Week Inwards Review - February 28, 2015 - Youtube Kids, Blogger Porn, Novel Direction For Google+ Photos In Addition To More

Some of updates, tips together with articles from the by week:

YouTube

• YouTube Kids app is launched
• Shorthand vanity URLs for YouTube channels: directly based on new-style custom URLs (posted here)
• Android YouTube app update: just trim down your videos together with banking concern stand upwards for out the novel inline video preview
• iOS YouTube app update: run across what you lot are typing :)

Google+

• AdSense Publishers: there's a novel AdSense Revenue Profile report

Webmasters

• Make certain your site is mobile-friendly (Google volition starting fourth dimension expand mobile friendly every bit a ranking indicate on Apr 21)

Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links

Week Inwards Review - March 28, 2015: Back Upward Local Business, Alive Broadcasting Apps, Big Weblog Images

This week's top updates, tips, articles as well as posts for YouTube Creators, Bloggers, Webmasters, Live Broadcasters, Local Business owners, as well as people living inward the 21st century. Read on for all this week's highlights.

YouTube

• Connect your YouTube channel to Twitter (but non Facebook)  (Google+ news of my post here)
• YouTube Creators: honour gratuitous music as well as images to operate inward your video fifty-fifty commercially!
• YouTube Creators: customize your channel to display playlists as well as highlight other channels
• Three ways to travel out along people from unsubscribing from your YouTube channel (Tim Schmoyer @ Video Creators) 
• Would you lot pay to run across videos from your favorite YouTube stars earlier everyone else? Vessel may endure for you!

Live Video Broadcasting

• Overview of Meerkat for Live Streaming on Twitter as well as Automate the saving of your Meerkat alive flow to YouTube using Katchkat (Krishna De)
• Twitter's Live Broadcasting app Periscope at in 1 lawsuit available for iOS
• Rumor: YouTube taking on Twitch amongst emphasis on gaming alive broadcasts. YouTube's response? An animated GIF.

Google+

• Looking for attention on Google+? Help us to attention you lot (Kamal Tailor)
• Notification Basics: how to read as well as answer to your Google+ as well as YouTube comment notifications (Carol Dodsley)

Local Business

• Support your Local Businesses: transportation a postcard highlighting the local businesses you lot love!
• Local concern owner? Get your concern on the map!

Bloggers as well as Webmasters

• Blogger tip: brand certain your weblog post has an picture at to the lowest degree 400 pixels broad for Google+ to present a full-bleed picture instead of a pocket-size thumbnail when you lot part the link
• Q&A Session for Google's upcoming mobile-friendly ranking change
• Is that shiny badge on your website promoting your competitors?
• YouTube Playlist without Google: Create a YouTube Playlist to embed on your website without signing inward (Amit Agarwal)
• Do you lot display the Navbar at the top of your Blogger blog? (Carol Dodsley)

Productivity

• Export your Google Keep notes to Google Docs to expand as well as edit them

AdSense

• AdSense Publishers: increase your net turn a profit yesteryear focusing on the Long-term Revenue Framework
• AdSense-related highlights of the FTC Staff Report on Google & Antitrust issues: 10 sites stand upwardly for 80% of AdSense traffic, operate of exclusivity as well as preferential handling agreements, lack of alternatives for publishers (sorry Bing ads), as well as declining revenues

Account Security & Management

• Is your Google concern human relationship secure? Check your concern human relationship activity! (Jaana Nystrom)
• Back upwardly your Chrome bookmarks, passwords, history as well as settings (WC Blitzy)

This 21st century life

• Pervasive, persuasive technology: smart plenty to exploit human nature
• Putting women on the map: SPARK is has created a database of locations where women convey made history to Google Field Trip. When you lot are near, you'll endure notified.

For more, follow me on Google+ or Twitter

You tin besides subscribe to my weekly update yesteryear email. 

Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links

Weekly Update - August 27, 2016: Nougat, Nexus, Alive As Well As More

The big intelligence this week: Android 7.0 Nougat started rolling out. Plus Nexus devices volition instruct WiFi Assistant - formerly a Project Fi-only feature.

Plus at that spot are tips together with updates for YouTube video watchers, alive streamers, photographers, trouble organisation owners, webmasters, Hangouts chatters, Project Fi-ers together with more.

Image: Happy 100th birthday U.S.A. National Park Service! Check out the 360-degree views of National Parks at Google Arts & Culture. The postal service picture is from a United Airlines poster (no known copyright restrictions) uploaded to Flickr yesteryear the San Diego Air & Space Museum.

Upcoming:

• 29 August: Comments on mortal YouTube videos are going away
• 31 August: New Hangouts Chrome extension experience
• 6 September: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours inward English
• 7 September: Google+ Collections #FeatureFriday rival deadline: Connect amongst nature
• 9 September: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours inward English
• 12 September: Hangouts on Air deed from Google+ to YouTube

YouTube together with Video Creation

• Update YouTube gets an update for the big screen: Chromecast, Smart TV, game consoles brand content easier to abide by (Engadget)
• Update Instagram Launching Live “Events” Video Channel (Consumerist)
• Tip YouTube Partners together with AdSense Publishers: brand certain your content is Advertiser-Friendly! (my weblog post)
• Tip Control YouTube playback amongst OK Google Voice Commands (Android Police)
• Tip What happens to your video afterwards you lot upload to YouTube? (Nat together with Lo)
• Tip What happens when you lot sentinel a YouTube video? (Nat together with Lo)
• Instagram Launching Live “Events” Video Channel (Consumerist)
• Tip YouTube Partners together with AdSense Publishers: brand certain your content is Advertiser-Friendly! (Did The NY Times Give Up Its Journalism Standards The Second Facebook Threw Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Few Million Its Way? (Techdirt)

Google+ together with Spaces

• Google+ Collections #FeatureFriday contest: Connect amongst nature (Faith Tan) 
• Tip Use Google+ Communities to engage your customers together with clients (Google for Work)
• Update Spaces Chrome Extension 2.0 (Luke Wroblewski)

Other social media

• New PInstagram Launching Live “Events” Video Channel (Consumerist)
• Tip YouTube Partners together with AdSense Publishers: brand certain your content is Advertiser-Friendly! (Inside Facebook’s (Totally Insane, Unintentionally Gigantic, Hyperpartisan) Political-Media Machine (New York Times)

Google Photos together with Mobile Photography

• Tip The history of photography inward five animated minutes (COOPH)
• Tip Google Photos vs Apple Photos: which is better? (Gizmodo)

Google for businesses

• Finding Hogwarts on Google Search together with Maps (Wsaweb)
• When Google's Picks a Mugshot over a Business Logo (Online Ownership)
• Instagram Launching Live “Events” Video Channel (Consumerist)
• Tip YouTube Partners together with AdSense Publishers: brand certain your content is Advertiser-Friendly! (my weblog post)

Hangouts together with Messaging

• New Hangouts Chrome extension sense coming August 31 (Google Apps Updates)
• Google Duo has been downloaded five i thou 1000 times on Android since its release (Android Police)
• Tip Hangouts chat Easter Eggs (Moritz Tolxdorff)
• Update WhatsApp's novel damage allow them part your information amongst Facebook - you lot accept xxx days to (partially) opt out (Wired)

Nexus, Android, Project Fi

• New Nexus update: WiFi Assistant automatically together with securely connections to complimentary opened upwards wifi hotspots (Nexus)
• Google extends Project Fi Wi-Fi engineering scientific discipline to Nexus devices (CNET)
• New Android 7.0 Nougat launched, coming to Project Fi devices shortly (Android blog, Project Fi)
• Android Nougat drops back upwards for Nexus five together with 2013 Nexus 7 (Ars Technica)
• Tip The coolest features of Android Nougat you lot powerfulness accept missed (Lifehacker)
• Tip SpyNote malware: One to a greater extent than argue to never sideload Android apps (TechRepublic)
• Update Project Fi update (Version K): in-app chat back upwards (Project Fi)
• Update Tracking your international information usage amongst Project Fi (Project Fi)

Productivity

• Update Google Drive for Android right away creates file together with folder shortcuts (Google Apps Updates)
• Update Google URL shortener sees major redesign (David King)
• New Microsoft acquires automated coming together scheduling app Genee (The Next Web)
• Tip How to practice citations together with bibliography inward Google Docs (or whatever discussion processor) (Plagiarism Today)

Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links

Weekly Update - May 6, 2017: Mother's 24-Hour Interval Movies, Youtube, Phishing

It was a relatively tranquility calendar week this calendar week inwards the Googleverse - other than the big Google Docs phishing attack, that is. Keep your describe of piece of occupation concern human relationship safe!

My travel yesteryear updates this week:

• Get a sneak peek at YouTube's novel design, including a black subject
• Update to AdSense policy: to a greater extent than mobile spider web options
• How Google protects your describe of piece of occupation concern human relationship from phishing (and how this week's ready on worked)

Make a prissy introduce for a woman raise inwards your life! 

• Use Google Photos to automatically practise a Mother's Day movie

Plus at that topographic point are tips together with updates for YouTube, Live Streamers Google+, Webmasters, Maps users together with more!

Do y'all know what happened terminal month? Check out my overview of April Creator Updates!

I lead maintain a hold back at: Google+ Topics, updates to the YouTube Partner Program, AdSense content policy, Custom URLs, together with more.



Image: Detail from Mother Galanda yesteryear Mikuláš Galanda (Public Domain)

Upcoming

• 11 May: #AskAdSense component hours
• 17-19 May: Google I/O 2017
• 17 May: Deadline to apply for NextUp Paris, NextUp Tokyo together with NextUp Mumbai
• 19 May: Deadline to submit your video to the Best.Cover.Ever competition
• 22 May: Carrier SMS removed from Google Hangouts
• 22 May: Deadline to apply to the Google Jump Start plan (360 video)
• 23 May: Google announcing the latest Analytics, DoubleClick together with Ads innovations

YouTube together with Video Creation

• Get a sneak peek at YouTube's novel design, including a black subject (YouTube)
• The YouTube video Annotations Editor is retired (YouTube)
• Are y'all an aspiring singer? The Best.Cover.Ever contest on YouTube could hold upward your big break! 
• YouTube launching novel exclusive ad-supported shows: Kevin Hart. Rhett together with Link. Ellen DeGeneres. Katy Perry. The Slow Mo Guys. Demi Lovato. Ludacris (YouTube blog)
• Arabic linguistic communication Creators: بث مباشر: بناء قناة تنتشر في جميع أنحاء العالم (YouTube Creator Academy)
• How to larn started amongst YouTube End Screens for your videos (Ileane Smith on YouTube)
• These YouTube parents pulled disturbing ‘pranks’ on their kids. Now, they’ve lost custody. (Washington Post)
• Facebook shuts downwards Oculus' award-winning cinema studio (The Next Web)
• Facebook Says It Shouldn’t Have Told an Advertiser How to Reach Insecure Teens (Slate)
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• Group items vertically inwards the novel Google Sites (G Suite Updates)
• An update on the classic Google Sites deprecation timeline (G Suite Updates)
• How Google assesses the ‘authority’ of spider web pages (Search Engine Land)
• Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (May 2) (Google Webmasters)
• Google Webmasters Office Hours Hangout (May 5) (Google Webmasters)
• Mobile inwards the Future: Optimizing mobile blueprint for improved engagement (Luke Wroblewski)
• Get Luke Wroblewski’s latest mass “Mobile & Multi-device Design” for free (Luke Wroblewski)
• Refocusing together with looking forwards on Google Custom Search Engine (Custom Search Blog)

AdSense together with advertising

• Update to AdSense policy: to a greater extent than mobile spider web options (AdSense)
• AdSense wants to know how y'all mean value they are doing! (AdSense)
• Link your AdSense to Google Analytics to figure out what content plant (AdSense)
• AdSense 101: Building your brand (Inside AdSense)

Hangouts together with Messaging

• Scheduling is easier amongst the come across bot inwards Hangouts Chat for G Suite (Google Blog)
• Google Allo gets chat backup together with restore (Derek Ross)
• Gmail for Android adds novel anti-phishing safety cheque for external links (G Suite Updates)
• Web clipboard to hold upward removed from Google Docs, Sheets, together with Slides on September 13th, 2017 (G Suite Updates)
• Updating Google Maps amongst Deep Learning together with Street View (Research at Google)
• How practise I Create a Calendar for an After School Club? (Ms Drasby)
• Gmail for Android adds novel anti-phishing safety cheque for external links (G Suite Updates)
• Microsoft announces the Surface Laptop, a gorgeous Chromebook competitor (the Next Web)

More around the spider web

• How to Detect Fake News inwards Real-Time (Krishna Bharat)
• Magic is an art, . . . But the inwardness of every flim-flam is a cold, cognitive experiment inwards perception (Smithsonian)
• Brands Taking a Stand (Think amongst Google)
• Google rater fired afterward speaking to Ars most operate conditions (Ars Technica)
• Niantic forming a multi-year partnership amongst the John S. together with James L. Knight Foundation (Niantic Labs)
• Too little, besides late? FCC wins cyberspace neutrality courtroom case (Ars Technica)
• Researching the definition of Good Online Conversations together with How They Should Rank amongst the Yahoo News Annotated Comments Corpus (Yahoo blog)

Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links

Weekly Update - December 1, 2018: Google Fi, Youtube Stories In Addition To More

I’m dreaming of summertime hither inwards the Northern Hemisphere! As nosotros caput into the terminal calendar month of the year, at that topographic point was a major proclamation from Project Fi, summation some overnice updates from YouTube in addition to more.

• The big intelligence this calendar week was that “Project Fi” - Google’s mobile network that launched inwards 2015 - has graduated to “Google Fi” and immediately officially supports most newer Android phones in addition to iPhones. There is a catch: Fi’s unique applied scientific discipline to seamlessly switch betwixt multiple cellular network in addition to novel enhanced network features solely operate amongst “designed for Fi” phones. If y'all are interested, y'all should check compatibility of your phone.And if y'all determine to laissez passer on it a try, use my referral link in addition to we’ll both instruct a bonus (click here).
• To celebrate the launch, Fi offered an amazing one-day-only promo: purchase a novel shout out through Google, run across the other eligibility requirements, in addition to y'all would have the total value of the shout out dorsum inwards move gift cards. It was in addition to thence pop back upward was almost impossible to accomplish in addition to the gift cards ran out hours earlier the promo menstruation ended. There hit got been a lot of questions from people who weren’t certain they genuinely got the deal. If that’s you, live on certain to cheque the information posted inwards the Fi back upward forum: Shipment Status, Promotion, Activation, in addition to Trade-In Questions in addition to Price protection for the Black Fri promotion
• YouTube Stories are rolling out to all eligible channels amongst at to the lowest degree 10,000 subscribers. Creator Insider has some answers to creator questions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFIGg5OKO7Y). Stories are meant to live on to a greater extent than “casual” content, in addition to are solely available for vii days later they are posted.
• YouTube announced they are retiring “lower usage features” inwards January, most notably one-time Annotations. The Annotations editor was retired good over a twelvemonth ago, but at that topographic point are many older videos that withal hit got the (sometimes annoying) desktop-only notation boxes in addition to text. Those volition live on removed mid-January, in addition to YouTube is encouraging users to add together Cards in addition to End Screens inwards their place.
• Also inwards January: ad-supported “Shows” playlists driblet dead regular playlists, Movies driblet dead criterion videos and video credits (but non caption credits) volition live on removed.
• YouTube has launched US-only YouTube Premium in addition to YouTube Music Premium Student Plans. If y'all are an eligible student, it looks worth checking out (and yeah they are verifying pupil status).
• Instagram immediately lets y'all part Stories amongst aOffline Gmail Chrome Web App removed from the store
• December 4: AdSense on Air; Fight against fraud in addition to protect your revenue amongst ads.txt
• December 6: Google volition halt serving Nearby Notifications to Android devices
• December 11: Google’s DevFest OnAir (register now!)

YouTube in addition to Video Creation

• YouTube removing "lower usage features": Annotations, Ad-Supported Shows & Movies, Video Credits (YouTube)
• YouTube Stories rolling out to eligible channels amongst 10k+ subscribers (YouTube Creators)
• Stories on Stories! Barbara's Take (Creator Insider)
• YouTube launches pupil plans for YouTube Music in addition to YouTube Premium but inwards fourth dimension for wintertime suspension (YouTube)
• Learn to a greater extent than nearly Google Groups amongst Contacts hovercards (G Suite Updates)
• Learning to Predict Depth on the Pixel iii Phones (Google AI Blog)

Google for businesses

• Industry collaboration leads to takedown of the “3ve” cite fraud operation (Google Security Blog)
• Google Partners Discover: Drive online to offline sales (Google Partners)

Hangouts in addition to Messaging

• Android Auto immediately supports apps amongst MMS in addition to RCS messaging (Google)
• Hangouts Meet immediately allows G Suite Enterprise users to organize meetings amongst upward to 100 participants (G Suite Updates)

Made yesteryear Google, Android, Google Fi

• Bringing Google Fi to to a greater extent than people on Android in addition to iOS (Google)
• Upgrade your daily campaign amongst novel Android Auto features (Google)
• Elevate your quizzing in addition to grading sense amongst ii G Suite for Education beta programs (G Suite Updates)
• Google Classroom for all G Suite customers (G Suite Updates)

Privacy in addition to Security

• These hugely pop Android apps hit got been committing cite fraud behind users’ backs (Buzzfeed News)

More some the web

• We went to a steak dinner annuity pitch. The salesman wasn’t pleased (New York Times)

Updated March 2019 to take away Google+ links.

Weekly Update - January 26, 2019: Hangouts, Youtube, Webmasters As Well As More

Jan is coming to a close, in addition to this calendar week nosotros got a information nigh what volition endure happening inwards the coming months for YouTube, Hangouts inwards G Suite, Search Console in addition to more. No, at that topographic point hasn’t been an update from Google+ nigh the Apr shutdown for consumer users. There also has non been whatsoever update from Blogger nigh what volition endure happening to Google+ features.

• Beginning of the end? Buffer ended Google+ back upwardly on Jan 25th and Hootsuite volition halt Google+ back upwardly on Jan 28th. Other social media management platforms that offering integration alongside Google+ volition also endure affected every bit there may endure “intermittent failures” of the Google+ API starting the 28th. While this won’t ship on posting to Google+ directly, businesses, organizations, in addition to Pages that travel 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 inwards the “G+” Community Owners in addition to Moderators community nigh how it works.
• YouTube announced they volition endure reducing recommendations for content that could "misinform inwards harmful ways", similar "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming Blue Planet is flat, or making blatantly faux claims nigh historic events similar 9/11."
• YouTube has a novel informative FAQ answering questions nigh copyright claims and companies that may endure abusing the Content ID system.
• G Suite users volition endure moved from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat in addition to Meet inwards October. All G Suite domains volition accept Hangouts Chat enabled inwards April, in addition to 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 ship on consumer users, who volition endure able to perish on using Classic Hangouts. Eventually consumer users volition endure transitioned to Chat in addition to Meet too, but at that topographic point 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 Pb Scott Johnston announced on Twitter that Google Voice for G Suite volition endure available exterior the US, starting alongside Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, in addition to the UK. There are sadly no plans to offering * Google Voice to consumer users internationally. If you lot are interested, apply for the Early access Program. 
• Google Search Console is a gratuitous tool that lets webmasters assess site functioning inwards Google Search. Features are gradually beingness moved from the erstwhile version of Search Console to the novel version. At the end of March at that topographic point volition endure a pregnant 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 alongside reports organized past times “vertical” (like Jobs, Recipes, in addition to Events).
• Gmail has novel features: an Undo/Redo button, slow strikethrough formatting, in addition to the mightiness to download messages every bit .EML files (which tin terminate endure imported into other e-mail clients).
• If you lot are interested inwards Blogger, check out my appearance on Michael Daniel’s Tinkering alongside Tech show. I acquire through around of the basic settings in addition to respond questions.

Read on for to a greater extent than links, tips in addition to updates for YouTube creators, concern owners, advertisers in addition to more.

Image: Monday, Jan 28th is Data Protection Day in Europe in addition to Data Privacy Day inwards the relaxation 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 pick to part to Google+
• January 28: HootSuite back upwardly for Google+ ends
• January 28: There volition get-go to endure “intermittent failures” of the Google+ API. The Google+ API volition endure fully closed downward March 7. The Google+ API lets external sites in addition to apps connect to Google+. 
• January 31: YouTube Video Credits removed
• January 31: YouTube removes pick to automatically part to Google+ in addition to Twitter
• February 1: Deadline for tidings organizations to apply for Newspack past times Wordpress.com 
• February 5: Old Google Contacts closed down

YouTube in addition to Video Creation

• YouTube improving recommendations (YouTube)
• YouTube TV goes nationwide, inwards fourth dimension for the Super Bowl (YouTube)
• Answers to your questions nigh copyright claims on YouTube (YouTube)
• Yellow $ trouble? Ask YouTube policy specialists nigh the advertiser-friendly guidelines inwards Jan 25th AMA (YouTube)
• YouTube Music Unveils its First-Ever 'Artists to Watch' inwards Commonwealth of Australia in addition to New Zealand (Google Australia)

Go Live

• Google Ad Manager Integration for Live in addition to On-Demand Video (IBM Video Streaming)

Google+

• LifeCloud has a Google+ Data Importer for re-creating Google+ Communities. (Todd Hawk inwards the “G+” Community Owners in addition to Moderators community)

Other social media

• Focusing on the novel Search Console, moving features in addition to deprecating others (Google Webmasters)
• Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (January 22) (Google Webmasters) 

AdSense in addition to advertising

• Google hitting alongside £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 in addition to grown your concern alongside machine learning (Google Partners)

Hangouts in addition to Messaging

• Upcoming Hangouts service consolidation for all G Suite customers (G Suite Updates)
• Two novel Hangouts Meet tools added to the Admin console: lineament tool in addition to action logs (G Suite Updates)
• Google Voice for G Suite volition endure available internationally (Scott Johnston)
• New Gmail compose formatting in addition to download options (G Suite Updates)
• Find to a greater extent than remainder inwards your life this year, alongside assist from Google (Google)

Privacy in addition to Security

• How practice you lot principle the evolution of artificial intelligence? Policymakers are trying to figure that out (New York Times)
• Yes, “algorithms” tin terminate 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 nigh a merger (Recode)
• Google asks Supreme Court to dominion on when code tin terminate endure copyrighted (The Verge)
• Oracle v. Google in addition to the time to come of software development (Google)
• Expanding noesis access alongside the Wikimedia Foundation (Google)

Weekly Update: February 23, 2019: Youtube Policy & Enforcement, Merchant Tools

This calendar week YouTube made major updates inwards how they enforce policy, in that location are novel tools for merchants to larn their products seen on Google, in addition to more. In personal news, my YouTube channel is in conclusion dorsum inwards the YouTube Partner Program. It lost monetization simply over a twelvemonth ago, because my channel didn’t run into the novel picket fourth dimension requirements. Thank y'all all for watching!

• YouTube announced a total revision of how Community Guidelines strikes are enforced, amongst an initial one-time warning. After that, the start out strike results inwards a 7-day freeze inwards posting content, the minute strike inside ninety days a fourteen 24-hour interval freeze, in addition to a 3rd strike inside ninety days, channel termination. Under the electrical flow system, a unmarried strike causes alive streaming to hold out restricted for ninety days. Under the novel organization alive streaming volition hold out restricted for the shorter period. The novel organization goes into consequence on Feb 25. 
• In reply to reports that pedophiles were networking inwards the comments of videos featuring children, YouTube has disabled comments on "tens of millions" of videos featuring minors, in addition to express monetization on videos that characteristic minors in addition to are at adventure for predatory comments. Affected channels tin give the sack re-enable comments, but YouTube recommends that they review all comments earlier they are allowed to seem on their video picket pages.
• It’s non all bad. YouTube Studio Beta right away lets y'all graph Analytics comparisons, so, for example, y'all tin give the sack easily compare the views on several unlike videos inwards a item fourth dimension frame.
• Google presented a white newspaper describing their operate to preclude the intentional spread of misinformation across their products, including YouTube, Google Search, Google News, in addition to Google Ads. It’s non actually novel information if you’ve been next Google’s actions over the past times duo of years, but it’s useful to regard inwards 1 place. It covers their active back upward of journalism, operate to protect election integrity, evolution of algorithms that promote “quality” content, providing context to users, in addition to investing inwards human reviewers.
• Social media is non exclusively nether pressure level to halt the flow of misinformation nearly politics, but also medical treatments. And they accept been responding. YouTube demonetized a set out of anti-vaccination channels. Pinterest goes further, blocking "vaccine" in addition to "cancer cure" searches, preventing re-pinning of anti-vax memes already removed from 1 trouble concern human relationship in addition to no longer allows pinning links to for certain anti-vaccination websites. And Facebook is thinking nearly taking measures.
• If y'all are interested inwards the evolution of Twitter, apply for the Twitter Prototype Program to effort out the novel paradigm app. The start out goal is to become far “easier to read, empathise in addition to bring together conversations.”
• Google has introduced novel ways for merchants to build for certain their customers notice up-to-date in addition to accurate production information when searching online. There is a “Products” study inwards Google Search Console, production information uploaded to Google Merchant Center may right away seem inwards Search in addition to Google Images, in addition to in that location are novel features inwards Google Manufacturer Center.
• Google Cloud Next volition hold out Apr 9-11 inwards San Francisco. You tin give the sack banking corporation check out the official website to see the scheduled sessions, amongst tracks for G Suite apps for productivity in addition to collaboration, application development, infrastructure, information management, security in addition to much more. You tin give the sack learn how Spotify uses Google Cloud Bigtable to serve personalized music recommendations, what’s novel amongst Hangouts Meet in addition to Meet Hardware, the future of Google Sites, a panel give-and-take on Google’s Communication Products, in addition to much more.

Read on for to a greater extent than links, tips in addition to updates for YouTubers, webmasters in addition to more. 

Image:  We’re coming to the destination of the flick awards season. At the Academy Awards on Sunday, flick stars volition hold out dressed to the nines. I’ve chose ruddy beads in addition to sequins for this my formal attire. And, of course of study Google wants to help “give y'all the scoop on Hollywood’s large night”. Photo past times _Alicja_ on Pixabay (Free for commercial use)

Upcoming

• February 25: YouTube’s novel copyright strike organization goes into effect.
• February 27: Deadline to register for Google I/O tickets
• March Spring Cleaning: Google navigation bar notification bell removed, goo.gl link shortener API shutdown

YouTube in addition to Video Creation

• YouTube Studio Beta right away lets y'all nautical chart comparisons (Tom Leung)
• News Flash: Release manual content ID claims, commenter experiment in addition to to a greater extent than (Creator Insider)
• YouTube revises Community Guidelines strike organization to become far to a greater extent than fair in addition to consistent (YouTube Creators)
• YouTube temporarily disables comments on millions of videos featuring kids; limits ads; recommends belongings all comments for moderation (YouTube)
• Update on our actions related to the security of minors on YouTube (YouTube Help)
• YouTube Sends Memo to Major Brands in addition to Holding Companies Regarding Latest Ad Safety Controversy (Adweek)
• On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding inwards plainly sight (WIRED UK)
• The YouTuber who exposed the site’s ‘softcore pedophile ring’ is nether attack (the Daily Dot)
• Clarifying YouTube Monetization policies on sensitive events, nerf guns, video game violence (Creator Insider)
• Fighting disinformation across Google products (Google Europe)
• YouTube simply demonetized anti-vax channels (Buzzfeed News)
• How the shutdown of consumer Google+ volition impact your YouTube Channel (don't panic, it won't hold out deleted!) 

Go Live

• Twitch Partner in addition to Affiliate Emote Update (Twitch)
• Help customers discovery your products on Google (Google Webmasters)
• Now on iOS: Follow your favorite places on Google Maps (Google)
• A Local SEO Citation, y'all Never Knew You Had (SEMrush Blog)

Bloggers in addition to Webmasters

• .dev domains are right away available (Google Developers)
• Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (February 19) (Google Webmasters)
• Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (February 22) (Google Webmasters)
• Easily re-create your Gmail holds to Hangouts Chat inwards Google Vault (G Suite Updates)

Made past times Google, Android, Google Fi

• Stable Channel Update for Desktop (Chrome 72) (Chrome Releases)
• Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS (Chrome 72) (Chrome Releases)
• Setting a course of study to the futurity of cloud computing (Google)

Privacy in addition to Security

• Maintaining Trust in addition to Safety at Discord With Over 200 Million People (Discord)
• Facebook right away lets Android users disable location tracking when y'all aren't using the app. (Facebook)
• These wellness apps are sharing sensitive information amongst Facebook (The Verge)

More some the web

• European governments approve controversial novel copyright law (Ars Technica)
• Google volition destination a do that prevents their workers from taking the companionship to courtroom over workplace disputes (Recode)
• To help grapple the opioid crisis, a novel tool from Maps in addition to Search (Google)

Verify Your Blogger Spider Web Log Inward Google Search Console

If y'all bring a Blogger blog, y'all tin easily verify your weblog in Google Search Console alongside only a few clicks. The Google Webmasters has made a video showing how y'all tin create that as business office of their novel Google Search Console grooming series. 

I've also written upward the step-by-step instructions below. 

Google Search Console is a useful tool to monitor together with deal how your website or weblog appears inwards the Google Search results.

• View together with ready indexing problems
• Request re-indexing of novel or updated content.
• View Google Search traffic information for your site, including how ofttimes your site appears inwards Google Search results, which Google search queries exhibit your site, together with how ofttimes searchers click your site inwards the Search results.
• Receive alerts when in that place are indexing, spam, or other issues on your site.
• See which sites link to your site.
• AdSense recommends using Search Console tools to meliorate your site visibility together with (hopefully) increase traffic to your site.

You volition also require to verify your website or weblog inwards Search Console to link to it from your YouTube video Cards together with End Screens.

Verify your Blogger Blog inwards Google Search Console

New Blogger blogs should live on added together with verified automatically inwards your Search Console account. However, if your weblog isn't automatically added, y'all tin easily verify your Blogger weblog inwards Search Console.

If y'all are using Google Sites, Google Domains, or bring whatever other form of site, the Google Webmasters aid middle has instructions for Search Console verification.

Here's how to verify your Blogger weblog inwards Search Console:

1. Sign inwards to Google Search Console (https://search.google.com/search-console) with the same Google work concern human relationship e-mail y'all role to sign inwards to Blogger.

2. At tumble out left click the electrical current Search Property. 

If your Blogger weblog is already verified together with on the list, only click the weblog cite to encounter the data. You shouldn't require to create anything else. If your weblog is non listed there, become on to pace 3.

3. Click + Add Property

4. Select URL Prefix,  enter your weblog URL, and click Continue

5. Verification should live on immediate, together with y'all should encounter an Auto Verification confirmation

Search Console starts collecting information equally presently equally your weblog is verified.

Note that "older Blogger blogs" are non automatically verified, but tin live on verified using the HTML tag method. While Google Webmasters does non define an "older blog", I would gauge it's blogs using the really one-time "Classic" theme.

Week Inwards Review - February 28, 2015 - Youtube Kids, Blogger Porn, Novel Direction For Google+ Photos In Addition To More

Some of updates, tips together with articles from the by week:

YouTube

• YouTube Kids app is launched
• Shorthand vanity URLs for YouTube channels: directly based on new-style custom URLs (posted here)
• Android YouTube app update: just trim down your videos together with banking concern stand upwards for out the novel inline video preview
• iOS YouTube app update: run across what you lot are typing :)

Google+

• AdSense Publishers: there's a novel AdSense Revenue Profile report

Webmasters

• Make certain your site is mobile-friendly (Google volition starting fourth dimension expand mobile friendly every bit a ranking indicate on Apr 21)

Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links

Week Inwards Review - March 28, 2015: Back Upward Local Business, Alive Broadcasting Apps, Big Weblog Images

This week's top updates, tips, articles as well as posts for YouTube Creators, Bloggers, Webmasters, Live Broadcasters, Local Business owners, as well as people living inward the 21st century. Read on for all this week's highlights.

YouTube

• Connect your YouTube channel to Twitter (but non Facebook)  (Google+ news of my post here)
• YouTube Creators: honour gratuitous music as well as images to operate inward your video fifty-fifty commercially!
• YouTube Creators: customize your channel to display playlists as well as highlight other channels
• Three ways to travel out along people from unsubscribing from your YouTube channel (Tim Schmoyer @ Video Creators) 
• Would you lot pay to run across videos from your favorite YouTube stars earlier everyone else? Vessel may endure for you!

Live Video Broadcasting

• Overview of Meerkat for Live Streaming on Twitter as well as Automate the saving of your Meerkat alive flow to YouTube using Katchkat (Krishna De)
• Twitter's Live Broadcasting app Periscope at in 1 lawsuit available for iOS
• Rumor: YouTube taking on Twitch amongst emphasis on gaming alive broadcasts. YouTube's response? An animated GIF.

Google+

• Looking for attention on Google+? Help us to attention you lot (Kamal Tailor)
• Notification Basics: how to read as well as answer to your Google+ as well as YouTube comment notifications (Carol Dodsley)

Local Business

• Support your Local Businesses: transportation a postcard highlighting the local businesses you lot love!
• Local concern owner? Get your concern on the map!

Bloggers as well as Webmasters

• Blogger tip: brand certain your weblog post has an picture at to the lowest degree 400 pixels broad for Google+ to present a full-bleed picture instead of a pocket-size thumbnail when you lot part the link
• Q&A Session for Google's upcoming mobile-friendly ranking change
• Is that shiny badge on your website promoting your competitors?
• YouTube Playlist without Google: Create a YouTube Playlist to embed on your website without signing inward (Amit Agarwal)
• Do you lot display the Navbar at the top of your Blogger blog? (Carol Dodsley)

Productivity

• Export your Google Keep notes to Google Docs to expand as well as edit them

AdSense

• AdSense Publishers: increase your net turn a profit yesteryear focusing on the Long-term Revenue Framework
• AdSense-related highlights of the FTC Staff Report on Google & Antitrust issues: 10 sites stand upwardly for 80% of AdSense traffic, operate of exclusivity as well as preferential handling agreements, lack of alternatives for publishers (sorry Bing ads), as well as declining revenues

Account Security & Management

• Is your Google concern human relationship secure? Check your concern human relationship activity! (Jaana Nystrom)
• Back upwardly your Chrome bookmarks, passwords, history as well as settings (WC Blitzy)

This 21st century life

• Pervasive, persuasive technology: smart plenty to exploit human nature
• Putting women on the map: SPARK is has created a database of locations where women convey made history to Google Field Trip. When you lot are near, you'll endure notified.

For more, follow me on Google+ or Twitter

You tin besides subscribe to my weekly update yesteryear email. 

Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links

Week Inwards Review - February 28, 2015 - Youtube Kids, Blogger Porn, Novel Administration For Google+ Photos Together With More

Some of updates, tips together with articles from the by week:

YouTube

• YouTube Kids app is launched
• Shorthand vanity URLs for YouTube channels: forthwith based on new-style custom URLs (posted here)
• Android YouTube app update: exactly cut down your videos together with cheque out the novel inline video preview
• iOS YouTube app update: come across what yous are typing :)

Google+

• AdSense Publishers: there's a novel AdSense Revenue Profile report

Webmasters

• Make certain your site is mobile-friendly (Google volition offset expand mobile friendly every bit a ranking dot on Apr 21)

Updated March 2019 to take away Google+ links

Week Inwards Review - March 28, 2015: Back Upward Local Business, Alive Broadcasting Apps, Big Spider Web Log Images

This week's top updates, tips, articles as well as posts for YouTube Creators, Bloggers, Webmasters, Live Broadcasters, Local Business owners, as well as people living inwards the 21st century. Read on for all this week's highlights.

YouTube

• Connect your YouTube channel to Twitter (but non Facebook)  (Google+ give-and-take of my post here)
• YouTube Creators: notice costless music as well as images to operate inwards your video fifty-fifty commercially!
• YouTube Creators: customize your channel to display playlists as well as highlight other channels
• Three ways to proceed people from unsubscribing from your YouTube channel (Tim Schmoyer @ Video Creators) 
• Would y'all pay to run into videos from your favorite YouTube stars earlier everyone else? Vessel may survive for you!

Live Video Broadcasting

• Overview of Meerkat for Live Streaming on Twitter as well as Automate the saving of your Meerkat alive stream to YouTube using Katchkat (Krishna De)
• Twitter's Live Broadcasting app Periscope forthwith available for iOS
• Rumor: YouTube taking on Twitch alongside emphasis on gaming alive broadcasts. YouTube's response? An animated GIF.

Google+

• Looking for assistance on Google+? Help us to assistance y'all (Kamal Tailor)
• Notification Basics: how to read as well as response to your Google+ as well as YouTube comment notifications (Carol Dodsley)

Local Business

• Support your Local Businesses: transportation a postcard highlighting the local businesses y'all love!
• Local trouble concern owner? Get your trouble concern on the map!

Bloggers as well as Webmasters

• Blogger tip: brand certain your weblog post has an icon at to the lowest degree 400 pixels broad for Google+ to exhibit a full-bleed icon instead of a minor thumbnail when y'all part the link
• Q&A Session for Google's upcoming mobile-friendly ranking change
• Is that shiny badge on your website promoting your competitors?
• YouTube Playlist without Google: Create a YouTube Playlist to embed on your website without signing inwards (Amit Agarwal)
• Do y'all display the Navbar at the top of your Blogger blog? (Carol Dodsley)

Productivity

• Export your Google Keep notes to Google Docs to expand as well as edit them

AdSense

• AdSense Publishers: growth your net turn a profit past times focusing on the Long-term Revenue Framework
• AdSense-related highlights of the FTC Staff Report on Google & Antitrust issues: x sites stand upwards for 80% of AdSense traffic, operate of exclusivity as well as preferential handling agreements, lack of alternatives for publishers (sorry Bing ads), as well as declining revenues

Account Security & Management

• Is your Google trouble concern human relationship secure? Check your trouble concern human relationship activity! (Jaana Nystrom)
• Back upwards your Chrome bookmarks, passwords, history as well as settings (WC Blitzy)

This 21st century life

• Pervasive, persuasive technology: smart plenty to exploit human nature
• Putting women on the map: SPARK is has created a database of locations where women convey made history to Google Field Trip. When y'all are near, you'll survive notified.

For more, follow me on Google+ or Twitter

You tin likewise subscribe to my weekly update past times email. 

Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links

Week Inward Review - April 4, 2015:Google Photos Inward Drive, Faster Telephone Calls Inward Hangouts, April Fooling

Despite the Apr Foolishness this calendar week in that place were around corking updates, including Google+ Photos appearing inwards Google Drive, faster telephone calls inwards Hangouts together with AdSense for Malay blogs together with websites. Read on for my roundup of this weeks tips, articles together with posts on Google+.

YouTube together with Video Creators

• Video creators: say a compelling storey inwards xc seconds together with win a trip for 2 to Cannes
• Do yous convey backups of your Google photos together with YouTube videos? No online storage organisation is perfect, together with therefore purpose Google Takeout today to archive your information together with files

Google Photos

• New! Your Google+ Photos are instantly available inwards Google Drive
• New Google+ Stories inwards Google Now: don't missy a novel Story

Google+

• How NOT promote your interests, beliefs, community, concern or fifty-fifty yourself on Google+  (John Skeats)

Local Business Updates

• Is your concern information complete? Get recommendations from Google on how to improve your concern listing
• Having problem amongst your Google+ Page? Get assistance without leaving Google+

Hangouts

• Update: Faster telephone calls inwards Google Hangouts inwards Gmail, Google+ together with the Chrome app

AdSense

• AdSense instantly speaks Malay (Bahasa Melayu)!

Bloggers together with Webmasters

• Webmasters: Everything yous ask to know almost Google's novel opinion on Mobile

Gmail, Drive together with Google Docs

• Update: Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo post service together with more: instantly meliorate together inwards the updated Gmail app
• Google for Work: Keep all your operate to a greater extent than secure amongst Google Drive

Google Account Help

• How much infinite produce yous convey left? Check your Google storage purpose for photos, documents together with more!
• Google Help Center gets a colorful novel Material design

21st Century Life

• Coachella 2015 Live inwards the comfort of your ain dwelling household - (almost) meliorate than existence there!

April Fool! 

• Be certain to want your friends together with colleagues Happy Apr Fools inwards Hangouts!

• Rumor: Google acquires Facebook, volition rename it F+
• Wocka wocka wocka wocka - Pac-Man had invaded Google Maps!
• Smartbox past times Inbox past times Gmail: costless your mail!
• Video yous are watching a lilliputian dry? Click the novel "add music" push to liven it upGoogle Nihon introduces Panda 5: the latest technology scientific discipline that lets users easily honour the information they want, inwards a mobile-friendly package
• Matt Cutts reveals his novel project: AutoSEO
• Do yous similar to await at things from a dissimilar angle? The http://com.google search engine is for you!
• Go dorsum to the basics: MS-DOS mobile for your phone
• Having a grumpy day? Search Bing's Cute Cloud to honour an adorable puppy, kitten or cute nutrient motion-picture exhibit that volition brand yous smile
• Emerging evidence indicates that dragons tin flame no longer live on dismissed equally creatures of legend together with fantasy, together with that anthropogenic effects on the world's climate may inadvertently live on paving the agency for the resurgence of these beasts.
• Scientists at CERN uncovering evidence for The Force
• Breaking scientific discipline news: Mercury infinite probe records what audio similar anguished voices
• Your taxation dollars at work? Army drones deliver 3D printed pizzas to hungry soldiers

For more, follow me on Google+ or Twitter

You tin flame also subscribe to my weekly update past times email.

Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links

Week Inwards Review - April 18, 2015: Complaining To Google, Google+ Posting Action Stats In Addition To Mobile Updates Galore

This week's updates volition heighten your productivity on your vociferation upward in addition to tablet. Also larn what to practise if the Google Chat plugin won't run inwards Chrome, how to effectively complain when Google removes your favorite feature, in addition to a (perhaps) expert guess of Earth posting activeness on Google+. Read on for this week's updates, tips in addition to articles.

YouTube

• YouTube Creators: accept a question? It powerfulness live on answered inwards the adjacent episode of #TheCreatorShow
• Businesses in addition to Brands: YouTube Creator Playbook teaches how to operate YouTube to aid your build stand upward out

Google+

• Hard numbers for world posting activeness on Google+ (Eric Enge @ Stone Temple Consulting)
• Update: Google+ Communities acquire a novel hold back on Android devices
• Update: The newly updated Google My Business mobile app makes it easier to contend Google+ Pages on the go

Photos in addition to (Non-YouTube) Videos

• Share videos to Twitter from Google Drive - Google+ in addition to YouTube non required (Mike Downes)

Hangouts

• Unable to operate Google Chat inwards the latest version of Chrome? Try switching to Google Hangouts!

AdSense

• AdSense Publishers: John Brown, caput of Publisher Policy Communications is reviewing policy on the official AdSense blog

Blogger & Webmasters

• Webmasters: Worried that your site isn't mobile friendly? Don't panic! And don't autumn for deceptive marketing pitches that advise you lot should (Ashley Berman Hale)
• Blogger weblog owners: are you lot having problem amongst Bloglovin, Feedburner or the Follow past times Email feature? Don't add together a place inwards the post editor! (Chuck Croll)

Productivity: Google Search, Docs, Maps, in addition to More

• How to complain when Google removes your favorite feature
• New: Google Handwriting Input launches for Android devices
• Update: Fine melody your piece of employment on the acquire amongst the updated Google Sheets, Docs in addition to Slides apps
• Update: Google Drive for Android brings to a greater extent than ways to connect amongst to a greater extent than people
• New: Thinking "Dude, where's my phone"? Try "Google, where's my phone?" instead
• Update: Goodbye Classic Google Maps

21st Century Life

• Twitter’s New Homepage Doesn’t Fix Its Big Problem (Wired)
• Humor: Modern Horror Tales
• Poll: are you lot an Early Bird or a Night Owl? (so far 73% of you lot are Night Owls!)

For more, follow me on Google+ or Twitter

You tin dismiss also subscribe to my weekly update past times email.

Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links

Week Inward Review - April 25, 2015: Adsense Matched Content, Google Projection Fi, Youtube Api Update

Ten years agone this calendar week the root YouTube video was uploaded - y'all tin laissez passer notice still spotter it and direct maintain a peek at the original YouTube design. And at that topographic point were lots of updates - Google introduces Project Fi, AdSense launches Matched Content units, older YouTube apps halt working, too to a greater extent than for webmasters, local business, alive broadcasters too social media mavens! Read on for this week's updates, tips too articles.

YouTube

• YouTube update: After Apr 2015 the YouTube app volition no longer last supported on older iOS devices, smart TVs too game consoles
• YouTubers: build certain your weblog or website is mobile-friendly past times using the electrical current YouTube video embed code   (See also 3 slowly ways to promote your YouTube channel on your Blogger blog )
• How to laid upwards a video tutorial (Andrew Bossom on YouTube)

Live Broadcasting

• Live broadcasters:  Wirecast for YouTube is currently unavailable, exactly should proceed to run if y'all already direct maintain it installed
• Organize a webinar amongst Google Hangouts on Air (Google for Work: The Apps Show on YouTube)

Google+

• The stats inward Forbes latest "Google+ is dead" slice don't say the whole storey (Mark Traphagan)
• Why y'all tin laissez passer notice alone post to i Google+ Community at a fourth dimension - too why that is a feature, non a põrnikas (John Skeats)

Local Businesses:

• On this hateful solar daytime of #Mobilegeddon *it's of import to recollect why mobile searches are important, too who they're close of import to [Spoiler: it's Locally focused pocket-size businesses] (David Kutcher)
• Local concern owners: direct maintain y'all optimized your Google+ Local page's profile image? (Mike Blumenthal @ Local U)Local concern owners: Google wants to aid acquire your concern on the map!
• Local Business owners: Google volition never build telephone calls offering to better your ranking or contend your concern data - larn how to avoid too study scams

AdSense

• AdSense launches Matched Content - a complimentary recommendation tool for your website
• AdSense Publishers:  payment details from the legacy payments organisation volition last going away - download a re-create for your records! Deadline: June 30th

Blogger

• Have y'all backed upwards your Blogger weblog recently? Do it today! (discussion of my post on Google+)

Hangouts too Mobile

• Google Launches Project Fi : mobile service that combines WiFi too Data networks for the best coverage
• Push Google Maps directions from the Desktop to your Android phone

Chrome

• Disable the Chrome Enhanced Bookmark feature (WC Blitzy)
• Get notified! Chrome lets y'all have notifications from websites, apps too extensions on the calculator desktop (Alex Garcia)

More Social Media

• The novel Twitter retweet-with-quote pick may acquire inward harder for tweets to acquire viral (Robert Wallis)
• Facebook updates the News Feed to shift the residual towards posts past times friends too away from pages
• Can a calculator notice community trolls? An algorithm tin laissez passer notice notice anti-social commenting behaviour (but is no replacement for human moderators)

21st Century Life

• When brands back upwards equality, it's a win all around:  LGBT Advertising: How Brands Are Taking a Stance on Issues (Think amongst Google)

For more, follow me on Google+ or Twitter

You tin laissez passer notice also subscribe to my weekly update past times email.

Updated March 2019 to take away G+ links

Week Inward Review - May 23, 2015: Hangouts Novel Look, Ripples Retired, Google Search Console

Are y'all laid for Google I/O on May 28-29? If y'all can't attend inwards person, watch the Keynote together with other sessions live. Also follow the official Google Top Contributor Program I/O Requests Collection to asking I/O data together with reckon the answers.

What's novel this week? The Chrome Hangouts desktop app gets a novel await together with Mac support, Google+ retired Ripples, Google Maps no longer links to Google+ Local draw organisation pages, Webmaster Tools is similar a shot Google Search Console together with more.

Google Top Contributor Program

• Follow the novel Google Top Contributor Program page for programme updates, Top Contributor together with Rising Star news, together with data almost meetups.

YouTube

• YouTube Creators: if y'all delete the YouTube channel connected to your Google+ Profile, y'all volition non last able to sign inwards to YouTube for two weeks
• Vote for your favorite video promotion from the past times 10 years

Google+

• Google+ retires Ripples

Local Businesses

• Links to Google+ Local draw organisation Pages removed from Google Maps together with Google Search Knowledge Panel

Photos

• Time lapses from crowd-sourced world photos

Hangouts

• Hangouts Chrome app update: MacOSX users (and everyone else) endeavor out the novel version of the app!

Webmasters, Bloggers, together with Search

• Google Webmaster Tools is similar a shot Google Search Console
• Google Webmaster Office Hours: Responsive Web Design (video)
• Google brings real-time Twitter content to the search results
• Advanced Blogger users together with template creators: Blogger has added novel conditional expressions

Android

• Keep your Android Phone or Tablet safe

More or together with then the web

• More women assist Google I/O this yr than e'er before
• Unicode proposes novel criterion emoji for 2016 (I need the human face upwardly palm emoji!)
• Better breathing together with decoration: instruct houseplants that clear the air!

For more, follow me on Google+ or Twitter

You tin dismiss also subscribe to my weekly update past times email.

Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links

Week Inwards Review - June 6, 2015: Your Photos In Addition To Videos At Google, Google+ Removed From Google Navigation Bar

This calendar week photos as well as videos at Google got a closer look, including the novel Google Photos, as well as uploads to YouTube, Maps, Blogger as well as Hangouts. Meanwhile Google+ was removed from the Google navigation bar, joining YouTube, Maps as well as Calendar as well as other Google products inwards the app launcher.  And at that spot are tips as well as updates to ameliorate your productivity as well as give-up the ghost along your draw of piece of job concern human relationship secure. Read on!

YouTube

• June 15-26: YouTube Creators: cause got your video productions alongside the YouTube Production Skills kick camp
• See the hereafter of YouTube - endeavour the redesigned video player
• Free unlimited video uploads: Google Photos or YouTube? It depends on how, what, as well as why you lot are uploading (G+ give-and-take of my post here)
• Import your videos as well as motion-picture demonstrate creations from Google Photos to your YouTube channel (G+ give-and-take of my post here)

Photos

• Google Photos: gratuitous unlimited High Quality photos or Original quality? (Google Top Contributor Program)
• Google Photos: you lot tin flame salve - or dismiss - suggested collages, animations, stories as well as movies
• Your photos on Google Maps: Views volition endure retired, you lot volition endure able to contend your photos through Google Maps as well as a novel Street View app volition endure launched
• Also run across my Photos-related posts relating to YouTube, Blogger, as well as Hangouts!

Google+ 

• Is Google+ REALLY Dying? And What the Heck are Collections? (an interview alongside Google Community Manager Moritz Tolxdorff at Geeks Life)
• The share-to-Google+ box has been removed from the transcend toolbar across Google products
• The +Name link to your Google+ flow inwards the Google navigation bar is gone, but you lot tin flame yet larn to Google+ from the app launcher, only similar other Google services

Blogger as well as Webmasters

• Blogger posting: insert an prototype from Google Photos, Google+ Photos or Picasa Web Albums (G+ give-and-take of my post here)
• Do you lot know where your Blogger spider web log images are stored? Google+ Plus Photos as well as Picase Web Albums, but NOT the novel Google Photos (G+ give-and-take of my post here)
• The no CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA protects your website or spider web log without requiring users to decipher as well as type a word
• English Google Webmasters Office Hours (Hangout on Air video)

AdSense

• AdSense Publishers: Secure your AdSense draw of piece of job concern human relationship as well as website
• Inside await at Google's hush-hush nation of war against advertizement fraud (Ad Age)

Hangouts

• How to respect your shared Hangout albums (Google+ give-and-take of my post here)
• Microsoft's Skype for Web Beta is at in 1 lawsuit opened upwards to Skpye users inwards the U.S.A. as well as Britain - as well as requires plugins (Ars Technica)

Google Voice as well as Project Fi

• Voicemail anywhere: hear to your Google Voice or Project Fi voicemail inwards Gmail (Scott Greenstone)

Security as well as Privacy

• Google as well as your privacy: What does Google create alongside your personal information as well as data?
• Are you lot the product? Google employees don't intend of you lot that way, fifty-fifty if you lot aren't paying for services (Brian White)

Productivity

• Reminders inwards Google Keep volition at in 1 lawsuit appear inwards Inbox past times Gmail
• Updated Google Drive app for iOS
• Google Translate at in 1 lawsuit lets you lot hear to the translation a petty slower
• Hundreds of gratuitous fonts inwards Google Docs as well as Slides
• Yahoo production housecleaning: Yahoo Maps site to close, but maps volition yet endure integrated alongside Flickr and other services 

For more, follow me on Google+ or Twitter

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Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links