Feb 6th 2019
This Week in Google 494
Commodified
Facebook at 15, Google Earnings
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- I Made Queso!
- Spotify Buys Gimlet and Anchor
- Facebook at 15
- Why Publishing Died
- Alphabet Q1 Earnings
- Verily Opens Opioid Rehab, Makes Smart Shoes
- Marshmello's Fortnite Concert
- Chrome Password Checker Extension
- Google Makes Audio More Accessible
- Assistant Coming to Nest Security
- Detecting Fake Audio
Picks of the Week
- Stacey's Thing: Airhelp
- Stacey's Tip: Change your Nest password!
- Jeff's Number: 1/3 of advertisers shift from Google/FB to Amazon
- Leo's Tool: Doodle for Google
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Links
- “I made queso” was the breakout meme of the Super Bowl
- Journalism is the conversation. The conversation is journalism.
- Spotify gets serious about podcasts with two acquisitions
- YouTube CEO says the number of channels with 1M+ subs nearly doubled...
- Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard
- The BuzzFeed Lesson
- 1/3 of advertisers shift from Goog/FB to AMZN
- For Bill Simmons’s the Ringer, Podcasting Is the Main Event
- Alphabet Q4: revenue of $39.3B, up 22% YoY
- Verily to build a high-tech rehab center in Ohio to address opioid epidemic
- Alphabet's Verily making smart shoes
- Fortnite' Had 10 Million Concurrent Players In The Marshmello Concert Event
- Fortnite's longevity will hinge on its ability to evolve and to be a social network
- Safer Internet Week
- Making audio more accessible with two new apps
- The Google Assistant is coming to Nest Secure
- Advancing research on fake audio detection
- Cool service Airhelp
- Article 13 is back -- and it's worse
- Doodle for Google
- Change Your Nest Cam Passwords!