LIVE VIDEO: Google Plus Week 11/7/2014 (Please comment!) If you want a notification when I post this show, please circle the Google Plus Page (bit.ly/GPWpage) and subscribe to post notifications! Tonight’s topics: bit.ly/GPWTopics 0:00:30 • 1) Welcome the panel, 2) radio show plug, 3) note Twitter hashtag #GooglePlusWeek and that we can no longer see YouTube comments Google and Google+ • Bookmark your Hangouts video calls bit.ly/1xrbdZw Starting today you can bookmark the URL for any video call and come back to it again and again. Save it to your desktop, bookmark it in your browser, email it, attach it to your calendar -- stash it anywhere you like! Then, when you open a saved Hangouts link, you’ll be immediately connected to anyone else that opened that same link. • Launch desktop applications from Google Drive in Chrome bit.ly/1xr9Av4 When it comes to browsers and installed applications working well together, they aren’t quite on the same page. To change that, today we’re launching a new extension for Chrome that lets you open files from Google Drive directly into a compatible application installed on your computer. This includes apps like advanced image and video editing software, accounting and tax programs, or 3D animation and design tools. So, no matter what you keep in Drive, using the web to access and manage files doesn’t mean you’re limited to using applications that only work in your browser. • Google: “Behind enemy lines in our war against account hijackers” bit.ly/1xra4RD This week, we’re releasing a study of another kind of threat we’ve dubbed “manual hijacking,” in which professional attackers spend considerable time exploiting a single victim’s account, often causing financial losses. Even though they’re rare—9 incidents per million users per day—they’re often severe, and studying this type of hijacker has helped us improve our defenses against all types of hijacking. • Googles...
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