- Beginning of the end? Buffer ended Google+ back upwards on Jan 25th and Hootsuite volition cease Google+ back upwards on Jan 28th. Other social media administration platforms that offering integration amongst Google+ volition also endure affected every bit there may endure “intermittent failures” of the Google+ API starting the 28th. While this won’t comport on posting to Google+ directly, businesses, organizations, too Pages that purpose 3rd political party tools to access Google+ may halt posting altogether.
- New Google+ migration alternative: LifeCloud has a Google+ Data Importer for re-creating Google+ Communities. Todd Hawk is answering questions inward the “G+” Community Owners too Moderators community nearly how it works.
- YouTube announced they volition endure reducing recommendations for content that could "misinform inward harmful ways", similar "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming earth is flat, or making blatantly simulated claims nearly historic events similar 9/11."
- YouTube has a novel informative FAQ answering questions nearly copyright claims and companies that may endure abusing the Content ID system.
- G Suite users volition endure moved from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat too Meet inward October. All G Suite domains volition convey Hangouts Chat enabled inward April, too Google promises a issue of novel features volition endure rolled out earlier Classic Hangouts is retired *for G Suite users only*. This update volition non comport on consumer users, who volition endure able to hold using Classic Hangouts. Eventually consumer users volition endure transitioned to Chat too Meet too, but at that spot is no timeline for that yet.
- Google Voice is rolling out voice-over-IP calling to all users. This lets Voice users brand calls using the Google Voice app on mobile devices or at voice.google.com every bit an alternative to placing calls through Google Hangouts.
- G Suite Realtime Comms production atomic number 82 Scott Johnston announced on Twitter that Google Voice for G Suite volition endure available exterior the US, starting amongst Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, too the UK. There are sadly no plans to offering * Google Voice to consumer users internationally. If y'all are interested, apply for the Early access Program.
- Google Search Console is a gratuitous tool that lets webmasters assess site surgical physical care for inward Google Search. Features are gradually beingness moved from the sometime version of Search Console to the novel version. At the end of March at that spot volition endure a meaning update. What’s going: Crawl Errors report, fetch every bit Google tool, HTML suggestions, Property Sets, Android apps data. What’s new: Structured information dashboard amongst reports organized past times “vertical” (like Jobs, Recipes, too Events).
- Gmail has novel features: an Undo/Redo button, slow strikethrough formatting, too the might to download messages every bit .EML files (which tin endure imported into other electronic mail clients).
- If y'all are interested inward Blogger, check out my appearance on Michael Daniel’s Tinkering amongst Tech show. I acquire through simply about of the basic settings too respond questions.
Image: Monday, Jan 28th is Data Protection Day in Europe too Data Privacy Day inward the ease of the world. I idea that deserved a cheesy all-your-data-is-secure graphic. To celebrate run a Security Checkup on your Google Account. Image past times JanBaby on Pixabay.
Upcoming
- January 25: Buffer removed choice to portion to Google+
- January 28: HootSuite back upwards for Google+ ends
- January 28: There volition showtime to endure “intermittent failures” of the Google+ API. The Google+ API volition endure fully unopen downwards March 7. The Google+ API lets external sites too apps connect to Google+.
- January 31: YouTube Video Credits removed
- January 31: YouTube removes choice to automatically portion to Google+ too Twitter
- February 1: Deadline for intelligence organizations to apply for Newspack past times Wordpress.com
- February 5: Old Google Contacts unopen down
YouTube too Video Creation
- YouTube improving recommendations (YouTube)
- YouTube TV goes nationwide, inward fourth dimension for the Super Bowl (YouTube)
- Answers to your questions nearly copyright claims on YouTube (YouTube)
- Yellow $ trouble? Ask YouTube policy specialists nearly the advertiser-friendly guidelines inward Jan 25th AMA (YouTube)
- YouTube Music Unveils its First-Ever 'Artists to Watch' inward Commonwealth of Australia too New Zealand (Google Australia)
Go Live
- Google Ad Manager Integration for Live too On-Demand Video (IBM Video Streaming)
Google+
- LifeCloud has a Google+ Data Importer for re-creating Google+ Communities. (Todd Hawk inward the “G+” Community Owners too Moderators community)
Other social media
- Focusing on the novel Search Console, moving features too deprecating others (Google Webmasters)
- Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (January 22) (Google Webmasters)
AdSense too advertising
- Google hitting amongst £44m GDPR fine over ads (BBC News)
- Bringing to a greater extent than transparency to the Indian Lok Sabha Election 2019 (Google India)
- Google Partners Academy on Air: Simplify too grown your draw concern amongst machine learning (Google Partners)
Hangouts too Messaging
- Upcoming Hangouts service consolidation for all G Suite customers (G Suite Updates)
- Two novel Hangouts Meet tools added to the Admin console: character tool too activeness logs (G Suite Updates)
- Google Voice for G Suite volition endure available internationally (Scott Johnston)
- New Gmail compose formatting too download options (G Suite Updates)
- Find to a greater extent than ease inward your life this year, amongst assistance from Google (Google)
Privacy too Security
- How practise y'all principle the evolution of artificial intelligence? Policymakers are trying to figure that out (New York Times)
- Yes, “algorithms” tin endure biased. Here’s why (Ars Technica)
- Verizon Lays Off 800 Employees Within ‘Media Group’, Comprising Yahoo, Tumblr, More (Tubefilter)
- BuzzFeed has started its layoffs, but it’s also talking nearly a merger (Recode)
- Google asks Supreme Court to dominion on when code tin endure copyrighted (The Verge)
- Oracle v. Google too the hereafter of software development (Google)
- Expanding cognition access amongst the Wikimedia Foundation (Google)
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