Weekly Update - March 30, 2019: Google+, Gmail, Apple

So this is it, the lastly Weekly Update that I percentage on Google+. I started the in Jan 2015 equally a way to maintain rails of updates to YouTube, Google+, Blogger together with other Google products together with to organize links to my Google+ posts. I am grateful to all of you lot for reading together with sharing! I promise those of you lot who read this on Google+ volition transcend along reading here, subscribe to the feed or past times email, or follow me on Twitter for updates.

So long, adieu

• I promise all you lot Plussers direct hold downloaded the information you lot desire to save. If not, exercise it straight off using Google Takeout or the Friends+Me Google+ Exporter (which lets you lot export your information inwards WordPress or Blogger format). Note that the Google+ Exporter was only updated to better video downloads - if you lot uploaded a lot of videos to Google+, live certain you lot direct hold the latest version.
• If you lot direct hold a Google+ Page, authorities notation you lot volition take to download the Page’s information separately. help add together world Google+ content to the Internet Archive, straight off is the fourth dimension to exercise so.
• If you lot are looking for some other social site, MeWe lets you lot import your Google Takeout archive of your Google+ data, together with if you lot are verified on Google+, Twitter or other social site, MeWe volition add together a verified cheque to your account.
• And it’s non only Google+ that is shutting down. The goo.gl link shortener volition live discontinued March 30th. Those brusque links volition transcend along to redirect, but you volition no longer live able to sentiment or download the data. And Inbox is shutting downwards Apr 2nd, together with thence you lot volition direct hold to switch dorsum to using Gmail.
• Finally, the original annunciation inwards Oct 2018 that Google+ would live close down also announced that they would live limiting 3rd political party developers powerfulness to asking Gmail user data. Developers had to submit applications to live reviewed, together with whatever that were non approved would direct hold their access revoked on March 31, 2019. Because of this modify all Gmail triggers together with the powerfulness to exercise a draft electronic mail volition live removed from IFTTT.

What's novel this week

• Did you lot notice the updates to Google+? There is straight off a more user friendly interface for advanced search, together with inwards the absence of the notification bell on desktop, the release of novel notifications is straight off displayed adjacent to “Notifications” on the left menu. There are certain to live to a greater extent than updates for firm customers in i trial the shutdown of consumer Google+ is complete.
  
• In the Google Photos Android app you lot tin now crop photos of receipts together with other documents alongside a unmarried tap, removing the background together with cleaning upwardly the edges.
• Dynamic AMP emails are rolling out to Gmail users. As an example, instead of receiving multiple private electronic mail notifications when somebody mentions you lot inwards a Google Docs comment, you lot volition straight off run across an up-to-date thread inwards Gmail where you lot tin reply without having to opened upwardly the MD itself. Companies similar Pinterest, Doodle together with OYO Rooms are already sending emails alongside interactive elements. And this shouldn’t live a scammer or spammer tool, equally businesses direct hold to live approved past times Google earlier they tin start sending dynamic messages.
• Twitch launched Squad Stream, which lets iv gaming creators acquire alive together with current together inwards i window. Currently this characteristic is exclusively available to Twitch Partners.
• Users tin straight off goo.gl link shortener API shutting down (existing goo.gl links volition transcend along to work):
• March 31: YouTube Creators inwards the USA & Canada: Deadline to apply for YouTube NextUp New York #YouTubeLatino
• End of March: Updates to Google Webmasters Search Console
• April 2: Consumer Google+ shuts down (Previously together with Previouslier)
• April 2: Inbox past times Gmail shuts down
• April 5: Google Webmasters Office Hours Hangout
• April 7: Deadline to apply for YouTube NextUp United Mexican States City Special Edition: Nextup for Gamers (also)
• April 9: Google Partners Academy on Air: Incorporating YouTube into your surgical operation strategy
• April 9-11: Google Cloud Next ‘19. Check out the highlights earlier you lot go.

Passage of the European Union Copyright Directive

• Europe passes novel copyright police delineate that powerfulness modify the meshing forever (Mashable)
• Enough MEPs Say They Mistakenly Voted For Articles eleven & thirteen That The Vote Should Have Flipped; European Union Parliament Says Too Bad (TechDirt)
• The European Parliament has voted inwards favour of Article 13 (Wired UK)
• YouTube’s tilt on the vote (TeamYouTube)
• What Europe's New Copyright Law Means For Twitch And YouTube (Kotaku)

Apple Event

• YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization together with Algorithmic Rabbit Holes (New York Times)
• Take a hold back within the YouTube House pop-up inwards New York City (YouTube)

Go Live

• Squad Stream: The adjacent way to play together with sentry together (Twitch)
• Twitch for Game Developers (Twitch)
• Twitch Prime members acquire upwardly to i twelvemonth of Nintendo Switch Online (Twitch)

Google+

• Export procedure alongside Google+ Exporter afterward Google+ shutdown (Friends+Me Google+ Exporter)
• Google+ Archive Viewer (view Google+ Exporter JSON archives) (RefurioAnachro, about the project)
• Import your Google+ Exporter community archive into Discourse (Michael K Johnson, discussion
• Saving of world Google+ content at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine past times the Archive Team has begun (Plexodus)
• Google Plus Users Find a New Digital Home at MeWe (Mark Weinstein)
• Niantic volition live setting upwardly its ain forums for Ingress (and peradventure Pokemon Go?) afterward Google+ shuts down (Niantic)
• The Fall of Google+ (Gideon Rosenblatt)

Other Social Media

• Facebook (including Instagram) Bans White Nationalism together with White Separatism (Motherboard)
• How to uncovering & advise Google-selected canonical URLs for your pages (Google Webmasters)
• Google Webmasters Office Hours Hangout (March 22) (Google Webmasters on YouTube)
• How to customize your Blogger Profile
• Pipdig WordPress themes together with plugin may live insecure, DDOS competitors (Jem Jabella, pipdig’s response, why that response is inadequate)

AdSense together with advertising

• AdSense on Air: Create your start AMP page alongside the AMP for Wordpress plugin (AdSense on YouTube)
• Five takeaways from Google’s programmatic advertising panel at World Forum Disrupt (Google Ad Manager)

Hangouts together with Messaging

• Google is launching novel Google Drive / Microsoft Outlook integration, shutting downwards legacy plugin (G Suite Updates)
• Take activeness together with rest up-to-date alongside dynamic electronic mail inwards Gmail (Google)
• Important update close the Gmail service (IFTTT)
• Gmail's 'Canned Responses' Feature Is Finally Good (Lifehacker)
• Take activeness faster alongside customizable swipe actions inwards Gmail on iOS (G Suite updates)
• Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS (Chrome 73) (Chrome Releases)
• Chrome for Android Update (Chrome 73) (Chrome Releases)

Privacy together with Security

• training a network of fact-checkers inwards India (Google India)
• Robots larn to throw: Unifying Physics together with Deep Learning alongside TossingBot (Google AI blog)