This Week in Google 378

A day after US elections, we discuss the role social media played in Trump's victory, and in the widespread perception that he would lose. Also, Twitter's COO steps down, Google cancels Project Wing and Google Showtimes, NFL will create a 9 episode VR series for YouTube and Daydream, and Adobe shows "Photoshop for Audio."

• Leo's Tool: Action Launcher 3
• Jeff's Number: WPP will spend $5 billion on Google ads
• Mike's advice: use Gmail AND Inbox

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Links

• Silicon Valley Braces for Uncertainty After Donald Trump’s Victory
• A look at how Donald Trump's nascent policy platform on tech-related issues
• Canada's Immigration Site Keeps Crashing For Some Reason
• Jarvis on a postmortem for journalism
• Michael Wolff: Trump Win Exposes Media's Smug Failures
• Twitter’s Chief Operating Officer to Step Down
• Google Home review
• Jeff explains why he's Google grumpy (re the Pixel, of course)
• Sources: Alphabet's Project Wing nixed a Starbucks partnership and froze hiring
• Google’s DeepMind A.I. takes on something even more complicated than chess or go: StarCraft II
• Google quietly shutters standalone Google Showtimes movie site
• YouTube Red only has 1.5 million paying subscribers
• Google partners w/ the NFL for 9 episode virtual reality series coming to YouTube & Daydream
• Vue: Your Everyday Smart Glasses
• Snapchat’s new update shows what it might be like to use Spectacles
• Adobe demos “photoshop for audio,” lets you edit speech as easily as text
• U.S. Govt. Hackers Ready to Hit Back If Russia Tries to Disrupt Election - NBC News
• WPP will spend $5b with Google
• Action Launcher 3