Aug 27th 2014
This Week in Google 264
Flinty Parsimony
Does social media silence debate?
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Is social media an echo chamber? Uber's strategy to sabotage Lyft, Amazon buys Twitch, and more!
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Links
- How Social Media Silences Debate
- Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft
- Google Adds Office Editing to Docs and Sheets for iOS, Releases Slides
- Refreshed Hangouts in Gmail makes it easier to see who's online
- Google News & Weather updated with new widgets and a refreshed UI
- Google Search for Android updated with Google Maps navigation cards
- Google+ users can now import videos to their YouTube account
- Shall we try? Tricking Google Now into speaking with a British accent
- Google twitches; Amazon buys Twitch for $1b
- Related: Google was concerned about antitrust
- Tent — All your data in one place
- WatchABC and NPR One Android & iOS apps add Chromecast support