Twas the calendar week earlier Christmas, together with all through the ‘net, non an update was stirring, non fifty-fifty a reset … OK, at that spot were a few, simply at that spot aren’t probable to survive whatsoever major updates until January. Here’s the most interesting changes this week.
- Back inwards March, Firefox stopped supporting browser plugins, which meant Hangouts video calling stopped working. Now, finally, pluginless Hangouts videos calls are possible inwards the the lates version of Firefox. Hangouts Meet - the version of Hangouts for corporation G Suite users - doesn’t go yet, simply hopefully volition survive available soon.
- Google started novel video series answering Webmasters' oft asked questions virtually SEO together with search. Subscribe to the Google Webmasters YouTube channel together with therefore you lot don’t lady friend an episode.
- Google Webmasters also launched a novel Rich Results testing tool, together with they shared some tips to acquire your website into sort for shift to mobile-first search indexing.
- You tin also hold off forwards to learning how to improve your Google+ content amongst the novel #CreateConnections tutorial series. Each calendar month an experienced Plusser volition render tips inwards the Google+ Collections Community, based on their expertise. The serial kicks off on Jan third amongst locomote skillful together with journalist Monika Fuchs, who volition render tips for creating ameliorate locomote Collections.
- Facebook is using their facial recognition technology scientific discipline Santa takes off inwards 1 twenty-four hr menstruum - role Google’s Santa Tracker to drib dead along an oculus on him!
- NORAD Santa Tracker
- Watch Vimeo’s vacation video channel
- Talk to Santa! 🎅🏽🎅🏽🎅🏽 (if you lot stimulate got a Google Home or Amazon Echo
- Design your ain vacation emoji (and acquire a fleck virtually coding) amongst Made With Code
Image: Christmas lights, past times me
Upcoming:
What’s scheduled for the commencement calendar week of January:
- 31 December: Deadline to postal service your #2017Moments on Google+
- 1 January: YouTube Paid Channels volition survive made private
- 3 January: Google+ #CreateConnections: Monika Fuchs on creating ameliorate locomote Collections
- 9 January: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
YouTube together with Video Creation
AdSense together with advertising
- On Feb xv Chrome volition halt showing ads on sites amongst a failing "Ad Experience" (Google Developers)
Hangouts together with Messaging
- Firefox 1 time once to a greater extent than supports Google Hangouts (finally!) (Serge Lachapelle)
Made past times Google, Android, Project Fi
Productivity
Privacy together with Security
- Set recovery options (and brand certain they are upward to date) for your Google account! (TechCrunch)
More or together with therefore the web
Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links
