This Week in Google 500

News of the Week

•  Google Stadia: Pros and Cons
•  EU Fines Google $1.7B Over Ads
•  Google's European Browser Ballot
•  Google+'s Last Day: April Fools
•  Google Stadia: Pros and Cons
•  It is Possible to Design a Good Social Network?
•  Google Death Watch: Inbox, Google+, goog.le, Allo
•  Devin Nunes Sues Twitter, his Mom, and his Cow
•  Fake News is Now Illegal... in Russia
•  President Trump Spends More on Facebook and Google Ads Than All Democratic Candidates Put Together
•  Facebook Live Christchurch Shooting
•  Myspace Deletes All Your Music, Photos, and Videos
•  President Psychedelic Warlord, Beto O'Rourke
•  Google Promotes Diversity in Podcasts
•  Google Tasks Might Finally be Useful

Picks of the Week

•  Leo's Tool: Stoop - A newsletter app
•  Stacey's Things: Roadtrippers and Furkot
•  Mike's Obsession: This X Does Not Exist 

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Links

• Stadia: a new way to play
• Stadia is about the future of YouTube, not gaming
• Google's Stadia streaming platform left us with more questions than answers
• Google Hit With $1.7 Billion EU Fine Over Ad Blocking - The Wall Street Journal.
• Google will implement a Microsoft-style browser picker for EU Android devices
• The Internet Archive is working to preserve public Google+ posts before it shuts down
• Inbox by Gmail officially shuts down on April 2nd, 2019
• Nunes sues Twitter, users for more than $250M | TheHill
• Devin Nunes' Cow
• Putin Signs 'Fake News,' 'Internet Insults' Bills Into Law
• Telcos block access to 4chan, other sites - 9News
• Bringing new voices, and communities, to the world of podcasts
• Set start times and import reminders in Tasks
• Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group
• Report: Myspace has lost all the photos, videos, and music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015
• Stoop - A newsletter app
• Roadtrippers
• Furkot
• This X Does Not Exist