily views, and the number of
channels uploading Shorts has grown 50% year over year.”
</li>
<li>
There are more than 100 million subscribers for YouTube Music and Premium.
</li>
</ul>
<br /><b>AI creative tools for everyone</b><br /><br />“AI should empower
human creativity, not replace it. And everyone should have access to AI tools
that will push the boundaries of creative expression.”<br /><br />YouTube is
experimenting with AI-powered tools for creating Shorts (Dream Screen), music
(Dream Track) and maybe more.<br /><br /><b>Creators are the next-generation studios</b>
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<b><br /></b>This recognizes that many creators aren’t just amateurs recording
themselves with their phone. They are entrepreneurs and manage teams to create
high quality content.<br /><br />YouTube sees itself as offering different
ways to make money (ads, shopping, fan funding) and pushing for recognition of
creators by governments and the entertainment industry.<br /><br /><b>More people are watching on their TV<br /></b><br />
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A couple of amazing stats: in the US, people spend more time watching YouTube
on their TVs than Netflix. Also “people like watching Shorts on their TVs”.<br /><br />YouTube
is leaning in to that and bringing more content to their YouTube TV
subscriptions (which are US only).<br /><br /><b>Protecting the creator economy is foundational<br /></b><br />
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YouTube says it has a responsibility to show appropriate content to kids and
teens and to make sure people find high quality information. <br /><br />They
will soon be adding labels to “inform viewers when the realistic content
they’re seeing is synthetic” (such as AI-generated content).<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Go Live in the YouTube Shorts Feed</h2>
Last August YouTube started testing
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/08/creator-weekly-youtube-shorts-tools.html">previewing vertical live streams in the Shorts feed</a>. Now that feature is live for everyone. <br /><br />If you meet the
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9228390">eligibility requirements</a>, you can go live from the YouTube mobile app.<br /><br />You can also
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxcULFk7bRVJkJmxdy88Y8XlX9r-ODjTgI">live stream from desktop</a>. As long as the live stream is taller than it is wide, the preview will
appear in the Shorts feed.<br /><br />And there is a
<a href="https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1755772275943784520">new “Vertical live feed” traffic source</a>
in YouTube Analytics so you can see how well the new feature is working for
you.<br /><br /><b>More Information</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFHn1ZV5Vw8">Creator Insider interview</a>
with the Product Manager on YouTube Live about the new feature.
</li>
<li>
A Short about the new feature:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vEldXEcAbE0">Go LIVE on the Shorts Feed</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9228390">Eligibility requirements</a>
for live streaming from the YouTube mobile app
</li>
<li>
Pros might want to
<a href="https://twitter.com/YouTubeLiaison/status/1687108178079784960">consider going live with both a vertical and horizontal stream</a>
at the same time.
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
Google Bard and (soon) Duet AI are now Gemini
</h2>
In December
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/gemini-ai-podcasts-trends.html">Google announced</a>
Gemini, their “most capable and general” AI.<br /><br />Now Google’s chatbot
<a href="https://blog.google/products/gemini/bard-gemini-advanced-app/"><b>Bard</b> has been renamed </a><b>Gemini</b> (<a href="https://gemini.google.com/">gemini.google.com</a>).
It’s the same platform, now using Gemini Pro 1.0. <br /><br /><b>Duet AI</b>,
Google’s AI tools for Google Workspace enterprise users and Cloud customers,
<a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-update-sundar-pichai-2024/">will soon become Gemini for Workspace</a>
and Gemini for Cloud respectively.<br /><br /><b>Use Gemini on your phone</b><br /><br />There is a new <b>Android Gemini App</b> (<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.bard">get it</a>) that can summarize articles, caption images or provide other contextual
information. You can choose to use it instead of Google Assistant, but it
<a href="https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14579631">does not include all of Assistant’s features</a>, such as routines, setting reminders and tasks, or controlling third party
media services for radio, podcasts and music. <br /><br />Gemini will be
included with the <b>Google App </b>on iOS devices.<br /><br />The apps will
initially be available in the US in English, with more locations and languages
to come.<br /><br /><b>What if you want more Gemini with your personal account? <br /></b><br />Gemini Advanced gives you access to Gemini Ultra 1.0 - for a price.
Gemini Advanced is $19.99 per month, after a 2 month free trial. It’s an
<a href="https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14517446?">add-on to <b>Google One Premium </b></a>with 2TB of data (without AI it’s $9.99 per month). <br /><br />It will soon
include Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Slides and Sheets. Will the
<a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/13447104?">free AI access in Google Workspace Labs</a>
be shut off? Google hasn’t said, but I’m guessing so.<br /><br />Note that
Google One Premium also includes advanced features in Google Meet, like
recording and live streaming to YouTube,
<a href="https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/12351029?hl=en#zippy=%2Ccountries-where-google-workspace-premium-is-available">in supported countries</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
More Video Creator and Live Streaming Updates
</h2>
<b>Twitch’s</b> emote manager has<a href="https://twitter.com/TwitchSupport/status/1755676632176587008">
more Default Emote Animations</a>
you can apply to static emotes.<br /><br /><b>StreamYard</b> n<a href="https://new.streamyard.com/publish-2-hour-videos-to-youtube-and-facebook-4tQh8s">ow lets you publish long-form videos</a>
(up to 2 hours) to YouTube, Facebook Pages and LinkedIn Pages from your
StreamYard library.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and Search</h2>
If your website’s domain is on <b>Google Domains</b> and you are allowing it
to be migrated to <b>Squarespace</b>, be aware you
<a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-squarespace-migration-verify-36830.html">may need to set up Google Search Console again</a>
after the migration (or change your settings so that you don’t need to do
that).
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<br /><b>Google</b>
<a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-drops-web-stories-from-images-more-36866.html">is turning down</a>
<b>Web Stories</b>. They will no longer appear in Google Image search results,
and will no longer appear in a carousel in Discover. Why the change? The high
volume of low quality content is likely at least part of the reason. (And do
people view them? I don’t.) At one point Google was<a href="https://creators.google/en-us/content-creation-products/own-your-content/web-stories/">
heavily pushing the format</a>, but it seemed like a lot of work for not much return. <br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2>
<b>Meta</b>
<a href="https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2024/01/23/introducing-facebook-graph-and-marketing-api-v19/">is shutting down </a>the Facebook Groups API in April.
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/05/meta-cuts-off-third-party-access-to-facebook-groups-leaving-developers-and-customers-in-disarray/">TechCrunch notes</a>
this has taken both group owners and developers by surprise, as third party
tools for posting to Groups will no longer work (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FROurQdzhY">including live streaming services</a>). <br /><br /><b>Meta</b> is<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/02/labeling-ai-generated-images-on-facebook-instagram-and-threads/">
adding a setting for people to disclose AI-generated images, video or
audio</a>, and will require that disclosure for realistic-looking AI-generated
content. They are also working to identify AI-generated content automatically,
even if it was generated by AI tools from Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe,
Midjourney, or Shutterstock. <br /><br /><b>Instagram</b> and
<b>Threads</b> will not recommend “political content” from accounts that you
do not follow, unless you change a setting to allow that (that setting is not
yet available). The big question is what “political content” includes. Meta
says it’s “potentially related to things like laws, elections, or social
topics”, which is pretty vague. Social topics could include almost anything,
and almost certainly includes content relating to climate change, reproductive
health, and vaccinations. Does it also include topics like “it’s OK for
transgender people to exist”? Meta isn’t saying. <br /><br />Meta’s
Transparency Center has an<a href="https://transparency.fb.com/features/explaining-ranking/ig-threads-feed">
overview of the signals that its AI system uses</a>
to recommend content on <b>Threads</b>. Not politics!<br /><br /><b>BlueSky</b>
is
<a href="https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-06-2024-join-bluesky">now open to the public</a>. It has been invite-only for the past year, but now anyone can join. One of
its key features is that anyone can create feeds to follow and you can
essentially have your own “for you” algorithm. Soon it will also be testing
its own version of federation (BlueSky’s AT Protocol is similar to ActivityPub
which is used by Mastodon). Andrew Thaler at Southern Fried Science has a
<a href="https://www.southernfriedscience.com/a-quick-and-dirty-guide-to-making-custom-feeds-on-bluesky/">tutorial for creating custom BlueSky feeds</a>.<br /><br /><b>SnapChat</b>
<a href="https://newsroom.snap.com/800-million-mau-and-counting">announced</a>
they have reached 800 million Monthly Active Users (MAU). That’s small
compared to Facebook, YouTube or Instagram (3 billion, 2.5 billion and 2
billion MAU respectively), but more than Pinterest (about
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/pinterest-adds-users-q4-announces-new-google-ad-partnership/707070/">498 MAU</a>) or X (probably less than 400 MAU).<br /><br />If you set up an account at
Twitter-alternative <b>Spoutible</b> check your email for notice of a serious
data breach. Online security researcher<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/5/24061997/twitter-alternative-spoutible-vulnerabilty">
Troy Hunt points out </a>this was due to a misconfigured API, and notes it may have included the 2FA
and password reset tokens for accounts (which sounds very bad). Users are
prompted to reset their password when they try to sign in. Spoutible is also
recommending clearing your browser cache and cookies, and deleting the cache
and data storage for the mobile app. <br /><br /><b>LinkedIn</b> is<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/network-smarter-harder-naman-goel-qt7fe">
splitting its Network Tab into “Grow” and “Catch Up”.</a>
Catch Up will show you key moments for your connections, like birthdays and
promotions. Premium subscribers can use an AI tool to draft messages based on
information from your profile and the person you are messaging. <br /><br /><b>LinkedIn</b>
is also
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedins-removing-creator-mode-option/706585/">removing Creator Mode from profiles</a>. Creator Mode added profile hashtags, a Featured section and a Follow button
(rather than Connect).<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
<b>Google Meet </b>hosts can (finally)
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/pin-multiple-tiles-for-meeting-participants-google-meet.html">pin video tiles for everyone in the meeting</a>. This is great for large meetings or webinars. This is rolling out to Google
Workspace customers (it’s not clear if this includes Google Workspace
Individual subscribers).<br /><br />In a <b>Google Chat</b> Space you can now
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/02/share-spaces-smart-chips-in-google-chat.html">link to another Space with a smart chip</a>. <br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
Keep your accounts secure! Google shares
<a href="https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/online-safety-tips-cybersecurity-mistakes/">6 cybersecurity mistakes people make — and what to do instead</a>
<br /><br /><b style="background-color: #04ff00;">Read this!</b> Anil Dash:
<a href="https://www.anildash.com//2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/">“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement</a>
<br /><br />David Pierce @ The Verge:
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol">The fediverse, explained: Mastodon, Threads, and the open future of social
networking</a><br /><br />Elizabeth Lopatto @ The Verge:
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/24058356/trolls-social-media-commenter-lurker-reply-guy-threads">Toward a unified taxonomy of text-based social media use
</a>
(are you a lurker, influencer, commenter, reply guy or poster?)<br /><br />Ryan
Broderick @ Garbage Day:
<a href="https://www.garbageday.email/p/neverending-doom-spiral-back">Where are we in the paid subscription death cycle?</a>
<br /><br />Kate Knibbs @ Wired:
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-of-an-ai-clickbait-kingpin/">Confessions of an AI Clickbait Kingpin</a>
<br /><br />Excerpt of Kara Swisher’s book Book Burn @ New York Magazine:
<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kara-swisher-burn-book-excerpt-silicon-valley-media.html">Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media</a>
(free for a limited time)<br /><br />Nilay Patel @ The Verge interviewed Casey
Newton:
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/5/24059524/platformer-casey-newton-substack-moderation-email-newsletters-media-layoffs">Platformer’s Casey Newton on leaving Substack and surviving the great media
collapse</a><br /><br />Aaron Mok @ Business Insider:
<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-morning-routine-reads-news-techmeme-2024-2">Google CEO Sundar Pichai Reads Techmeme Every Morning</a>
<br /><br />Joan Westerberg:
<a href="https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-creator-economy-cant-rely-on-patreon">The creator economy can't rely on Patreon</a><br /><br /><b><i>Thanks for reading!<br /></i></b><br />---<br /><br />That’s all the updates for this week.
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Welcome to February! This week there are updates for YouTubers, website owners,
and other creators. Plus new AI image generator tools to try and a contest to
celebrate Flickr’s 20th anniversary.<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Try the updated AI-powered image creation options in Google Bard and ImageFX
</li>
<li>Get Google’s updated SEO Starter Guide</li>
<li>Universal Music Group has pulled its music from TikTok</li>
<li>Add Clips to your YouTube channel</li>
<li>View your playlist analytics in YouTube Studio</li>
<li>Google Search no longer links to cached web pages</li>
<li>Flickr wants your entry to their 20th birthday photo contest</li>
<li>Improvements to Google Calendar Appointment Scheduling </li>
<li>Google Meet lets you pin messages in the in-meeting chat.</li>
<li>
The Apple Vision Pro VR-headset is now available and the reviews are in
</li>
</ul>
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live streaming platform?
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxlvd4Q1Ir6l7KGdN6ik9A3vnhpBLKJk7j">Take the quiz</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Try generating images with Google’s Imagen 2</h2>
<a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-imagen-2/">Google’s Imagen 2 model</a>
powers photorealistic text-to-image generation, and you can play with it to
create images.<br /><br />
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Try it in<b> <a href="https://bard.google.com">Google Bard</a></b>, Google’s chatbot. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg99OfnwiFSGvZff3rsIj_r8LfPD5Pia-1-tpJ-VrI3XBBjKFJhUKBLHZXXMhhkAOY2_er-dGQ36U1Jm6cTwo5StO4pawqHNkdmKNHRCspbY7LjkBHGzKhGybfHv-RAb-J_JKF3bNb7DLhq7ewJm9XLashTPNJJTRCoTWBPQ1tuFmi3JpJG0LYoI-IllBQ/s1789/Bard%20image%20output.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1285" data-original-width="1789" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg99OfnwiFSGvZff3rsIj_r8LfPD5Pia-1-tpJ-VrI3XBBjKFJhUKBLHZXXMhhkAOY2_er-dGQ36U1Jm6cTwo5StO4pawqHNkdmKNHRCspbY7LjkBHGzKhGybfHv-RAb-J_JKF3bNb7DLhq7ewJm9XLashTPNJJTRCoTWBPQ1tuFmi3JpJG0LYoI-IllBQ/s600/Bard%20image%20output.png" width="320" /></a><br />You can create an image as part of your conversation with the bot.
<br /><br />Or try it in <a href="https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/image-fx"><b>ImageFX</b></a>, an image creation tool in Google’s experimental AI Test Kitchen. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiFaxV5c4ieuEZnHszKcKRQAutd9m8xqg0cZg4c-nTmNF1r8lAzCgMp2giMmldy63iLScHIH_SOrAtUOeTcJRiUD5HugPD7dcteyFOPDnewYqPyIUrUyjAnzSp12Ovlz6haaxpFhGm9bWExz3wqG9IkoPm3s4Wa2LRV9TlIMUf0fKjHqN68BCvjSNqyPg/s2256/ImageFX%20image%20output.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1504" data-original-width="2256" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiFaxV5c4ieuEZnHszKcKRQAutd9m8xqg0cZg4c-nTmNF1r8lAzCgMp2giMmldy63iLScHIH_SOrAtUOeTcJRiUD5HugPD7dcteyFOPDnewYqPyIUrUyjAnzSp12Ovlz6haaxpFhGm9bWExz3wqG9IkoPm3s4Wa2LRV9TlIMUf0fKjHqN68BCvjSNqyPg/s600/ImageFX%20image%20output.png" width="320" /></a><br /><br />It will give suggestions for “optimizing” the prompt with
suggestions in drop-down menus.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Image prompt: “A school of fish swimming in space towards a planet with stars in the background a comet zooming across”. (Bard named this query “Fishy space journey”)<br /></i><br />Images created this way have
a <a href="https://deepmind.google/technologies/synthid/">SynthID</a> digital
watermark that indicates it’s AI-generated. <br /><br />Google says they
have “added technical guardrails to limit problematic outputs like violent,
offensive, or sexually explicit content” and are preventing generation of
images of named people.<br /><br />If
tunes are more your thing,
<a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-labs-imagefx-textfx-generative-ai/">Google has also improved</a>
the
<a href="https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/music-fx"><b>MusicFX</b></a>
music generation tool and <a href="https://textfx.withgoogle.com/"><b>TextFX</b></a>,
a writing tool for “lyricists and wordsmiths”.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Google’s Updated SEO
Starter Guide</h2><b>Google</b> has launched a<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/02/ssg-gets-a-makeover">
revised <b>SEO Starter Guide</b></a>
that is better aimed at beginners. It not only describes what to do, but also
why you should do it. <br /><br />My favorite part so far is the “Things we
believe you shouldn’t focus on” section. It includes:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Meta
keywords</li><li>Keyword stuffing</li><li>Keywords in the
domain name or URL path</li><li>Minimum or maximum content length</li><li>Subdomains versus subdirectories</li><li>PageRank</li><li>Duplicate
content “penalty”</li><li>Number and order of headings</li><li>Thinking
E-E-A-T is a ranking factor</li></ul>Myths busted!</div><div><br />There’s
a lot of information in the guide, and probably worth a look even if you
aren’t a beginner any more.</div><div><br /><a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide">Get the updated SEO Starter Guide</a>.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Video Creator and Live Streaming Updates</h2><b>TikTok</b>
and <b>Universal Music Group</b> failed to come to an agreement before their contract
expired, and so Universal is
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/universal-music-tiktok-failed-negotiation/706095/">pulling its music from the platform</a>. Both
<a href="https://www.universalmusic.com/an-open-letter-to-the-artist-and-songwriter-community-why-we-must-call-time-out-on-tiktok/">Universal</a>
and
<a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-statement-in-response-to-universal-music-group">TikTok</a>
say the other side is being greedy and unreasonable. This sounds bad for music
artists who can’t use TikTok to promote their music and bad for creators whose
videos have had the audio muted. <br /><br />If viewers (or you) are<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10332730">
creating shareable <b>Clips</b></a>
from your <b>YouTube</b> videos, you may want to add the new “Top Community Clips”
shelf to your channel homepage. You can do this in YouTube Studio on desktop
(<a href="https://studio.youtube.com">studio.youtube.com</a>) in the
Customization settings.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5VD3ASsa7I">More information from Creator Insider.</a><br /><br />You can now learn more about the
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3529123">performance of your <b>Playlists</b> (and videos in your playlists)</a>
in <b>YouTube Studio Analytics</b>. Open the Content tab in Analytics, and you should
see the new Playlists button. Click “See more” for detailed metrics.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5VD3ASsa7I">More information from Creator Insider.</a><br /><br />If you offer <b>Memberships</b> on your <b>YouTube</b> channel you can
now schedule when a
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7544492?hl=en#zippy=%2Cmembers-only-video">members-only video </a>becomes available to the public.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5VD3ASsa7I">More information from Creator Insider.</a><br /><br />Rene Ritche, <b>YouTube’s</b> Creator Liaison answered the
question “If you are posting a video that isn’t your usual content, should you
un-check the box to have it appear in the <b>subscriber feed and notifications</b>?”
The short answer is “No”. But
<a href="https://blog.youtube/creator-and-artist-stories/renes-top-five-february-1-2024/">you should read why that is the case</a>.<br /><br />Do you add <b>end screens </b>to your <b>YouTube</b> videos? If not,
give it a try. The official YouTube Creators channel has<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Te4-B1wHAI">
a new video showing you how to do that.</a><br /><br />Tubefilter has a writeup of a study from <b>Google</b> that
reports
<a href="https://www.tubefilter.com/2024/01/30/creator-economy-advertising-study-iab-talk-shoppe-think-with-google/">92% of <b>advertisers</b> consider creator content to be “premium”</a>. Why does it matter? Advertisers are apparently budgeting more for creator
content.<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and Search</h2><b>Google
Search</b> has
<a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-drops-cache-link-from-search-results-36787.html">removed the option to view the cached version </a>of web pages. I noticed this before SEO Roundtable posted about it, but I
assumed it was a problem on my end. Apparently not. Why use it? If someone has
a blog page or YouTube channel deleted or suspended, viewing the most recently
cached version can be informative.<br /><br /><b>Arc Search</b> is
<a href="https://arc.net/blog/arc-search">a new feature in the Arc browser</a>, which returns an AI-generated compilation of information in response to a
query. David Pierce at Verge
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/28/24053882/arc-search-browser-web-app-ios?showComments=1">liked it</a>, and Gizmodo calls it “<a href="https://gizmodo.com/arc-ai-browser-google-search-new-features-instant-links-1851219967">An act of war against Google Search</a>”. It has come under some criticism for not clearly citing the web pages that
are used to compile the search response, and it’s noted that both Google and
Bing make a point of linking their sources. <br /><br /><b>LinkTree</b> is
<a href="https://linktr.ee/blog/linktree-for-journos/">offering a free year of LinkTree Pro </a>to journalists who have been laid off in the past year. LinkTree also
<a href="https://linktr.ee/blog/four-time-saving-features-every-creator-should-know-about/">has several new features</a>: archive links without losing history and analytics, automatically display
recent TikTok and YouTube links, schedule links for upcoming releases, and
prioritize links to make them stand out. <br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Photos and Image Design on the
Web</h2><b>Flickr</b>
<a href="https://blog.flickr.net/en/2024/02/02/20-years-of-significant-moments-in-flickrs-development/">looked back</a>
at its past 20 years. I hadn’t remembered that their acquisition by Yahoo was
just a year after they launched.
<a href="https://blog.flickr.net/en/2024/02/01/flickrs-20th-birthday-celebration-begins-with-a-photo-contest/">Submit your best photo in Flickr blue-and-pink </a>to their Birthday Photo contest to possibly win a year of Flickr Pro for you
and a friend and more.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/01/creator-weekly-twitch-monetization-ai.html">Adam Mosseri, head of Threads (and Instagram), said</a>
they consider in-<b>Threads</b> “trends” to be “an important feature for a small set
of power users” and that they are more focused on “growing the overall
community”.<br /><br />If you have a Community on <b>X</b>, you can<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-adds-topic-tags-groups-help-improve-discovery/706092/">
now add topic tags</a>
to help people find it by searching.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates
</h2><br /><b>Gemini Pro</b>, Google’s latest large language model,<a href="https://blog.google/products/bard/google-bard-gemini-pro-image-generation/">
is now available</a>
with the Bard AI chatbot in over 40 languages, and 230 countries. Previously
it was limited to English. The Bard “double-check the response” feature is
also available in more languages.<br /><br /><b>Google</b> is<a href="https://blog.google/products/maps/google-maps-generative-ai-local-guides/">
experimenting with generative AI in <b>Maps</b></a>, with an option to describe what you want to do. Maps will then suggest
activities, restaurants, shops or whatever else you are looking for. This is
currently being tested by select Local Guides in the US.<br /><br /><a href="https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/about"><b>Pinpoint</b></a>, a research tool from <b>Google</b> for journalists (and others) to explore and
analyze collections of documents, is<a href="https://blog.google/products/news/pinpoint-journalists-ai-features/">
getting AI-powered tools</a>
to explore and summarize documents, and to automatically import data from
multiple sources into a single spreadsheet.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and
Collaboration</h2>If you use the<b> Google Calendar Appointment
Scheduling </b>feature (available for Google Workspace Individual and other Google
Workspace editions), you can now
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/01/improving-google-calendar-appointment-schedule-features.html">have it check both your primary calendar and secondary calendars for
availability</a>. Select Google Workspace editions can also add co-hosts, create appointment
slots on secondary calendars, and delegate appointment scheduling.<br /><br />In
<b>Google Meet</b> you can now
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/01/pin-chat-messages-in-google-meet.html">pin messages in the in-meeting chat</a>. That lets people who join the meeting after the message was posted see the
message.<br /><br />The <b>Apple Vision Pro</b> VR headset was released this
week, with a focus on using it for work, rather than play. To that end
Microsoft Teams is
<a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/microsoft-teams-available-on-apple-vision-pro-on-february-2/ba-p/4042499">now officially available for the device</a>. <br />For reviews, check out Nilay Patel at the Verge, who wrote
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/24054862/apple-vision-pro-review-vr-ar-headset-features-price">Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not</a>
(he used it for Google Meet in Safari). And Marques Brownlee whose video shows
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtp6b76pMak">Using Apple Vision Pro: What It’s Actually Like!</a>
<br /><br /><b>Microsoft Teams Premium</b> lets you
<a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/decorate-your-background-in-microsoft-teams-premium-now/ba-p/4042705">use generative AI to decorate your background</a>. You can clean up the mess, add holiday decorations, or make it sparkle.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">More
Reading</h2><b>Google</b> wants everyone to use <b>passkeys</b>, rather than
passwords. If you have a Pixel phone or tablet, Google will
<a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2024/01/upgrade-to-passkeys-on-pixel-with-google-password-manager.html">now help you set up passkeys for third party sites</a>. That includes Adobe, PayPal, TikTok and more.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><b>Read this!</b></span>
Rebecca Jennings at Vox notes
<a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/2/1/24056883/tiktok-self-promotion-artist-career-how-to-build-following">Want to sell a book or release an album? Better start a TikTok</a>
(or, “everyone’s a sellout now”). It is a good read and concludes: <br />“The
burden of self-promotion isn’t only on creative people, obviously; . . . we’re
all expected to perform this labor now. If we’re fully employed, we know that
the comfort of health insurance and a salary could be gone at any moment if
our company decides to pivot or lay us off. Tech platforms, too, come and go,
and the audiences we build there are unstable, impermanent. But what other
choice do we have?”<br /><br />If you are a science fiction fan, you may
be interested in the controversy around the Hugo Awards in Chengdu, China.
Esquire has
<a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a46612912/science-fiction-hugo-awards-2024/">an overview of what happened</a>
and Charlie Stoss has a bit deeper background and<a href="https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/01/worldcon-in-the-news.html?ref=transfer-orbit.ghost.io">
speculation about why it happened.</a><br /><br /><br />Michell Cyca at The Walrus:
<a href="https://thewalrus.ca/around-the-world-in-eighty-lies/">Around the World in Eighty Lies</a><br /><br /><b><i>Thanks for reading!</i></b><br />---<br /><br />That’s
all the updates for this week.
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</div>Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-18069302083059344882024-01-27T06:26:00.000-08:002024-02-04T22:35:45.664-08:00Creator Weekly: Twitch monetization, AI tools in Chrome, EU users split Instagram and Facebook<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfeD6OPJTCCHvX1gcApGoSp5FNqcIIYleSTSXG6tPXaxp2TMmC5ps6yMOoH5O9xu6ifpOrAEOTJuMdaq7GtCvxDr8lkROyT-ns8_pNeoAvjAIRvco-jnoxDZPGc1aNQermhr953R5V9nDQqKN-wb6lOf_83Uqv2xcxepuIvJt9jTlipW9zC0h1UP_1zk0/s1200/012724.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Creator Weekly January 27, 2024" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfeD6OPJTCCHvX1gcApGoSp5FNqcIIYleSTSXG6tPXaxp2TMmC5ps6yMOoH5O9xu6ifpOrAEOTJuMdaq7GtCvxDr8lkROyT-ns8_pNeoAvjAIRvco-jnoxDZPGc1aNQermhr953R5V9nDQqKN-wb6lOf_83Uqv2xcxepuIvJt9jTlipW9zC0h1UP_1zk0/s800/012724.png" width="640" /></a>
<br /><br />Here were are in the last week of January already! Dear readers, I
hope the weather isn’t getting you down. Now that we have reached the peak of
winter, I’m looking forward to spring. <br /><br />This week there are updates
for Twitch streamers, more news for European social media users, new generative
AI tools and tips for bloggers and YouTubers.<br />
<h4 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h4><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
Twitch announced an expanded Plus Program for monetization</li><li>European
users can separate Facebook and Instagram</li><li>Chrome has new
generative AI features for tabs, themes and writing</li><li>Submit your
suggestions for new “mythbusting” videos from YouTube’s Creator Liaison</li><li>X
may offer Amplify video monetization program to more creators</li><li>If
you are using StreamYard’s video editing tools to repurpose your videos, you can
now add captions to Reels and Shorts</li><li>Are you seeing redirect
errors in Google Search Console for your Blogger blog? Don’t panic!</li><li>X
is having trouble keeping up with the flood of sexually explicit deep fakes
posted to the platform</li><li>Open AI will implement C2PA’s digital
labels on DALL-E generated images</li><li>Google Meet captions are
available in 32 new languages</li><li>404 Media requires an email to
read their investigative journalism, read why they made that decision</li></ul>Read
on for details and additional tips and updates!<br /><br /><b>Creator Weekly In Your Inbox 📨</b><br /><a href="http://newsletter.peggyktc.com/">Subscribe</a>
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<div><b>#OnEBoardChat 💬</b><br />Join me on Sunday,
immediately after Creator Weekly Live, to chat about blogging. The discussion
will be on
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=(%23OnEBoardChat)%20(from%3APeggyKTC)&src=typed_query&f=live">X</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@oneboard/community">YouTube</a> and
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninatrankova/">LinkedIn</a>. Everyone is
welcome to join the discussion, and I’d like to hear your thoughts about
blogging today and into the future!<br /><br /><b>Take this
week’s quiz ✅</b><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHU9UbuqcGOmMpeE_MeKtV3gk_9_CP-cETzICFeI67ku84g6FfYWf8DrYZbtTuzcQVt999nla_f83EC5DY5IAcSw2wB3NORSEatZDEZA0Dz1MjO72XWby-rhi4Ij29LzZjxw22mAWGQ_4ry6huab5C0uDoFdeJtuAocIatbbyfT-SaaqHF-tqe3KACfo4/s1280/AdSense%20Data%20Privacy%20Quiz.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHU9UbuqcGOmMpeE_MeKtV3gk_9_CP-cETzICFeI67ku84g6FfYWf8DrYZbtTuzcQVt999nla_f83EC5DY5IAcSw2wB3NORSEatZDEZA0Dz1MjO72XWby-rhi4Ij29LzZjxw22mAWGQ_4ry6huab5C0uDoFdeJtuAocIatbbyfT-SaaqHF-tqe3KACfo4/s320/AdSense%20Data%20Privacy%20Quiz.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>AdSense Publishers: what do you know about the Consent
Management Solutions provided by Google?
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Do & Try</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDhfvTN9fX9rpVwUndrerKuTg5MfUddn5R2SLl_dxZB3zuUuDoVpFgX91zaFwu9TnwZ6ok50ca2pce5kgNfwrIEx34RAXH-QJUc7cT64C106mlkm4qjF2qmvFkH-LA-FUpjXKrmGmrr35LOuoYbIrno0TB_oH8x-W8VsYaIahlv71qDt6k-PsprsbtRUw/s1280/ArtSelfie2_20240127_011336.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image generated from my selfie in the style of Frieda Kahlo" border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDhfvTN9fX9rpVwUndrerKuTg5MfUddn5R2SLl_dxZB3zuUuDoVpFgX91zaFwu9TnwZ6ok50ca2pce5kgNfwrIEx34RAXH-QJUc7cT64C106mlkm4qjF2qmvFkH-LA-FUpjXKrmGmrr35LOuoYbIrno0TB_oH8x-W8VsYaIahlv71qDt6k-PsprsbtRUw/w256-h320/ArtSelfie2_20240127_011336.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>The Google Arts & Culture app has
a
<a href="https://artsandculture.google.com/camera/gen-selfie">new AI-generated art selfie tool.</a>
Take a selfie and have it styled as a work of art, a historical artifact or
exploring space or Mount Everest.
<a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/art-selfie-is-back-this-time-with-generative-ai/">Learn more.</a><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Twitch Updates their monetization options</h2><b>Twitch</b>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/06/creator-weekly-youtube-partner-program.html">announced their new Partner Plus Program</a>
in June 2023. It offered a better revenue share (which is usually 50/50), but
only a small percentage of Twitch Partners were likely to meet the eligibility
requirements. <br /><br />This week Twitch is
<a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2024/01/24/an-update-to-several-streamer-payout-programs/">expanding their Partner Plus Program</a>
(now just the Plus Program), adding a new easier-to-reach Level 1, with a 60/40
revenue split. Level 2 will offer a 70/30 revenue split.
<br /><br />With the expanded eligibility Affiliates will now
be eligible for the new program. <br /><br />Plus there is no
longer a $100,000 cap on the 70/30 revenue share. Previously after reaching
$100,000 in earnings, the revenue share would revert to 50/50. Not surprisingly
they realized this limitation “served as a disincentive”.
<br /><br />Twitch is also
<a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2024/01/24/an-update-to-several-streamer-payout-programs/">shifting the way it pays creators for Prime Gaming subs</a>. A benefit of Amazon Prime is a monthly token that can be used for a paid
subscription on Twitch. Twitch is shifting the payout from being equivalent to a
paid subscriber to a fixed rate based on the country of the viewer (a Prime
gaming sub from a viewer in Pakistan is worth $0.55, while a viewer in the US is
worth $2.25). Most streamers “will not have a major impact on their revenue.”
<a href="https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/prime-gaming-revenue-guide?language=en_US#rate">
The new rates</a>
go into effect in June 2024.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Separate Facebook and
Instagram in Europe</h2>Last week I wrote about
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/01/creator-weekly-european-digital-markets.html">changes Google is implementing</a>
in preparation of the Digital Markets Act in the European Union.
<br /><br />This week Meta
<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/offering-people-more-choice-on-how-they-can-use-our-services-in-the-eu/">announced changes they are making</a>
to comply with the new regulations.<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>If you have connected Facebook
and Instagram you can separate them and manage them as separate accounts.</li><li>If
you use Facebook Messenger you can continue to use it, or use the stand-alone
Messenger service.</li><li>If you use Facebook Marketplace you can
choose to use your Facebook information or not (if not, communication between
buyers and sellers will use email.)</li><li>If you use Facebook Gaming
you can choose to not use your Facebook information. However, without Facebook
you will no longer have features like multiplayer games or in-game purchases.</li><li>You
can choose to use Instagram and Facebook free with ads, or pay for a
subscription to use it without ads.</li></ul>These changes only apply to
users in the European Union, European Economic Area, and Switzerland.
<br /><br /><a href="https://about.meta.com/uk/actions/protecting-privacy-and-security/#privacy-controls">Learn more </a>about Meta’s privacy tools and how to export your data.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Generative
AI Features in Chrome</h2>Chrome is getting new
generative AI features:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Tab Organizer: Automatic
suggestions for creating tab groups from your open tabs.</li><li>Custom
Themes: Use generative AI to create new themes for Chrome. Adriana Porter Felt,
Director of Engineering on the Chrome team, wrote about<a href="https://www.threads.net/@shorty_jooce/post/C2c2lOFvHqm">
some of the challenges of setting this up</a>
(and she wants to see your creations).</li><li>Help Me Write:
AI-generated text anywhere on the web. </li></ul><br />It’s that
last feature that I find concerning. I feel like the last thing we need is more
AI-generated reviews and comments and blog posts and whatnot. We’ll see how that
goes.<br /><br />These features are available in Chrome M121
for Mac and Windows in the US.
<a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/14519765?p=experimental_ai_setting&rd=1#experimental_ai_setting">Learn how to use them.</a><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Video Creator and Live Streaming Updates</h2>Want
more inside scoop on how <b>YouTube</b> works? Creator Liaison Rene Ritchie is asking
for creator questions to answer in a new season of Mythbusters.
<a href="https://blog.youtube/creator-and-artist-stories/renes-top-five-january-25-2024/">You can submit your questions </a>on YouTube, Threads or X/Twitter.<br /><br />The YouTube
Creators channel has a new quick tutorial on<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k_vGifQv78">
how to trim and cut your videos </a>using the <b>YouTube Editor.</b><br /><br />The <b>TikTok</b> video
composer has<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/tiktok-adds-new-cutout-option-change-background-of-your-clips/705662/">
a new Cutout option </a>that lets you replace your background.<br /><br />If you are
editing recorded video in <b>StreamYard</b>, you can now
<a href="https://support.streamyard.com/hc/en-us/articles/23044087971092-Captions-for-Shorts-and-Reels">add automatic captions</a>
to Shorts and Reels.<br /><br /><b>Tumblr Live </b>is
<a href="https://staff.tumblr.com/post/740374365326229504/happy-45th-birthday-dean-winchester-goodbye">now officially gone</a>. As
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/08/creator-weekly-youtube-shorts-tools.html">recently as last August</a>, Tumblr was expanding their live streaming option to more countries, but it
never really took off. In November Matt Mullenweg announced that they would be
focusing fewer resources on Tumblr.<br /><br />Surprising
no-one, Mr. Beast’s experiment in posting video to <b>X </b>was a success, at least in part
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-is-looking-to-expand-its-amplify-video-monetization-program-to-creators/705815/">because the video was enrolled in X’s Amplify video promotion option</a>
(sponsored pre-roll ads and a visibility boost) which is only available to
select partners. Regular creators can only earn from ad revenue sharing when
they upload a video. X has said they are planning to open
<a href="https://business.twitter.com/en/help/troubleshooting/amplify-publisher-faqs.html">Amplify</a>
to more creators, but it’s not likely to be available to everyone.
<a href="https://www.garbageday.email/p/mrbeast-screwed-elons-pyramid-scheme">Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day</a>
and
<a href="https://www.tubefilter.com/2024/01/22/mrbeast-x-video-ad-revenue-results/">Tubefilter</a>
have more on the story.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Podcasting</h2><b>Apple</b> will
be
<a href="https://podcasters.apple.com/support/5316-transcripts-on-apple-podcasts">automatically adding podcast transcripts</a>
for podcasts in English, French, German and Spanish. Creators can add their own
transcripts using the RSS Transcript tag. There is no option to opt out.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Web
Publishers and Search</h2>If you are using <b>Google Ads
</b>and want to show personalized ads in the European Economic Area you
<a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-non-compliant-gdpr-consent-banners-notices-36774.html">need to make sure your website is using a Consent Management Platform</a>
certified by Google.
<a href="https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/14505993">Learn more.</a>
(Note that this is<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/01/podcasters-youtube-adsense-SEO.html">
also required for AdSense Publishers</a>)<br /><br />If you have a <b>Blogger</b> blog and you are seeing
page redirect errors in <b>Google Search Console</b>, don’t panic! Google Product
Expert dwsmart
<a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/community-guide/254759331/have-a-blogger-site-and-seeing-page-redirect-errors-in-search-console?hl=en">explains what that means</a>
and why you probably don’t need to do anything to fix it.<br /><br />If
you are collaborating editing a<b> Google Sites</b> site, you can jump to where your
collaborator is<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/01/release-notes-01-26-2024.html">
by clicking their avatar at top righ</a>t.<br /><br /><b>Bing Webmaster Tools </b>has an<a href="https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/January-2024/Mastering-Website-Management-with-Site-Explorer">
overview of what stats you can find in Site Explorer.</a><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Photos and Image Design on the Web</h2><b>Flickr</b>
<a href="https://blog.flickr.net/en/2024/01/24/20-years-of-flickr-a-birthday-festivities-guide/">is turning 20 in February</a>
and they are promising perks, a photo contest, and in-person photo walks.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Social
Media</h2>This week <b>X</b> was<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050334/x-twitter-taylor-swift-ai-fake-images-trending">
flooded with AI-generated sexually explicit images</a>
of Taylor Swift. X is removing the posts, as they violate their policy on
non-consensual nudity, but the platform has been criticized for taking down the
images too slowly. The images came from a Telegram group “dedicated to abusive
images of women”.
<a href="https://www.platformer.news/taylor-swift-deepfake-nudes-x/">Casey Newton at Platformer points out</a>
that this is the entirely expected direction for harassment and revenge porn.
It’s easy to make, easy to share and hard to stop.<br /><br />To
keep your account secure, <b>X</b> has added passkey support for
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-enables-passkey-access-us-users/705402/">users in the US on iOS devices.</a>
<br /><br />You can now<a href="https://www.threads.net/@instagram">
turn off DM read receipts </a>in <b>Instagram</b>.<br /><br /><b>Meta</b> says they are<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/investing-in-privacy/">
investing in privacy</a>. <br /><br /><b>Instagram</b> and <b>Facebook</b> now<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/introducing-stricter-message-settings-for-teens-on-instagram-and-facebook/">
turn off the ability of teens to receive DMs</a>
from people they don’t follow or aren’t connected to on Instagram. Parents can
control this setting for supervised accounts.<br /><br />If
you want to make it easier for people to share your site on <b>Threads</b>, new tools
let developers create share buttons. I’m using one created by Lucas Puskaric.
<a href="https://lucaspuskaric.com/threadembed">Get your own.</a><br /><a href="https://www.threads.net/intent/post?text=Get%20the%20latest%20creator%20news%2C%20tips%20and%20updates.%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.peggyktc.com" rel="noreferrer" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates</h2>
Soon <b>OpenAI</b> will
<a href="https://openai.com/blog/how-openai-is-approaching-2024-worldwide-elections">implement the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity’s digital
credentials</a>
for images generated by <b>DALL-E 3</b>. That will identify them as
AI-generated. C2PA was founded by Microsoft and Adobe in 2021.<br /><br />404
Media reports that <b>YouTube</b><a href="https://www.404media.co/youtube-deletes-1-000-videos-of-celebrity-ai-scam-ads/">
removed more than one thousand video ads</a>
with AI-generated celebrities promoting scams.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/01/more-languages-for-google-meet-closed-captions.html">You can get live captions</a>
in <b>Google Meet</b> in 32 new languages. You still need to select the language
the person is speaking in the caption settings. See<a href="https://support.google.com/meet/answer/10964115#zippy=%2Call-users-can-use-captions-in-these-languages">
the full list of caption languages</a>.<br /><br />Spaces in <b>Google Chat </b>will
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/01/improving-space-creation-in-google-chat.html">no longer be able to duplicate an existing Space name</a>
(existing Space names will not be affected). There is also an improved Space
creation interface with context-dependent “next steps” to complete the setup.<br /><br />If
your meetings are via <b>Microsoft Teams</b> they<a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/new-year-new-meeting-enhancements-in-microsoft-teams/ba-p/4034799">
announced new customizable video gallery views</a>, and the new option to hide your own gallery view (I can’t believe they didn’t
have that before now). They are also improving meeting invites, making it easier
for free account users to join Teams for Work meetings (and vice versa), and
improving the video and audio setting controls.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
<b style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Read this!</b> <b>404 Media</b>, which
offers excellent original tech journalism, now requires you sign in with your
email to read most of their work.
<a href="https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/">They explain</a>
that “through our own reporting, we are realizing that in order to combat the
fracturing of social media platforms, a Google discoverability crisis fueled by
AI generated spam and AI-fueled SEO, and a media business environment that is in
utter freefall, we need to be able to reach our readers directly using a
platform that we own and control. To do that, we need your email address.”
(Yes, they have my email)<br /><br />That’s all the updates for this week.
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It’s finally starting to feel like the holidays are done and the new year
has begun. I can’t believe we’re already three weeks into January!<br /><br />This
week there is news for European Google users, plus tips for YouTubers, updates
for video calls, social media and more.<br /><br />Top news and updates this
week<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
European users get more choices on Google (thank the Digital Markets Act).
</li>
<li>Tips for YouTubers to kick off 2024.</li>
<li>Twitch bans Drops farming.</li>
<li>Live streamers can apply for Live Studio access on TikTok.</li>
<li>Follow Bluesky profiles in your favorite RSS feed reader.</li>
<li>Check your privacy settings for X video and audio calls.</li>
<li>
Google Meet lets you use combined AR and background effects and adjust your
lighting and audio.
</li>
<li>You can now join a Meet meeting anonymously from the Meet mobile app.</li>
<li>Gmail is making it easier to unsubscribe to bulk mailings.</li>
<li>
There are interesting articles on the death of Ello, writing about OnlyFans
as part of the creator economy, and Adobe and copyright.
</li>
</ul>
Read on for details and additional updates!<br /><br /><b>Creator Weekly In Your Inbox 📨</b><br /><a href="http://newsletter.peggyktc.com/">Subscribe</a> to get the
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">European Users Get More Choices on Google</h2>
If you are in Europe you should soon start to see some changes in Search and
other <b>Google</b> products, as Google works<a href="https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/an-update-on-our-preparations-for-the-dma/">
to comply with the European Digital Markets Act</a>, which goes into effect in March.<br /><br />The services covered by the new
policy include Google Play, Google Maps, Google Shopping, Google Search,
YouTube, Android mobile, Google Chrome and Google’s advertising services.<br /><br />The
changes Google announced include:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Choose which of the affected Google services are linked and share data with
each other. For example, if YouTube and Search are not linked services, you
will get less personalized recommendations in the YouTube “What to watch”
and Google “Discover” feeds. Note that this is not related to third party
apps, just Google services within your account.
</li>
<li>
In the Google Search results page you will see more results from comparison
sites when searching for something to buy, hotels or restaurants. Some
features, like Google Flights, will be removed.
</li>
<li>
It will be easier to switch your default search engine or browser on Android
or in Chrome.
</li>
<li>
In addition to data export with
<a href="https://takeout.google.com">Google Takeout</a> (which is available
to everyone), Google is testing a Data Portability API for developers.</li></ul>Google is making these changes because it has been designated
<a href="https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en">one of six “Gatekeeper” companies</a>.<br /><br />The other companies affected are Amazon (Marketplace, Amazon ads),
Apple (AppStore, iOS, Safari), ByteDance (TikTok), Meta (Facebook Marketplace,
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Meta Ads), and Microsoft (LinkedIn,
Windows). Expect more announcements of changes as the March deadline
approaches.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Video Creator and Live Streaming Updates</h2>
Are you looking forward to trying <b>YouTube’s</b> thumbnail A/B testing tool?
It’s
<a href="https://blog.youtube/creator-and-artist-stories/renes-top-five-january-18-2024/">still undergoing testing</a>, and there’s no set launch date (yet).
<a href="https://blog.youtube/creator-and-artist-stories/renes-top-five-january-18-2024/">YouTube Creator Liaison Rene Richie wrote</a>
“[The testing] will continue until the team feels like the product is delivering
what it needs to for creators, and then it’ll start moving into launch mode.”<br /><br /><a href="https://blog.youtube/creator-and-artist-stories/renes-top-five-january-18-2024/">Richie also shared some useful tips</a>
for thinking about how <b>YouTube</b> helps viewers find your videos and what to
consider in making a compelling video (it’s not just the thumbnail). Combine
that with the<a href="https://blog.youtube/creator-and-artist-stories/grow-your-youtube-channel/">
6 suggested ways to grow your channel</a>
to inspire some experimentation. I’m using it to think about new things I’d like
to try this year.<br /><br /><strong><mark data-color="#3feac1" style="background-color: #3feac1;">Watch this! </mark></strong>A number of long-time <b>YouTube</b> creators have announced that they are
stepping back, scaling down, or taking a break from creating. There has been a
lot of discussion of why that is, and
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQAvce3MA44">Marques Brownlee’s take</a>
(and octopus analogy) resonated with me. It’s worth watching even if you aren’t
a YouTube creator, because I think there is a universal truth to feeling like
you need to always be “growing”, which requires you to either take on more tasks
you don’t enjoy or become a manager. Find your hearts. <br /><br /><b>YouTube</b>
is
<a href="https://www.tubefilter.com/2024/01/17/youtube-corporate-restructuring/">restructuring its creator management teams</a>. Teams will be more localized, and there will be separate teams supporting
creators and users/viewers. Despite about 100 roles being eliminated, YouTube
expects to be able to support more creators this way.
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<br /><b>Twitch</b> has explicitly banned Drops farming. Tubefilter has an
<a href="https://www.tubefilter.com/2024/01/19/twitch-drops-farming-crackdown/">explainer</a>, but basically games offer in-game rewards for watching related livestream
content. The system can be gamed by creators who broadcast still images or
rebroadcast old content instead of live game play. More from Twitch
<a href="https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/mission-based-drops?language=en_US">about Drops</a>. Streamers
<a href="https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Community-Guidelines?language=en_US#28Spam,Scams,andOtherMaliciousConduct">who violate the policy</a>
could have content removed or their account suspended.<br /><br />If you are a
live streamer on any platform, you can<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/falcon/live_g/live_permission_apply/intro/index.html">
apply for LIVE Studio access on <b>TikTok</b></a>. Previously 1000 followers were required. They say “your application will be
evaluated based on the influence you have and the quality of your live content
on other platforms."<br />Podcasting<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and Search</h2>
John Mueller’s SEO Office Hours on the <b>Google Search Central </b>channel
addressed the age-old question “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRW7qktF9rI">What should I do with my old site?</a>” when you launch a new website. The answer: clean up the old site, redirect
the old site URLs to the new site for at least a year, and, if you can, remove
the old site.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2>
You can now follow <b>Bluesky</b> profiles<a href="https://openrss.org/blog/bluesky-has-launched-rss-feeds">
in your favorite RSS feed reader.</a>
The feed links are discoverable, which means you can enter the profile URL and
feed reader apps should be able to find the feed for you.<br /><br /><b>X </b>launched<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-launches-audio-and-video-calls-on-andoid/705117/">
audio and video calls in the Android app</a>. You need to be a paid subscriber to call someone, but non-subscribers can
receive calls. Set who can call you in your X Settings > Privacy &
Safety > Direct Messages. You can limit audio and video calls to people in
your address book, people you follow and/or verified users.<br /><br />If you
are using <b>X</b> odds are pretty good that you have seen
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/no-x-isnt-shadow-boosting-mrbeasts-video-but-it-is-still-amplifying-m/705116/">a post by Mr. Beast sharing a video he uploaded directly to the platform</a>
(link to reporting at Social Media Today). The management at X really wants
this to be successful (“better than YouTube!”) and the video post has clearly
been boosted. I’ve seen the post in my own feed multiple times. That is
apparently because videos with pre-roll ads are boosted like an ad,
automatically. It’s hard to know what the numbers mean, because a post view is
counted every time someone scrolls past it (I’ve probably given it 10 “views”
by doing that). More discussion at
<a href="https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-mrbeast-video-unlabaled-ads-creator-monetization">Mashable</a>.<br /><br /><strong><mark data-color="#3feac1" style="background-color: #3feac1;">Read this!</mark></strong> Do you remember <b>Ello</b>? It launched back in 2014 and was hyped as
a Facebook-killer. It did find a niche among artists and designers. It died a
quiet death in 2023. Andy Baio at waxy.org took a look at its history, and how
his own concern at the time it launched that it’s dependence on venture
capital funding might cause its demise has played out.<a href="https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/">
Read it here</a>.
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<br />A downside to using <b>Reddit</b>, rather than a different forum
platform is if a subreddit only has one moderator, and that mod is inactive
for a few weeks, new mods can take over the community.
<a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/large-seo-reddit-community-taken-over-36716.html">Barry Schwarz reports</a>
on the r/SEO community being taken over by mods with new-ish accounts that
also moderate crypto and investment communities.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates</h2>
<strong><mark data-color="#3feac1" style="background-color: #3feac1;">Read (or listen) to this!</mark></strong> Nilay Patel at The Verge
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/24027198/adobe-dana-rao-ai-copyright-fair-use-figma-acquisition-deal-decoder-interview">interviewed <b>Adobe’s</b> general counsel Dana Rao</a>
about their failed acquisition of Figma, European regulations, and, what I’m
particularly interested in, AI and copyright. They are championing a sort of
right to publicity combined with anti-impersonation laws that would protect
the style of an artist. They have set up the
<a href="https://contentauthenticity.org/">Content Authenticity Initiative</a>
and are thinking about how deepfakes can be detected. It’s long, but
interesting.
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<br />You can take a photo (or upload an image) to the
<b>Google</b> mobile app to search and get an AI-powered answer with
“multisearch”.
<a href="https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-ai-january-2024-update/">Learn more.</a><br /><br /><b>Meta</b> announced<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/davos-ai-discussions/">
their long-term goals for AI:</a>
“our long term vision is to build general intelligence, open source it
responsibly, and make it widely available so everyone can benefit.”<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
<b>Gmail</b> is making the Unsubscribe button
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/01/release-notes-01-19-2024.html">more prominent on messages from bulk senders</a>. They are also making clearer the difference between “Report Spam” and
“Unsubscribe”, which should hopefully result in fewer legitimate mailers
from being blacklisted because they were reported incorrectly as spam.<br /><br />For
more fun at meetings (or personal video calls) in <b>Google Meet</b>, you
can now
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/01/google-meet-improved-audio-and-video-combine-multiple-video-effects.html">combine background effects with AR effects</a>.
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<br />For a more professional look in <b>Google Meet</b> you can use
Studio Lighting to adjust lighting position, brightness and color.
Studio Sound automatically improves your audio. Both Studio Lighting and
Sound require
<a href="https://support.google.com/meet/answer/14441737#zippy=%2Clearn-what-you-need-for-studio-look-and-studio-lighting">Google Workspace with Duet AI on eligible devices</a>. (If you are signed up for
<a href="https://workspace.google.com/labs-sign-up/">Google Workspace Labs</a>
you can try out the less fancy
<a href="https://support.google.com/meet/answer/13948742">AI-powered Studio Look</a>
to improve video quality.)<br /><br />If you allow anonymous guests to
join your <b>Google Meet</b> meeting, they
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/01/join-a-meeting-without-a-google-account-on-mobile.html">can now join from the Meet mobile app</a>. Previously it was not possible to use the app unless signed in to a
Google Account.<br /><br /><b>Google Chat</b> is
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/01/star-messages-in-google-chat-on-mobile.html">enabling message starring in the mobile app</a>. This was rolled out on desktop last fall. You can find all your
starred messages from the Chat shortcuts (which include the Home feed
and @mentions list).<br /><br /><b>WhatsApp</b> Channels
<a href="https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/whatsapp-channels-gain-new-features">now have voice notes and polls </a>to boost engagement.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
<b>Flickr Commons</b>
<a href="https://blog.flickr.net/en/2024/01/16/16-years-of-shared-history-happy-birthday-flickr-commons/">is 16 years old</a>. It is a huge collection of historical photos from over 100 cultural
institutions in 24 countries. The images are shared as “<a href="https://www.flickr.org/programs/flickr-commons/no-known-copyright-restrictions-how-it-works/">no known copyright restrictions</a>”, in part because the legal rights can be difficult to ascertain.
Check out
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/explore/2024/01/15/">highlighted photos on Flickr Explore</a>.<br /><br />Music reviews site <b>Pitchfork</b> is being merged into
GQ. Casey Newton writes about
<a href="https://www.platformer.news/why-pitchfork-died/">how platforms like <b>Spotify</b> killed Pitchfork</a>.<br /><br /><strong><mark data-color="#3feac1" style="background-color: #3feac1;">Read this! </mark></strong>Nieman Storyboard<a href="https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/sex-social-media-business-reporting-source-ethics/">
interviewed reporter Drew Harwell </a>who wrote about <b>OnlyFans</b> and the creator economy for The
Washington Post. That story is annotated with his comments, and I found
it interesting how he framed the story to emphasize that it is a
business and the storytelling decisions he made.<br /><br /><b>Google</b>
is launching <b>Circle to Search</b> on the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and
Samsung Galaxy S24 on January 31. This lets you search for items or text
in a photo or video (including Shorts) by circling or scribbling on the
item.
<a href="https://blog.google/products/search/google-circle-to-search-android/">See how that will work.</a><br /><br />---<br />That’s all the updates for this week.
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<br />This week there are updates for podcasters, web publishers and video
creators. AdSense and AdMob publishers need to make sure their GDPR consent
message is set. And Google is removing a bunch of features from Assistant
(boo).<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h2>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
AdSense and AdMob publishers should make sure a GDPR-compliant consent
message is set before January 16.
</li>
<li>Share a link to a specific time in a Google Drive video.</li>
<li>Cast TikTok videos to your TV with Chromecast.</li>
<li>Podcasters can upload audio episodes to YouTube with their RSS feed.</li>
<li>
YouTube is updating its policies to prohibit depicting victims of crimes
describing their own death.
</li>
<li>Google Assistant is removing a bunch of features.</li>
<li>
The Verge published an article claiming “Google shapes everything on the
web”. Is it a SEO hit piece?
</li>
<li>
X (formerly Twitter) removed NFT Profiles, has a spam bot problem, and is
looking to focus more on video.
</li>
<li>Share a Google Drive file directly to a Google Calendar event.</li>
</ul>
Read on for details and additional updates!
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">
AdSense requires consent to show ads in the EEA & UK
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A reminder for <b>AdSense</b> (ads on your own website or blog),
<b>Google Ad Manager </b>and <b>AdMob</b>: on January 16 you will need to have
a Google-certified Consent Management Platform set up to serve ads in the
European Economic Area and UK. <br /><br />Learn more
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13554116">here</a>.<br /><br />To check your AdSense account and set up Google’s Consent
Management solution:<br /><br />1. Sign in to AdSense<br />2. Click Privacy
and Messaging on the left menu<br />3. Under European Regulations click
Manage<br />4. On the Messages tab you can set up the consent message for your
monetized sites<br />5. On the Settings tab you can authorize Google to
publish a GDPR consent message, even if you have not set one up<br /><br />Note
that this is not required for YouTube Partners.<br /><br />The Messages tab
also shows how many times the consent message has been displayed over the past
30 days and the consent rate.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Google Assistant Features Removed</h2>
This week Google announced that “underutilized features” in
<b>Google Assistant </b>will stop working January 26. Using Assistant to guide
you through a recipe<a href="https://blog.google/products/assistant/cooking-with-the-assistant-google-home-your-secret-ingredient/">
got a splashy blog</a>
post back in 2017. Now it’s just one in a list of more than a dozen features
that’s being removed.<br /><br />Features to be removed include: <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
The microphone icon in the Google App or Pixel Search bar will now trigger
voice search, not the Assistant.
</li>
<li>
Using your voice to send an email, video or audio message will not be
supported. You can still make calls and send text messages.
</li>
<li>
Calls made from speakers and Smart Displays will not show up with a caller
ID unless you’re using Duo.
</li>
<li>
You can no longer ask for information about your contacts or your personal
travel itineraries.
</li>
<li>
You can no longer use Assistant to set media alarms, music alarms, or
radio alarms. You can set up a routine instead.
</li>
</ul>
There are a bunch more features being removed. See the
<a href="https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/13971691">full list of changes</a>, which suggests some alternatives.<br /><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Video Creator and Live Streaming Updates</h2>
If you have an iPhone you can
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4UVKMEBleO4">remix your long form videos</a>
into <b>YouTube Shorts </b>using different layouts. (On Android devices you
can just remix a clip).<br /><br /><b>YouTube</b> is updating its harassment
and cyberbullying policies to prohibit “Content that realistically simulates
deceased minors or victims of deadly or well-documented major violent events
describing their death or violence experienced.”
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802268?sjid=16179972175611383843-NC#zippy=%2Cother-types-of-content-that-violate-this-policy">Read the policy.</a>
According to The Verge, this is<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24030107/youtube-ai-deepfakes-true-crime-victims-minors">
in response to “true crime” content </a>that shows victims narrating their own demise.This<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10008196">
goes into effect January 16.</a><br /><br /><b>YouTube</b> is<a href="https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/first-aid-information-on-youtube-search/">
highlighting first aid videos</a>
created by Mass General Brigham and the Mexican Red Cross to some search
results.<br /><br />Creator Insider has a great
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUQB9EHWiCY">video with best practices</a>
for live streaming on <b>YouTube</b> (or really anywhere).<br /><br />You can
now<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/01/release-notes-01-12-2024.html">
add a link to a specific time</a>
when sharing a video in <b>Google Drive</b>. This is really useful if you are
sharing a Google Meet meeting recording or you use Google Drive to share video
with collaborators.<br /><br />Watch <b>TikTok</b> on the big screen. This
week was CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. Tech
companies big and small use it to a<a href="https://www.theverge.com/23971966/ces-2024-news-announcements-products">nnounce new hardware and new features</a>. Google made a few announcements (<a href="https://blog.google/products/android/ces-2024-android-updates/">read them here</a>), including the new option to cast TikTok content from your phone to a
<b>Chromecast</b>. Live content from TikTok will be available soon.<br /><br /><b>StreamYard</b>
now lets you<a href="https://new.streamyard.com/portrait-studios-1uFd9C">
live stream in portrait orientation</a>.<br /><br /><b>AdSense</b> and <b>AdMob</b> have updated their video
publisher policy (not for YouTube videos). If you publish and monetize your
own videos, be sure to<a href="https://support.google.com/publisherpolicies/answer/14226766">
read about the changes</a>. They go into effect in April 2024.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Podcasting</h2>
If you are a <b>podcaster</b><a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13973017">
you can now upload your audio-first podcasts </a>to <b>YouTube</b> using your RSS feed. The podcasts cannot include ads other
than paid promotions (like those read by the host), and those must be
declared. Also note that newly imported episodes will be at the top of your
channel’s Videos tab (that may change in the future).
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13525207">Read the FAQ and best practices.</a> Note that YouTube does not work the other way, generating a podcast
feed you can share to other platforms.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and Search</h2>
Stephanie Wallace at Search Engine Land has some<a href="https://searchengineland.com/google-about-this-result-seo-insights-436435">
tips for configuring the “About Us” page for your website </a>so that it (might) show in the “About this result” information in the
<b>Google Search </b>result<br /><br />The Verge published
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization">How Google perfected the web</a>, describing how <b>Google’s webmaster guidelines</b> shape the design of web
pages. Some claims - like author bylines being useful for SEO -
<a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-author-bylines-ranking-36684.html">were disputed by Google</a>. But I think the article stands up because it’s not so much what Google
requires, but rather the perception of what Google requires, that influences
website owners and designers.<br /><br /><b>Google Business Profile websites</b><a href="https://support.google.com/business/answer/14368911">
will be turned off in March 2024</a>. They will redirect users to the business’s Google Business Profile until
June, and then the redirect will end. The
<a href="https://blumenthals.com/blog/2017/06/13/google-mybusiness-website-builder-released-worldwide/">site creator launched in 2017 </a>as an option for small businesses without a website to easily create a web
presence outside of social media. Google recommends businesses create their
own website on their own domain (which probably should have been the
recommendation in the first place). <br /><br /><b>Substack</b> has
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/10/substack-realizes-maybe-it-doesnt-want-to-help-literal-nazis-make-money-after-all/">removed a few (literal) Nazi accounts</a>
from its newsletter platform, but not all of them. And they still support
those other white supremecist and Nazi-adjacent authors. Several Newsletters
with a large following are leaving the platform, including
<a href="https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack?">Casey Newton’s Platformer</a>
(they will self-publish using Ghost) and
<a href="https://www.garbageday.email/p/its-time-to-leave-substack">Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day</a>. Broderick notes “Ghost, a Substack competitor, has almost no real
moderation to speak of, but no one seems to care. You know why? Because it’s
not trying to jam all of its users into one feed to compete with Twitter or
whatever. Substack, meanwhile, has insisted on adding more social features
over the last three years, instead of making their email product better.”<br /><br /><b>WordPress</b>
is leaning in to Data Liberation, and are<a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2024/01/data-liberation-in-2024/">
asking the community to help </a>create resources for the export of WordPress content to other platforms and
import from other platforms to WordPress.<br />Photos and Image Design on the
Web<br /><br />If you use <b>Flickr</b> be sure to check out your
<a href="https://blog.flickr.net/en/2024/01/10/myflickryear-2023-is-here/">personalized “My Flickr Year 2023”</a>.
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<br />Look for your <b>Google Photos</b>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTAMupq4_u4&t=177s">personalized 2023 collage</a>
in the mobile app. You can switch the individual images.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2>
<b>X</b> posted
<a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/transforming-the-global-town-square">an overview of their “transformational” plans for 2024</a>. The article is aimed at advertisers and businesses, so that likely
influenced the plans they are highlighting. They are apparently a
“video-first” platform now “with people watching video in 8 out of 10 user
sessions”. In the coming year they plan to launch peer-to-peer payments,
incorporate AI in more places, and create original content (<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/don-lemon-jim-rome-shows-x-twitter-1235782996/">including</a>
“exclusive shows hosted by former CNN anchor Don Lemon, former congresswomen
Tulsi Gabbard, and former Fox Sports host and current sports radio personality
Jim Rome”, who are all controversial).<br /><br />Despite claiming to be
totally for free speech, <b>X</b> still bans people seemingly at owner Elon
Musk’s whim. The
<a href="https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-journalists-banning-spree-1851151593">latest was the banning</a>
of a number of journalists, authors and podcasters, at least some of whom were
publicly critical of the Israeli goverment. Most of those accounts were
reinstated after a far-right account called it out publicly. <br /><br />Do
you remember NFTs? Way back in 2022 they seemed to be everywhere. Twitter even
added a way to set your favorite NFT as your profile image, which was
hexagonal, rather than round. <b>X</b> has now
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10/x-removes-support-for-nft-profile-pictures/">quietly removed that feature</a>. It’s no longer possible to link your NFTs to your account. You can still
add them as a profile image the old fashioned way (by uploading the image
file).<br /><br />Meanwhile, there are currently<a href="https://boingboing.net/2024/01/09/did-a-chatgpt-glitch-reveal-twitters-huge-bot-problem.html">
tons of “verified” spammy bot accounts</a>
on <b>X</b>,
<a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/x-users-fed-up-with-constant-stream-of-malicious-crypto-ads/">some promoting crypto scams</a>. It seems like paying for the blue check mark is just part of doing
business.<br /><br />On <b>Facebook</b> ads for social issues, elections and
politics
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/gpa/blog/political-ads-ai-disclosure-policy">will have to disclose</a>
when images or audio are digitally created or altered or created by AI.
<br /><br /><b>Threads</b> is
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/threads-works-to-address-borderline-content-recommendations-in-stream/703855/">working on improving its “For You” algorithm</a>
so people see less “borderline” content.
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<br /><b>Meetup</b>, the platform for organizing events and, of course,
meetups,
<a href="https://www.meetup.com/blog/a-new-home-for-meetup/">has been acquired by Bending Spoons</a>. Bending Spoons is an Italian company that has recently also acquired FiLMiC
(video recording), Evernote, and mobile app developer Mosaic Group. For those
acquisitions the original staff was laid off, and the product development
brought in-house. And Evernote
<a href="https://evernote.com/blog/evernote-free-note-limits">removed features for free accounts</a>
last month. So expect the same: Meetup staff fired and fewer options for free
users.<br /><br /><b>Artifact</b>, a news-sharing social platform launched by
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger (co-founders of Instagram) a year ago,<a href="https://medium.com/artifact-news/shutting-down-artifact-1e70de46d419">
is shutting down</a>. They wrote “We have built something that a core group of users love, but we
have concluded that the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant
continued investment in this way.”<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
You can now<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/01/easily-share-google-drive-files-to-google-calendar-meeting-attendees.html">
share a <b>Google Drive</b> file </a>directly to a <b>Google Calendar</b> event. You will get a prompt asking
whether you want to share the file with meeting attendees.<br /><br />The
<b>Gmail</b> Basic HTML interface<a href="https://blogs-on-gmail.blogspot.com/2024/01/saying-goodbye-to-gmail-basic-html-view.html">
is going away in February</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
Author Chuck Wendig writes
<a href="https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2024/01/10/just-say-no-to-artificial-intelligence-in-your-creative-pursuits-please-jfc-wtaf/">Just Say No to Artificial Intelligence In Your Creative Pursuits, Please,
JFC, WTAF</a>. This is a
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@chuck_wendig/post/C1XFIhWrgtA?hl=en">follow up to his Threads post</a>
that states: “The allure of AI entices those people who fetishize ideas but
dismiss the work. [...] But the WORK is everything. The work is how a thing
happens, where it's made, where skill is put to work. AI in creativity is for
the people who have no skill, no work, no effort, noethic. They just want to
push a button."<br /><br /><b>Twitch</b> is<a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/twitch-reportedly-set-to-lay-off-500-employees-2467678/">
laying off about 35% (500) employees</a>
and <b>Discord</b> is
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees">laying off 17% of its employees</a>. <b>Google</b> also
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034124/google-layoffs-engineering-assistant-hardware">laid off a significant number of employees</a>. At least people kept their jobs through the holidays.
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Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-4051905758884654962024-01-06T06:30:00.000-08:002024-02-04T22:34:21.443-08:00Creator Weekly: Google Slides image editor, Facebook Link History, Twitch Attire Policy<p>
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I hope you had a fun (and safe) New Year! Most of the tech world was still on
holiday this past week, so there are only a few updates.<br /><br />
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To finish up the year, I published the last of my 2023 roundup, looking at the
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/01/chat-meet-google-workspace.html">updates for Google Chat and Meet</a>. <br /><br />And next week, I expect everyone will be back to business!<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Google is testing Tracking Protection in Chrome</li>
<li>Twitch updated its attire policy to prohibit implied nudity</li>
<li>Facebook is pushing people to save their Link History in the app</li>
<li>A new AI tool in Google Slides lets you remove image backgrounds</li>
<li>Read on for details and additional updates!</li>
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<br /><br /><br /><b>Take this week’s quiz ✅<br /></b><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWdXpSVVax6achGBjD_mM_9J7AFkAxS0UFe58K1i2ALmbQ-0aODDgc51ODbA8uAZUDN9412DOnbgj8ejq5Mo92pFO4JeySpWB9TND6wNCCilVTb93joR3YIaPbU6zjcIGTDvP5FiALwz3jr9UNrtDye2mJS_lSs5QqwfgRu2_NrZ6ro75UZlh1Ksm3dTM/s1280/Google%20Graveyard%202023%20Quiz.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Graveyard in the snow labeled What do you know?" border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWdXpSVVax6achGBjD_mM_9J7AFkAxS0UFe58K1i2ALmbQ-0aODDgc51ODbA8uAZUDN9412DOnbgj8ejq5Mo92pFO4JeySpWB9TND6wNCCilVTb93joR3YIaPbU6zjcIGTDvP5FiALwz3jr9UNrtDye2mJS_lSs5QqwfgRu2_NrZ6ro75UZlh1Ksm3dTM/w320-h180/Google%20Graveyard%202023%20Quiz.png" width="320" /></a></div><div>Start the year
off right by testing your knowledge in two quizzes!<br /><br />Which product
did Google shut down in 2023?
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxE7oKIPtsajLsPX-GJ9TKr9qHcIxY_pdI">Take the quiz</a><br />Do you know what content is on the For You shelf of your YouTube
channel?
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxId4eFU6AjcAJMwcXOEAX41AB4YHfBzra">Take the quiz</a><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">From Me</h3>
Finishing up<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-year-in-review.html">
the 2023 Year in Review</a>, I wrote up an overview of
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/01/chat-meet-google-workspace.html">Google’s 2023 updates for Chat, Meet, Currents and Jamboard</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">To Try</h2>
If you are using a personal Google Account and have
<a href="https://workspace.google.com/labs-sign-up/">opted in to Google Workspace Labs</a>, you can now
<a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/14205477">remove image backgrounds </a>in <b>Google Slides</b> (<a href="https://slides.google.com">slides.google.com</a>).<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Video Creator and Live Streaming Updates</h2>
<b>Twitch</b> updated their attire policy to prohibit implied nudity. That
means no nudity (or pretend nudity) with censor bars. Read
<a href="https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/An-Update-to-Our-Attire-Policy?language=en_US&s=09">the entire updated policy.</a><br /><br /><b>StreamYard</b> has a new feature to
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LncKQUyOf4">stream and record vertical video.</a><br /><br /><b>Lightstream</b> launched
<a href="https://golightstream.com/lightstream-launches-console-simulcasting/">simulcasting from your console</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and Search</h2>
Are you confused by the <b>AdSense</b> Consent Management Platform requirement
that goes into effect on January 16? AdSense has a
<a href="https://publishersonair.withgoogle.com/events/gcms-series">brief video showing what you need to do.</a><br /><br /><b>Google Search Central</b><a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/12/definitely-not-ai-generated-post"><b> </b>recapped their top updates </a>from 2023.<br /><br /><b>WordPress.com</b><a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/12/29/2023-year-in-review/">
shared their year in review</a>, and there were some nice updates, including built-in newsletters, a new
stats page,
<a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2023/12/leap-into-2024-with-these-site-editor-tools/">improved theme editor</a>, ActivityPub integration and more.<br /><br />It’s Bloganuary!
<b>WordPress</b> has a
<a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/12/15/bloganuary-2024/">new blogging prompt</a>
every day in January. You can find it in your WordPress dashboard, or find the
prompts on the <a href="https://bloganuary.wordpress.com/">Bloganuary blog.</a><br /><br />Casey Newton @ Platform writes about
<a href="https://www.platformer.news/p/why-substack-is-at-a-crossroads"><b>Substack</b> at the Crossroads.</a>
He said he would be meeting with Substack’s leadership to talk about
newsletters that appear to violate their written policies that have not been
removed. It will be interesting to hear the outcome of that.<br /><br /><a href="https://blog.google/products/chrome/privacy-sandbox-tracking-protection/">Google started testing </a>Tracking Protection in <b>Chrome</b> - blocking 3rd party cookies by default
- this week. Will it cause confusion? Will it hurt advertisers? I suppose
that’s what testing is for.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2>
<b>Facebook</b> has
<a href="https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018">a new Link History option </a>that lets you “conveniently” save all the links you clicked in the Facebook
app in one place. Also, not surprisingly, that information will be used for ad
targeting.<br /><br /><b>X</b> is
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/2/24022563/x-twitter-headlines-article-links-tiny-text">adding back headlines to shared link previews</a>. The headline appears in small text on top of the thumbnail image. This
should be an improvement, especially for those folks who just drop a link
without an explanation.<br /><br /><b>X</b> shared usage stats using their
“total user seconds” metric, which seems to have been chosen to make it hard
to compare to older stats or other platforms. Andrew Hutchinson at Social
Media Today
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/xs-latest-traffic-numbers-show-decline-average-time-spent-per-user/703732/">took a close look</a>
and it appears that either people are spending less time on the platform or
there are significantly fewer active users than there used to be. Taking that
together with other recently shared metrics, he says “it’s hard to distinguish
whether Musk is being deliberately deceptive, or he genuinely doesn’t
understand the numbers before him.” <br /><br /><b>X</b> has a
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-announces-lower-cost-verification-organizations-package-lure-smb/703481/">new verification tier for small businesses</a>
that is $200 per month, rather than $1000 per month.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates</h2>
Microsoft has a stand-alone<a href="https://9to5google.com/2023/12/26/microsoft-copilot-andorid-app/">
<b>Copilot</b> app for Android.</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
<b>Google Meet</b> lets hosts live stream meetings within an organization.
<a href="http://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/01/google-meet-ultra-low-latency-live-streaming-improvements.html">There are several improvements to that experience. </a>Hosts can now add or start live streaming from inside a meeting. And viewers
can see the number of other viewers, choose to join the live stream rather
than the call, and view the meeting from inside the <b>Meet</b> mobile app for
iOS or Android.<br /><br /><b>Microsoft Teams </b>announced a bunch of
updates. If you are a Teams user,
<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328644/android-tips-2023.html">check out the announcement.</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
Tech entrepreneur and writer Anil Dash wrote for Rolling Stone about how he
believes
<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/">The Internet is About to Get Weird Again</a>. I hope so!<br /><br />JR Raphael of Android Intelligence has
<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328644/android-tips-2023.html">10 Android tips you shouldn’t miss.</a><br /><br />That’s all the updates for this week.
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Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-45144802699704023452024-01-05T23:34:00.000-08:002024-01-06T02:53:19.364-08:002023 in Review: Chat, Meet and Google Workspace Communication<h3 style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib0kDZDIQAkx6TM-jPL8oG7y1wGy_62DmIqifEaeyPbv_Vql2Chd-wljWhB8jzdkdZztFouHgT3RgYEjcbx_5Rll_OudOMAPxBpo2ASa06yI-xVcgufCChvef9MCtLRlABmx32XyZr5D0nYymnrcM29LfrmM4DysNZ5cHTxKou6mj10vYYgHWZ8cJ63oE/s1280/Meet%20and%20Chat%20(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="2023 Meet and Chat Updates" border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib0kDZDIQAkx6TM-jPL8oG7y1wGy_62DmIqifEaeyPbv_Vql2Chd-wljWhB8jzdkdZztFouHgT3RgYEjcbx_5Rll_OudOMAPxBpo2ASa06yI-xVcgufCChvef9MCtLRlABmx32XyZr5D0nYymnrcM29LfrmM4DysNZ5cHTxKou6mj10vYYgHWZ8cJ63oE/s800/Meet%20and%20Chat%20(1).png" width="640" /></a></h3>One of the trends for 2023 was the simplification and deeper integration of Google Workspace products. That, and, of course, <a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-generative-ai-everywhere.html">integration of generative AI features</a>.<br /><br />In 2020 Google G Suite<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2020/10/g-suite-is-now-google-workspace.html"> became Google Workspace</a>, with new icons for Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet and Chat. They use a common set of permissions and promised “a better home for work.”<br /><br />Since then Google has been working towards better integrating the supported products and shutting down those it doesn’t need.<br /><br />My personal focus is on Google’s communication and collaboration tools, especially features available to personal Google Accounts or personal accounts with a <a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2022/10/workspace-individual-google-one-meet-gmail-calendar.html">Google Workspace Individual subscription</a>.<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Highlights from 2023: </h4><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Google Chat</b> is the messaging platform for businesses and organizations. It includes “Chats” conversations and Spaces, which can have linked Tasks and Documents. With the migration of Currents Communities and Hangouts conversations complete, a new Chat design launched, with more features to come. </li><li><b>Google Meet</b> is Google’s one video calling platform. It was combined with Duo (now Meet calling) starting in 2022, a process that is ongoing. There were a bunch of new features and improvements both fun (like AI-generated backgrounds) and useful (such as pairing video tiles).</li><li><b>Interoperability</b>! Meet meetings can be joined from Zoom Room hardware (and vice versa), while Chat is working on interoperability with Slack (via Mio).</li><li>Google <b>Drive</b>, <b>Docs</b>, <b>Sheets</b> and <b>Slides</b> <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/03/refreshed-ui-google-drive-docs-sheets-slides.html">got a redesign</a>.</li><li><b>Docs</b>, <b>Sheets</b>, <b>Slides</b> and <b>Gmail</b> have new generative AI features.</li><li>Google announced <b>Jamboard</b> will shut down in 2024. </li></ul><h2 style="text-align: left;">DuetAI works with you</h2>Google’s generative AI-for-Workspace is called DuetAI. It includes a number of new features and tools for Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Gmail and Meet. <br /><br />Check out my <a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-generative-ai-everywhere.html">review of Google’s current generative AI features</a>, which has instructions on how to access many of them with your free Google account.<br /><br />There are sure to be new DuetAI generative AI features released over the coming year.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Currents Shutdown (along with the last vestiges of Google+)</h2><b>Currents</b> was Google’s successor to Google+. <br /><br />Google+ for personal accounts shut down in April 2019, but was still available to business and education accounts. Google+ accounts became Currents accounts, and there was a redesign and a few new features meant to better focus the platform on communication within an organization.<br /><br />When the <a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2020/10/g-suite-is-now-google-workspace.html">new Google Workspace</a> was announced, it was notable that Currents was not mentioned.<br /><br />So Google’s <a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2022/02/currents-moving-to-spaces.html">announcement in 2022</a> that Currents would be shut down did not come as a big surprise.<br /><br />Public (or I should say “public”, since they were only visible with a Workspace account) Currents Communities (many of them started on Google+) were migrated to Google Chat Spaces starting at the end of 2022. <br /><br />The migration process was completed and Currents shut down entirely in July 2023.<br /><br />It’s not quite the same, of course. Spaces is more for conversations and file sharing than it is a community with individual posts. And there is some complexity for Google Workspace organizations that want to share Spaces with people outside their organization. <br /><br />But this appears to allow Google to focus on adding features to Chat, which is quite welcome.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>My Currents Tutorials</b></h3><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/04/migration-currents-chat-spaces-update.html">Migration of Currents Communities to Google Chat Spaces is in progress</a><br /><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/07/export-your-currents-data-before-august.html">Export your Currents data before August 8</a><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Google Chat is your organization’s communication hub</h2><b>Google Cha</b>t <a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2018/01/year-in-review-2017-google-hangouts.html">launched in 2017 </a>as Hangouts Chat, with <a href="https://blog.google/products/g-suite/meet-the-new-enterprise-focused-hangouts/">a new “enterprise focus” </a>for Hangouts. It was only available for G Suite customers.<br /><br />As a personal account user looking at announced updates, the development of Chat seemed very slow. Hangouts was still around, even though it <a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2022/11/goodbye-hangouts.html">seemed to be neglected</a>, with features gradually being retired.<br /><br />My sense was that Google didn’t know what it wanted Chat to be. <br /><br />But then 2020, with a massive shift to people working from home, and the need for better communication tools. Chat seemed revitalized<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2021/01/2020-review-communicate-with-meet-duo.html"> as an essential part </a>of the new Google Workspace.<br /><br />Chat started to become available to personal Google Accounts at the end of 2020 and into 2021. <br /><br />But Chat really started coming into its own in 2023. I believe two major changes allowed that: <br /><br /><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2022/11/goodbye-hangouts.html">Hangouts completely shut down </a>in November 2022, with most conversations migrated to Google Chat. Hangouts data was only available for download through the end of 2022.<br /><br />As I noted above, <a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/04/migration-currents-chat-spaces-update.html">eligible Currents communities were migrated to Google Chat Spaces</a> before Currents shut down in July 2023.<br /><br />With the migrations completed, Google could focus on a new design and additional features. <br /><br />The big changes for Google Chat in 2023 (excluding some Workspace Admin-only features):<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">New Design</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>There is a <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/02/new-google-chat-spaces-will-be-in-line-threaded.html">move to in-line threading</a> of conversations in Spaces. Previously Google Workspace users could create a Space with individual topic posts. Starting in March 2023, all new Spaces used in-line threading, and <a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/06/update-on-migration-of-google-chat.html">soon all existing topic Spaces will be migrated</a> to that design.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/04/communicate-better-modernized-google-chat.html">A complete update</a> of layout, fonts, colors and more using Material Design 3 principals.</li><li>A <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/05/release-notes-05-19-2023.html">new welcome screen.</a></li><li>Inactive conversations <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/05/declutter-conversations-in-google-chat.html">are hidden in the Chat list (click More to see them all).</a></li><li>You can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/07/release-notes-07-14-2023.html">view all shared media</a> (such as photos) in a conversation. This is currently only available in the Android app.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/differentiate-messages-better-google-chat.html">Messages are now shown in chat bubbles</a>, with your own messages on the right side with a blue background and everyone else’s messages on the left. This is <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/expanding-message-bubbles-in-chat-to-ios.html">still rolling out to iOS devices</a>.</li><li>There are<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/streamlining-user-experience-in-google-chat.html"> new Shortcuts on the navigation menu </a>with Home (showing all your updated conversations), @Mentions, and Starred conversation tabs. This became <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/new-mobile-experience-for-google-chat.html">available in mobile app in December</a>.</li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;">Improved Search</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Chat search lets you <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/10/improved-search-results-in-google-chat.html">switch between the most relevant and most recent results</a>.</li><li>Chat search also <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/mproved-search-query-suggestions-in-chat-web.html">provides enhanced query suggestions</a> based on your activity.</li><li>The Chat search results <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/redesigned-search-results-page-in-google-chat.html">now highlight matching keywords</a> and better separate different conversations in the results.</li><li>Search results <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/additional-enhancements-to-search-results-page-in-google-chat.html">only show the part of the message relevant to the search</a>. You can “show more” to see the full message.</li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;">New message features</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>You can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/05/quote-previous-message-google-chat.html">quote a previous message in a reply</a>, rather than starting an in-line thread.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/05/quick-reactions-google-chat.html">Easier access</a> to your most frequently used emoji reactions.</li><li>Smart Reply for quick<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/10/expanding-smart-replies-everywhere-in-google-chat.html"> suggested responses</a>.</li><li>Type @ in a message for a<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/evolving-collaboration-in-google-chat-smart-chips.html"> menu of suggested files to use as Smart Chips</a>.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/06/see-read-receipts-for-messages-in-google-chat.html">Read receipts for group conversations</a> (up to 20 people) that show who has viewed the most recent message.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/07/add-hyperlinks-to-text-in-google-chat.html">Hyperlink text in your messages </a>(and linked words in copy-pasted text remain linked).</li><li>Chat <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/release-notes-09-08-2023.html">auto-corrects mis-spelled words</a>. Auto-corrected words are indicated with a gray underline.</li><li>You can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/see-message-view-counts-in-google-chat-spaces.html">see how many views a Space message has</a>.</li><li>Easily get a <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/easily-link-to-specific-message-in-google-chat.html">link to a specific message in a conversation or Space</a>.</li><li>You can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/star-important-messages-in-google-chat.html">star important messages</a>, then view them from the Starred Shortcut on the left navigation menu.</li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;">Creating and managing Chat conversations and Spaces</h3>There were a number of improvements to starting conversations and managing Space members.<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/01/simple-google-chat-creation-web.html">Simplified conversation creation</a> without having to select direct or group conversation type first.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/01/improved-membership-management-google-chat-spaces.html">Improved Space member management interface</a> (the announcement said not for personal accounts, but I see it with my personal account).</li><li>The maximum number of Space members for Google Workspace accounts was <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/07/membership-search-and-large-spaces-in-google-chat.html">increased from 8,000 to 50,000</a>. That was launched along with Space member search.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/easily-add-or-remove-groups-of-members-to-space-google-chat.html">Bulk Member Manager app</a> lets you add Space members from a list.</li><li>A <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/add-google-groups-to-spaces-in-google.html">Google Group can be added to a Space</a>, with membership synced from Groups to Chat. Google Groups is also used to manage email lists and permissions to access Workspace documents and files. This is only available for Google Workspace.</li><li>Members and managers can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/release-notes-08-25-2023.html">copy a list of all member emails </a>for Spaces with up to 100 members.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/03/new-space-manager-capabilities-google-chat.html">More controls for Space Managers</a>, including member management, conversation moderation and Space configuration. Plus<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/additional-space-manager-capabilities-in-google-chat.html"> app and webhook management.</a></li><li>New <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/04/announcements-in-google-chat.html">Announcement-only Spaces</a> for Google Workspace organizations with <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/07/in-line-replies-in-announcement-spaces-google-chat.html">optional in-line replies</a>.</li><li>Google Workspace admins can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/04/set-custom-time-period-for-automatically-deleting-messages-in-google-chat.html">set automatic deletion of messages </a>after a set period of time.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/mute-notifications-google-chat.html">You can mute conversations</a> so that you don’t get notifications and the conversation is moved to the bottom of the conversation section</li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;">More App Integrations</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Apps in Google Chat (not to be confused with the Google Chat app) allow third party integrations in conversations and spaces. There are now more integrations available for both Workspace and personal Google Accounts.</li><li>While personal Google Accounts can only use the <a href="https://support.google.com/chat/answer/9649420">apps available from Google</a>, Workspace users can also <a href="https://developers.google.com/chat">build their own apps</a>.</li><li>Current apps include Asana, Giphy, GitHub, Google Cloud Build, Google Drive, Jenkins, Jira, Meet, PagerDuty, Salesforce, Workday, Zapier and Zendesk.</li><li>I especially like the<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/take-action-on-google-drive-requests-in-google-chat.html"> improved Google Drive app</a>, which lets you read and reply to comments on Docs, Sheets and Slides files.</li><li>Google Workspace users can also allow Chat to <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/05/additional-google-calendar-statuses-google-chat.html">show their status from Google Calendar</a>.</li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;">Chat in 2024</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Chat will complete the migration of topic Spaces to in-line threading in March 2024. That will presumably then allow more feature updates.</li><li>In August Google started <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/google-chat-slack-interoperability-mio.html">testing interoperability between Chat and Slack using Mio</a>. This is expected to be generally available in early 2024.</li><li>The Chat API became<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/07/Google-Chat-APIs-Generally-Available.html"> generally available in July</a>. That offers the potential for Google Chat integrations in third party apps and services.</li><li>Google <a href="https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/welcome-new-google-chat">announced Huddles last May</a>, which are “quick to join audio and video conversations”. Those are in customer preview, and I expect them to be more widely available in 2024.</li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>My Google Chat Tutorials</b></h3><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/06/update-on-migration-of-google-chat.html">Update on migration of Google Chat Spaces with conversation topics to in-line threading</a> <br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Meet Video For All</h2>Back in 2017 Google offered three different video calling options. There was classic Hangouts video calling, simple <a href="https://blog.google/products/duo/meet-google-duo-simple-1-to-1-video/">mobile-first calling with Duo</a> and the <a href="https://blog.google/products/g-suite/meet-the-new-enterprise-focused-hangouts/">newly launched enterprise-oriented Hangouts Meet</a> for meetings. <br /><br />While Hangouts was clearly on the road to retirement, Duo and Meet gradually gained new features. And both <a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2021/01/looking-back-at-2020-communication.html">took on new importance in 2020 </a>as work, school and socializing became virtual. <br /><br />But managing two entirely separate video call platforms probably wasn’t ideal for Google, and in 2022 they <a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2022/06/google-duo-is-merging-with-google-meet.html">announced that Duo and Meet would be merged</a>. The<b> new Meet </b>would have meetings (the original Meet platform) and calling (formerly Duo). No features would be removed. Instead all the options would be contained in a single app.<br /><br />This merger slowly continued through 2023, but it’s not done yet. <br /><br />That makes following the changes and updates for Meet a bit confusing, as some only apply to the “meetings” part of Meet and not the “calling” (or now “legacy calling”) part of Meet. <br /><br />But most of the updates are for meetings. <br /><br />Note that I’m not including updates for <a href="http://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Meet%20Hardware">Meet hardware</a> and meeting rooms, as those don’t apply to personal accounts.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Interoperability and Third Party Apps</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The one Meet hardware update I’ll mention is the ability to j<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/01/google-meet-zoom-interoperability.html">oin Zoom meetings from Meet hardware and join Meet meetings from Zoom hardware</a>. Interoperability FTW!</li><li>You can<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/google-meet-third-party-add-ons-updates.html"> install third party applications from inside Meet on the web</a>, including Miro, Figma, Lucidspark, Polly, Confluence and more. The Meet add-ons SDK is <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/google-meet-add-ons-sdk-developer-preview.html">available in Developer Preview</a>.</li><li>The Meet API is <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/google-meet-api-developer-program.html">available in Developer Preview</a>. Expect more integrations between third party apps and Meet in the future.</li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;">Setting up, hosting and joining meetings</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>In the “green room” on the web (the Join/Ask to Join page) you <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/02/release-notes-02-24-2023.html">can more easily check which peripherals - mics and cameras - are connected</a> and available.</li><li>When you set up a Calendar event with a Meet meeting, Workspace users can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/06/google-meet-viewer-mode.html">choose the option to designate participants as “Viewers</a>”. Viewers cannot share their video or audio, but can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/enhancements-to-google-meet-viewer-mode.html">send emoji reactions</a>. Hosts can promote Viewers to Contributors in the meeting. Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Essentials Plus, and Education Plus customers can scale their meetings to 1,000 attendees, with 500 attendees being viewers.</li><li>Requests to join a meeting <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/06/admitting-or-denying-join-requests-google-meet.html">are now on the People panel,</a> which is less disruptive for the meeting host.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/06/simplified-access-controls-for-google-meet.html">Meeting access controls are simplified</a>, with three options: Open (anyone can join without asking), Trusted (anyone in the same Workspace organization or invited to the Calendar event can join without asking), or Restricted (only invitees can join without asking).</li><li>Hosts can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/question-and-answer-moderation-google-meet.html">moderate Q&A questions</a>, to approve them before they appear for everyone.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/google-meet-workspace-individual-updates.html">Google Workspace Individual subscribers can</a> now host meetings with up to 150 participants, assign co-hosts, use the Q&A feature, save meeting transcripts and see Calendar event invitee lists inside the meeting.</li><li>Google Workspace users can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/1to1-video-calling-in-google-meet-mobile.html">use the Meet app to make a call </a>to someone in their organization to start a meeting. This is not Meet calling (formerly Duo calling).</li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;">Participants in the meeting</h3>Meet added new features to make meetings both more useful and more fun.<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/01/in-meeting-reactions-for-google-meet.html">Emoji reactions</a>, including thumbs up, thumbs down, clapping, emoji faces and more. Click the emoji to show your response to what someone is saying or presenting, and everyone in the meeting will see it.</li><li>If you share a link to a Google Docs, Slides or Sheets file in the Meet meeting chat, you’ll be <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/01/content-sharing-improvements-google-meet.html">prompted to give everyone in the meeting permission to view it</a>.</li><li>Noise reduction is <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/02/google-meet-android-noise-cancellation-expansion.html">available for personal accounts on more Android devices</a>. Google Workspace Individual and Google One subscribers (2TB storage) also have cloud-based noise cancellation on mobile and desktop.</li><li>Google Workspace-hosted meetings<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/03/external-label-for-google-meet.html"> will show an “External” icon</a> if there are external participants.</li><li>Participants using a Pixel 7 or higher phone<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/04/speaker-separation-in-google-meet-for-pixel-7-devices.html"> can enable speaker separation</a> (requires a wired headset or using the phone speakers).</li><li>You can<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/04/turn-off-video-per-tile-google-meet.html"> turn off the video feed for individual participants</a> (this turns it off for you, not for everyone). This is <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/06/quickly-access-more-features-during-meetings-google-meet-web.html">available as a quick action </a>on their video tile.</li><li>If you join a meeting using a mobile device, you can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/04/turn-off-video-per-tile-google-meet.html">set it to “Audio Only”</a> so you only see the presentation feed.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/10/full-hd-resolution-for-group-meetings-google-meet.html">HD 1080p video is available</a> for Google Workspace users, and personal accounts with a Google Workspace Individual or Google One 2TB+ subscription. It requires a 1080p camera, enough computing power and bandwidth.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/06/enhanced-experience-picture-in-picture-google-meet-chrome.html">Picture-in-picture in the Chrome browser is improved</a>, with hand-raising, chat, captions and flexible layouts. This lets you navigate to other windows while still participating in the meeting.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/pair-tiles-google-meet.html">Pair yourself with someone else </a>and your video tiles will be displayed next to each other. This is useful for co-presenters or if there is a sign language interpreter. The only downside is that it is not captured in meeting recordings.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/take-google-meet-on-go-with-ease.html">On-the-Go mode is a simplified interface</a> for when you are in motion (walking or in a car or on transit).</li><li>Meet on desktop can<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/google-meet-hand-raise-gesture-detection.html"> detect you raising your physical hand</a>.</li><li>There are 31 new languages supported for live captions. See<a href="https://support.google.com/meet/answer/10964115"> the full list here</a>.</li><li>There are more languages supported for live translations, <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/06/expanded-language-support-for-closed-captions-translated-captions-google-meet.html">including</a> English into Dutch, Indonesian, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Live translations are only available to select Google Workspace editions. There are<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/duet-ai-translated-captions.html"> many additional translated languages available</a> with DuetAI. In the future, translated captions will only be available for Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise.</li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;">Improved presentations</h3>Meet added the ability to manage Google Slides presentations from inside a meeting in the fall of 2022. This option is available to Google Workspace users and will hopefully eventually be available to Google Workspace Individual subscribers. There were several improvements added in 2023.<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>If you are presenting, you can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/01/view-google-slides-speaker-notes-in-google-meet.html">view your Google Slides speaker notes from inside the meeting.</a></li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/01/content-sharing-improvements-google-meet.html">Share access to the presentation with everyone attending the meeting</a>.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/04/co-present-google-slides-google-meet.html">Assign participants to co-present with you.</a> The co-presenter can navigate the slides, start and stop media in the presentation, and <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/view-speaker-notes-co-presenting-google-slides-in-google-meet.html">view speaker notes.</a></li><li>If you are sharing your screen on a mobile device, you can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/07/release-notes-07-28-2023.html">include the audio.</a></li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;">Backgrounds and AR Effects</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>In December 2022 <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/12/more-google-meet-filter-effects.html">Meet added some of Duo’s cute AR effects</a> (like the strawberry head and worker bunny) to meetings, including on the web. Over the year Meet has frequently been adding both new AR effects and backgrounds, while retiring old ones.</li><li>You can<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/02/release-notes-02-17-2023.html"> use a 360 degree video background</a> in Meet on mobile. There’s no option to add your own (at least not yet).</li><li>Google Workspace admins<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/03/custom-admin-provided-google-meet-backgrounds.html"> can provide custom background images</a> for their organization.</li><li>On the web you can now access the effects settings and reframing <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/06/quickly-access-more-features-during-meetings-google-meet-web.html"> as a quick action</a> on your own video tile.</li><li>If you use virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to join a Meet meeting you can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/06/background-blur-lighting-adjustment-on-virtual-desktop-meetings.html">blur your background.</a></li><li>Portrait touch-up is <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/10/portrait-touch-up-google-meet.html">available on mobile devices</a>, and it can either be “Subtle” or “Smoothing” (less-subtle). This is available to select Workspace editions.</li><li>Studio Look <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/studio-look-google-meet.html">enhances your look</a> by making it sharper and reducing noise. This requires DuetAI for Google Workspace or <a href="https://workspace.google.com/labs-sign-up/">Workspace Labs</a> for your personal Google Account.</li><li>You can <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/generate-meeting-backgrounds-duet-ai.html">use generative AI to create meeting backgrounds</a>. This requires DuetAI for Google Workspace or <a href="https://workspace.google.com/labs-sign-up/">Workspace Labs</a> for your personal Google Account.</li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;">Recordings and Live Streams</h3>Meet meeting recording and live streaming to YouTube are included with a subscription to Google Workspace Individual or a Google One subscription with at least 2 TB storage (in eligible countries). Google Workspace users can also live stream a meeting within their organization.<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Meet recordings <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/02/add-captions-to-google-meet-recordings.html">can include a live caption file</a>.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/04/full-hd-in-google-meet-livestreams.html">1080p HD</a> for in-organization live streams and live streams to YouTube, if using a 1080p camera, computer with enough processing power, and enough bandwidth.</li><li><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/06/use-polls-and-questions-and-answers-during-live-streamed-meetings-google-meet.html">Polls and Q&A are available</a> for in-organization live streams.</li><li>In-domain live streams have a <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/ultra-low-latency-viewing-google-meet-live-streams.html">new ultra low latency experience </a>with improved resolution and layout.</li><li>The <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/10/1080p-shared-content-in-meeting-recordings.html">maximum resolution for presented content </a>in Meet meeting recordings was increased from 720p to 1080p.</li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;">Meet in 2024</h3>In the coming year I expect to see: <br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Continuing (maybe completing?) the merger between Duo and Meet. </li><li>More generative AI features. This is the current trend. </li><li>Third party apps and services with Meet integration.</li><li>More third-party apps available inside meetings.</li></ul><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>My Meet Tutorials</b></h3><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/live-stream-from-google-meet-to-youtube.html">Live stream from a Google Meet Meeting to YouTube: Everything you need to know!</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kFYeqSbLkPU">Cool halloween AR effects!</a><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Jamboard Dies in 2024</h2><b>Google’s Jamboard </b>is a large physical whiteboard touchscreen <a href="https://blog.google/products/g-suite/jamboard-whiteboard-reimagined-collaboration-cloud/">announced in 2016</a> and became <a href="https://blog.google/products/g-suite/lets-jam-jamboard-now-available/">available for purchase in 2017.</a> “Jams” can also be accessed, created and edited on the web at jamboard.google.com .<br />As the work became mostly virtual in 2020 Google focused on the web version, which was <a href="https://blog.google/products/workspace/make-most-hybrid-work-google-workspace/">integrated with Meet meetings</a>.<br /><br />This year Google has decided to discontinue the Jamboard hardware, and when the current Jamboards <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/7374455">reach their Auto Expiration Date in October 2024</a>, they will not be replaced.<br /><br />The web version of Jamboard will also be discontinued.<div><br />Instead, Google is <a href="https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/next-phase-digital-whiteboarding">bringing integration of third party digital whiteboard services</a> including FigJam, LucidSpark and Miro into Google Workspace. Those will also be made available on official Meet hardware as well.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">More 2023 Updates</h2><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-year-in-review.html">2023: My Year in Review</a></li><li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-generative-ai-everywhere.html">2023 in Review: Generative AI everywhere</a></li><li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-youtube-monetization.html">2023 in Review: YouTube monetization expanded, channel redesign and more creator tools</a></li><li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-updates-for-bloggers.html">2023 in Review: Updates for bloggers, website owners, and AdSense Publishers</a></li></ul><p></p></div></div></div>Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-50148296429789975352023-12-30T06:36:00.000-08:002024-01-13T03:10:58.188-08:002023 in Review: Updates for Bloggers, Website Owners and AdSense Publishers<p>
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This year saw a number of updates for publishers and clear trends going into
2024.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">AI Everywhere</h2>
AI tools are all the rage, of course. People are using ChatGPT, Bard, Bing and
other tools to brainstorm, generate outlines, create images and (for better or
worse) even write full articles. That is sure to continue. Not surprisingly,
there are also new settings for blocking the bots that scoop up public content
for training AI models.
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-generative-ai-everywhere.html">Read more about AI tools, Google Search and auto-generated content</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media and the Fediverse</h2>
The other interesting trend is the fragmentation of social media and the rise of
the Fediverse. Changes at Twitter (now X) have spurred the creation of a number
of other social media platforms. Currently at the top of the heap is Meta’s
Threads, Bluesky is still invite-only but has a number of active communities,
and Mastodon keeps on going in its low-key way. <br /><br />I mention those
platforms specifically because they are moving towards federation. It’s sort-of
like email, where I can use Gmail, and you can use Yahoo email, and someone else
can use their work email address, and we can all send messages to each other.
<br /><br />Mastodon and other “Fediverse” platforms use ActivityPub. Threads
has
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/creator-weekly-threads-in-europe.html">slowly started testing using ActivityPub as well,</a>
so that a Mastodon user to follow someone on Threads and engage with their
posts, and will eventually allow a Threads user to follow and engage with posts
on Mastodon. <br /><br />Why should you care as a blogger or web publisher?<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
WordPress
<a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/">has an ActivityPub plugin</a>
that lets you publish to the Fediverse.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://flipboard.medium.com/flipboard-begins-to-federate-c56ec788feaa">Flipboard is starting to federate</a>
publisher and creator accounts using ActivityPub.
</li>
<li>
Medium
<a href="https://blog.medium.com/join-mastodon-with-medium-e2d6d814325b">has their own Mastodon server</a>
and you can
<a href="https://blog.medium.com/now-you-can-embed-mastodon-posts-in-medium-stories-99b11d0baa7f">embed Mastodon posts </a>in your Medium stories.
</li>
<li>
Tumblr (owned by WordPress parent company Automattic)
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/11/tumblrs-fediverse-integration-is-still-being-worked-on-says-owner-and-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg/">is working on federation.</a>
</li>
</ul>
It’s early days yet, but this could end up the new normal. Publish to your own
website or blog, and rather than sharing to social media, instead be part of the
larger social web where someone on Threads or Mastodon could be following your
posts directly. <br /><br />I’m following this shift with interest.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Blogger Updates</h2>
Blogger is a venerable old platform,
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2019/08/happy-20th-birthday-blogger.html">four years older</a>
than WordPress (<a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2023/05/celebrating-20-years-of-wordpress/">which turned 20 this year</a>).
<div><br /></div>
<div>
I was surprised that Blogger is finally requiring all legacy blogs (not signed
into since before 2007)<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/migrate-legacy-Blogger-to-Google.html">
to migrate to a Google Account</a>. I’m surprised because I thought that deadline had passed some years ago.
It’s a good thing they will no longer have to maintain blogs that require
outdated infrastructure.<br /><br />Blogger had a few quiet changes this year.
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Starting at the end of 2022, Blogger now lets you manage trashed posts and
pages. They can be restored within 90 days of deletion.
</li>
<li>
Google added an
<a href="https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/42673#zippy=%2Climit-access-to-adult-content">age-verification requirement</a>
to blogs with an adult content warning. That means people need to be
signed in to Google to view the content.
</li>
<li>
You can now
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/use-blogger-media-manager-to-manage.html">manage your blog’s images</a>
in the new Media Manager. Previously images were managed in your
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/06/google-album-archive-shutdown.html">Google Account’s Album Archive</a>.
</li>
<li>
Improvements to the
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2021/03/upload-video-directly-to-blogger.html">video manager.</a>
</li>
<li>
Stored images are in an updated format on blogger.googleusercontent.com.
Old images from your blog should have been migrated automatically, but if
there was any issue you will
<a href="https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/13656070">see a notice </a>in your Blogger account.
</li>
<li>You can set your blog to use lazy loading for images.</li>
<li>
You can set your blog to serve images in the
<a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/webp">WebP format</a> (which
are smaller files than JPG or PNG images)
</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Blogger Tutorials</h3>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/use-blogger-media-manager-to-manage.html"></a>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/use-blogger-media-manager-to-manage.html"></a>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/use-blogger-media-manager-to-manage.html"></a><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/use-blogger-media-manager-to-manage.html">Use the Blogger Media Manager to manage your blog's images</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/06/google-album-archive-shutdown.html">Your Google Album Archive will be removed July 19. You probably won't
even notice the change.</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/migrate-legacy-Blogger-to-Google.html">Migrate your legacy Blogger account to a Google Account</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Google Search and Analytics</h2>
The big change in<b> Google Analytics </b>was that Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
<a href="https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11583528">completely replaced Universal Analytics in July</a>. If you did not manually migrate your site property, a GA4 property was
automatically created in March. Note that if you have a Blogger blog, you
should make sure you have
<a href="https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/7039627">added the GA4 property ID</a>
in your blog settings.<br /><br /><b>Google Search </b>announced a number of
updates for websites that want to be found in search. Whether you have a blog
or full website, it’s important to keep up-to-date to make sure your site is
discoverable. <br /><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
All websites that work on mobile devices are now<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/10/mobile-first-is-here">
indexed with Google’s mobile search crawler</a>. It’s beyond the time to make sure your site is mobile friendly. (Note
that the Mobile-friendly test tool has been retired.)
</li>
<li>
Site names in Google Search were
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/09/site-names-global-rollout">expanded from mobile-only to desktop</a>, and are available in all languages. (I still haven’t gotten my site
name to show properly, despite
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/site-names">following Google’s instructions</a>. A project for the new year!)
</li>
<li>
The Page Experience Report in Google Search Console was retired, and
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/04/page-experience-in-search">replaced by more general guidance</a>
for creating a good page experience for your site visitors.
</li>
<li>
Google added a
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/05/introducing-inp">new metric to Core Web Vitals</a>: Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This will replace First Input Delay
(FID) in March 2024.
</li>
<li>
Pages will only appear in the video search results when
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/12/video-is-the-main-content?hl=en">the video is the main content of the page</a>. This seems to have removed my blog in the video results. The videos are
still on YouTube, but it was nice to get some traffic to my blog from
video search as well.
</li>
<li>There were several changes to supported structural data:</li>
<ul>
<li>
If you offer a course on your site, you can
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/11/new-course-info-markup">add new course info structured data</a>.
</li>
<li>
Google now supports
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/11/discussion-and-profile-markup">profile page and discussion forum structured data.</a>
</li>
<li>
Google supports
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/11/introducing-organization-markup">more Organization structured data details</a>.
</li>
<li>
Google Search is
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/08/howto-faq-changes">no longer showing How-To rich results and FAQ rich results </a>only show for “well-known, authoritative government and health sites”.
</li>
</ul>
<li>
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/06/sitemaps-lastmod-ping">Google deprecated sitemaps ping </a>(“the vast majority of the submissions lead to spam”). You can still
submit sitemaps in your robots.txt file and in Google Search Console.
</li>
<li>
It’s now
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/search-console-user-permissions-update">easier to manage</a>
user access and permissions in Google Search Console.
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">AdSense Updates</h2>
Finally, there were a number of updates to AdSense for web publishers,
including new ad formats, account interface updates and policy changes.
<br /><br />In the coming year, there will be a focus on privacy, as AdSense
requires compliance with European privacy regulations, and
<a href="https://blog.google/products/chrome/privacy-sandbox-tracking-protection/">third party cookies are phased out in Chrome.</a>
<br /><br />Starting on January 16, 2024 all AdSense publishers
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13554116">must use a Consent Management Platform (CMP) certified by Google</a>
to show ads to users in the European Economic Area or UK. If you choose to
create a European regulations message, but don’t publish it, Google will
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13790256">publish a default message using Google’s CMP</a>. Be sure to sign in to AdSense to confirm which options you want to use and
customize the message.<br /><br />Also early next year, Google will
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/14210870">launch programmatic bidding for “limited ads”</a>
(for example with no CMP present), which only use cookies for invalid traffic
detection.
</div><div><br /></div><div>The other <a href="https://blog.google/products/adsense/evolving-how-publishers-monetize-with-adsense/">big change going into effect in early 2024 </a>is a transition from primarily paying per click to paying per impression. It's not clear how this might affect earnings. </div><div><br /></div><div>Along with these changes, AdSense is also updating their revenue sharing structure, so that instead of 68% revenue share, there will be <a href="https://blog.google/products/adsense/evolving-how-publishers-monetize-with-adsense/">separate buy-side and sell-side rates</a>. The overall revenue share will continue to be about 68%.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
Updates this past year:<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Account Interface Updates</h3>
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13275184"></a>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13275184"></a>
<li>
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13275184"></a><a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13275184">Improved Auto Ads interface</a>, with ad types split into “overlay formats” and “in-page formats”.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13529374">Updated Ad Review Center </a>with filters, bulk actions and improved search.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/12170421">Redesigned Sites page </a>with a new user-friendly look. The status of a site’s ads.txt file is now
shown on the main Sites page.
</li>
<li>
The Policy Center is
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/14073577">now available for AdSense for Search</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Ad Format Updates</h3>
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13454905?sjid=9668942041616848662-NC"></a>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13454905?sjid=9668942041616848662-NC"></a>
<li>
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13454905?sjid=9668942041616848662-NC"></a><a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13454905?sjid=9668942041616848662-NC">Related search for auto ads</a>
(similar to the old link ads format)
</li>
<li>
Vignette auto ads
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ajY5XVYvnPE">frequency controls</a>
and new display when a visitor leaves a page or comes back to it.
</li>
<li>
AdSense for Search
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/14201307">will no longer serve ads from google.com</a>, so they will not have access to Google cookies. Ad personalization was
also deprecated.
</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Other Updates</h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
If your AdSense account is contracted with Google Singapore or Google
Ireland, you may see a
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/thread/238470615">request to submit your tax residency information</a>. AdSense is not currently withholding taxes in those regions, but they
are<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/14131950">
asking publishers to submit their tax information</a>
in case that changes.
</li>
<li>
You can
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/12170421">no longer add or manage subdomains</a>
that are part of an existing site on the Sites page. Blocking controls are
now at the domain level.
</li>
<li>
You can
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13996652?sjid=9668942041616848662-NC">verify a newly submitted website by adding a meta tag </a>if you don’t want to place ad code on the home page.
</li>
<li>
You can
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13996652?sjid=9668942041616848662-NC">request AdSense check for updates to your ads.txt file</a>, if there was a problem with it.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/14333766">Integration between AdSense and Google Analytics 4</a>
is now an option.
</li>
<li>
AdSense
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13755280">now supports Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payments.</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">AdSense Tutorials</h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/04/find-your-adsense-youtube-tax-documents.html">Find your end-of-year tax documents in your AdSense account</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/04/find-your-adsense-youtube-tax-documents.html">AdSense moving to pay per impression and updating revenue share for
Content</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/04/find-your-adsense-youtube-tax-documents.html">AdSense Policy Update: Gameplay imagery exception to Shocking content
publisher restrictions</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/04/find-your-adsense-youtube-tax-documents.html">Add AdSense vignette auto-ads to your site (Short)</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/04/find-your-adsense-youtube-tax-documents.html">View AdSense Payments in YouTube Studio</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More 2023 Updates</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-year-in-review.html">2023: My Year in Review</a></li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-generative-ai-everywhere.html">2023 in Review: Generative AI everywhere</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-youtube-monetization.html">2023 in Review: YouTube monetization expanded, channel redesign and
more creator tools</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-updates-for-bloggers.html">2023 in Review: Updates for bloggers, website owners, and AdSense
Publishers</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/01/chat-meet-google-workspace.html">2023 in Review: Chat, Meet and Google Workspace</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<br />In 2023 YouTube expanded the YouTube Partner Program, simplified channel
design, launched features for live streamers, and updated YouTube Studio and
Analytics. <br /><br />There were far too many new features to discuss here, so
I’ll only cover my favorites.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Expansion of the YouTube Partner Program</h2>
The big update to the YouTube Partner Program was the
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/06/youtube-partner-program-fan-funding.html">creation of a Fan Funding tier</a>
with lower eligibility requirements.<br /><br />Channels that meet the new
eligibility requirements can apply to have access to Memberships, “Supers”
(Super Chat, Super Thanks, Super Stickers) and YouTube Shopping.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>at least 500 subscribers</li>
<li>3 eligible video uploads in the past 90 days</li>
<li>
at least either 3000 hours public watch time in the past year or 3 million
Shorts views in the past 90 days
</li>
</ul>
Once the channel meets the full YouTube Partner Program eligibility requirements
(at least 1000 subscribers and either 4000 hours public watch time in the past
year or 10 million Shorts views) it will be eligible for ad revenue sharing and
YouTube Premium revenue.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/01/youtube-partners-start-earning-from.html">Ad revenue sharing now also includes Shorts</a>, and the<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2021/08/youtube-shorts-fund-earn-bonus-for-your.html">
Shorts bonus fund </a>was retired.<br /><br />Available ads have also been simplified. Overlay ads
(which were desktop-only)<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/youtube-will-no-longer-display-overlay.html">
were retired</a>, and you can
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/233723152">no longer choose</a>
whether your video has pre-roll or post-roll (skippable or non-skippable) ads.
Ads are either on or off. You can still turn on or off mid-roll ads, and choose
where they are inserted into your videos.<br /><br />There were also updates to
monetization policy and the application process, and you can find more data (<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/view-adsense-payments-in-youtube-studio.html">including AdSense payments</a>) in YouTube Studio.<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<b>YouTube Partner Program Updates and Tutorials</b>
</h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/06/youtube-partner-program-fan-funding.html">YouTube Partner Program open to more creators with new fan funding
tier</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/01/youtube-partners-start-earning-from.html">YouTube Partners: Start earning from your Shorts</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/youtube-will-no-longer-display-overlay.html">YouTube will no longer display overlay ads: check your ad revenue by
format for the impact</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/view-adsense-payments-in-youtube-studio.html">View AdSense Payments in YouTube Studio</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/05/extended-reapplication-waiting-times.html">Extended reapplication waiting times for the YouTube Partner Program</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/youtube-advertiser-friendly-guidelines.html">YouTube Advertiser-Friendly Guidelines Adult Content Update: More
Breastfeeding and Sensual Dancing allowed</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/youtube-relaxes-profanity-prohibitions.html">YouTube Relaxes Profanity Prohibitions for Monetization</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IjhoXOZabGA">Do you know what YouTube is telling advertisers? </a>(Short)
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Updated YouTube Channel Layout</h2>
One of the big changes this year was the simplification of the YouTube channel
layout, with more consistency between mobile and desktop versions.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Instead of showing a bunch of tabs on your channel, only those with content
now show. For example, if you don’t upload Shorts, there’s no Shorts tab.
</li>
<li>
The About tab (with your channel’s description and links)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L8eFcNcN34M">was removed</a>, and
can only be viewed by clicking the short description preview under your
channel name.
</li>
<li>
Visitors to your channel will
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/configure-youtubes-new-for-you.html">now see a “For You” shelf</a>, with personalized recommendations from your content. You can configure
what shows there in your channel settings in YouTube Studio.
</li>
<li>
And your social media and website links no longer display on the channel
banner on desktop. Instead there is<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/08/share-links-on-your-youtube-channel-and.html">
a new links list</a>
that can be viewed from the link preview under your channel title.
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Creator Updates</h2>
There were a number of other updates for YouTube creators. Some of the top
changes:
<div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
The official English-language YouTube Help Community was switched to
read-only in February to clean it up. Users with questions were pointed to
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/202433711/frequently-asked-questions">this FAQ</a>,
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3545535">YouTube Creator Support</a>
(for channels eligible for the YouTube Partner Program) or @TeamYouTube on
Twitter/X (which isn’t great for a number of reasons). The forum
thankfully reopened at the beginning of December. You can post your
question <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/community">here</a>.
</li>
<li>
Clickable links were
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/08/share-links-on-your-youtube-channel-and.html">removed from Shorts description and comments</a>. This was a move against spammers and scammers, but it unfortunately
isn’t great for legit creators who want to point their viewers to another
website. You can
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14075157">add a related video link</a>
to a Short to direct viewers to a different video on your channel.
</li>
<li>
The
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/09/easily-create-movie-youtube-create.html">new YouTube Create app </a>makes it easy to edit video on your mobile device.
</li>
<li>
Add your preferred pronouns to your channel. You can configure that in the
channel settings in YouTube Studio. I’ve added them to
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@peggyktc">my channel.</a>
</li>
<li>
If your channel is managed by multiple accounts using Channel Permissions,
those managers and editors can now
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9481328">act as the channel on YouTube proper</a>, outside of YouTube Studio. That includes uploading with the Shorts
video editor, commenting on other channels’ videos, and managing
playlists. Also new this year: managing channels in the YouTube Studio
mobile app.
</li>
<li>
The YouTube Shopping program was expanded, with the
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13376398">affiliate program</a>
opened to monetizing channels with at least 20,000 subscribers. Promoted
items are no longer shown directly under your video, but you can tag items
in your
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10191533">content</a>
and
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12299016">live streams </a>for product launches and promotion.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/217640760">YouTube Stories were shut down in June</a>. Did you notice?
</li>
<li>
You can now
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/09/youtube-update-remove-community-guidelines-warning.html">remove Community Guidelines warnings </a>by going through policy training, and the warnings are now
policy-specific.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9483359">Pause comments </a>on your videos to prevent new comments while keeping existing comments
visible.
</li>
<li>
If you turn off your YouTube watch History, you
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/139222780?msgid=229405279">may no longer see recommended videos </a>on the Home feed.
</li>
<li>
You can now
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12751636">create podcast shows</a>
by setting up a podcast playlist in YouTube Studio. Audio-first podcast
creators can now deliver content to YouTube by
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13525207?">submitting the podcast RSS feed</a>.
</li>
<li>
There are more options to<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10623810">
remix content into Shorts</a>
including Clips, original audio and video segments.
</li>
<li>
You can now manage Clips of your videos<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10332730">
in YouTube Studio</a>.
</li>
<li>
You can
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7124474">create Quiz posts</a>
on your Community tab.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@peggyktc/community">Check out my channel </a>to see if you can get the quiz questions right!.
</li>
<li>
New metrics in the YouTube Studio app for Shorts, Podcasts and more.
</li>
</ul>
<br />Coming in 2024: A number of
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-generative-ai-everywhere.html">AI-powered tools</a>
are being tested and should be available soon. And YouTube has promised
thumbnail A/B testing will be more widely available.<br /><br /><b>For live streaming channels:</b><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
You can
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/163130117?msgid=248165537">gift channel Memberships</a>
to five viewers, twice a month (10 total), for free. Viewers can now
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/163130117?msgid=228689365">opt in to be able to receive a gift Membership</a>
from any channel.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12299016">Tag products</a>
and set up
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13202713">live product drops</a>
for Shopping during a stream.
</li>
<li>
YouTube is
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/08/creator-weekly-youtube-shorts-tools.html">testing previews of vertical live streams</a>
in the Shorts feed.
</li>
<li>
A new tool for live chat moderators that lets you
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9826490#zippy=%2Caccess-channel-activity-from-live-chat-feed">see a commenters channel activity</a>, including previous deleted comments, timeouts and hides.
</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">More YouTube Creator Tutorials</h3>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/08/share-links-on-your-youtube-channel-and.html"></a>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/08/share-links-on-your-youtube-channel-and.html"></a>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/08/share-links-on-your-youtube-channel-and.html"></a><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/08/share-links-on-your-youtube-channel-and.html">Share links on your YouTube Channel and long-form videos</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L8eFcNcN34M">Where did the About tab go?</a>
(Short)
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/configure-youtubes-new-for-you.html">Configure YouTube's new For You recommendation section of your
channel</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/09/easily-create-movie-youtube-create.html">Easily create movies with the new YouTube Create app</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/09/youtube-update-remove-community-guidelines-warning.html">YouTube Update: Remove Community Guidelines Warnings with Policy
Training</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/live-stream-from-google-meet-to-youtube.html">Live stream from a Google Meet Meeting to YouTube: Everything you need
to know!</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More 2023 Updates</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-year-in-review.html">2023: My Year in Review</a></li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-generative-ai-everywhere.html">2023 in Review: Generative AI everywhere</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-youtube-monetization.html">2023 in Review: YouTube monetization expanded, channel redesign and
more creator tools</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-updates-for-bloggers.html">2023 in Review: Updates for bloggers, website owners, and AdSense
Publishers</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/01/chat-meet-google-workspace.html">2023 in Review: Chat, Meet and Google Workspace</a></li>
</ul>
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Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-53936566367846626852023-12-30T06:32:00.000-08:002024-01-06T02:54:37.573-08:002023 in Review: Generative AI Everywhere (plus free image editing tools)<p> </p>
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The launch of<a href="https://chat.openai.com/"> ChatGPT </a>at the end of 2022
triggered a rush for all the big tech companies to launch generative-AI tools.
Some were likely already in development, like Google’s “Smart Replies” in
various products. Others may quietly disappear once the novelty wears off.
<br /><br />This also seems to be connected to the new availability of a few new
free web-based graphic design platforms, which I love. <br /><br />The current
generation of AI text tools seems to be useful for brainstorming, generating
ideas and pulling concepts out of longer texts. They aren’t great for generating
content that requires accuracy, and even summaries of existing texts are often
riddled with errors. It’s quite clear that AI doesn’t really understand
anything.<br /><br />Unfortunately the new tools are fast and easy to use to
generate plausible-looking, but incorrect text. And that is being used by
spammers, dubious SEO experts, and lazy folks to post tons of low quality text.
It’s not clear how Google, Bing and other search engines are going to be able to
deal with this in the long term. <br /><br /><b>Google’s Search Guidelines</b><a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/google-search-and-ai-content">
allow automatically generated content</a>, as long as it meets the other requirements (EEAT is the watchword: expertise,
experience, authoritativeness, trustworthiness). Google says its automated
systems can detect spammy content, but it seems like an arms race. Hopefully the
AI-generated spam doesn’t win.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Opting your content out of AI training</h2>
Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on vast quantities of content, much
from publicly available content on the internet. <br /><br />In July,
<a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-web-publisher-controls-sign-up/">Google proposed</a>
that the “web and AI communities” should work together to develop a new
machine-readable way to control access to sites for AI training and research. So
far, nothing public has come out of that.<br /><br />So if you don’t want your
blog or website to be used for AI training, you can currently opt out by
updating the site’s robots.txt file or meta tags.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
OpenAI GPTBot:<a href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot">
Block the GPTBot in your site’s robots.txt file</a>
</li>
<li>
Microsoft Bing Chat:
<a href="https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/september-2023/Announcing-new-options-for-webmasters-to-control-usage-of-their-content-in-Bing-Chat">Use NOCACHE and NOARCHIVE tags</a>
</li>
<li>
Google Bard and Vertex AI:
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers#google-extended">Block the Google-Extended user agent in your site’s robots.txt file</a>
</li>
</ul>
Note that there are other web crawlers that might not respect those settings. It
also doesn’t affect existing trained AI models.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
Google’s AI-Powered Tools (and how to try them)
</h2>
Just a few weeks ago Google announced <b>Gemini</b>, t<a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/">heir “largest and most capable AI model”</a>. Gemini powers (or will power) many of Google’s AI-powered features.<br /><br />Not
surprisingly, many of Google’s AI-powered tools are still labeled
“Experimental”. Use at your own risk!<br /><br />Google’s chatbot is
<b>Bard</b> (which
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/trying-google-bard-ai-chatbot-nice.html">I tried when it first launched</a>), which you can try at <a href="https://bard.google.com">bard.google.com</a>.
Add <a href="https://bard.google.com/extensions">extensions</a> to let Bard help
you make travel plans, get answers from YouTube videos, and even summarize and
pull answers from your Gmail, Drive and Docs files. <br /><br /><b>Google’s NotebookLM</b>
(<a href="https://notebooklm.google.com/">notebooklm.google.com</a>) lets you
create “notebooks” with Google Docs, PDFs or other text. It can then
auto-generate summaries or answer questions about the content.
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<br />And as this is Google, they are also experimenting with AI-powered
search result overviews. Opt in to <b>SGE</b> (AI summaries and<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/10/creator-weekly-youtube-viewer-features.html">
image generation</a>
in Search) or SGE while web browsing (AI summaries of web pages) to see it in
action. Enable SGE at
<a href="https://labs.google.com/search">labs.google.com/search</a>.
<br /><br />Google also has a
<a href="https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/duet-ai">suite of AI-powered tools for Google Workspace</a>
called <b>Duet AI</b>. If you have a personal Google Account you can sign up
for Workspace Labs to try many of those features for free. Sign up for
<b>Workspace Labs</b> at
<a href="https://workspace.google.com/labs-sign-up/">workspace.google.com/labs-sign-up/</a>
<br /><br />Current
<a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/13447104"><b>Workspace Labs </b>AI-powered features </a>include:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
<b>Google Docs</b>: Draft documents, generate ideas, summarize documents,
rewrite text, create images.
</li>
<li>
<b>Google Drive</b>: Summarize files, ask questions about your files, pull
data from your files.
</li>
<li>
<b>Gmail</b>: Draft messages, summarize an email thread, get suggested
responses, find information in your emails.
</li>
<li>
<b>Google Slides</b>: Generate images or slides, remove image backgrounds,
write or rewrite content, access your Drive and Gmail files.
</li>
<li>
<b>Google Sheets</b>: “Help me organize” (create a travel planner or task
tracker), “smart fill” to make manual text processing easier, summarize
the data, create tables, create formulas.
</li>
<li>
<b>Google Meet meetings</b>: Create a background image, use “Studio Look”
to “fix issues created by low light or low quality webcams”.
</li>
</ul>
Google Workspace Enterprise customers with a Duet AI subscription may have
access to additional AI-powered features in
<a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/13952129">Docs</a>,
<a href="https://support.google.com/mail/answer/14199860">Gmail</a>,
<a href="https://support.google.com/drive/answer/14217860">Drive</a>,
<a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/14207419">Slides</a>,
<a href="https://support.google.com/docs/answer/14218565">Sheets</a>, and
<a href="https://support.google.com/meet/answer/13952129">Meet</a>.<br /><br /><b>Google Photos</b> has a number of new AI-powered tools. Many
of these tools are
<a href="https://blog.google/products/photos/google-photos-features-pixel-8-pro/">limited to Pixel devices </a>or require a Google One subscription.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Magic Editor and Magic Eraser lets you remove, move and resize objects in
your photos, and improve the lighting and background.
</li>
<li>
Audio Magic Eraser automatically removes background noise from video.
</li>
<li>
It uses AI<a href="https://blog.google/products/photos/google-photos-organization-updates-november-2023/">
to group similar photos</a>
into Photo Stacks and can
<a href="https://blog.google/products/photos/google-photos-features-pixel-8-pro/">create a “Best Take” </a>using the best face from multiple takes of group photos.
</li>
<li>
Use
<a href="https://blog.google/products/photos/google-photos-memories-view/">AI to suggest titles</a>
for your Google Photos Memories.
</li>
<li>
Automatically
<a href="https://support.google.com/photos/thread/242091739?hl=en">create a Highlight Video</a>
of an event, theme, person and more, and the images and video clips will
be automatically synced to music. (This isn’t touted as being
“AI-powered”, but it has that feel.)
</li>
<li>
And it has improved categorization of screenshots and document images.
</li>
</ul>
<b>YouTube</b> has<a href="https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/made-on-youtube-2023/">
announced a number of AI-powered tools</a>
that will be available over the coming year. If you are using any AI tool to
generate your videos, there
<a href="https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/our-approach-to-responsible-ai-innovation/">will be a disclosure requirement</a>.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
DreamTrack, which generates a song for Shorts videos,<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/creator-weekly-youtube-ai-music.html">
is in limited testing</a>, but you can
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/dreamtrackai/shorts">remix those Shorts</a>
using the mobile Shorts editor.
</li>
<li>Dream Screen will let you generate video or background for Shorts.</li>
<li>
Aloud is an AI-powered dubbing tool to dub your videos into other
languages. This is currently<a href="https://aloud.area120.google.com/?a=2090097364">
an experimental Area 120 project</a>.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53oxhHYDDE8">Recommended titles</a>, based on the video transcript and description.
</li>
<li>
There are AI-powered Shorts effects, such as this one that
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fhs8oJLDg_w">turns you into flowers</a>.
</li>
<li>
Next year there will be AI-powered tools for brainstorming and outlining
new videos and finding music tracks to use.
</li>
</ul>
<b>Google Ads</b> has
<a href="https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/get-creative-with-generative-ai-in-performance-max/">AI-powered </a>image editing and brainstorming tools for advertisers.<br /><br />That’s a
lot, right? There will likely be more features in the coming year. <br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI-Powered Tools and Image Editors</h2>
Of course, Google is not the only company rolling out AI tools for text, image
and video generation and editing. Microsoft, Adobe, Canva and many other
platforms now have AI-powered image and video editing tools. Note that most of
the free tools have limits to the number of images you can generate per
month.<br /><br /><b>Microsoft</b> was quick to offer AI-powered chat in
<a href="https://www.bing.com/search">Bing Search</a>, currently powered by
OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 (Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI). Their other tools:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
<a href="https://www.bing.com/images/create">Bing Image Editor</a> is a
text to AI image generator.
</li>
<li>
Microsoft Designer (<a href="https://designer.microsoft.com/">designer.microsoft.com</a>) is a free suite of image editing tools, including image generator,
background eraser, brand kit creator, and social media image creator
(including text).
</li>
<li>
Copilot is Microsoft’s AI productivity tool, and is integrated in Office
and other work software. You can use it directly at
<a href="https://copilot.microsoft.com/">copilot.microsoft.com</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<b>Adobe’s</b> AI-powered image generation tool is Firefly.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Adobe Firefly (<a href="https://firefly.adobe.com/">firefly.adobe.com</a>)
generates images, removes backgrounds, creates text effects, templates and
more, and is integrated in Photoshop and Illustrator.
</li>
<li>
Adobe Express (<a href="https://express.adobe.com">express.adobe.com</a> )
is Adobe’s free image editing platform with Adobe Firefly. It will also
automatically caption videos, edit videos, and create an animation from
your voice recording. For projects they offer templates for social media
and other platforms.
</li>
<li>
Adobe Premiere, their professional video editing software,<a href="https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/ai-video-editing.html">
offers AI-powered tools </a>for video editing. Of course this isn’t free.
</li>
</ul>
<b>Canva</b> (<a href="https://canva.com">canva.com</a>) launched their own
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/10/creator-weekly-magic-ai-tools-in-google.html">Magic Studio</a>, with AI-powered tools integrated into the web-based graphic design
platform. Some tools are limited to paid Pro accounts.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Magic Design: Create designs, presentations, and videos from your uploaded
content.
</li>
<li>
Magic Design for Video: create a “short, shareable” video from your
uploaded video clips.
</li>
<li>
Magic Switch (paid Pro only): convert content from one type to another.
</li>
<li>Video background remover (paid Pro only)</li>
<li>
AI Photo Editor: Magic Grab, Magic Morph, Magic Edit (only this feature is
free).
</li>
<li>Magic Media: create images or short video clips from a text prompt.</li>
<li>
Magic Animate (paid Pro only): automatically animate still graphics.
</li>
<li>Magic Write: Writing assistant.</li>
</ul>
These are the platforms I’m most familiar with, but there are lots more out
there. I’m planning to try more in the coming year.
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More 2023 Updates</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-year-in-review.html">2023: My Year in Review</a></li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-generative-ai-everywhere.html">2023 in Review: Generative AI everywhere</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-youtube-monetization.html">2023 in Review: YouTube monetization expanded, channel redesign and
more creator tools</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-updates-for-bloggers.html">2023 in Review: Updates for bloggers, website owners, and AdSense
Publishers</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/01/chat-meet-google-workspace.html">2023 in Review: Chat, Meet and Google Workspace</a></li>
</ul></div>
Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-62041988058314576572023-12-30T06:30:00.000-08:002024-01-15T00:01:56.277-08:002023 Year in Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Here we are at the close of 2023. Where has the time gone? This year
generative AI tools are everywhere, the old Twitter died and social media became
more fragmented, YouTube launched new features for creators and viewers,
bloggers have more tools and more. <br /><br />To celebrate, this is a roundup
of 2023 highlights and expectations for 2024. <br /><br />If you would rather skip my personal updates and get right to the creator updates, start with these articles:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-generative-ai-everywhere.html">2023 in Review: Generative AI everywhere</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-youtube-monetization.html">2023 in Review: YouTube monetization expanded, channel redesign and
more creator tools</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-updates-for-bloggers.html">2023 in Review: Updates for bloggers, website owners, and AdSense
Publishers</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/01/chat-meet-google-workspace.html">2023 in Review: Chat, Meet and Google Workspace</a></li>
</ul>I hope you and yours
have a fantastic new year!
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Creator Weekly News</h2>
This year I published 46 issues of the Creator Weekly News,
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/search/label/Weekly%20Update">available on my blog</a>
or in my <a href="https://newsletter.peggytc.com">weekly email newsletter</a>.
<br /><br />At this time last year, I was scrambling to
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2022/12/how-to-export-your-revue-newsletter-data.html">migrate the email newsletter from Revue</a>
(which was shut down by Twitter) to Beehiiv. I’m happy that’s the direction I
chose, as two of the other platforms I considered have problems: Intuit
MailChimp is
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/creator-weekly-youtube-analytics.html">shutting down TinyLetter</a>
and
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/creator-weekly-youtube-live-chat.html">Substack has a Nazi problem</a>.<br /><br />Beehiiv’s free tier has more features than I need, and it’s easy
to use. My goal for 2024 is to focus on getting more subscribers, possibly using
Beehiiv’s recommendation platform. If you haven't subscribed, give it a try!<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Creator Weekly Live</h2>
In April I launched
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIaEpHwTEg&list=PLgrEjLgzxPYunOIszDNvi1NxcDmO8QSZ3">Creator Weekly Live</a>. Every Sunday I’m live on YouTube talking about my favorite creator updates
for the week. <br /><br />A huge thank you to the folks who have been regularly
joining me live! There have been some lively and interesting discussions in the
chat, and it’s nice to know that I’m not broadcasting into the void.
<br /><br />Thanks to the regulars for joining me and helping make this a
positive community!<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Andrew Hatchett</li>
<li>Braylen Avy</li>
<li>Brigitte Uras</li>
<li>Chef_MDT2</li><li>Craig Long </li>
<li>Diego C</li>
<li>Escuela Digital</li>
<li>Ileane Smith</li>
<li>İsmail Şevik</li>
<li>Jolyn Bowler</li>
<li>Mark Barrus</li>
<li>Michael Daniels</li>
<li>Richard Clarkson</li>
<li>RealEngland (Tanya)</li>
</ul>
Apologies to anyone I missed!<br /><br />One of my goals was to try different
live streaming platforms, including
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/live-stream-from-google-meet-to-youtube.html">Meet</a>, StreamYard, Restream and Streamlabs TalkStudio. I’ll be writing up a
comparison and reviews in the new year.<br /><br />And I was also hoping to get
better at speaking live, and I think I have improved at least a bit.<br /><br />This
week’s Creator Weekly Live is the end-of-the-year celebration. Join me!<br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/bVIaEpHwTEg?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">10 Years of Creator Tips and Tutorials</h2>
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</div>
<div><br /></div>
I launched <a href="https://www.peggyktc.com">peggyktc.com</a> in September 2013
with some excellent Google+-related tutorials. It quickly expanded beyond that
original focus. <br /><br />In<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/09/10-year-anniversary-september-2023.html">
my celebratory post</a>
I look back at the changes in social media (and tutorials!) over the past
decade. <br /><br />I also updated the site name to Peggy K’s Creator News which
I think better reflects the current focus. <br /><br />I published 23 tutorials
this year, with additional short tutorials in the Weekly Update post and
newsletter.
<div><br /></div>
<div>
Check out the 2023 updates detailed overviews.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">10 Years of Peggy K on YouTube</h2>
My Peggy K YouTube channel (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@peggyKTC">www.youtube.com/@peggyKTC</a>) was created in February 2013, which means it also turned 10 this year. I
don’t really consider it to be 10 years old though, because I didn’t start
uploading videos until 2015.<br /><br /><br />This year my channel hit two
exciting milestones: <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfwVcEFEx0KnWqpgzct-P3Q/community?lb=UgxRXCbmnzOkwgJsOsh4AaABCQ"></a>
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</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfwVcEFEx0KnWqpgzct-P3Q/community?lb=UgxRXCbmnzOkwgJsOsh4AaABCQ">1 million video views</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfwVcEFEx0KnWqpgzct-P3Q/community?lb=Ugkx0ZdlCsceP6vaKmqf6AEctIxNL8FMuAty">5,000 subscribers</a>
</li>
</ul>
Thanks to everyone who has watched and subscribed! <br /><br />This year I
focused on my
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIaEpHwTEg&list=PLgrEjLgzxPYunOIszDNvi1NxcDmO8QSZ3">Creator Weekly Live weekly live stream</a>
and
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@PeggyKTC/shorts">posting Shorts,</a> both of
which I’ll continue in 2024.<br /><br />I also started posting a weekly quiz
question
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@peggyktc/community">on my Community tab</a>
in July (when that feature was launched). How many did you get right?
<br /><br />Tip: I link to new quiz questions in my weekly newsletter.
<a href="https://newsletter.peggyktc.com">Subscribe</a> to be sure you don’t
miss the next one!<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Other Projects</h2>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">OnEBoard</h3>
Since 2019 I’ve been a part of the OnEBoard group. Every other week I go live
with my fellow team members Nina Trankova and Bob Danley to
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLffyOeSxrxUYMTi_1hQ6ByVuQjkDtx6bp">share my top tech tip of the week</a>, and I host our
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23oneboardchat&src=typed_query&f=live">#OnEBoardChat tech chat</a>
once a month or so (and write up
<a href="https://news.oneboard.network/search/label/OnEBoardChat">the monthly recaps</a>). <br /><br />Here are our
<a href="https://news.oneboard.network/2023/12/oneboard-2023-highlights-tech-topics.html">OnEBoard 2023 Highlights</a>.<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Google Product Expert Summit</h3>
This year I was honored to attend the Google Product Expert Summit in London.
It was two intense days of presentations and product sessions, plus
sightseeing and parties (would you believe I
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CzCJ5Agv9PJ/?img_index=1">met the royal family</a>?). It was also amazing to
<a href="https://news.oneboard.network/2023/10/oneboard-google-pe-summit.html">connect with OnEBoard founder Nina Trankova in person</a>! <br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Tinkering With Tech</h3>
I also appeared twice on the Tinkering with Tech show, hosted by Michael
Daniels, to talk about account security and Google Meet: <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7tyQMgzIIQ">Security with Passwords and Passkeys with PeggyK</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdeg9KxOSbA">Talking Google Meet with Peggy K</a><br /><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
What were the top creator updates in 2023?
</h2>
<div>These are the stories I followed closely this year:</div>
<ul>
<li>Generative AI everywhere</li><li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/05/creator-weekly-google-inactive-account.html">Deletion of inactive Google Accounts</a> (unless they have a YouTube channel with videos)</li><li>More web-based graphics tools</li><li>YouTube expanded the Partner Program to more creators</li>
<li>YouTube redesigned channel pages</li>
<li>More live streaming options.</li>
<li>Migration from Google Analytics to GA4</li>
<li>AdSense improved site management and ad review center.</li>
<li>Updated Blogger media management.</li>
<li>
Shutdown of Google Currents (the last of Google+) and migration to
redesigned Google Chat
</li>
<li>Continued improvements to Google Meet meetings</li>
<li>
The demise of old Twitter and rise of Bluesky, Threads and the Fediverse
</li>
</ul>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">This year's updates in detail</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-year-in-review.html">2023: My Year in Review</a></li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-generative-ai-everywhere.html">2023 in Review: Generative AI everywhere</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-youtube-monetization.html">2023 in Review: YouTube monetization expanded, channel redesign and
more creator tools</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/2023-in-review-updates-for-bloggers.html">2023 in Review: Updates for bloggers, website owners, and AdSense
Publishers</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2024/01/chat-meet-google-workspace.html">2023 in Review: Chat, Meet and Google Workspace</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">What’s on the horizon for 2024?</h3>
More generative AI tools are coming. We’ll see how many catch on and last the
year.<br /><br />YouTube is expanding access to thumbnail A/B testing, and has
announced generative AI features will be available in the near future.<br /><br />Privacy
is going to be big and if you have your own website, you’ll probably need to
make some changes. Chrome is starting to move towards automatically blocking
3rd party cookies, and AdSense is requiring sites to have a Consent Management
process to serve ads in the EU.<br /><br />Social media will remain divided,
but I think Meta’s Threads will be the “Twitter replacement” winner.
<br /><br />Have a great year!
<div><br /></div>
<div>
More:
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2022/12/cheers-to-2022.html">2022 Year in Review</a>
</div>
</div>
<br />
</div>Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-43310742560147221662023-12-29T17:06:00.000-08:002023-12-29T17:23:22.061-08:00Download your Amazon Drive files before January 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRx8rPkn52gfpBZe9IGIYS4Ob7t_4dGyxzX4HxmysmhTNHvYa3bE-DJr691lgiwWbg3asniLpeyl5OHxRP243YiDzCbmwNSABlTNWTAWWd3TjqZcG5zYmLz66gQPF0KUymXPh9U6_MgeQenNfHxJMiMch_BfyHDj3z9cvcL1vPz7NLEHzS_ewHnD9JIMM/s2256/Amazon-Drive%20download%20menu.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1504" data-original-width="2256" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRx8rPkn52gfpBZe9IGIYS4Ob7t_4dGyxzX4HxmysmhTNHvYa3bE-DJr691lgiwWbg3asniLpeyl5OHxRP243YiDzCbmwNSABlTNWTAWWd3TjqZcG5zYmLz66gQPF0KUymXPh9U6_MgeQenNfHxJMiMch_BfyHDj3z9cvcL1vPz7NLEHzS_ewHnD9JIMM/s800/Amazon-Drive%20download%20menu.png" width="640" /></a></div><b>Amazon Cloud Drive</b> is no longer supported and files will only be
available for download through December 31, 2023. <br /><br />If you are affected, you should
have received several notification emails starting in October 2022. Uploading
files to Amazon Drive was deprecated in January 2023. <br /><br />From the
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=23943055011">FAQ</a>: <br />
<blockquote>
A: Yes, on October 31, 2022, the Amazon Drive app will be removed from the iOS
and Android app stores. On January 31, 2023, Amazon will no longer support
uploading files on the Amazon Drive website. You will still be able to view
and download your files until December 31, 2023.
</blockquote>
I did not even know I was an Amazon Drive user, but I do use the Send-to-Kindle
option to send documents to Kindle. Note that the Kindle file uploads will
continue to be available in your Kindle settings.
<div><br /></div>
<div>Amazon Photos will also continue to be available.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
If you have any trouble downloading your files, you can
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GDMHBWK3M5RAV5TY">contact Amazon support</a>
for assistance.<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<b>How to export your Amazon Drive files</b>
</h3>
<div>To export your Amazon Cloud Drive files: </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
1. Open your Amazon Drive (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/all">https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/all</a>)<br /><br />2. You will see folders for Documents, Music, My
Send-to-Kindle Docs, Pictures, Videos, and any other folders you created
there. You can open each folder to see the contents.<br /><br />3. Select
the folders or individual files you want to download.<br /><br />4. On the
menu that appears at the top of the window, select Download.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
Note that if your files are more than 5GB or you want to download more
than 1,000 files, Amazon recommends using the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=16409408011">Amazon Photos app for Windows or Mac</a>. Install the app on your computer and select "Download" from the left
navigation.
</div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>Amazon Photos</b></h3>
<div>
You will continue to be able to access your photos and videos in
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=13234696011">Amazon Photos</a>,
which is not shutting down. Photos should not be deleted from Amazon Drive
if you want to continue to access them in Amazon Photos.
</div>
<blockquote>
A: Because Amazon Drive and Amazon Photos share the same cloud storage
location, your photo and video files in Amazon Drive access the same photo
and video files in Amazon Photos. To access your photos and videos in Amazon
Photos, please sign in to the Amazon Photos
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=13234696011">website</a> or download
the Amazon Photos app for
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16384500011&ref_=">iOS or Android</a>. Any photo or video deleted on Amazon Drive will no longer be available
through Amazon Photos and will be permanently removed from Amazon after 30
days.</blockquote><p>Amazon offers 5 GB storage free for photos and videos. </p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Send-to-Kindle Files</h3>
<div>
Amazon Drive > Send-to-Kindle only includes files sent to Kindle up to
April 2016. They were separated at that time.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
You can continue to
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle">send files to your Kindle account</a> to access on Kindle devices or the Kindle app.<br /><br />You can find
your Kindle purchases and uploaded documents by:
<div>
<br />
<div>1. Sign in to <b>Amazon</b> </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
2. On the left menu select <b>Kindle E-Readers & Books </b>
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
3. Then select <b>Manage your content and devices</b> (at the very bottom
of the menu)
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>4. Make sure you are on the <b>Content </b>tab </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
5. Switch from <b>Books</b> to <b>All Content </b>to find all your
Kindle uploads and purchases<br />Or go directly to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/allcontent/dateDsc">www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/allcontent/dateDsc</a>
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
6. Filter by <b>Docs</b> to see all the documents you uploaded
</div><div><br /></div>
</div>
</div>
Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-83626309206060130112023-12-23T06:31:00.000-08:002024-02-04T22:37:47.649-08:00Creator Weekly: YouTube Live Chat Moderation, Google Podcast migration, Bluesky updates<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_zFsuEeMwRkfBqzAt5OFNJqqw7KM6tMS9GRSfXiB1rBfOUn_r5VFddF4qKa4zevrVyy7lDA2MutA4YX7LAHCcvUNaUGvsciV1uKTa1y7WnuG4j5oN5jg4fIZCMpnaQYrQ7OZSqfSm48X3En9bmDjdHOxOFcGVmENI9FoomDRMyGUfKN_RJa7jniiN8K4/s1200/122323.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Creator Weekly December 23, 2023" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_zFsuEeMwRkfBqzAt5OFNJqqw7KM6tMS9GRSfXiB1rBfOUn_r5VFddF4qKa4zevrVyy7lDA2MutA4YX7LAHCcvUNaUGvsciV1uKTa1y7WnuG4j5oN5jg4fIZCMpnaQYrQ7OZSqfSm48X3En9bmDjdHOxOFcGVmENI9FoomDRMyGUfKN_RJa7jniiN8K4/s600/122323.png" width="640" /></a></div>
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! Winter is here and the
year is winding down. There are a few updates this week, but not too many. I’m
looking forward to next week when I can wind down and reflect on the past year.
Next week I’ll have a recap of the year for you all. <br /><br />As a side
note, I’ve been starting to shift my social media time from X to
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@peggykolm">Threads</a> and
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/peggyk.bsky.social">Bluesky</a>. I haven’t
really settled into either, but my X feed is starting to look a bit bare, and
I’m not missing much there. I'll see how things go after the new year.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>YouTube makes it easier to
moderate live stream comments.</li><li>Live stream to X (Twitter) from
StreamYard or Streamlabs.</li><li>Migrate your Google Podcasts to
YouTube Music (US only).</li><li>Google Analytics 4 integration with AdSense.</li><li>New version of Bluesky adds profile
RSS feeds, visibility when signed out.</li><li>Flipboard starts testing
ActivityPub federation.</li><li>Substack has a Nazi problem.</li></ul>Read on for details and additional
updates!<br /><br /><b>Creator Weekly In Your Inbox 📨<br /></b><a href="http://newsletter.peggyktc.com/">Subscribe</a>
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tracking Santa?
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxtn16LMPPyfOMs63VTghWkMJM3FAr7-cd">Take the quiz</a>.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">New Posts</h2><div>I wrote a bit about one of
my highlights from 2023,<a href="https://news.oneboard.network/2023/10/oneboard-google-pe-summit.html">
the Google Product Expert Summit in London</a> on the OnEBoard News blog.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">More 2023 Recaps</h2>Over on X/Twitter Google’s
<a href="https://twitter.com/JohnMu/status/1738180701126643721">John Mueller recaps the <b>top SEO memes of 2023</b></a><b>.</b><br /><br /><b>Google</b> l<a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-product-launches-2023/">isted their top 23 “moments” in 2023</a>, from AI to new hardware to updated Google Workspace services.<br /><br /><b>Google</b>
<a href="https://blog.research.google/2023/12/2023-year-of-groundbreaking-advances-in.html">looked back at</a>
their advances in <b>AI</b> over the past year. If you’ve been having trouble following
all the changes, read this to take a look back at PaLM2, MusicLM, Imagen 2,
DuetAI, Gemini and more.<br /><br /><b>YouTube</b> recaps the<a href="https://blog.youtube/culture-and-trends/2023-ads-on-youtube/">
top ad trends of 2023</a>.<br /><br /><b>Meta</b> <a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/year-in-review-how-microsoft-copilot-microsoft-teams-and-our/ba-p/4013328">has a recap</a> of their year of updates to Teams and Copilot.<div><br /><b>Meta</b>
<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2023/12/metas-2023-progress-in-ai-and-mixed-reality/">also recapped</a>
their advances in AI and the Metaverse over the past year. Mixed reality (AR
overlaid on the real world) is their bet for the future, especially using their
Rat-Ban Meta smart glasses.<br /><br /><div><b>Flickr</b> r<a href="https://blog.flickr.net/en/2023/12/18/whats-ahead-in-2024/">ecapped their updates over the past year </a>and looks to 2024, which will bring an updated interface, new photo organization tools, and their 20th birthday.<div><br /><b>The</b> <b>Verge</b><a href="https://www.theverge.com/c/24006724/2023-art-illustrations-photography-verge-roundup">
highlighted some of the most interesting original graphics</a>
they published this year, along with links to the articles they illustrated. Not
surprisingly this includes some of their most interesting articles, from
profiles of tech workers in Ukraine to threats to academics and Musk’s takeover
of Twitter.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">To Try</h2>If you are in the US,
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/249139848">you can now migrate </a>your <b>Google Podcasts</b> to <b>YouTube Music</b>. YouTube Music also now supports adding
podcasts by their RSS feed. In the US Google Podcasts will be available through
March 2024 and will be able to migrate subscriptions through July 2024.
Migration availability in other regions is yet to be announced.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Video
Creator Updates</h2>If you are live streaming on <b>YouTube</b>, there’s a
new tool for live chat moderators. It’s now possible to
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9826490#zippy=%2Caccess-channel-activity-from-live-chat-feed">check public user history</a>
right from the live chat feed (on desktop). That includes a recap of live chat
messages and total counts of moderator actions taken against the user over the
past year. That includes deleted messages, time outs, and hides.<br /><br /><b>TubeStats</b>
(<a href="https://tubestats.org/">tubestats.org</a> ) is an interesting look at
YouTube numbers based on a random sample of 25,000 videos (<a href="https://ethanzuckerman.com/2023/12/22/how-big-is-youtube/">methodology</a>). It estimates 3.9 Billion videos uploaded in 2023, <br /><br />The
<b>TikTok Creative Center </b>has an AI chatbot for brainstorming, insights and writing
ad scripts. It’s aimed at advertisers, but appears available to everyone.
<a href="https://ads.tiktok.com/business/creativecenter/pc/en">Try it here</a>
<br /><br /><b>Capcut</b> has a new-ish tool that
<a href="https://www.capcut.com/resource/long-short-video-editing">will automatically turn your landscape long-form video into Shorts</a>. Capcut is a video editing platform from Bytedance, TikTok’s parent company,
and is aimed at businesses.
<a href="https://www.capcut.com/editor-tools/long-video-to-shorts">Try it for free.</a><br /><br />You can now live stream to <b>X</b> (Twitter)
<a href="https://streamlabs.com/content-hub/post/streamlabs-announces-integration-for-creators-on-x">from Streamlabs</a>
and
<a href="https://support.streamyard.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058959912-How-to-Stream-to-X-Twitter-">StreamYard</a>
(including<a href="https://new.streamyard.com/x-comments-integration-3TmOVa">
live comments from X</a>). No stream key is necessary, instead you authenticate your X account from
inside the streaming studio.<br /><br /><a href="https://sites.research.google/videopoet/"><b>VideoPoet</b></a>
is a new Large Language Model (LLM) from Google Research for “zero-shot video
generation”. Click the link to see the demo, or
<a href="https://blog.research.google/2023/12/videopoet-large-language-model-for-zero.html">the blog post</a>
with more information.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and
Search</h2>Did you know that you can have web page and PDF versions
of content, and <b>Google Search </b>may index them both?
<a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-both-pdf-html-version-36544.html">More details at Search Engine Roundtable.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>You can now <a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/14333766">link your AdSense account to your Google Analytics 4 (GA4) property.</a> That lets you "combine AdSense data with other metrics, such as traffic sources and user behavior". <br /><br /><b>Blogger</b> Product Expert Adam explains why<a href="https://too-clever-by-half.blogspot.com/2023/12/blogger-comments-and-engagement.html">
it’s probably worth it to (temporarily) stop blocking third party cookies</a>
in order to comment on a Blogger blog while signed in to your Google account.<br /><br /><b>Substack</b>
not only allows newsletters with neonazi and white supremacist content, but
makes money from them and has even promoted them. In response to concerns,
Substack founder
<a href="https://substack.com/@hamish/note/c-45811343">Hamish McKenzie frames it </a>as supporting “free speech”. But others have pointed out that this is a
business decision. Ken White (Popehat) explains
<a href="https://popehat.substack.com/p/substack-has-a-nazi-opportunity">Substack Has A Nazi Opportunity</a>
and Katie Notopoulos at Business Insider argues
<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/substack-nazi-problem-free-speech-money-analysis-2023-12">Substack's Nazi Problem Isn't About Speech; It's About Money</a>. Newsletter publishers will have to decide whether they want to continue to
support the platform. FWIW I use the
<a href="https://peggyktc.beehiiv.com/">free version of Beehiiv</a> for my
newsletter, and <a href="https://ghost.org/creators/">Ghost</a> (which is not
free) is frequently mentioned as an alternative.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Photos and Image
Design on the Web</h2><b>Adobe</b> has
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/18/24005996/adobe-figma-acquisition-abandoned-termination-fee">abandoned its acquisition </a>of <b>Figma</b> in the face of pressure from regulators in the EU and UK.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">Social
Media</h2><b>Bluesky</b> version 1.60 is rolling out
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kh5rarr3gn2n">with major changes</a>: a new butterfly logo, RSS feeds for profiles (follow people in Feedly or your
favorite feed reader!), and posts and profiles are visible without a login (you
can opt out of that in your Bluesky settings).<br /><br />Smaller Twitter
alternative <b>Spoutible</b> now
<a href="https://spoutible.com/thread/22844170">lets you cross-post </a>to
<b>Bluesky</b> and <b>Mastodon</b>, and says they will “soon” support cross-posting to
Threads. Spoutible<a href="https://wefunder.com/spoutible"> is crowdfunded</a>
through the investment platform Wefunder and just launched audio
<a href="https://spoutible.com/thread/23796498">Pods</a> (like X’s Spaces, but
whale-themed).<br /><br /><b>Flipboard</b> is starting to
<a href="https://medium.com/@mmccue/flipboard-begins-to-federate-4a80d6bdc209">slowly roll out ActivityPub federation</a>. Starting this week 27 accounts (including a variety of publications,
journalism organizations and content creators) will be able to interact and
engage with posts on Mastodon, PeerTube and other Fediverse platforms (including
Threads eventually). In January anyone in the Fediverse will be able to follow
any public account on Flipboard, and then by April anyone on Flipboard will be
able to follow anyone in the Fediverse. As part of this transition, their Dot
Social podcast is available
<a href="https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/eugen-rochko/">on PeerTube</a>, in addition to YouTube.<br /><br /><b>Reddit</b> is r<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/18ibxm5/december_changelog_topics_in_header_live_chat/">emoving the option to add live chat posts </a>to subreddits. They will be replaced with chat channels, which are currently
still in beta.<br /><br /><b>X</b> is in the process of
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-continues-roll-out-updates-profile-media-tab/703037/">updating the profile Media tab</a>, with a new layout and filters to only show images, videos or GIFs.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">More
AI Updates </h2>This is bad report from 404 Media:
<a href="https://www.404media.co/laion-datasets-removed-stanford-csam-child-abuse/">Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual
Abuse Material</a>
<br /><br />Wired i<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-meta-yann-lecun-interview/">nterviewed <b>Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun</b> </a>who says AI will take over the world, but won’t subjugate humans.<div><br />In <b>Microsoft Copilot</b> you can use <b>Suno</b> to c<a href="https://blogs.bing.com/search/december-2023/Turn-your-ideas-into-songs-with-Suno-on-Microsoft-Copilot">reate a song from a text promp</a>t.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>OpenAI’s
embattled CEO Sam Altman has a personal blog (who knew?). He lists 17 things
about
<a href="https://blog.samaltman.com/what-i-wish-someone-had-told-me">What I Wish Someone Had Told Me</a>
(about business). I really agree with number 17: Working with great people is
one of the best parts of life.<br /><br />Add to your reading list:
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/the-top-twenty-five-new-yorker-stories-of-2023">The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2023</a>
. <br /><br />Science fiction writer Charlie Stross wrote in Scientific
American:
<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/">Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew
Up on Real</a>. The message: <br /><i>“Science fiction, therefore, does not develop in
accordance with the scientific method. It develops by popular entertainers
trying to attract a bigger audience by pandering to them. The audience today
includes billionaires who read science fiction in their childhood and who appear
unaware of the ideological underpinnings of their youthful entertainment:
elitism, “scientific” racism, eugenics, fascism and a blithe belief today in
technology as the solution to societal problems.”<br /></i><br />Ryan
Broderick at Garbage Day<a href="https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-thing-we-can-talk-now-about?utm_campaign=email-post&utm_source=substack">
wrote about </a>how it’s getting hard to know what’s truly trending, and how <i>“The loudest and
oftentimes most influential parts of American society have been looking at
what’s online and repackaging it back to us for a decade and now that trick
doesn’t work anymore.“ Why? “I think what we’re actually seeing is the middle of
the attention economy disappear. The space where viral animals, random videos,
silly trends, and bizarre subcultures used to inhabit. Those things aren’t gone,
really, but they aren’t turning into national level discourses as often
anymore.”</i><br /><br /><div>There are similar sentiments in Charlie Warzel’s
article for The Atlantic:
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/12/internet-information-trends-virality-tracking/676888/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0dj8_ZOCNuntBY68aHsW0xM">Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore</a>
<br /><br />2024 is a presidential election year in the US.
<a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/civics/how-were-approaching-the-2024-us-elections/">Google</a>
and
<a href="https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/supporting-2024-united-states-election/">YouTube</a>
announced steps they are taking to identify artificial and AI generated content
and prevent misinformation from spreading.<br /><br />That’s all
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I keep thinking that this must the week that the
tech folk will finally go on holiday, but once again there are a ton of updates
this week for YouTubers and other video creators, live streamers, bloggers and
more.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Meta’s Threads
launched in the EU and started testing ActivityPub integration.
</li><li>YouTube Partners can now gift 10 Memberships per month, free
of charge (but not yet available to channels on a Brand Account).
</li><li>YouTube Partners can give Members early access, before a video
goes public.</li><li>Twitch is retiring Squad Streams in favor of
Stream Together, which is available in beta (to everyone!)</li><li>Twitch
simplified their policies around sexually themed content, allowing some content
as long as it has a Sexual Themes Label.</li><li>The Twitch Homepage will no longer
recommend labeled as Drugs, Intoxication, or Excessive Tobacco Use; Violent and
Graphic Depictions; Gambling; and/or Sexual Themes.</li><li>Instagram
Live Producer is now available to all professional accounts, allowing you to go
live from third party platforms.</li><li>Google Groups will stop
supporting posting to Usenet in February.</li><li>Education accounts
can add interactive questions to an embedded YouTube video in Google
Classroom.</li><li>WordPress gave the “State of the Word”, looking back
on 2023 and forward to 2024.</li><li>Chrome will soon start testing
Tracking Protection, blocking 3rd party cookies by default.</li><li>Celebrate
25 years of Google Search by finding the embodiment of search trends in a
Where’s Waldo-like game.</li><li>Soon your Google Maps Timeline will be
saved on your device, inaccessible to Google.</li></ul>Read on for details and
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YouTube’s new “pause comments” option?
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxZIIh6aSxHc0OucoFOr9Tf2lQDKOGRSeJ">Take the quiz</a>.<br />Bonus poll: Have you tried AI tools?
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx2g2PATlC831fjhhMkqTGHKIwkF9N6PiA">Vote in the poll on YouTube
</a>
or
<a href="https://twitter.com/PeggyKTC/status/1733925406238212136">view the poll on X</a>.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">New Tips and Tutorials</h3>You can easily create a custom
calendar to share on social media or your website using the (free!) Adobe
Express.<a href="https://news.oneboard.network/2023/12/how-to-create-custom-calendar-with.html">
Learn how from OnEBoard’s Bob Danley</a>.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">2023 Recaps</h3><b>Google</b><a href="https://blog.google/products/search/google-year-in-search-video-25th-anniversary/">
celebrated 25 years of <b>Search</b> </a>with a special recap video and game. Check out this year’s
<a href="https://trends.google.com/trends/yis/2023/GLOBAL/">global and local Search trends</a>, and then<a href="https://trendstimecapsule.ue.r.appspot.com/">
find your Search Time Capsule</a>
and find top searches in the Where’s Waldo-like
<a href="https://searchplayground.google/">Search Playground.</a> Note that the
game does not seem to save your results 🙁<br /><br />If you are on <b>Flickr</b>
<a href="https://blog.flickr.net/en/2023/12/15/show-off-your-years-best-its-time-to-submit-to-your-best-shot-2023/">submit Your Best Shot 2023 entry</a>
by January 4.<br /><br />Social Media Today reports
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/snapchat-announces-annual-recap-activation-shares-top-app-trends/702330/"><b>Snapchat</b> Announced Annual ‘Recap’ Activation, Shares Top In-App Trends From
2023</a><br /><br /><b>Apple</b> announced the
<a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/12/apple-spotlights-the-top-apps-and-games-of-2023-on-the-app-store/">top apps and games from 2023.</a><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Meta’s Threads launched in the EU and
tests Fediverse integration</h3>Meta launched Instagram-linked <b>Threads</b> (<a href="https://www.threads.net">www.threads.net</a>
) back in July. It’s steadily adding features, and it’s looking to me like it
could end up being an actual Twitter replacement. <br /><br />But
something huge was missing: no users from the European Union! This apparently
was due to legal and regulatory concerns. But now, EU users can join threads
using their Instagram account sign-in. I’ve been playing with it a bit
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@peggykolm">here</a>. <br /><br />Also
this week Threads
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C046LSmPAuN">started testing ActivityPub integration</a>. The idea is that you could have a Mastodon account (or other Fediverse
account), follow someone who is on Threads, and comment on their posts, all
without having a Threads account yourself. And, of course, vice versa.
<br /><br />Currently it’s only possible to follow a few test Threads
accounts on <b>Mastodon</b>, including Instagram and Threads head
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/">Adam Mosseri</a>.<br /><br />And it turns out there are a bunch of Mastodon servers that
have decided to preemptively block Threads, in part because of a lack of trust
in Meta. That includes the mas.to server, which is where I have my account. I’m
hoping that they change that eventually. Here’s<a href="https://fedipact.veganism.social/">
a list that shows which Mastodon servers block Threads.</a>
<br /><br />What Threads is still working on:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>If someone
comments on a Threads post from the Fediverse, the comment should show on the
Threads post.</li><li>Allow Threads users to follow Fediverse
accounts.</li><li>The ability to leave Threads and take your followers
with you.</li><li>They are deciding whether people will be able to opt
out.</li></ul>Mosseri says
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C046NsJv8uN">this will likely take “the better part of a year</a>” to do. Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko s<a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111576825980285552">eems positive</a>
about the development.<br /><br />One of the main reasons I’m still on
X/Twitter is that I follow a bunch of companies and organizations that make
announcements there. Hopefully some of that will shift to Threads or Mastodon or
somewhere else in the next year.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Google Maps Timeline will be stored on
your device</h3>Google
<a href="https://blog.google/products/maps/updates-to-location-history-and-new-controls-coming-soon-to-maps/">doesn’t want to know where you’ve been</a>. <br /><br />If you have Location History turned on for your device, you
can get a Timeline of the places you visited each day in <b>Google Maps.</b> Soon your
Timeline will be stored on your device, rather than in your Google Account. You
can make an end-to-end encrypted backup to the cloud if you want to transfer the
data to a new device (or don’t want to lose the information). Google won’t be
able to decipher it. <br /><br />It will also be easier to delete Maps
activity and manage your settings. <br /><br />For new accounts the
default will be for Location History to automatically delete after 3 months.
<br /><br />These changes mean that your Location History will not be
synchronized across multiple devices.<br /><br />Why the change? Google
says it is to give you more control over your data, which it will do. It also
means that Google will no longer be able to respond to requests from law
enforcement for individuals’ location information (which they do now).<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Video Creator Updates</h3><b>YouTube</b> wants you to join in
the<a href="https://blog.youtube/culture-and-trends/holidays-with-shorts/">
#HolidaysWithShorts</a>
celebration with recommended songs and hashtags.<br /><br /><b>YouTube</b> partners
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/163130117?msgid=248165537&utm_source=teamyoutube&utm_medium=twitter&linkId=9265476">can now gift 10 channel Memberships</a>
(two bundles of 5) every month, free of charge. The gifted memberships give
access to Member perks for one month. Note that this is not currently available
to channels on a Brand Account (boo!). Not sure if your channel is on a Brand
Account? Go to
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced">www.youtube.com/account_advanced</a>
and see what it says next to “Move Channel”: If it says “Move channel to your
Google Account or another brand account” or “You are not signed in as the
primary owner”, your channel is on a Brand Account.</div><div><br /><b>YouTube</b>
partners offering Memberships can also
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7544492#zippy=%2Cmembers-only-early-access">set new upload visibility to “From members only to public”</a>
to give their members early access to new content before it goes public.<br /><br />Some
Google Workspace for Education editions will soon have the option to
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/interactive-questions-for-youtube-videos-google-classroom.html">create interactive questions</a>
linked to an embedded <b>YouTube</b> video in <b>Google Classroom</b>.<br /><br /><b>Twitch</b>
is
<a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/12/13/retiring-squad-stream/">retiring Squad Streams</a>
on January 17, which let up to 4 streamers go live together. It apparently never
gained much traction. Instead Twitch is focusing on Stream Together (formerly
called Guest Star), which is currently in beta. There are instructions for
<a href="https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/guest-star-getting-started?language=en_US">getting started with Stream Together</a>
(and
<a href="https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/stream-together-gaming-collaborations?language=en_US">how to use it for gaming collabs</a>), which is available to all Twitch users.<br /><br /><b>Twitch</b> is also
offering<a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/12/13/it-s-time-for-the-end-of-year-bonus-round/">
end-of-the-year subscription discounts and a new Bits bonu</a>s.<br /><br /><b>Twitch</b>
<a href="https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Updating-our-Approach-to-Sexual-Content-and-Content-Classification-Labels?language=en_US">updated their policies around nudity and sexual content.</a>
Some content that was previously prohibited, is now allowed with a correct
Sexual Themes Content Classification Label, including highlighted or drawn
breasts, genitals or buttocks; body writing and art on female-presenting-breasts
or anyones buttocks; and erotic dances (like a striptease). Dances like
twerking, grinding are now allowed without a label, as long as they are not
streamed from an adult establishment, like a strip club. (YouTube
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/youtube-advertiser-friendly-guidelines.html">similarly relaxed policies</a>
around what they describe as “non-sexually graphic dancing involving rhythmic
body movements”). The new policy briefly allowed “artistic nudity”,
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/15/24002779/twitch-artistic-nudity-policy-cancelled">but that was changed</a>
amongst concerns that would mean images like AI-generated nude deepfakes would
be allowed.<br /><br /><b>Twitch</b> will
<a href="https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Updating-our-Approach-to-Sexual-Content-and-Content-Classification-Labels?language=en_US">no longer include content </a>with the Drugs, Intoxication, or Excessive Tobacco Use; Violent and Graphic
Depictions; Gambling; and/or Sexual Themes labels on the homepage
recommendations shelves.<br /><br />Now all professional <b>Instagram</b>
accounts
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@creators/post/C0zM0MIrjFb">have access to Instagram Live Producer</a>. This allows you to use a stream key to go live using OBS, Streamlabs,
<a href="https://support.streamyard.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043298812-Can-I-stream-to-Instagram-with-StreamYard-">Streamyard</a>
or similar platform. Instagram Live Producer
<a href="https://about.instagram.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/instagram-live-producer">launched with limited access </a>in November 2022. You can s<a href="https://help.instagram.com/502981923235522">witch from a personal account to a business account</a>
in your Instagram settings.<br /><br /><b>StreamYard</b> now lets pro users
<a href="https://support.streamyard.com/hc/en-us/articles/20575238023060-Downloading-Recording-Transcripts">download recording transcripts.</a><br /><br />The <b>iPhone</b> 15 Pro and Pro Max
<a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/12/apple-introduces-spatial-video-capture-on-iphone-15-pro/">can now record spatial video</a>. The 3D videos are viewable on the new Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset.
The video can be reviewed in 2D on other devices.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Podcasting</h3>Creators should be aware that scammers
are sending fake invites to appear on a podcast, with the result that the
creator’s <b>Facebook</b> Page is hijacked.
<a href="https://twitter.com/RealRobLandes/status/1735014201762980178">Rob Landes reports how it happened to him.</a><br /><br />Intel’s <b>MailChimp</b> is a frequent podcast sponsor. They<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24002001/mailchimp-pineapple-street-union-podcast-canceled">
reportedly demanded that a podcast in development</a>
only use non-union labor to get their sponsorship money (which was rejected).<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Web
Publishers and Search</h3><b>Google Chrome</b> will<a href="https://blog.google/products/chrome/privacy-sandbox-tracking-protection/">
start testing Tracking Protection in January</a>. This limits a website’s access to third party cookies and cross-site tracking
by default.
<a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/third-party-cookies-firefox-tracking-protection">Firefox</a>
and
<a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/prevent-cross-site-tracking-sfri40732/mac">Safari</a>
already block cross-site tracking by default. What that means for web publishers
is that more visitors will block third party cookies, which may affect visitor
ability to use buttons or even comment on your site if those require a cookie to
detect a third-party account they are signed into. And, of course, it will
prevent some tracking of user details.<br /><br /><b>WordPress</b>
<a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/12/12/sotw-2023-video-recap/">announced the “State of the Word”</a>, looking back at 2023 and forward to 2024. Features they are working on
include collaborative tools, a focus on<a href="https://wordpress.org/data-liberation/">
Data Liberation</a>
(moving to and from other platforms like Blogger), and AI tools.<br /><br /><b>Solo</b>
is an “<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-solo-ai-website-builder/">AI webbuilder for solopreneurs</a>” from <b>Mozilla</b>. You can try it at
<a href="https://soloist.ai/">soloist.ai</a> .<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h3>Google
announced that <b>Groups</b><a href="https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538">
will no longer support</a>
<b>Usenet</b> posting, as of February 22, 2024. They will also shut down their Network
News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) server, and so will no longer retrieve new posts.
Historical posts will remain available. Why the change? There is low legitimate
use, tons of spam, and much of the use is for file-sharing, which Groups does
not support. Google Groups launched in 2001 with the Usenet archive from the
(defunct) Deja News. Over the years it’s
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Criticism">been neglected</a>
as Google shifted the focus of Groups to business, including managing email
lists and access to Google Workspace files. Anyone wanting to continue using
Usenet will have to find a new Usenet client.<br /><br />The Verge
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/c/23972308/twitter-x-death-tweets-history-elon-musk">has a new subsite </a>with articles looking back at “the year <b>Twitter</b> died”. Toggle up the “Chaos”
setting at bottom left if you can stand it. Or just scroll all the way down to
the articles. I thought<a href="https://www.theverge.com/c/features/23993135/twitter-breaking-news-history">
the article about Twitter and the news</a>
is especially interesting.<br /><br /><b>Instagram</b> is
<a href="https://creators.instagram.com/blog/creator-empowerment">making it easier for creators</a>
to bulk remove spam and bot follower requests. Those will now be reviewable
under a new “Potential Spam” tab. They are also adding an option to bulk remove
spammy tag requests. Along with those updates, Instagram is “increasing the
strength of our ability to detect and hide spammy comments”.<br /><br /><b>X</b>
will let Space
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-incognito-mode-controls-spaces/702597/">hosts enable Incognito joins</a>, which allow people to listen to the conversation in a Space without revealing
they are present.<br /><br /><b>Snapchat+</b> subscribers can use
<a href="https://newsroom.snap.com/en-GB/snapchat-plus-seven-million-new-ways-to-create-caption-and-snap">new generative AI tools to create Snaps</a>.<br /><br />Do you remember <b>MeWe</b>? It made a big push for users to
migrate from Google+ as that service shut down. Apparently there were two big
changes this year. The first is that the content is now visible to non-signed-in
accounts. The second is that they are really pushing to become a “decentralized
Web3” platform on the blockchain. That new version is still small --
<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mewe-and-frequency-enable-worlds-largest-migration-to-decentralized-social-301987495.html">at the last announced update</a>
in November there were only 170k users on the Web3 version. Maybe I should sign
in to my account there and see what’s happening, although I don’t understand the
appeal of using a blockchain (doesn’t that mean your posts can never be
deleted?). <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates </h3><br /><b>Google</b> is
<a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-pro-imagen-duet-ai-update/">making their Gemini Pro model and Duet AI </a>available to developers, in addition to updates to the Imagen 2 text to image
model and MedLM healthcare AI model in Vertex AI.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Communication and
Collaboration</h3>Google Workspace business accounts can
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/share-your-name-pronunciation-across-google-workspace.html">add a recording speaking their name </a>to their <b>Google profile</b> to share the pronunciation. This is not available for
education accounts or personal Google accounts.<br /><br />Google is
making it easier to<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/easy-access-to-people-documents-blocks-in-google-docs.html">
insert content from the @ menu</a>
in<b> Google Docs.</b> Note that as of this writing the rollout of this feature is
paused for evaluation.<br /><br />If you or your organization use
<b>Bitbucket</b>
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/bitbucket-app-for-google-chat.html">you can now integrate </a>that with<b> Google Chat.</b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h3>Works created
in 1928 in the US go into the public domain on January 1st, including the
original Mickey Mouse movie “Steamboat Willie”. Can you use Mickey now? Read
Duke Law’s
<a href="https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/">Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle</a>. <br /><br /><br />That’s all the updates for this week.
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</div>Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-62051271187655746862023-12-09T06:34:00.000-08:002024-02-04T22:39:52.259-08:00Creator Weekly: Gemini AI, Podcasts in YouTube Music, 2023 Trends<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnmhYVQOGj9lgMsAiCX1OXv8oiFA_eC8kDFb7B_J_SKHecQtOOn7XKHVUY1wpcCz3rz0oeiC5Ts3t1RYZBilWqP_E-cSrwINekbiJSZfmxtpLaxHAc2SKqEfQn7C68MvuKXMm-d88qTGLT73r_NJ3l6y3QPwiAKuVG5svDvp5mb0dANKP-AYUq2hvMi3g/s1200/120923.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnmhYVQOGj9lgMsAiCX1OXv8oiFA_eC8kDFb7B_J_SKHecQtOOn7XKHVUY1wpcCz3rz0oeiC5Ts3t1RYZBilWqP_E-cSrwINekbiJSZfmxtpLaxHAc2SKqEfQn7C68MvuKXMm-d88qTGLT73r_NJ3l6y3QPwiAKuVG5svDvp5mb0dANKP-AYUq2hvMi3g/s600/120923.png" width="600" /></a>I hope you are staying warm! This week Google announced Gemini, its new AI
model, and there are new AI features in Google and Meta products. Plus there
are updates for website owners, video creators, bloggers, podcasters and
more.<br />
<h4 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h4>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
If you are having trouble with YouTube, the
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/community">official English support community</a>
is now available for questions. Review the
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/937625/%F0%9F%9A%A9-youtube-help-community-%E2%80%93-best-practices?hl=en&sjid=11271496639384772931-NC">community best practices</a>
before you post.
</li>
<li>
Google launched the Gemini AI model, with integration in Bard and the
Pixel 8 Pro.
</li>
<li>
Start migrating your Google Podcasts to YouTube Music - and add new
podcast RSS feeds.
</li>
<li>
Google Search will only show video thumbnails next to results where the
video is the main content of the page. This will affect video indexing,
which you can find in your Search Console reports.
</li>
<li>
You can now use your Pixel 6 or newer phone as a webcam for your computer.
</li>
<li>
Meta released their free text to image generator in the US, along with a
number of other Meta AI updates.
</li>
</ul>
Read on for details and additional updates!<br />
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What do you know about AI-tools for creating custom emoji?
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxhMVDehbq62lbpiO7yglD2upDsu7qMsDV">Take the quiz</a>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">New Tips and Tutorials</h2>
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/migrate-legacy-Blogger-to-Google.html">Migrate your legacy (pre-Google) <b>Blogger</b> account to Google</a>. This applies to Blogger accounts that have not been signed into since 2007.
If you have signed in more recently than that, you don’t need to do anything.
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">2023 Recaps</h2>
‘Tis the season for annual recaps! In addition to<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/12/creator-weekly-youtube-analytics.html">
those announced last week</a>, here’s what you can find this week: <br /><br /><b>YouTube</b> looked at
trending topics, creators and songs for the year.
<a href="https://blog.youtube/culture-and-trends/2023-on-youtube/">Check the list </a>to see if your fave is there (or if you, like me, missed all the popular
stuff).<br /><br />Your personal <b>Reddit</b> Recap<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/18c76mf/how_to_reddit_recap/">
is here</a>
- just click the banana at top right when you are signed in on desktop or in
the mobile app. It shows your top comment, communities and you get a skill
card based on your karma for the year. <br /><br /><b>Reddit</b> also p<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/18c6jfy/keeping_it_dialed_in_2023_redditors_sought_honest/">osted a non-personalized recap </a>of the year with top posts and subreddits, plus predictions for 2024.<br /><br /><b>Twitch</b>
Recap
<a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/12/08/get-ready-for-recap/">will be available December 11</a>. There will be a Recap game and a special badge for the most engaged Twitch
users of 2023. And they are encouraging streamers to go live with a Recap
Stream for a chance to be featured on the Together for Recap Shelf.<br /><br /><b>TikTok</b>
announced <a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/year-on-tiktok-2023">their hits and trends for 2023</a>. Not familiar? At The Verge Mia Sato explains why
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/6/23989124/tiktoks-biggest-hits-2023-viral-videos-trends-recommendation-algorithm">TikTok’s biggest hits are videos you’ve probably never seen</a>.<br /><br /><b>GIPHY</b> shared their
<a href="https://medium.com/giphy/giphys-2023-year-in-review-48415111429b">top GIFs and GIF searches</a>
for the year. Have you used
<a href="https://media.giphy.com/media/fPRwBcYd71Lox1v7p2/giphy.gif">the top GIF</a>? <a href="https://giphy.com/yearinreview">See them all.</a><br /><br /><b>Instagram</b>
is
<a href="https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/instagram-trend-talk/">predicting Gen Z trends for 2024</a>,
<a href="https://business.pinterest.com/blog/pinterest-predicts-2024-just-dropped/">as is <b>Pinterest</b>.</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Google Announces Gemini AI</h2>
This week
<a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/">Google announced</a>
<b>Gemini</b>, the “most capable and general” AI model they have built.<br /><br />There
are three versions, Ultra (highly complex drafts), Pro (wide range of tasks),
and Nano (on device tasks). Ultra does as well or better than OpenAI’s GPT-4
across a number of benchmarks.<br /><br />Google’s announcement was
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZAiXYceBI">accompanied by an amazing video </a>demonstrating Gemini’s “multimodal” ability to “reason across text, images,
audio, video and code.”<br /><br />
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
The video has been
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/google-admits-it-fudged-a-gemini-ai-demo-video-which-critics-say-misled-viewers/">widely criticized as deceptive</a>, because it is heavily edited while suggesting it’s a real-time demo. The
<a href="https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/12/how-its-made-gemini-multimodal-prompting.html">Google for Developers blog has a detailed article</a>
about the actual prompts that were used. It still seems pretty amazing to me,
even if it’s not quite as slick as the promo video. <br /><br />You can try a
version of Gemini Pro in the <b>Bard</b> chatbot (<a href="https://bard.google.com">bard.google.com</a>) in English. Next year Google plans to launch “Bard Advanced” powered by
Gemini Ultra. <a href="https://youtu.be/mHZSrtl4zX0">The promo video</a> shows
Mark Rober using Bard to plan a video creating “the world’s most accurate
paper airplane.”<br /><br /><b>NotebookLM</b> (<a href="https://notebooklm.google.com/">notebooklm.google.com</a>) is an experimental AI project that lets you upload documents, and then will
help summarize, organize and engage with those docs as you read and take
notes. It
<a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-new-features-availability/">now is starting to use Gemini Pro</a>. NotebookLM is available in the US (18+). <br /><br />The <b>Pixel 8 Pro </b><a href="https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-feature-drop-december-2023/">runs Gemini Nano</a>
(which does not require a network connection). It is powering:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Summarize in the Recorder app</li>
<li>Smart Reply in Gboard (currently available in WhatsApp)</li>
<li>
Google is also “starting to experiment” using Gemini to power the
<a href="https://labs.google/sge/">Search Generative Experience</a>,
making it faster.
</li>
</ul>
<b>More info about Gemini:<br /></b><br />
<a href="https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/#introduction">Gemini - Google DeepMind</a><br /><a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/gemini-collection/">Learn more about Gemini</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">New Meta AI text to image generator</h2>
Another day, another text-to-image generator. This time it’s <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/metas-new-ai-image-generator-was-trained-on-1-1-billion-instagram-and-facebook-photos/">trained on public Instagram and Facebook images.</a> If you have a Meta account, you can try it for free at
<a href="https://imagine.meta.com/">imagine.meta.com</a>.<br /><br />Note that
a <b>Meta</b> account is not the same as your Facebook or Instagram account.
If you have a Meta account you can link your Facebook or Instagram, but that
is not required. Choose the “log in” option to create a Meta account with your
email.<br /><br />Meta also
<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2023/12/meta-ai-updates/">announced a bunch of new Meta AI-related features</a> (some of which are still under development):<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
If you use the Meta AI image generator in Messenger of Instagram Chat you
and others in the chat can “reimagine” a generated image with a short text
prompt.
</li>
<li>Meta AI may produce Reels in response to a question or prompt.</li>
<li>
Using Meta AI to assist posting on Facebook with AI-generated post
prompts, suggestions for new chats, surfacing information in Groups and
more.
</li>
<li>
They are testing suggested replies to DMs for creators to interact with
their audience members.
</li>
<li>
Soon there will be automatic invisible watermarks on AI-generated images.
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
Migrate your podcasts from Google Podcasts to YouTube Music
</h2>
In
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/09/creator-weekly-google-podcasts-reddit.html">September Google announced</a>
that <b>Google Podcasts</b> would be shutting down, but there would be an
option to move your podcasts to <b>YouTube Music.</b> If you are in the US,
that time has come. <br /><br />There have also been improvements to the
podcast listening experience in YouTube Music.<br /><br />Here is<a href="https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/migrating-your-podcasts/">
the latest information</a>
about migrating your Google Podcasts.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Only US accounts can currently migrate. Google Podcasts will be
discontinued in the US “as early as April 2024”.
</li>
<li>
You can export your podcasts as a OPML file to import into a different
service or you can export your data with Google Takeout (<a href="https://takeout.google.com">takeout.google.com</a>
).
</li>
<li>
You can add any podcast to YouTube music using the show’s RSS feed link
(<a href="https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/13946190?">instructions</a>).
</li>
<li>
You can listen to podcasts offline without a YouTube Premium subscription
(<a href="https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/6313535">more info</a>).
</li>
<li>New episodes will automatically download.</li>
<li>You can resume listening to a podcast where you left off.</li>
<li>
You will soon (“in the coming months”) be able to mark as listened to.
</li>
<li>
There’s better integration for podcast playing with Google Assistant on
wearable devices (like a watch) or car.
</li>
<li>
You can find more podcasts on the YouTube Music homepage podcast shelf.
</li>
</ul>
More information:
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/14151168">Migrate your Google Podcast subscriptions</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Video Creator Updates</h2>
<b>YouTube</b> has rolled out the option to<a href="https://youtu.be/H-Boo9HXfl8">
pause comments</a>
on your video. Pausing prevents people from posting comments, but previously
posted comments are still visible for everyone.
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9483359">Learn more</a>
about comment settings.<br /><br />You can now “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1c8SNSKm1g&">Collab” on a Short </a>when using the <b>Shorts</b> editor in the <b>YouTube iOS app (</b>not
available for Android yet). This lets you use all or part of another video on
a split screen where you can react or copy or otherwise engage the original
video.<br /><br />You can now
<a href="https://blogs.bing.com/search-quality-insights/december-2023/Continued-AI-Innovation-in-Copilot">get a <b>Microsoft Copilot AI-</b>generated summary of videos</a>
(on YouTube or elsewhere) you are watching in Microsoft Edge.<br /><br /><b>Twitch</b>
is
<a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/12/05/an-update-on-twitch-in-korea/">shutting down in Korea,</a>
apparently due to the high cost of operation there. This means that creators
with Korea as their country of residence will no longer be able to monetize
starting February 27, and viewers in Korea will no longer be able to make
purchases.
<a href="https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/korea-update-kr?language=en_US">Twitch is recommending </a>Korean streamers simulcast to other platforms to start their migration off of
Twitch.
<a href="https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/korea-update-nonkr?language=en_US&%24web_only=true&_branch_match_id=842214208616589701&utm_source=comms&utm_campaign=magpie_mkt_nonkrhelp&utm_medium=blog&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXLynPLEnO0C1PTdJLLCjQy8nMy9ZP1ffzcc93KqtyinRNAgBauUQ%2FKQAAAA%3D%3D">Streamers outside Korea</a>
may see a drop in earnings if they have a significant Korean audience.<br /><br /><a href="https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-feature-drop-december-2023/">The latest update</a>
to the<b> Google Pixel 8 Pro</b> uses <b>Google Photos </b>to upload video to
Google’s cloud where it’s processed to adjust “color, lighting, stabilization
and graininess”. The device also has Video Boost to enable Night Sight video,
reducing noise on videos recorded under low-light conditions (including
timelapses).<br /><br /><b>StreamYard</b> On-Air
<a href="https://new.streamyard.com/zapier-integration-1rd03u">now integrates with Zapier</a>
to manage webinar registrations.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Music and Podcasting</h2>
<b>Spotify</b> is ending its production of two popular critically acclaimed
podcasts (Heavyweight and Stolen) and there are fewer big podcasting deals on
other platforms. But
<a href="https://slate.com/business/2023/12/podcasts-layoffs-spotify-heavyweight-stolen-amazon.html">Scott Nover at Slate reports</a>
that podcast popularity is growing, ad revenue is increasing, and the “middle
class” of podcasting is doing fine. What’s hurting are big celebrity deals
and, unfortunately, the support of more expensive reporting-intensive
journalism.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and Search</h2>
<b>Google Search Results </b>in Video mode now only<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/12/video-is-the-main-content">
takes users to a page where the video is the main above-the-fold content.</a>
Google Search Console video indexing page may show “No video indexed”.
Examples of pages that will be affected include a blog post where the video is
supplemental to the text on the page or a product detail page with
complementary video.<br /><br /><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2023/12/the-month-in-wordpress-november-2023/"><b>WordPress’s</b> “State of the Word”</a>
is live on December 11. If you aren’t attending in person, you can
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MwT9EEkguE">watch live on YouTube.</a><br /><br /><br />The <b>WordPress JetPack</b> mobile app<a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/12/04/jetpack-app-updates/">
has gone through a redesign</a>
so it looks fresh and is easier to use.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C0m-tFjvitg/">The link referrer for </a><b>Threads</b> is now l.threads.net, rather than the previously used
l.instagram.com. That way you can see in your website analytics if Threads is
sending you traffic.<br /><br /><b>AdSense</b> will be
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/14301406?">“launching support for programmatic bidding on inventory eligible for
limited ads</a>” in the first quarter of 2024. Limited ads do not collect, share or use
personal data for ad personalization (this is one of the features to comply
with the EU’s GDPR). Google only places cookies for invalid traffic detection.
If I’m understanding correctly, this will let Google provide contextual ads
from more sources (including
<a href="https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/13681844?">Google Demand</a>
and
<a href="https://support.google.com/authorizedbuyers/answer/6138000">Authorized Buyers</a>).
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/14210870?">Learn more.</a><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Photos and Image Design on the Web</h2>
The latest <b>Pixel</b><a href="https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-feature-drop-december-2023/">
update includes</a>
new “AI model enabled” features in<b> Google Photos,</b> including Balance
Light to improve lighting in portraits, and Unblur for cats and dogs.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2>
<b>LinkedIn</b> is<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-tools-establish-your-voice-linkedin-newsletters-keren-baruch-lu8yf%3FtrackingId=SjJSfjvBRd6P3Su54L7C4A%253D%253D/?trackingId=SjJSfjvBRd6P3Su54L7C4A%3D%3D">
updating their newsletters</a>
with the option to duplicate a draft to edit and post (like using a template),
better preview before posting a draft, and enhanced analytics.<br /><br /><b>Meta’s Threads</b>
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/8/23993595/threads-meta-eu-europe-launch-date">may start launching to European users</a>
December 14. If you are in Europe, search for the term Ticket on Instagram,
and if it will be available to you soon you’ll see a ticket icon to click to
get a countdown.<br /><br /><b>Threads</b> now
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C0j585AvsJq">supports lined topic tags</a>
(with or without the #). In a departure from Instagram, a tag can include
multiple words or an emoji, it can only be inserted using the post editor and
you can only add one to a post. Check out<a href="https://www.threads.net/search?q=Tech%20Threads%2C&serp_type=tags&tag_id=18396227872057293">
the Tech Threads tag</a>
which tech folks are using to introduce themselves, or just browse some
<a href="https://www.threads.net/search?q=food&serp_type=tags&tag_id=18314811670116289">food</a>. Instagram and Threads CEO
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C0j7sSWvXTF">Adam Mosseri said “</a>the hope is this design focuses tags more on communities and less on
engagement hacking”.<br /><br /><b>Bluesky</b> will allow users to<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/bluesky-says-it-will-allow-users-to-opt-out-of-the-public-web-interface-after-backlash/">
opt out of having their posts visible </a>to not-signed-in viewers.<br /><br /><b>Tumblr</b>
<a href="https://staff.tumblr.com/post/736071326097440768/hello-tumblr-this-is-a-badges-update">has new badges </a>you can purchase to use to decorate your blog. And they are testing
Communities (<a href="https://www.tumblr.com/labs/736062873479020544/another-idea-communities-on-tumblr?source=share">see Tumblr Labs’</a>
post if you are interested in testing this).<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates</h2>
<b>Microsoft Copilot</b><a href="https://blogs.bing.com/search-quality-insights/december-2023/Continued-AI-Innovation-in-Copilot"><b> </b>is being updated</a>
to use GPT-4 Turbo (OpenAI’s latest model) and updated DALL-E 3.<br /><br /><a href="https://ai.meta.com/blog/ai-alliance/"><b>Meta</b> announced the </a><b>AI Alliance</b>, a new international group with the goal of “fostering an
open community and enabling developers and researchers to accelerate
responsible innovation in AI while ensuring scientific rigor, trust, safety,
security, diversity and economic competitiveness.”
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<br /><a href="https://thealliance.ai/learn">The <b>AI Alliance </b>includes</a>
more than 50 AI companies, companies with AI teams, universities, science
agencies, AI benchmarking tool creators, hardware and infrastructure
companies, and “the champions of frameworks that drive platform software.”
Notably not included: Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Adobe.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
If you experienced the <b>Google Drive</b> bug that made your files disappear,
there is now a fix.
<a href="https://support.google.com/drive/answer/14286582?#zippy=%2Crecover-files-from-backup-from-the-drive-for-desktop-app%2Cadditional-troubleshooting-options-for-data-recovery%2Cadvanced-recover-files-from-backup-using-the-command-line-interface">Follow these instructions.</a><br /><br />You can now<a href="https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-feature-drop-december-2023/">
use your <b>Pixel 6 </b>or newer phone</a>
as a <b>webcam</b> for supported laptop, desktop or other device with USB
Video Class (UVC) support.<a href="https://support.google.com/googlecamera/answer/14274129">
Learn more.</a><br /><br /><b>Google Chat</b> now has an
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/redesigned-search-results-page-in-google-chat.html">improved search results page</a>
with highlighted matching text and will only show<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/additional-enhancements-to-search-results-page-in-google-chat.html">
the part of the message that matches the query</a>.<br /><br /><br /><b>Google Cha</b>t also is rolling out the<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/mute-notifications-google-chat.html">
option to mute a conversation or space.</a>
Muted conversations will not appear in Home, will be dropped to the bottom of
your conversation list and will not generate notifications (unless you are @
mentioned).<br /><br />Meta is<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2023/12/default-end-to-end-encryption-on-messenger/">
launching end-to-end encryption by default i</a>n <b>Messenger</b>. They are also<a href="https://www.engadget.com/meta-is-disconnecting-messenger-and-instagram-chat-later-this-month-205956880.html?guccounter=1">
separating Facebook and Instagram Messenger</a>, after years of pushing for those to be connected.<br /><br />Smart Compose
in <b>Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings </b><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/solve-math-equations-easily-with-smart-compose.html">can now do math</a>. Type out an equation, ending with = and you can see the answer as suggested
text. Note that this will take several weeks to roll out.<br /><br />You can
now
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/placeholder-chips-google-docs.html">add a placeholder chip </a>in a<b> Google Doc </b>document. For example, you could have a “Date” chip
that just says Date. You can click it to enter a specific date.<br /><br />It
will
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/new-beta-to-add-granular-control-to-google-forms.html">soon be possible to limit</a>
<b>Google Forms</b> to specific individuals. If you are using a personal
Google Account, with or without a Google Workspace Individual subscription,
you can<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelxksOxTGOm0pRNn3mMRU_7lebUnVB1G3bin5vaWF8JRI1qw/viewform">
sign up for early access here</a>.<br /><br />Ars Technica explains how
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/gmails-ai-powered-spam-detection-is-its-biggest-security-upgrade-in-years/"><b>Gmail’s</b> AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in
years </a>.
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<br />eSignature is<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/12/esignature-generally-available-workspace-individual-subscribers.html">
now generally available </a>(not in beta) for <b>Google Workspace Individual </b>subscribers. This lets
you request a signature on a Google Doc document. The feature is in beta for
some Google Workspace editions. <br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
Annalee Newitz @ New Scientist:
<a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2403999-trust-and-safety-the-most-important-tech-job-youve-never-heard-of/">Trust and safety – the most important tech job you’ve never heard of</a><br />Emily Baker-White @ Forbes:
<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/12/01/who-is-basedbeffjezos-the-leader-of-effective-accelerationism-eacc/?sh=5fe913d67a13">Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement?</a><br />Jonathan Katz @ The Atlantic:
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ1RLcOPmvywfPzJWyac8ltI">Substack Has a Nazi Problem</a><br />And just for fun at the NY Times:
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/20/arts/dance/stair-dancing.html">Dancing With the Stairs: From Vaudeville to TikTok </a><br /><br />That’s all the updates for this week.
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Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-27261992758560274202023-12-08T14:59:00.000-08:002023-12-08T14:59:35.294-08:00Migrate your legacy Blogger account to a Google Account<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7RCkYSPWiIwmGKW0uBP82vs1RswWb0U2vCXQQdE2yO04yWXLgYetr6rw1xlh9PizyM2TzwaQlctZ75KLu89xr0QSR7dRYwa5oR3XUIX6jgbPAnRG-y_mPgF1rdTOlSQdPNmd_-VKPcpJy4zvCifvyi151J0C0mwXGyRqnkKvqV3ZEOhePKChpT2BT_Uo/s1265/Blogger%20migrate%20Google%20cropped.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="1265" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7RCkYSPWiIwmGKW0uBP82vs1RswWb0U2vCXQQdE2yO04yWXLgYetr6rw1xlh9PizyM2TzwaQlctZ75KLu89xr0QSR7dRYwa5oR3XUIX6jgbPAnRG-y_mPgF1rdTOlSQdPNmd_-VKPcpJy4zvCifvyi151J0C0mwXGyRqnkKvqV3ZEOhePKChpT2BT_Uo/s800/Blogger%20migrate%20Google%20cropped.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>
In mid-November 2023, some people received an email from Blogger that their
email was associated with a Blogger account that needed to be linked to a
Google account. Not surprisingly, this has caused confusion.
</p>
<blockquote>
"This email address has a legacy Blogger account associated with it that
hasn’t logged in since 2007. In 60 days it will lose access to the account and
associated content; the data will be permanently deleted unless migrated to
the Google Account system at
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/legacy-claim.g">Legacy migration page</a>."
</blockquote>
<div style="text-align: left;">
If you used Blogger before 2007 with an email you no longer access, you could
also have a legacy account associated with that old email. If that is the
case, you can still try to recover access and migrate that Blogger account.
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Also note, that starting December 1, Google will be deleting Google Accounts
that have been inactive for more than 2 years. So that means that even if you
used a Google Account to sign in to your old Blogger account, it's a good idea
to sign in today to make sure that Google Account is active.
</div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<b>What does this email about legacy Blogger accounts mean? </b>
</h3>
<div>First, a little background. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
Blogger
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2019/08/happy-20th-birthday-blogger.html">was born in 1999</a> from Pyra Labs. It was an independent platform until it was acquired by
Google in 2003.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
Starting in 2006, new Blogger accounts were created with a Google
Account.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
And then in 2007, all Blogger accounts were moved over to the Google Account
system.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
What that means is that if you have signed into Blogger since 2007, your
account is connected to a Google account.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
What that also means is that there may be some Blogger accounts that were
created without a Google account, but that have not been accessed since before
2007 when the migration to a Google Account became mandatory.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
If you received the email from Blogger, that means you have a legacy account
associated with your email address. You should have received a similar email
in 2011.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
Note that the email you received should indicate whether there is a blog
associated with the legacy Blogger account. If no blog is affected, you may
not want to fuss with migrating your old account.
</div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">A note about multi-author blogs</h3>
<div>
In some cases, the old legacy account may have been an author on a
multi-author blog or on a blog with a single author who has multiple
accounts.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
Note that if the legacy Blogger account is deleted, associated blogs will only
be deleted if there is no other active administrator of the blog.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
But any images posted to the blog by that deleted account will be permanently
removed.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
If there is more than one author or admin on one of your blogs, check to make
sure all those authors and admins can sign in to the Blogger account.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
If you <u>can't</u> sign in to Blogger, enter the blogspot URL here: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/forgot.g">www.blogger.com/forgot.g</a>
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
That will send an account recovery email to all blog authors and admins, and
show a hint for those email usernames. Note that a Gmail email address will be
linked to a Google Account.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
If you <u>can</u> sign in to Blogger, you can find the author and admin
information as follows:
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
1. Sign in to <b>Blogger</b> and make sure you are viewing the correct blog if
you have more than one.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>2. On the left menu, click <b>Settings</b></div>
<div>
<b><br /></b>
</div>
<div>3. On the Settings page, scroll down to <b>Permissions</b></div>
<div>
<b><br /></b>
</div>
<div>
4. Click <b>Blog Admins and Authors</b> to view the list, including email
addresses
</div>
<div>
<b><br /></b>
</div>
<div>
5. Make sure all the listed admins and authors can still access the
blog.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
If you only see the option "Remove yourself from this blog", that means you
are signed in as an Author, not an Admin.
</div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<b>Why is migration to a Google Account required? </b>
</h3>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBL0UacHoulGvW0EcDRWdEEOT6isq560jqfYeeqQgFsJCLqfhyolIYtIfUqtRbaJ9KGeJCBhVoqPS97BaMksc1F9jL44pJtpOV8fSqwD-clth1JwSoHqQs0ZJ8YaKs7EVvTLmgbOCyCAyyQh2osPGvpBMSVt0WI-ILHGeCUt3bjQjJfqkDPEvzWsCFJfM/s1671/Old-Blogger-Important-Note-Legacy-Accounts-crop.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Screenshot of Blogger Buzz article An Important Note About Legacy Accounts" border="0" data-original-height="1153" data-original-width="1671" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBL0UacHoulGvW0EcDRWdEEOT6isq560jqfYeeqQgFsJCLqfhyolIYtIfUqtRbaJ9KGeJCBhVoqPS97BaMksc1F9jL44pJtpOV8fSqwD-clth1JwSoHqQs0ZJ8YaKs7EVvTLmgbOCyCAyyQh2osPGvpBMSVt0WI-ILHGeCUt3bjQjJfqkDPEvzWsCFJfM/s600/Old-Blogger-Important-Note-Legacy-Accounts-crop.png" width="640" /></a>
</div>
<br />
<div><br /></div>
<div>
Way back in April 2011,<a href="https://blogger.googleblog.com/2011/04/important-note-about-legacy-accounts.html">
Blogger announced</a>
that they were planning to discontinue support for migration to a Google
account. At the time, they explained:
</div>
<blockquote>
There was a time early on in Blogger’s life where we had our own, custom
account system for handling login authentication. Starting in 2006 all new
Blogger accounts were created using the official Google accounts system, and
then in 2007 we started the process of moving all of our legacy users over to
the Google accounts system. Now, four years later, we’re finally at the home
stretch of the transition. For a number of technical and operational reasons,
we’ve decided to finally end our support for migrating legacy accounts and
blogs after May 30th, 2012. So if you have a Blogger account and haven’t
logged in since 2007, you will lose access to the account and associated
content permanently unless you update to the Google Account system before May
30th, 2012. <br />
<div></div>
</blockquote>
<div>
May 30, 2012 has long come and gone. But, for whatever reason, Blogger kept
the migration option open.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
Now, more than a decade later, it is truly the last chance to migrate legacy
accounts.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
It's likely the reasons are the same "technical and operational
reasons".
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
And if this affected "a tiny fraction of users" in 2011, it's likely even
fewer accounts today.
</div>
<div><h3>How do you migrate your Blogger account to a Google Account?</h3></div>
<div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_3b9qv6H_LPj5zrU-kGXGcwwsn5spMuW5rx6vFAqiWb48pxbCXZoIluI8FwcB9vfZglnHImAcLxrn2KQGu3eTlTr0pXtX3w1SPNytPU9d1SfCnUPnkRucMBEegc6KQOaBfNpL5ZZHoAVnmKIYsvwvujSNwbZYvM1RyXIfkSoIIqr_DU7cazjxC82Q8Do/s1265/Blogger%20migrate%20Google%20cropped.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Screenshot of the Get Started With The New Blogger legacy migration page" border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="1265" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_3b9qv6H_LPj5zrU-kGXGcwwsn5spMuW5rx6vFAqiWb48pxbCXZoIluI8FwcB9vfZglnHImAcLxrn2KQGu3eTlTr0pXtX3w1SPNytPU9d1SfCnUPnkRucMBEegc6KQOaBfNpL5ZZHoAVnmKIYsvwvujSNwbZYvM1RyXIfkSoIIqr_DU7cazjxC82Q8Do/w400-h225/Blogger%20migrate%20Google%20cropped.png" width="400" /></a>
</div>
If you have an affected account, you can migrate your blog as follows:
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
1. Optional: Start the process in an Incognito or Private Browsing window where you are not signed in to your Google account.</div><div><br /></div><div>That should make it less likely that you inadvertently link Blogger to the wrong signed-in account. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
2. Open the <b>Blogger Legacy Claim page</b> at <a href="https://www.blogger.com/legacy-claim.g">www.blogger.com/legacy-claim.g</a>
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>3. Enter <b>your old Blogger username and password</b></div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>If you use the "Forgot your password" link on the Blogger Legacy Claim page, you should have the option to try password recovery for the legacy account. </div><div><br /></div><div>You will need to know the username of the old Blogger account, which may or may not be your email address.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>4. Read and <b>accept the Terms of Service</b></div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>5. Click <b>Continue</b></div>
<div>
<b><br /></b>
</div>
<div>6. Select your Google Account. You should be able to either create a new Google Account or select an existing account.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's not clear if the legacy Blogger account can be migrated to a Google Account that currently has an active Blogger account. You may need to use a different Google Account for this process. </div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
7. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the migration process.
</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>
This must be completed before the 60 days are up, so some time in mid
January.
</div><div><br /></div><div>8. If you are not redirected to Blogger, you can sign in to <b>www.blogger.com</b> to access your Blogger account. You may be prompted to set up a profile, or you can update your profile at <a href="https://www.blogger.com/edit-profile.g">www.blogger.com/edit-profile.g</a> (<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2019/03/customize-your-blogger-profile.html">How to customize your Blogger profile</a>).</div>
Peggy Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18360669414917755737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212644334016245861.post-90870041248904996212023-12-02T06:28:00.000-08:002024-02-04T22:40:41.695-08:00Creator Weekly: YouTube Analytics, TinyLetter, Tumblr Posts+, 2023 Roundups<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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As the year winds down, it’s time to reflect on 2023 and look forward to
the coming year. Spotify and YouTube Music have sent out their yearly
recap. OnEBoard is having its
<a href="https://news.oneboard.network/2023/11/oneboard-commitment-2024.html">2024 Commitment live stream </a>on Sunday (join the live chat!). And updates are winding down, at least a
little.
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
That said, there is news for video creators, newsletter writers and more
this week. Read on!
</div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h3>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
YouTube Partners need to be sure they have submitted US Tax
Information before December 10 to claim tax treaty benefits for 2023.
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/240055108?hl=en">More info.</a>
</li>
<li>
Personalized year-end recaps from YouTube Music and Spotify are here,
for listeners and artists.
</li>
<li>
YouTube has updated the Community Post editor in the mobile app.
</li>
<li>
YouTube Analytics now shows more information about paid Members
including total members, recurring memberships, where members joined
and why they left.
</li>
<li>
Google Search now understands structured data for organizations,
forums and profiles.
</li>
<li>
Mailchimp is shutting down the TinyLetter simple newsletter platform.
</li>
<li>Tumblr is discontinuing Post+ subscriptions, but keeping Tips.</li>
<li>
Learn about Generative AI with a new hands-on free course from Google
Cloud.
</li>
<li>
Google Slides lets you record a presentation, including a video of you
speaking. Available to Google Workspace editions only.
</li>
<li>
Did you know the Google Drive app has a scanner feature? It’s been
improved for both the Android and iOS app,
</li>
<li>
To celebrate 1 billion RCS users (and more to come with Apple adopting
“chat”), Google Messages is getting expressive new features including
photomoji (from your own photos) and animated screen effects if you
type one of the 15+ trigger phrases ( I miss the ponystream).
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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Read on for details and additional updates!
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">2023 Recaps</h2>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b>YouTube Music</b>’s
<a href="https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/explore-your-2023-recap-on-youtube-music/">2023 Recap for listeners gets personal</a>. You get an “album cover” based on your top track and moods, a new
feature that matches your mood to your top songs, and shareable cards with
your top songs for each season that you can customize with your own images
from Google Photos. The Recap page is available in the YouTube Music or
YouTube mobile app.
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b>Spotify’s 2023 Wrapped</b>
<a href="http://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-11-29/me-in-2023-streaming-habits-wrapped">matches your listening habits </a>to one of<a href="https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-11-29/me-in-2023-streaming-habits-wrapped/">
12 characters </a>(Vampire? Collector? Cyclops?), puts you in Sound Town (matches you to a
city), and you’ll get your top genres and artists (including a special
message from one of your top artists). You can find your Wrapped in the
Spotify mobile app or at Spotify.com/Wrapped on the web.
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
The <b>Spotify 2023 Artist Wrapped</b> lets artists (with at least 3
listeners) and songwriters see highlights with shareable cards.
<a href="https://artists.spotify.com/blog/2023-wrapped-is-here">Spotify notes </a>that the deadline has passed for recording a message to your fans, so
remember to keep an eye out for an announcement next year so you don’t
miss that opportunity.
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b>Spotify</b> also has a
<a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/resources/news/wrapped-podcasters-2023">guide for podcasters</a>
on how to use the highlights in 2023 <b>Wrapped for Podcasters </b>as a
“blueprint for growth” and engage with your fans.
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b>MyFlickrYear</b> 2023
<a href="https://blog.flickr.net/en/2023/11/30/were-getting-ready-for-myflickryear-2023/">will be available in the first week of January</a>
to all who posted at least one photo to Flickr in 2023. It will include
your most popular photo of the year, and stats on faves, comments and
views.
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b>Flickr</b> has also o<a href="https://blog.flickr.net/en/2023/12/01/get-ready-for-your-best-shot-2023/">pened their Best Shot 2023 photo contes</a>t to entries. The deadline for submission is January 4, 2024.
</div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">Non-personalized 2023 roundups</h4>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
<a href="https://blog.google/products/google-play/google-play-best-apps-games-2023/">The best <b>Google Play</b> apps and games of 2023</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://blog.google/products/google-tv/a-recap-of-2023s-top-entertainment-on-google-tv/">A recap of 2023’s top entertainment on <b>Google TV</b></a>
</li>
<li>
<b>Spotify</b>
<a href="https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-11-29/wrapped-top-songs-worldwide-map/">Wrapped Mapped: Top Songs Streamed Around the World</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-11-29/music-editorial-playlists-genres-trends/">How <b>Spotify’s</b> Playlists Captured the Biggest Music Trends of
2023</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-11-29/trends-2023-as-told-by-podcasts/">The Trends of 2023 as Told by <b>Spotify</b> Podcasts</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/11/apple-unveils-app-store-award-winners-the-best-apps-and-games-of-2023/"><b>Apple</b> unveils <b>App Store </b>Award winners, the best apps
and games of 2023</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/11/apple-unveils-the-top-books-of-2023-and-a-new-year-in-review-experience/"><b>Apple</b> unveils the top books of 2023 and a new Year in Review
experience</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/11/apple-shares-the-most-popular-podcasts-of-2023/"><b>Apple</b> shares the most popular podcasts of 2023</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/11/taylor-swift-is-apple-musics-artist-of-the-year-for-2023/">Taylor Swift is <b>Apple Music</b>’s Artist of the Year for 2023</a>
</li>
<li>
<b>Twitch</b> is<a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/11/30/the-2023-game-awards-is-live-on-twitch-december-7th/">
hosting the 2023 Game Awards </a>on December 7th.
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">To Play With</h2>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/google-arts-culture-new-music-ai-experiment/">Play with <b>Google Art & Culture’s Instrument Playground</b></a><b> t</b>o create (short) music with instruments from around the world.
It uses the Music LM AI tool to create a clip from your selected
instrument and mood which you can then use to create your own music and
sounds.
</div>
<img height="133" src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/XaBpuIroQEeNj6ArEScKLHCufg7mj7SkWqkG7iG-fU1tOe8JbhAxbS-jjPiyenaY2PRXvj9i9YQmjSYvkZ9ddOK4gPjiaMCQykc04bjziZ6zkGz5hp-hLw4mcOPUM1n_48mAynqstYNqveeeHAR0tjU=w133-h133" width="133" /></span>
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<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; vertical-align: baseline;">There are new fun emoji combinations in <b>Emoji Kitchen</b>, available at
<a href="https://emojikitchen.dev/">emojikitchen.dev</a> or in Google Search
by searching for Emoji Kitchen.<br /></span>
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</h2>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Twitch</b> is celebrating December Drops Fest between December 7th and
17th. Get all the details about special game rewards and drops
<a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/11/30/it-s-winter-drops-fest/">here</a>.</span>
<p></p>
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<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>X</b> now lets you embed your<b> X</b> videos on your own website
<a href="https://twitter.com/k_gould/status/1729579228444713119">as a stand-alone video,</a>
rather than as a post. You can do that by entering the link to the post with
the video at
<a href="https://publish.twitter.com/#">https://publish.twitter.com/#</a>
and select the “Embedded Video” option. (For some reason that page has
Twitter branding still)<br /><br /><b>YouTube</b> has improved the product
drops feature to allow creators to insert products for sale in Live Control
Room and insert them “on the fly” without a set date and time. Learn more
from
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWTXxT_3GQ4">Creator Insider.</a><br /><br /><b>YouTube</b> has updated the<b> Community Post </b>creation
flow in the YouTube mobile app. It’s simplified and lets you easily select
images from your device to share. Learn more from
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWTXxT_3GQ4">Creator Insider.</a><br /><br />Finally,<b> YouTube Analytics</b> now has a total Members card
(if you have memberships on your channel), and lets you dig down to see the
numbers for recurrent memberships, where members joined from and
cancellation reasons. Learn more from
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWTXxT_3GQ4">Creator Insider.</a><br /></span>
</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Music and Podcasting</span>
</h2>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>TikTok</b> has
<a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/introducing-the-artist-account-to-boost-discoverability-on-tiktok-us">launched Artist Accounts</a>
for every artist and musician with released music. The account comes with a
profile artist tag, highlight new releases, a music tab, pin a preferred post
to the top of the discovery page, and a highlighted Behind the Song story.<br /></span>
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<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">
Web Publishers and Search</span>
</h2>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Mailchimp</b> is
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23981363/mailchimp-shutting-down-tinyletter">shutting down <b>TinyLetter</b>, </a>its free service for publishing simple email newsletters. You can export your
data before February 29, 2024. And you are encouraged to use Mailchimp instead
(which you may need to pay for). <br /><br /><b>Tumblr</b> is shutting down
Posts+ in January 2024. Post+ let creators offer a paid subscription to their
content. Post+-exclusive posts will be set to private, and creators can choose
whether to make the public. Tipping will still be available.
<br /><br />Google now supports
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/11/discussion-and-profile-markup">profile page and discussion forum structured data</a>
for use in Google Search. Profile page markup can let
<b>Google Search</b> identify information like the name, social handles,
profile photo, follower count and popularity of their content. Forum markup
for forum-style sites where “people collectively share first-hand
perspectives,” and may allow the content to appear in Search’s Perspectives
and “discussions and forums” sections.<br /><br /><b>Google Search</b> also
<a href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/11/introducing-organization-markup">now supports Organization structured data,</a>
including name, address and contact information. You can check your markup
using
<a href="https://search.google.com/test/rich-results">Google’s Rich Results Test.</a><br /></span>
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<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Media</span>
</h2>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Media Today reports that Elon Musk effectively said he
<a href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/musk-advertisers-go-f-yourself-boycott-blackmail/701088/">doesn’t care what advertisers think</a> (but more crudely) of<b> X</b>, while also saying he feels like he is
being “blackmailed” by the advertisers “boycott” of the platform. It doesn’t
look to me like a boycott, since the advertisers aren’t protesting or
punishing Musk. They are just choosing to leave as a business decision. I
can’t find the post now, but someone wrote that big advertisers never had a
great return on their ad spending on the old Twitter, but it was considered
worthwhile because the ads would be seen by journalists, politicians and
celebrities. Now many of those people have left the platform, and so
advertising is being reassessed.</span>
<p></p>
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<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><b>Threads</b> has made
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C0R7KSuvdZW">keyword search available everywhere</a>. They are testing a keyword button (#) in the post composer, but there’s
no visible hashtag. It’s meant to be used to tag keywords inline, rather
than have a bunch of hashtags appended on to the post. Search will find both
tagged and untagged keywords. The results are in algorithmic order, and
Instagram and Threads CEO
<a href="https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C0SpXQnJyKW">Adam Mosseri says </a>that chronological results would be “a substantial safety loophole.” My
thought is that this probably makes the search useless for finding news or
timely discussions.<br /><br /><b>Pinterest</b> is
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/29/pinterest-begins-testing-a-body-type-ranges-tool-to-make-searches-more-inclusive/">testing a new tool </a>that lets you filter searches for women's fashion and wedding ideas by body
types. This technology was
<a href="https://newsroom.pinterest.com/news/pinterest-announces-industry-first-body-type-technology/">announced back in September.</a><br /><br /><b>Reddit</b> has
<a href="https://www.redditinc.com/blog/evolving-the-reddit-brand-a-more-accessible-bespoke-typography-new-conversation-bubbles-and-colors-and-a-new-snoo-logo-now-with-opposable-thumbs">updated their brand look</a>
with new “bespoke” typefaces and a new 3D form of its mascot Snoo.<br /></span>
</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">More AI Updates</span>
</h2>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Google Cloud </b>is<a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/12-days-of-no-cost-generative-ai-training/">
offering a free course on generative AI f</a>or the month of December with hands on training and the opportunity to earn
badges.<br /><br /><b>Pika Labs</b>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD12M0zaCf8">released Pika 1.0</a>,
an “idea to video” platform. You can join the waitlist at
<a href="https://pika.art/login">pika.art/login</a> <br /><br /><b>Microsoft Copilot </b>is
<a href="https://blogs.bing.com/search/december-2023/Microsoft-Copilot-is-now-generally-available">out of preview</a>
and generally available. You can try it at
<a href="https://copilot.microsoft.com">copilot.microsoft.com</a></span>
<p></p>
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<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Meta</b> launched <b>Audiobox</b>, a
<a href="https://ai.meta.com/blog/audiobox-generating-audio-voice-natural-language-prompts/">tool to convert text to sound, </a>including people speaking (set the sound with a description like “man
speaking in a cathedral”) and nature sounds. Plus<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2023/11/decade-of-advancing-ai-through-open-research/">
there are updates</a>
for translation and 3D vision.<br /><br /><b>WordPress</b>
<a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/11/30/business-name-generator-2/">updated their free Business Name Generator tool </a>with the “power of AI”. <br /><br /><b>Amazon</b> announced their chatbot
“<b>Q”</b>, which can be tailored to a business’s company data. There are
<a href="https://www.platformer.news/p/amazons-q-has-severe-hallucinations">apparently some concerns about security and privacy </a>(although Amazon is downplaying that).<br /></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Communication and Collaboration</span>
</h2>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Evernote</b> is<a href="https://evernote.com/blog/evernote-free-note-limits">
limiting free users to 50 note</a>s and one notebook. If you have more than that, you can export and delete
some notes to remain on the free tier or start a paid subscription.<br /><br /><b>Google Message</b>s has
<a href="https://blog.google/products/android/7-new-messages-features/">new fun feature</a>s rolling out to
<a href="https://support.google.com/messages/answer/9131090">Messages beta</a>, including:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Profiles: edit your Google Profile linked to your phone number. Your
profile information will show even if someone doesn’t have your phone
number in their contacts.</span>
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Photomoji: AI turns an object in one of your photos into an emoji. Your
friends in group chats can use them too.</span>
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Voice Moods: add background and emoji theme to your voice
messages.</span>
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Reaction Effects: animated emoji reactions to individual messages</span>
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Animated Emoji: Post an emoji and it gets animated.</span>
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Screen Effects: more than 15 prompt words (“it’s snowing”, “I love
you”) trigger full screen animations. Still no /ponystream :(.</span>
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Customize the bubble and background color of a chat.</span>
</li>
</ul>
<b>Google Slides </b><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/create-shareable-video-presentations-in-google-slides.html">has a new recording feature</a>
that lets you record a video of your presentation, optionally showing you
speaking.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">You can only record in the Chrome browser on desktop. The recording can
be viewed in other browsers.</span>
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">View the recording in Drive (desktop or mobile app) or in Slides
(desktop only).</span>
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Recordings are stored in Drive in a “Slides recordings” folder</span>
</li>
<li>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus,
Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus,
Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus and Education Plus. Not available
to personal Google Accounts.</span>
</li>
</ul>
<br />The <b>Google Drive </b>app on Android devices is getting improvements
to its built-in document scanner, including automatic capture, scanner button,
and option to import from your camera roll. The iOS Drive app is also getting
basic scanning and organization features. Document title suggestions are only
available in the US. To access the scanner, open the Drive app, then tap the
“+” and select Scan or tap the camera icon.</span>
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<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Google Drive </b>for desktop is
<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/introducing-new-homepage-view-in-google-drive.html">getting a new design,</a>
with a Homepage that shows file and folder suggestions (suggested based on a
“variety of signals”) and filter chips to help you quickly narrow down
search results by people, type, modified date or location. You can opt out
by clicking “Change to My Drive” on the announcement banner inside Drive.<br /><br />The<b>
Google Chat </b>app is<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/new-mobile-experience-for-google-chat.html">
getting an update with new navigation</a>
(to match the updated desktop navigation). The bottom menu will let you
switch between Home, Direct Messages, Spaces and mentions. And the iOS Chat
app is<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/expanding-message-bubbles-in-chat-to-ios.html">
finally getting the “bubbles” look</a>
that rolled out to desktop and Android a few months ago.<br /><br /><b>Google Sheets </b>has<a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/the-next-evolution-of-automated-data-in-google-sheets.html">
enhanced smart fill for Workspace accounts with Duet AI </a>where it uses both the content and sentiment to suggest additional data
(for example star ratings).<br /></span>
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</h2>
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">From 404 Media:
<a href="https://www.404media.co/devternity-fake-speakers-eduard-sizovs/">Tech Conference Collapses After Organizer Admits to Making Fake
‘Auto-Generated’ Female Speaker</a></span>
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Happy Thanksgiving weekend! I am thankful for so much, including my readers
here. <br /><br />This week is a bit light on updates, probably because of the
holiday, but even so there’s news for YouTubers, music artists, website owners,
and, of course, generative AI users.<br /><br /><a
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<li>Reminder: Google will start deleting inactive accounts in December.</li>
<li>
YouTube Studio now separates long form videos from Shorts on the Create tab.
</li>
<li>Google’s Bard AI can better understand YouTube videos.</li>
<li>
Google Meet can detect when you raise your actual hand to raise your virtual
hand.
</li>
<li>
Spotify has updated their policies to (hopefully) improve royalties for
legit artists.
</li>
<li>
OpenAI has been through a lot this week, ending up with the original CEO,
but a new board.
</li>
</ul>
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Who has had the longest
cooking show?
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxJcZRICY93Uun6f9Dc2erZkmmbKO3ZUqI"
>Take the quiz.</a
><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Celebrating Native American Heritage Month</h2>
Google:
<a
href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/diversity/native-american-heritage-month-google-2023/"
>7 ways to celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Google</a
><br /><br />Flickr:
<a
href="https://blog.flickr.net/en/2023/11/21/honoring-tradition-and-culture-celebrating-native-american-heritage-month/"
>Honoring Tradition and Culture: Celebrating Native American Heritage Month
</a>
<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
Google Will Start Deleting Active Accounts in December
</h2>
Back in May,
<a
href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/05/creator-weekly-google-inactive-account.html"
>Google announced they would start deleting inactive accounts</a
>
in December. And now the time has come.<br /><br />If there is an account you
haven’t signed into for at least 2 years, now is the time to do that.
<div>
<br />Google has sent email notices for accounts slated for deletion, but that
is only helpful if you are monitoring that email. So I recommend spending some
time thinking about any old accounts you might have.
<div>
<br />Exceptions, that make an account “active” even if you haven’t signed
in.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Purchase of a Google product, app or subscription that is current.
</li>
<li>Purchase of digital content like a book or movie.</li>
<li>A gift card with a monetary balance in your account.</li>
<li>
Your account uses Family Link to manage an active child’s account.
</li>
<li>
Your account owns a published app or game with financial transactions
associated with it.
</li>
<li>
According to
<a
href="https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/"
>the original announcement,</a
>
Google “does not have plans to delete accounts with YouTube videos at
this time”.
</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7682439"
>How to recover your Google Account.</a
><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Bard Understands YouTube Videos</h2>
<b>Bard</b>, Google’s AI chatbot,<a href="https://bard.google.com/updates">
now has better understanding </a
>of the content in YouTube videos. <br /><br />You’ll need to enable the
YouTube extension in Bard (<a href="https://bard.google.com/extensions"
>bard.google.com/extensions</a
>).<br /><br />Then do a search for video content. Once the results load,
you can ask about specific content in the videos provided in the first
response. <br /><br />The example provided by Google: “For example, if
you’re looking for videos on how to make olive oil cake, you can now also
ask how many eggs the recipe in the first video requires.”<br /><br />You
can access Bard at <a href="https://bard.google.com">bard.google.com</a
><br />Learn
<a
href="https://blog.google/products/bard/google-bard-new-features-update-sept-2023/"
>more about Bard Extensions.</a
><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Video Creator Updates</h2>
Your YouTube channel content in <b>YouTube Studio</b> (studio.youtube.com
> Content) now separates <b>Shorts</b> from long for Videos, making your
content easier to manage. (This is great!) <br /><br /><b>Twitch</b> is
<a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/11/21/together-for-good/"
>organizing #TogetherForGood</a
>, encouraging all streamers to host a charity stream between November 28
(“Giving Tuesday”) and December 3. Affiliates and Partners can set it up so
members of their community who donate are eligible for a
“soon-to-be-revealed, exclusive chat badge.”<br /><br /><a
href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23973209/now-everyone-can-download-instagram-reels-from-public-accounts"
>Now anyone can download</a
>
your <b>Instagram</b> <b>Reels</b> unless you<a
href="https://help.instagram.com/520831036611383/?helpref=uf_share"
>
disable that option (it’s on by default if you are over 18).</a
>
The downloaded Reel will be watermarked with the Instagram logo and the
uploader’s Instagram handle.<br /><br /><b>TikTok</b> launched<a
href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/mobile-effect-editor"
>
a new mobile effects editor,</a
>
which lets creators make interaction-based special effects on their mobile
device.<br /><br /><b>TikTok</b> lets you<a
href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/tiktok-adds-new-conversational-ui-help-guide-its-algorithms/700554/"
>
customize your “For You” feed </a
>by conversationally entering what you would like to see more or less of.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Music and Podcasting</h2>
<b>Spotify</b> is
<a href="https://artists.spotify.com/blog/modernizing-our-royalty-system"
>updating its royalties policies </a
>to reduce the impact of “artificial streaming” and other factors on royalty
payments.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Along with improved artificial streaming detection technology, they will
begin “charging labels and distributors per track when flagrant
artificial streaming is detected on their content.”
</li>
<li>
Tracks will have to have at least 1000 streams in the previous year to
generate recorded royalties. This will stop tiny amounts being accrued
by tracks that will never receive a payout, and let that money be
distributed to tracks that are listened-to.
</li>
<li>
“Noise” (white noise, nature sounds, etc) tracks will have to be at
least 2 minutes long to earn royalties. That prevents the system from
being gamed by creating multiple short tracks.
</li>
</ul>
Save songs you hear on <b>TikTok</b> to your <b>Spotify</b> Liked Songs
playlist
<a
href="https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-11-14/tik-tok-integration-save-to-spotify-liked-songs/"
>without switching apps</a
>. This is available to Spotify users in the US and UK (Free or Premium).<br />
Web Publishers and Search<br /><br /><b>Google</b> is
<a
href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/11/sc-crawl-limiter-byebye"
>deprecating the Crawl Rate Limiter Tool </a
>in <b>Search Console </b>on January 8. They are also setting the minimum
crawling speed to a lower rate “comparable to the old crawl rate limits”.
<div>
<br /><b>WordPress</b>.com launched staging sites in May as a way to test
new themes and plugins. You can now
<a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/11/21/staging-site-sync/"
>sync your staging site with your live site.</a
>
This is limited to Business or Commerce sites.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Photos on the Web</h2>
<b>Flickr</b> has<a
href="https://blog.flickr.net/en/2023/11/21/rolling-out-a-new-and-improved-stats-experience/"
>
launched improved stats for Flickr Pro accounts</a
>. They have expanded the data shown to 36 weeks (9 months), you can
download your stats as a CSV file (which can be imported into a
spreadsheet), and the stats page has been redesigned.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2>
<a
href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-shares-insights-engagement-collaborative-articles/700353/"
>According to Social Media Today</a
>, <b>LinkedIn</b> is touting their Collaborative Articles as its
“fastest-growing traffic driver”. LinkedIn posts an AI-generated prompt,
then calls on users it thinks are “experts” to write about that topic.
Frequent contributors get a special badge. And apparently people are
reading those posts.<br /><br /><b>X</b> will be
<a
href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-is-bringing-post-headlines-back-to-link-previews-in-stream/700641/"
>adding back web page titles to the image </a
>on shared URL cards. <br /><br />There are more reports that <b>X</b> at
least occasionally
<a
href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-refutes-newsguard-report-which-claims-that-its-displaying-ads-alongside-h/700639/"
>displays ads next to problematic content </a
>(racism, antisemitism, misinformation, dangerous conspiracy theories).
Amidst those reports (and X’s angry rebuttals), X has “<a
href="https://digiday.com/marketing/brand-safety-concerns-mount-as-x-formerly-twitter-pulls-out-of-mrc-audit/"
>opted out of independent auditing</a
>
by Ernst & Young for its Media Rating Council (MRC) brand safety
credentials.” Many big advertisers (Apple, IBM, Disney, and more),
<a
href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23965928/apple-x-ads-elon-musk-antisemitic-posts"
>have stopped advertising</a
>
on X, and it doesn’t seem like anything is being done to try to bring them
back.<br /><br /><b>Mastodon</b> is
<a
href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/improving-the-quality-of-conversations-on-mastodon/"
>testing reminders when interacting with a stranger or an old post </a
>in the Mastodon for Android app as an attempt to “curb unnecessary
negativity”.<br /><br /><b>Bluesky</b> is about to l<a
href="https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3ked2oybdjf2k"
>aunch a public web interface</a
>. This will let people view posts without being logged into an account.
While they have always made clear that posts are public, this is going to
increase post visibility, for better or worse. There’s more information in
the
<a href="https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq"
>Bluesky User FAQ.</a
><br /><br /><b>Threads</b>
<a
href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/12/23957591/threads-facebook-instagram-suggested-posts-opt-out"
>has a new toggle</a
>
that prevents posts from appearing on <b>Facebook</b> and
<b>Instagram</b>. <br /><br />It’s also<a
href="https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/Czmfy17SDfl"
>
now possible to delete</a
>
your <b>Threads</b> without deleting your
<b>Instagram</b> account.<br /><br />On <b>Instagram</b
><a
href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/instagram-rolls-out-option-share-reels-feed-posts-with-close-friends/699780/"
>
you can set the audience</a
>
of your Post or Reel to just your Close Friends.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates</h2>
<b>OpenAI </b>has been going through some interesting times. In the past
week, their CEO Sam Altman was fired by their non-profit board, then had
an interim CEO, who was replaced by former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear.
Microsoft announced Altman would head up a new AI division, and then
Altman was reinstated as OpenAI CEO with a new board. The head of the new
board? Bret Taylor, who previously was the chairman of Twitter, leading
the board as it forced Musk to complete the purchase of the platform.
</div>
<div>
<br />Here are some of the articles I’ve been reading to try to
make sense of the weirdness of it all.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Sarah Jackson @ Business Insider (from January 2023):
<a
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-openai-executives-are-shocked-by-ai-chatbot-popularity-2023-1"
>OpenAI Execs Say They're Shocked by ChatGPT's Popularity</a
>
</li>
<li>
Jason Koebler @ 404 Media:
<a
href="https://www.404media.co/new-openai-ceo-emmett-shear-was-minor-character-in-hpmor-harry-potter-ai-fanfic/"
>New OpenAI CEO Was a Character in a Harry Potter Fanfic That's
Wildly Popular With Effective Altruists</a
>
(about Shear, not Altman)
</li>
<li>
Kevin Roose @ NY Times:
<a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/technology/sam-altman-open-ai.html"
>What We Know About Sam Altman’s Ouster From OpenAI</a
>
</li>
<li>
Ryan Broderick @ Garbage Day:
<a href="https://www.garbageday.email/p/you-are-tearing-me-apart-eacc"
>You are tearing me apart, e/acc!
</a>
And This Was The Week:
<a
href="https://thatwastheweek.substack.com/p/the-openai-debacle-e-acc-versus-e"
>The OpenAI Debacle - e /acc versus e /a </a
>( on Silicon Valley’s ideological battles)
</li>
<li>
Katie Notopoulos @ Business Insider:
<a
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-was-sam-altman-fired-openai-was-it-over-vibes-2023-11?r=US&IR=T"
>Wait, was Sam Altman fired over ... vibes?</a
>
</li>
<li>
Karen Hao & Charlie Warzel @ The Atlantic:
<a
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-chaos/676050/"
>How ChatGPT Fractured OpenAI</a
>
</li>
<li>
Casey Newton @ Platformer:
<a href="https://www.platformer.news/p/openais-alignment-problem"
>OpenAI's alignment problem</a
>
</li>
<li>
Nilay Patel & Alex Heath @ The Verge:
<a
href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23967223/sam-altman-returns-ceo-open-ai"
>Sam Altman returns as CEO OpenAI</a
>
</li>
<li>
NYU Professor and Chief AI Scientist at Meta Yann LeCun: “<a
href="https://www.threads.net/@yannlecun/post/C0CmMpov6gf"
>Please ignore the deluge of nonsense about Q*”</a
>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
<b>Google Meet</b> can now
<a
href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/google-meet-hand-raise-gesture-detection.html"
>detect when you raise your actual hand</a
>
to raise your virtual hand. This is web only and is off by default (enable
it by going to More (3 dot icon) > Reactions > Hand Raise Gesture).
This is rolling out to most Google Workspace users, including Google
Workspace Individual.<br /><br />The updated <b>Google Drive </b>Android
app has an
<a href="https://9to5google.com/2023/11/21/google-drive-scanner-redesign/"
>updated and improved interface </a
>to use your camera as a scanner. <br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
Angie Wang @ New Yorker:
<a
href="https://www.newyorker.com/humor/sketchbook/is-my-toddler-a-stochastic-parrot"
>Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot? </a
><br /><br />Google has
<a
href="https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-web-store-redesign/"
>launched a fully updated Chrome Web Store</a
>
with a new design, new extension categories, and improved navigation.
Check it out at
<a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com">chromewebstore.google.com</a>
<br /><br />Lauren Goode @ Wired:
<a
href="https://www.wired.com/story/del-harvey-twitter-trust-and-safety-breaks-her-silence/"
>Del Harvey Twitter’s former head of Trust and Safety “Finally Breaks
her Silence”</a
><br /><br />That’s all the updates for this week.
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In the spirit of this week’s Thanksgiving holiday, I want to express my deep
thanks for reading my newsletter and posts and watching my videos. I am truly
grateful! <br /><br />This week is all about generative AI, with new music
creation tools and labeling requirements on YouTube, Microsoft Copilot widely
available, generative AI features being added everywhere and a new statement
from Google on their AI principles . <br /><br />Plus there are updates for
YouTube, AdSense, Google Photos, Google Search, Instagram, Twitch, Bing, Vimeo
and more.<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Top news and updates this week</h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
YouTube will be implementing a new requirement to label realistic looking
synthetic AI content.
</li>
<li>
YouTube and Google DeepMind have created new AI music generation tools.
</li>
<li>Instagram has updated their Reels editor with new features.</li>
<li>
There is an updated ad review center for AdSense, AdMob and Google Ad
Manager.
</li>
<li>
There was a problem with AdSense GDPR messaging that could affect your
earnings.
</li>
<li>
Google Search Labs lets you add publicly visible Notes to search results
(and on your new Google Profile).
</li>
<li>You can “Follow” a particular search in the Google app.</li>
<li>
If you offer courses from your own website add new course info structured
data to appear in Google Search.
</li>
<li>
Google Search Console has a new robots.txt report, and the old robots.txt
testing tool is being deprecated.
</li>
<li>Google Photos has new AI-powered organization for your photo gallery.</li>
<li>
Bing Chat AI is now Microsoft Copilot. Try it at
<a href="https://copilot.microsoft.com/">copilot.microsoft.com</a>.
</li>
<li>
Starred conversations in Google Chat let you easily save important messages.
</li>
</ul>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;">My New Tips and Tutorials</h3>
Configure your <b>YouTube</b> channel’s new “<b>For You”</b> section to help
viewers find more of your content to watch:
<a href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/configure-youtubes-new-for-you.html"
>blog post</a
>, <a href="https://youtu.be/4juJkjZUQXk">Short</a><br /><br /><b>YouTube</b>
has relaxed the advertiser-friendly Adult Content guidelines for breastfeeding
and sensual dancing:
<a
href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/11/youtube-advertiser-friendly-guidelines.html"
>blog post</a
><br /><br />Find out what the heck happened to your <b>YouTube</b> channel’s
<b>About</b> tab: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L8eFcNcN34M">Short</a
><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
YouTube requires labeling of some AI-Generated Content
</h2>
<b>YouTube</b> announced new policies around the disclosure and labeling of
AI-generated content.<br /><br />Creators will be required to label realistic
looking (or sounding) altered or synthetic content. That isn’t limited to
content created with AI tools, but that will often be the case. YouTube will add
a notice in the description, and for sensitive topics there may be a notice in
the video player itself. <br /><br />A similar label will appear on videos
created with YouTube’s generative AI tools.<br /><br />Creators who don’t label
their synthetic realistic-seeming content, especially for sensitive topics (such
as elections or health topics), may have their videos removed and could be
suspended from the YouTube Partner Program. <br /><br />The privacy complaint
process will also be updated to be able to request removal of AI-generated or
otherwise synthetic content that appears to be a real person.<br /><br />Similarly,
YouTube’s music partners will be able to request removal of videos that mimics a
music artist’s unique singing voice.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">
YouTube and DeepMind create AI music generation tools
</h2>
<b>DeepMind</b> is Google’s AI research and development lab. They developed
Lyria, an
<a
href="https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/transforming-the-future-of-music-creation/"
>advanced AI music generation model.</a
><br /><br />They partnered with <b>YouTube</b> to
<a href="https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/ai-and-music-experiment/"
>create two experimental music generation tools.</a
><br /><br /><b>DreamTrack in Shorts</b> lets you create 30 second music clips
by typing a prompt and selecting a participating artist (currently Alec
Benjamin, Charlie Puth, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, John Legend, Papoose, Sia,
T-Pain, and Troye Sivan). That generates a track in the artist’s voice and
style.<br /><br /><b>Music AI Tools</b> let you create new music by turning your
humming into a guitar riff or played by horns, or changing the genre of a song.
<br /><br />Generated tracks have an embedded SynthID audio watermark that
identifies it as synthetic. That should be detectable even if the track has
added noise or is sped up (or slowed down).<br /><br /><b>DreamTrack</b> is
currently only available to a limited number of US creators. Music AI Tools will
be available in the coming year.<br /><br />You can view Shorts using
AI-generated DreamTracks by<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/dreamtrackai/shorts"
>
checking the #DreamTrackAI hashtag on YouTube</a
>. I
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VJd0tiEBk4Y"
>recommend @CleoAbram’s demo to start</a
>.<br /><br />View those shorts on your mobile device, and you should see the
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10623810"
>option to remix the audio</a
>. That lets you create a new Short using the audio clip. <br /><br />Click the
red icon next to the Short to see all other Shorts that used the same audio
clip.<br /><br />Note that if you use DreamTrack audio in a long-form video,<a
href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1311392"
>
it cannot be monetized with ads</a
>
or YouTube Premium subscription revenue.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Updated Ad Review Center for AdSense</h2>
The <b>AdSense</b>
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13547173"
>Ad Review Center</a
>
lets you view the ads that have appeared on your website and block or report
them if needed. <br /><br />The
<a href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13529374?hl=en"
>updated Ad Review Center</a
>
for <b>AdSense</b>, <b>AdMob</b> and <b>Google Ad Manager</b> has a bunch of
improvements: <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>More area to view ads</li>
<li>Improved filters</li>
<li>Easier bulk actions</li>
<li>Improved image search</li>
<li>Improved detail view, with more metadata and a “Related Ads” tab</li>
</ul>
For now you can still return to the earlier version if you don’t like the
update.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">AdSense GDPR Messaging Issue</h2>
Between November 8 and 15 at least some newly created GDPR Transparency and
Consent strings for <b>AdSense</b>, <b>AdMob</b> and
<b>Google Ad Manager </b>didn’t work correctly. Visitors to your site or app may
have been incorrectly prevented from being served ads. <br /><br /><a
href="https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/"
>GDPR</a
>
is the European Union’s data protection law.<br /><br />What is the impact?
“When running AdSense reports that span the impact period you may observe a
decrease in overall traffic or country-specific traffic for countries under the
scope of GDPR enforcement.”<br /><a
href="https://ads.google.com/status/publisher/incidents/Fjps2gAgzmfYSGwxx23Z"
>More information.</a
><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Google Search Labs Notes</h2>
If you have enabled the experimental Google Search Labs for your Google Account,
you can
<a
href="https://blog.google/products/search/notes-google-search-labs-experiment/"
>opt in to the new Notes feature</a
>. This lets you add a Story-like note to a Google Search Result or Discover
article, which will appear with that result or on your new public Google Profile
(profile.google.com).<br /><br />To add a Note, look for the “Add a note” button
in Google Search or Discover results. You may also be able to add a note while
viewing content in the Google App by tapping the “Add note” button at top
right.<br /><br />
<div>
The Note editor lets you create a note with a colored background, text, an
image, and stickers. In the US there will also be the option to add an
AI-generated image. It looks very much like an Instagram Story card.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Available in English in the US, and Hindi and English in India (previously
Google had invited paid users adding Notes)
</li>
<li>Not all search results are eligible for Notes</li>
<li>Notes can only be created in the Android or iOS Google app</li>
<li>
Notes can be viewed on mobile or desktop (and may be
<a href="https://twitter.com/EthanLazuk/status/1725531251950363012"
>accessible through search</a
>)
</li>
<li>
Notes will be visible on your Google Profile (<a
href="https://profile.google.com"
>profile.google.com</a
>), but that is not available everywhere
</li>
</ul>
Google says they are using a combination of automated and human moderation to
keep Notes “safe, helpful and relevant as possible”. It will be interesting to
see how well Google prevents spam and abuse from appearing.<br /><br />And
what about the owners of the websites that have a note added? Google says “In
the months ahead, we’ll actively explore ways to provide site owners insights
into notes on their content.” So there are no insights or way to respond to
Notes at this time<br /><br /><a
href="https://searchengineland.com/google-search-tests-notes-on-search-results-434634"
>Google has also said</a
>
that Notes will not affect website ranking. The Notes for a particular web
page are ranked amongst themselves.<br /><br />If this takes off, I am
expecting Google will add a “Follow” option, just like there is in Google Maps
for Local Guides.<br /><br /><b>More information:<br /></b
><a href="https://labs.google.com/search">Enable Notes in Search Labs</a> (as
of this writing I don’t see Notes as an option, so it may still be rolling
out)<br /><a href="https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/13420891"
>Learn more about Notes in Search</a
><br /><a href="https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/13420891"
>Learn more about Google Profiles</a
><br /><a href="https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/14108842"
>Notes Community Guidelines</a
><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Organize your Google Photos</h2>
<b>Google Photos</b> is adding
<a
href="https://blog.google/products/photos/google-photos-organization-updates-november-2023/"
>two new AI-powered features to help keep your gallery of images
organized</a
>:<br /><br /><b>Photo Stacks </b>groups similar images taken at around the
same time. It will display the “top pick” (which you can change) and hide the
rest of the images.<br /><br /><b>Screenshots</b> and docs are automatically
categorized into category albums like receipts, event information, IDs and
notes. You can choose to archive screenshots and documents automatically after
30 days (they will still be available in the dedicated albums). And event
dates and times will be automatically detected in the screenshots, with the
option of creating a reminder and Calendar event that link back to that
image.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Video Creator Updates</h2>
<b>Instagram</b> is
<a
href="https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/new-updates-to-content-creation-tools/"
>updating the Reels video editor,</a
>
including scale, crop and rotate clips; undo and redo; new English
text-to-speech voices, and new ways to access trending audio. They are also
testing custom stickers created from your photos or videos.<br /><br /><b
>Instagram</b
>
and <b>Facebook</b>
<a
href="https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/new-updates-to-content-creation-tools/"
>have added a new Reels metric: “Replays”</a
>. “Replays” are now included in the “Plays” stats, so that number may
increase. In the coming months, they will be adding audience retention charts
as well.<br /><br />The new <b>Twitch</b> Privacy Center is live, with<a
href="https://www.twitch.tv/privacy"
>
information about how to control your privacy settings </a
>and what Twitch does with your data.<br /><br /><b>Vimeo</b> is
<a href="https://vimeo.com/blog/post/introducing-vimeo-marketing/"
>offering a new Vimeo Marketing package</a
>, with video customization (multiple audio tracks, video player branding,
automated captions in multiple languages), Vimeo’s video editor, integration
with CRM platforms, and YouTube integration.<br /><br /><b>TikTok</b> has a
<a
href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/add-to-music-app-launches-in-partnership-with-major-music-streaming-services"
>new “Add to Music App” option</a
>
that lets viewers save the songs in TikTok videos to their favorite music
streaming service, including Amazon Music and Spotify.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Web Publishers and Search</h2>
<b>AdSense</b> for Search and Search Ads<a
href="https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/14201307?hl=en"
>
will no longer be served from google.com</a
>. Instead they will be served from www.adsensecustomsearchads.com and
syndicatedsearch.goog . That means no Google cookie will be served to site
visitors, and they will thus not see personalized ads. This is expected to
have little impact on ad revenue, as the search ads are usually served based
on the search query anyway.<br /><br /><b>Microsoft</b> is
<a
href="https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/november-2023/Announcing-Generative-AI-Captions"
>launching “Generative AI Captions”</a
>
in Bing. “By analyzing a search query, it extracts the most pertinent insights
from web pages, and skillfully transforms them into highly relevant and easily
digestible snippets.” Web publishers can opt out by adding NOCACHE or
NOARCHIVE tags, and Bing will respect MAXSNIPPET and NOSNIPPET tags.<br /><br /><b
>Blogger</b
>
has been sending notices to legacy account users that have not migrated to the
Google Account system, mentioning their Blogger may be deleted in 60 days. The
Google Account login has been required since 2007, so these notices are going
to accounts that have not been signed into for many years. Probably
coincidentally, Google wil<a
href="https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/"
>l start deleting inactive accounts</a
>
in December.
<a
href="https://blog.irsah.com/2023/11/your-blogger-blog-will-be-deleted-in-60.html"
>Blogger expert Irsah has the scoop.</a
><br /><br /><b>Google Search Console</b> has a
<a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062598"
>new robots.txt report,</a
>
including when the robots.txt was fetched and if there are any errors. Sadly
that means they are deprecating the
<a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/robots-testing-tool"
>old robots.txt testing tool</a
>, which will only be available through December 12.<br /><br />If you offer a
course on your own website, add the new course structured data to
<a
href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/11/new-course-info-markup"
>have the course information appear in the <b>Google Search </b>results</a
>. Details can include pricing, educational level, ratings, and length. Plus
there is
<a
href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/learning-video"
>Learning video structured data for educational video</a
>s, soon to be<a
href="https://twitter.com/googlesearchc/status/1724037479928356962"
>
included in Google Search Console Performance reports</a
>.<br /><br />News for <b>Chrome</b> extension publishers: Google will require
all extensions to be migrated to Manifest V3 by June 2024. If you are a
developer,
<a href="https://developer.chrome.com/en/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/"
>see the technical details here</a
>. If you use ad blocking extensions,
<a
href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23964509/google-manifest-v3-rollout-ad-blockers"
>some may no longer work after this transition </a
>(although ad blocker AdGuard has written that it’s cautiously optimistic
about the change).<br /><br /><b>Google</b> has added the
<a
href="https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-november-2023-update/"
>option to “Follow” a search</a
>
to see related articles and videos on Discover (the Google app home screen),
and you may be notified of “timely” or “important” updates.<br /><br /><b
>Google’s Search Generative Experience</b
>
<a
href="https://blog.google/products/shopping/google-search-generative-ai-holiday-gifts/"
>may end up being best used for shopping</a
>, rather than trying to find factual information (which doesn’t always work
well). Now if you search for specific types of gifts, it will show you a bunch
of subcategories (with things to buy, of course), and you can use the image
generation tool to create a photorealistic image of what you want to buy (like
a colorful jacket) and Google will show matching products for sale.
<a href="https://labs.google.com/search">Sign up for Google Search Labs</a
>.<br /><br /><b>Google</b> has updated their
<b>Search Quality Rater Guidelines</b>. There is
<a
href="https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/11/search-quality-rater-guidelines-update"
>no major change in the guidelines</a
>, rather they “simplified the "Needs Met" scale definitions, added more
guidance for different kinds of web pages and modern examples including newer
content formats such as short form video, removed outdated and redundant
examples, and expanded rating guidance for forum and discussion pages”.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Social Media</h2>
A number of major advertisers, including <b>Apple</b> and <b>Disney</b>,<a
href="https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/major-advertisers-pull-out-of-x-which-could-spark-a-bigger-shift-away-from/700250/"
>
have paused their ad campaigns</a
>
on <b>X</b> due to Elon Musk’s behavior and a
<a
href="https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/x-placing-ads-amazon-nba-mexico-nbcuniversal-and-others-next-content-white-nationalist"
>report from Media Matters that ads are being shown </a
>next to white nationalist and neo-Nazi content. Musk, of course, blames Media
Matters and the advertisers.
<div>
<br /><b>Instagram</b> has
<a
href="https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/new-updates-to-content-creation-tools/"
>added new filters for photos </a
>and improved the interface for finding images in your camera roll.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More AI Updates</h2>
The <b>OpenAI </b>(the company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E) board of
directors<a
href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23965982/openai-ceo-sam-altman-fired"
>
fired CEO and co-founder Sam Altman Friday afternoon</a
>, stating he was “not consistently candid in his communications with the
board.” This was apparently a huge surprise to all concerned, and it’s not
clear what the fallout will be.<br /><br /><b>Google</b>
<a
href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/google-ai-opportunity-agenda/"
>published their AI Opportunity Agenda</a
>, with policy recommendations for governments, including investment in
international AI research and development , creating a "global AI Corps to
build an AI-ready workforce", building government use and expertise in AI
tools.<br /><b><br />Bing Chat </b>and Bing Chat Enterprise
<a
href="https://blogs.bing.com/search/november-2023/our-vision-to-bring-microsoft-copilot-to-everyone-and-more"
>are now called <b>Copilot</b>.</a
>
You can try Copilot “Your everyday AI companion” at
<a href="https://copilot.microsoft.com/">copilot.microsoft.com</a>.
Enterprise accounts can make it more useful with<a
href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/extending-microsoft-copilot-for-microsoft-365-a-guide-for/ba-p/3980781"
>
third party plugins.</a
><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Communication and Collaboration</h2>
<b>Google Maps </b>has
<a
href="https://blog.google/products/maps/google-maps-updates-november-2023/"
>updated the Lists feature to make it easy to create a collaborative
map</a
>
with a group of family or friends. You can also let your opinion be known by
adding emoji reactions to others’ Maps reviews, photos, and videos.<br /><br /><b
>Microsoft Teams</b
><a
href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-microsoft-ignite-2023/ba-p/3976670"
>
now has Copilot AI integration</a
>
including in-meeting meeting summaries without a retained transcript (if
desired) and real-time notes, writing assistance in Teams Chat, and
summaries of discussions in Teams Channels. In video meetings there’s a fun
new “Decorate your Background” option that lets participants use AI to
generate a background that enhances their real-world room (decorate, clean
up clutter, improve the furniture) and new Snapchat AR filters. There are
also accessibility updates, including captions formatting and new keyboard
shortcuts.<br /><br /><b>Microsoft Mesh </b>is a<a
href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-microsoft-ignite-2023/ba-p/3976670"
>
new 3D immersive space for work</a
>, including avatars (sadly, without legs), 3D environments, seat
assignments, and spatial audio, live reactions and interactive activities.
They don’t call it the metaverse, but that’s what it looks like.<br /><br />If
you want to use <b>Google Meet</b> to make an announcement or run a webinar,
you can set the other meeting participants as viewers. Meet product expert
Nina Trankova
<a
href="https://ninatrankova.com/google/see-the-speaker-only-everyone-is-a-viewer/"
>explains how to do that.</a
><br /><br /><b>Google Meet </b
><a
href="http://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/release-notes-11-17-2023.html"
>captions are now available</a
>
in Finnish and Hebrew, and English (UK), French (Canadian), Polish,
Romanian, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese captions are out of beta.<br /><br />You
can now star messages in <b>Google Chat.</b> The new Chat navigation
shortcuts let you
<a
href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/star-important-messages-in-google-chat.html"
>view your starred messages with a single click</a
>. This is a feature I’ve been wanting for a long time! Chat also has<a
href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/mproved-search-query-suggestions-in-chat-web.html"
>
added the enhanced search query suggestions</a
>
you can find in the mobile app to Chat on desktop.
<div>
<br />If you use <b>Google Chat </b>install the <b>Google Drive</b> app to
be able to
<a
href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/take-action-on-google-drive-requests-in-google-chat.html"
>reply to and resolve comments on Docs, Slides and Sheets</a
>
directly in Google Chat.
<a href="https://support.google.com/chat/answer/7655820"
>How to add apps to Chat</a
>
(available to both personal and Google Workspace accounts).<br /><br />You
can now view your <b>Tasks</b> in <b>Google Calendar i</b>n full screen on
desktop.
<a
href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/view-full-screen-tasks-lists-on-google-calendar.html"
>See how it works</a
>.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;">More Reading</h2>
<b>Google</b>
<a
href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/taking-legal-action-to-protect-users-of-ai-and-small-businesses/"
>took legal action against “bad actors”</a
>
who submitted thousands of false DMCA copyright takedown notices to take
down their competitors in Google Search.<br /><br />Elizabeth Minkel at
Wired:
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/end-of-the-tumblr-era/"
><b>Tumblr</b> is Always Dying</a
>
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<p>
If your YouTube channel is in the YouTube Partner Program with ad revenue
sharing, your videos must comply with the advertiser friendly guidelines to be
fully monetized.
</p>
<p>
Periodically YouTube updates those guidelines, so it's important to keep up
with the changes.
</p>
<p>
<a
href="https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/64073546?hl=en&msgid=244254103"
>This week's update to the Adult Content guidelines</a
> allows more content showing breast feeding and sensual dancing to be
monetized.
</p>
<p><b>Breastfeeding</b></p>
<p></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
If a child is present, the video <u>can</u> earn ad revenue even
<u>with</u> visible nudity (nipples or areolae showing).
</li>
<li>
Demonstrating hand expression or breast pump usage with nipples visible<u>
and a child in the scene </u
> <u>can</u> earn ad revenue.
</li>
<li>
Breastfeeding-related thumbnails focused on breasts <u>without</u> visible
nudity <u>can</u> earn ad revenue.
</li>
<li>
Breastfeeding-related nudity <u>without</u> a child present in the
scene <u>cannot</u> earn ad revenue.
</li>
</ul>
<p></p>
<p><b>Sensual Dancing</b><br /></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>
Non-sexually graphic dancing involving rhythmic body movements (for example,
twerking or grinding) <u>can</u> now earn ad revenue. That includes:
</li>
<ul>
<li>"Fleeting" minimal clothing while dancing.</li>
<li>"Fleeting" caresses of sexual body parts while dancing.</li>
<li>Dance partners in close physical content.</li>
</ul>
<li>
Sexually graphic dancing in a professional setting, such as in a
choreographed dance or music video <u>can</u> earn ad revenue.
</li>
<li>Some sensual dancing still <u>cannot earn ad revenue.</u></li>
<ul>
<li>
Videos with deliberate and recurring shots of breasts, butts or genitalia
</li>
<li>Extremely minimal clothing</li>
<li>Sensual moves that mimic sexual acts</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<div>
Be sure to review the<a
href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278#Adult&zippy=%2Cpolicy-detail"
>
advertiser-friendly content guidelines</a
>
for more details and examples.
</div>
<p></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Related Updates</h2>
<p>
September 2023:
<a
href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/09/creator-weekly-google-podcasts-reddit.html"
>YouTube advertiser-friendly guidelines update: Controversial Issues around
sexual and domestic abuse, abortion and eating disorders</a
>
</p>
<p>
August 2023:
<a
href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/08/adsense-policy-update-gameplay-imagery.html"
>AdSense Policy Update: Gameplay imagery exception to Shocking Content
policy</a
>
</p>
<p>
March 2023:
<a
href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2023/03/youtube-relaxes-profanity-prohibitions.html"
>YouTube relaxes profanity prohibitions for monetization</a
>
</p>
<p>
December 2022:
<a
href="https://www.peggyktc.com/2022/12/update-to-youtube-advertiser-friendly.html"
>Updates across the YouTube advertiser-friendly guidelines</a
>
</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Learn More</h2>
<p>
YouTube Support: <a
href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278"
>YouTube Advertiser-Friendly Guidelines</a
>
</p>
<p>
YouTube Support:
<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1311392"
>Monetization Policies</a
>
</p>
<p>
YouTube Support:
<a
href="https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/64073546/recent-updates-to-the-advertiser-friendly-content-guidelines"
>Recent Updates to the Advertiser-Friendly Guidelines</a
>
</p>
<p>
Creator Insider:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfzfwO4q8Ss"
>Advertiser Friendly Guidelines Updates on Adult Content</a
>
</p>
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