Neat App if you inherited Grandma's Photo collection!

Neat App if you inherited Grandma's Photo collection!

Originally shared by Aygul Zagidullina

Running out of (lame 🙈) excuses to not just digitize all those old photos from our family archive! From the past, meet scanner from the future — PhotoScan by Google Photos.

#google #photography #scanner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEyDt0DNjWU

Hangouts - Duo - Allo

Hangouts - Duo - Allo
Google answers "Why"

Originally shared by OnBRM

Google: Hangouts will shift its focus to the enterprise user with Allo and Duo taking over the consumer market

After Google started the rollout Duo this morning and the release of Allo just around the corner, the future seems unclear for Google Hangouts. +https://goo.gl/e913x0


But today Google’s VP of communication products, Nick Fox, told Engadget  more about their plans.

Fox revealed that after the release of Allo and Duo, Google Hangouts isn't going away but will shift its focus to the enterprise user with Allo and Duo taking over the consumer market.

Allo and Duo will be the company's main consumer chat plays.

"Because Hangouts is built on a Google account, because it's deeply integrated with Google apps, the Apps suite [apps like Drive, Docs, etc.], Gmail, Calendar and so on, it's seen much more success in the enterprise," Fox told Ehgadget.

"It will increasingly focus on that kind of group collaboration enterprise productivity space."

Duo's focus is extreme simplicity, and anyone who's used Hangouts for any length of time will admit it's not the simplest of services. For example, you can do video calls with multiple participants in Hangouts, while Duo allows only one-to-one video calling.

Fox also said that Google recognized that it didn't make sense to have one app do everything, something we've seen from companies like Facebook, which controversially broke messaging out of its main app.

"We've historically tried to do a lot in a single app, but the reality is that [video and text] are pretty different types of communication," Fox says.

"We see them differently, and we think we'll be able to build the best experiences by building focused experiences that do what they're intended to do really, really well."

Learn more

+https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/16/google-hangouts-business-focus-duo-allo/

#duo #hangoutsonair #hangouts #allo #google #gmail #drive #docs #technology #technews #technologynews

Picture credit: Engadget

#google

#google
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This will probably of interest to members of this community.

This will probably of interest to members of this community.

First G+ removed "Photos", now "YouTube", so............. besides collections; What's left?

h/t Karen V Chin for this share.

Originally shared by Karen V Chin

Interesting read from Social Media Examiner given today's Google news about decoupling YouTube from Google+

Read more from Tech Crunch's "Google Weans Itself Off Of Google+ " post: http://goo.gl/8q4N3B

Pin for later
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#googleplus   #youtube #google #socialmedia  
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/the-future-of-google-what-new-research-reveals/

Okay, Brain Trust here at +User2User Community: problems with invitations, part twenty-eleven.

Okay, Brain Trust here at +User2User Community: problems with invitations, part twenty-eleven.

 Why doesn't #Google provide a REASON and list to WHOM the "could not send invitations" error is triggered by instead of this random, unhelpful bulk message? #Feedback   requires that I mention exactly what occurs, so here we go.
1) I have a Circle of people I want to invite.
2) I select that Circle and click "Invite."
3) Instead of inviting all the members of that Circle it is possible to invite and -then providing a list of those it could not invite and EXPLAINING WHY,
4)  it just refuses to send invitations to ALL of them.
5) So, idiot problem that it is, it forces me to go through in ever-shrinking groups of 5 - 10 or 2 - 6 or whatever to ferret out who the culprits are that are ruining my invitation Circle.
6) I remove them and try again.
7) that does not work because MORE are still problematic.
8) lather, rinse, repeat.

It took me over half an hour to go through and remove about 8 seemingly problematic members from over 100 in that Circle just to get my invitations done, and some of the people Google ID's as "could not invite" I have no idea why it couldn't. 

Did those people recently block me?
Did they somehow indicate (but Google, in its infinite ignorance, sees it unwise to tell ME) that they don't want notifications?
If so, why can't each person just turn them off their notifications from me instead of blocking the HOA Event page's invitations, if that is what they are doing?

HELP?

Thanks.

In case you missed it, Snagit for Google Chrome now has screen recording!

Originally shared by Kelly Rush

In case you missed it, Snagit for Google Chrome now has screen recording! Check out the video for more information, and if you make a screencast, send it my way! I'd love to check it out, or listen to any feedback you have about the new screen recording beta feature!

#snagit   #screencast   #Chrome   #Google  
http://blogs.techsmith.com/news-events/announcing-screencast-snagit-google-chrome/