Week Inwards Review - January 16, 2016: Google+, Vr, Blogger, Together With More

This calendar week Google+ updated both the novel desktop version together with Android app, a Google work organisation human relationship is straightaway required for the Google Friend Connect app on your Blogger blog, Google appoints a VP of Virtual Reality, together with AdSense offers tailored Optimization. Plus tips together with updates for YouTube, Google+, Inbox, Google Maps, together with more.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 thought: Mon inward the Martin Luther King Jr Day holiday. In 1964 King pointed out that applied scientific discipline doesn't brand us meliorate people. We could practise meliorate then; nosotros could practise meliorate now.

There is a variety of poverty of the spirit which stands inward glaring contrast to our scientific together with technological abundance. The richer nosotros create got give-up the ghost materially, the poorer nosotros create got give-up the ghost morally together with spiritually. We create got learned to wing the air similar birds together with swim the ocean similar fish, merely nosotros create got non learned the unproblematic fine art of living together equally brothers.

- Martin Luther King's Nobel Lecture, delivered inward the Auditorium of the University of Oslo at Dec 11, 1964

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Google+

Update Google+ Android app update: improved search, abode stream, together with to a greater extent than (Luke Wroblewski)
Update Google+ Web Preview update: pivot a post, easier deed to Collections, simpler Community invites (Luke Wroblewski)
Tip How to pivot a post to the transcend of a Google+ Collection (Sooraj Wadhwa)
Tip Move an existing populace post into a Collection (Sooraj Wadhwa)
Tip Testing Friends+Me - a Google+-centered social media posting tool (Me, Eli Fennell)

Google Small Business

Update Small businesses: edit your listing or advise an update straight from the Google search results cognition panel (Priya Chandra together with Mike Blumenthal)

YouTube Creators

Update Free opened upwards beginning Linux video editor OpenShot 2.0 beta is straightaway available (Jonathan Thomas)
Tip Translations for YouTube Creators: to a greater extent than ways to optimize your YouTube channel (Robert Wallis)
Tip Plan out your video amongst storyboards - fifty-fifty if yous can't depict (Vimeo)
Article Robert Kyncl at CES: Why digital video volition overtake TV yesteryear 2020 (ReelSEO)

Go Live

New Twitter Weaves Periscope Into Its Social Feed - spotter alive without a Periscope work organisation human relationship (TubeFilter)

360 images, videos together with VR

New 3D Sound for to a greater extent than immersive VR coming to Cardboard (Google Developers Blog, Google Cardboard)
Update Google forming VR partition amongst Clay Bavor the novel VP of Virtual Reality (Re/Code)
New Palm-sized “Luna” photographic tv set camera tin capture 360-degree video for immersive VR playback (PSFK)
New Space Shuttle Tour Cardboard for Android (Paolo Amoroso)
New Google Street View visits Hamburg’s Miniatur Wunderland - also viewable amongst Cardboard (Google Maps blog)
Article The novel AdSense Optimization tab shows tailored tips for your site (Inside AdSense)
Blogger spider web log owners: Do Not Ask "What Is Required For AdSense?" (Nitecruzr)

Messaging (non Hangouts)

Article Google Maps for Android tells yous when to give-up the ghost (Google Maps)
New Inbox yesteryear Gmail on the spider web straightaway makes it easier to percentage memories amongst bit access to recent photos together with attachments. (Inbox yesteryear Gmail)
New It's straightaway easier to organize your files inward Google Drive on desktop (Google Drive blog)
Tip Using Google Sheets for Dynamic Pricing of Limited Edition Wine (or anything inward express quantity) (Ted Juch)

And more...

What Sean Penn Teaches Us About How Not to Chat With a Fugitive (The Intercept via Mike Blumenthal)
This is what happens when yous respond to scam email (James Veitch TED talk)
Del.icio.us making a comeback? (Tech Crunch)
2016 Google Tracker: Everything Alphabet together with Google is working on for the novel year(Ars Technica)
Alphabet drops the “Google” from Google X’s name, gets novel logo (Ars Technica)
Google I/O 2016 is alone eighteen weeks away together with for the tenth anniversary it volition supply to Mountain View (Sundar Pichai)
YouTube Creators interview President Obama alive afterward the State of the Union (YouTube Spotlight together with The White House)

Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links