Feb 14th 2018
This Week in Google 444
The Fritter Critter
AMP for Email, Chrome Ad Blocker
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Kevin Marks
Google brings AMP to email, smart replies to messages, ad blocking to Chrome, and warnings to insecure websites. Cryptocurrency mining comes to Salon and 4200 other sites. Pixel Visual Core comes to Facebook and Snapchat, but not Google Camera. Logan Paul off YouTube - for now. Facebook loses the youngs.
• Kevin's Stuff: Beaker Browser and Fritter
• Jeff's Number: 280 character wedding vows
• Stacey's Thing: Mango Mirror
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Links
- Bringing the power of AMP to Gmail
- Google is testing 'Reply,' a new app that adds smart replies to popular messaging apps
- Chromium Blog: A secure web is here to stay
- The Google Camera app does not use the Pixel Visual Core
- Instagram, Snapchat, and WhatsApp get better photos on the Pixel 2 [Update]
- How Chrome’s built-in ad blocker will work when it goes live tomorrow | TechCrunch
- Google to enable blocking so-called reminder ads
- Android Messages may soon let you text from the web
- Android Messages may soon let you text from the web
- YouTube suspends Logan Paul’s ad revenue, blames ‘recent pattern of behavior’ - The Verge
- A behind-the-scenes look at two tumultuous years at Facebook as it battled with fake news
- Facebook lost around 2.8 million U.S. users under 25 last year. 2018 won’t be much better.
- Drupal founder gives up facebook
- 4200+ websites, including USCourts.gov, UK's NHS services, other government sites were infected today
- Snapchat makes maps embeddable on the web; good for news sites
- Snapchat’s New Update Triggers Revolt by Millions of Teens
- Boston Dynamics robots can now hold the door for its friends - The Verge
- Quinn Norton joins NYT editorial board; hours later, she's bounced
- Context Collapse, Architecture, and Plows
- New York Times CEO: Print journalism has maybe another 10 years
- Salon’s Monero mining project might be crazy like a fox
- Couple who met on Twitter will marry with 280-character vows
- Mango Mirror
- Fritter