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Origins and Resources: updated 14 June 2019; page views to date: 4945

YOU MAY COMMENT on any of the 2337 posts archived here! 11 June: Twitter can be embedded on your site... 2 June: YouTube Channel Explorations begin 14 May: Dark Web vs. Clear Web, a side dish for internet explorers 21 April: Make your own GSuite Add-Ons 19 April: New info on Currents (beta); Memory Lane posts continue to expand 13 April: Check it out! Chat/Message button added at top center. 12 April: New to "Resources" is Facebook's G+ Meetup Digital Library .  We are now incorporating selected posts from surviving Communities on GSuite G+, mostly Eli Fennell's & "People Left Behind on G+" Post comments are often as interesting as the original post, so be sure to click "READ MORE!"   Our final G+ Mass Migration Community update from Google+ occurred at 4:20PM Eastern Daylight Time on 2 April 2019 .  Blog comments are "moderated" (reviewed by the blog owner), so they may take awhile to post. Make suggest

selected podcasts & videos on the departure of G+

First, the commentary you may not have heard via Listen Notes : Google Plus in Podcasts: a look back Meanwhile, there are some good YouTube videos , too. This clever piece is from SAMTIME:  (From the video above: 😉) Hi! I'm Sam Tucker from Google and it's with a heavy heart that today we're announcing that we will be shutting down Google Plus. Now I know this may come as a shock from a company with experience with other social networks like Orkut but it just felt that people weren't getting the value from our platform anymore. In fact our studies showed that ninety percent of visits were over in less than five seconds! To be honest it probably would have been a hundred percent except people didn't realize that they could skip before that. We're not entirely sure why people didn't use the platform. I mean we forced them to as you remember. We made everyone who was on YouTube sign up for the service and the reason we did that is

FBI says: https and lock symbol...

Criminals impersonate. That is what they do. They pretend they are your bank, your stock broker, your trusted friend, your Mom😲. But they are not. Sites displaying the above symbols in their addresses are safer than others with the old "HTTP" designation without the "s". As the FBI explains , however, these sites are not absolutely trustworthy and secure😞. Criminals are using this symbolism to give you a false sense of security. Here's a copy of the FBI statement: →Local FBI Field Office Locations ⇉File Complaint⇇  (put "HTTPS phishing" in the body) With a tip of the hat for this announcement to DarkReading

Did you know...

You Can Embed Your Tweets Twitter will assist you . Embedded below are my latest tweets, using some of Twitter's editing tools. I suspect it might be best if I created Collections on Twitter , thus dividing my creative political content from my other projects. Tweets by spiderdawg1

YouTube Explorations

Influential Channels edited from Daily YouTube Recommendations work in progress: updated 3 June 2019 Not sure whether anyone will find this useful, but I'm having fun exploring YouTube's expansive resources...  
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