Mid-February feels similar the ticker of winter. It’s been moisture as well as mutual coldness fifty-fifty hither inward sunny California. And online, the sunset of consumer Google+ is finally inward total swing. It’s non all gloom though, read on for updates to YouTube, Android as well as more.
- The shutdown of consumer Google+ took its showtime large steps this week:
- The might to create a novel Google+ Profile or Google+ Page was disabled
- Google+ Comments, badges as well as buttons were removed from Blogger blogs
- Also at some indicate inward February, YouTube volition take away its few remaining Google+ features.
- The Google desktop navigation bar notification bell widget will disappear on March 7th. This is currently alone used for Google+, Google Photos as well as Hangouts Chat (for G Suite) notifications. The alternative is to role browser notifications instead.
- Rarely used Google Groups settings volition last removed inward May 2019 as well as other settings volition last updated. If y'all are using Google Groups, be certain to banking corporation gibe the details virtually what’s changing.
- Facebook announced novel features for community building, including novel Group management tools as well as filters, the might to create Mentorship programs for all Groups, as well as Page admins volition immediately last able to respond to Instagram Direct Messages from their Facebook Page inbox.
- Twitter Susan Wojcicki took a rosy await dorsum at 2018 as well as forrad to the coming year. “Billions of comments were made” as well as at that spot are lots to a greater extent than channels earning 6 figures as well as with to a greater extent than than a meg subscribers (no exact numbers were given). She announced 3 goals for 2019: “supporting creator as well as creative somebody success”, “improving communication as well as engagement”, “living upward to YouTube’s responsibility”. It’s pretty similar to her 2018 priorities for Creators, as well as hence it seems YouTube trying to maintain moving inward the same direction.
- YouTube Memberships - similar to Twitch Subscriptions or Patreon Sponsorships - are immediately available to Partnered channels with at to the lowest degree 30,000 subscribers.
- If y'all are wondering how Recommendations on YouTube work, last certain to check out in conclusion week’s AMA with the production squad inward the official YouTube community.
- Periscope, Twitter’s alive streaming platform, now lets y'all larn alive with guests, as well as invite anyone inward your audience to bring together your broadcast.
- assigning search metrics to a unmarried Google-selected canonical URL. That volition combine search metrics for unmarried pieces of content that may role multiple URLs, for event divide mobile or AMP pages.
- There are immediately more than five meg paying businesses using Google’s G Suite, which includes email, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Hangouts as well as Google+. That’s simply a modest fraction of the release of gratuitous users, of course.
- February is Black History Month, as well as Twitch as well as YouTube are celebrating Black creators.
- There’s a novel dancing Childish Gambino Playmoji pack for AR Playground on Pixel phones. They are going for a realistic look, as well as he volition fifty-fifty react to your facial expressions. Google wants to meet your trip the calorie-free fantastic moves amongst him inward a #pixeldanceoff .
- Google is working to brand your accounts to a greater extent than secure: For spider web browsing at that spot is a new Google Password Checkup Chrome extension that volition warn y'all when sign inward to a site using compromised credentials And to secure to a greater extent than devices Google introduced Adiantum, a “new cast of encryption … built specifically to run on phones as well as smart devices that don’t convey the specialized hardware to role electrical current methods to encrypt locally stored information efficiently.” This allows many to a greater extent than devices, including smart watches as well as internet-connected medical devices to encrypt sensitive data.
- Google launched 2 novel Android apps for the deaf as well as hard-of-hearing: Live Transcribe uses cloud-based automatic spoken language recognition to display spoken words inward to a greater extent than than seventy languages. Sound Amplifier lets y'all role your wired headphones with your smartphone to augment sounds inward your environs piece reducing background noise.
Read on for to a greater extent than links, tips as well as updates for Plussers, webmasters as well as more.
Image: Thursday, Feb 14th is Valentine’s Day. These candy hearts are for all of you. (photo yesteryear parnote on Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain). Google has a await at dear inward 2019 as well as explains how y'all tin sack avoid the heartache of Valentine’s Day planning with Google.
Image: Thursday, Feb 14th is Valentine’s Day. These candy hearts are for all of you. (photo yesteryear parnote on Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain). Google has a await at dear inward 2019 as well as explains how y'all tin sack avoid the heartache of Valentine’s Day planning with Google.
Upcoming
YouTube as well as Video Creation
- YouTube Memberships are immediately available to Partner channels with at to the lowest degree 30,000 subscribers
- YouTube inward 2019: Looking dorsum as well as moving forward (Susan Wojcicki)
- YouTube Recommendations AMA Ask the YouTube Team! (YouTube)
- Creator Insider answers mutual questions virtually YouTube Studio Beta (Creator Insider)
Go Live
- Go Live, Together on Periscope (Periscope)
- New channel moderation tools are immediately alive inward Twitch chat (Twitch)
Google+
- The Google desktop notifications bell volition disappear March seventh - switch to browser notifications for Google+, Photos as well as Hangouts Chat
- Update to Google+ Exporter adds writer get upward tag for Blogger exported posts as well as more(Friends+Me)
- Possible Google+ Community migration option: Tapatalk Groups (Winter Wong)
- Google as well as Brands (have y'all been doing it wrong?) (Robert Wallis @ Social Media)
Bloggers as well as Webmasters
- Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs (Google Webmasters)
- Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Ilyes AMA on Reddit (Reddit r/TechSEO)
- Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (February 5) (Google Webmasters)
- Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (February 8) (Google Webmasters)
- Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe (Google AI)
Productivity
- Changes to Google Groups settings starting May 6, 2019 (G Suite Updates)
- Upcoming changes to the Google Groups Settings API (Google Cloud)
- Instant tethering comes to to a greater extent than Chromebooks, letting y'all access the mesh with no Wi-Fi access (Google)
- Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS (Chrome 72) (Chrome Releases)
- Chrome for Android Update (Chrome 72) (Chrome Releases)
Privacy as well as Security
- Big Telecom Sold Highly Sensitive Customer GPS Data Typically Used for 911 Calls (Motherboard)
- Use the novel Google Password Checkup Chrome extension to last warned when signing into a site with compromised credentials (Google)
- Introducing Adiantum: Encryption for the Next Billion Users (Google Online Security Blog)
- Google Is working with security researchers to brand the spider web safer for everyone (Google)
- Advancing enquiry on faux well detection (Google)
