Tag: YouTube

On their official YouTube channel, Google has released another series of short videos highlighting a service of the company.  This new series is titled Meet Data and the seven videos show you how the company uses data to help you.  Using examples of how search works to how Google Maps helps you find that location you are looking for, the videos outline how Google uses big data to help you in that process.  Each video also points out that data security and privacy is important.

YouTube has announced that later this year, they will be rolling out a new app that will allow for offline content viewing and sharing.  The new app, YouTube Go, will allow users to download content to their phones and view that content later, even if they are offline.  You will be able to select the quality of that content so you can control how much space on your phone is taken up with YouTube content and you will be able to share that content with others via NFC.  The idea is that the app can work completely offline.

Google I/O 2016 kicks off in just a few hours and the first day highlight, as always, will be the keynote message.  While space was limited to actually attend the event in person, you can view this important message live on YouTube.  That message is expected to be a mix of product updates and announcements as well as a vision that Google has for the future.  It should be a great couple of hours and you won’t miss any of it.

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As I put in my post earlier this morning, this year’s I/O could be the most interesting and exciting in years.  A lot of the vision and path Google has for the future will be discussed in this keynote so if you have the time to watch, it is certainly well worth the effort.  If you can’t watch it live however, the link above should give you the recorded session after the fact too.

As for things expected to be discussed, there will be discussion of course of Android N but also Project Chirp, the new smart home solution, Virtual Reality, Project Tango and probably a few other tidbits that will shape the future of how we compute.

Whether you like the feature or not, the autoplay feature in YouTube has made its way to Android.  The video streaming site has had the autoplay feature – where the site plays the next video automatically as you are watching – for some time now and it has both friends and foes.  In the latest update to the Android app for phones and tablets, this feature has been enabled.  For those who like the feature, now you can get endless streaming of videos without having to touch your phone.  For those who don’t like the feature, good news!  You can disable it.