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Tens of thousands of complaints popped up as Google users in the US, Europe, India and other parts of the world were briefly unable to access their Gmail accounts and YouTube. In this episode, we discuss the reasons behind the outage. We also talk about boosting cabin cleaning services with UV technology and Snapchat releasing Bitmoji Paint. Listen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com ************************ Follow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio www.instagram.com/pulse95radio

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  Google said they would not be reading your email.  Good News.  Listen in as I tell you what you probably don't want to know about Gmail's dirty little secret. There is a new report out from SANS. Today, I will discuss what it said about Anti-Virus.  Can you believe the Military is using home grade routers and then not even changing the default password?  We will discuss what led to some very important military documents showing up on the Dark Web and how it could have been prevented. There is so much to talk about that I ran out of time so be sure to check out the related articles below. Craig is putting up a new membership site (Yes, it is free, but you have to sign up)  On it will have all his special reports that he puts out and you will be the first to get them. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 07/28/2018 Gmail's dirty little secret. Anti-Virus is now ineffective - SANS report. Stolen military drone document. Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining us today. I don't know if you can hear that little Roomba going in the background here, she's cleaning up the room. We have we have a few things to talk about. This one is going to be kind of interesting. How well do the global warming predictions stand up? Because we've heard that. Of course, our whole world is about to fall apart. We're going to drown if we live in Florida, and everything is over with. You probably remember some of this, we'll talk a little bit about that. This is very, very cool article from the Cato Institute. We're going to talk about app developers, here when it comes to Google. They have committed to not reading your e-mails, but the same is not true. Yes, the app developer, so what are they doing. Did you realize thi?. Yeah, Hey, we have lots going on there.  [00:00:52] Yeah. [00:00:53] Half of cyber attacks are, well, more than half, are undetected via antivirus software. Talk about that. A new report, a new study coming out of SANS, the SANS Institute. We've got military documents stolen. Some plans here, about the drone the number one, in fact, drone, in the U.S. military the MQ9 Reaper drone, and it's all because of something I warned you about here on this show a few months ago if the military had been listening in. I know they do. But, if these guys have been listening in the military, we wouldn't have lost those secret documents. Google. We're going to talk about how they now have had no phishing incidents. More than eighty-nine thousand employees. How did they do that? Well, we'll talk about that the top voting machine vendor has admitted something that I suspected for a very long time. Yeah, how can you trust vendors of software, and make sure they don't install backdoors. How can you do that? Yeah. Well, we'll talk about that a little bit. You know I'm thinking about it we're not going to get all of these today. You ought to check them out on my Web site Inside Facebook and Twitter. The artificial intelligence battle going on over our social lives, and Data, as a fingerprint, in fact, data is a fingerprint. We'll talk about what that means to you, as well. Because you're not a safe and private online as you might think you are. All right, let's see how far we can get today. [00:02:36] All right. We're going to start here with tech's dirty little secret. Now, we know about Facebook. Do you see their stock this week? Wild ride. I think that Facebook stock was down 25 percent at one point. The way Facebook has been treating its users is just abysmal, frankly. You do remember a few years ago we talked about this, on the show here, but a few years ago when Facebook decided that if you liked somebody's page, so let's say I had a page, which I did, online and a lot of celebrities had a page on Facebook, as well. And they would post stuff for their audience, the people that liked them, Right. So, you could follow any kind of celebrity you wanted on Facebook. You could follow somebody that was a musician because you enjoyed their music and there's a couple of them out there that I really enjoy, some new guys. Anyhow, you could have the musician you could have someone like me or maybe another radio personality, whomever so you follow them, you like their page on Facebook, and when they posted something it would show up in your feed. So, you would see what they had to say, and that was the idea, Right. You followed them, you like them because you wanted to see what they had to say. It is that simple enough for you. And, what's happened now is Facebook says, ok well you have a million followers I'm going to show your post to maybe 500 if you want your post to be seen by more people. You have to pay. And, they do that to me all of the time which is why, I'm not a, you know big Facebook user. Well, one of the reasons, about a big Facebook user but I do post stuff up there and they say "hey pay five bucks, and we'll go ahead, and we will show your post to more people." [00:04:27] Well, wait a minute these people said that they wanted to follow me. They wanted to hear from me. Why do you not show them my information? So, a lot of the big celebrities just said forget it. Some of the people that had more than a million likes on their Facebook fan pages said forget it, I'm gone. They deleted the whole account. They left. Now, this is a few years ago. Fast forward to today. We've got Facebook doing, even more, deciding because they're the Decider, more deciding about what it is you might want to see. What you don't want to see. Doesn't matter what you say, doesn't matter that you like the page, doesn't matter that they're a family member. If it says congratulations. OK great. They give high your ranking and you're more likely to see it. But, I want to know what my family members are saying. I want to know what the people I'm following are saying. Is that too difficult? Is that something that Facebook can't do for me? Right, I think that's a really, really, big deal, frankly, because that's why I was on Facebook in the first place. To find out what these people had to say. But no, Facebook is busy trying to gain you to get you to click on something to feed you stuff. And particularly those people who are libertarian like myself or maybe they're conservative. And Facebook has been using academics to come in and spend some serious time helping them develop their algorithms. And you know the academics know better than you do. So, they're going to give you what they think you should see which does not include anything that isn't on the Socialist Left, Right.  [00:06:13] That's kind of the bottom line on this. [00:06:16] Obviously they're not going to feed anything from the hard right. But the question is? Where's that line? And, so just a regular moderate conservative person who's out there, middle of the road, is considered to be too far to the right by many of the algorithms. So your information is put out there. So, there's a lot of reasons people aren't using Facebook, the way they used to. Their profit forecast was down. So, their stock went way, way, down. And, they've been penalized, Right. The free market at work. Well, Google is getting into, say it has gotten into, and it's continuing to get into some trouble as well. [00:06:59] What's been going on on the Google front is kind of interesting, because Google was going through all of your mail. If you had Gmail Google went through it. They were looking for things and showing you ads based on what was in your e-mail. So, you know people kind of got upset because all of a sudden Google would be sending out a message about your bereavement. Because there was an e-mail about some uncle Dying or something and you would wonder about those ads. What are those ads all about what's Google doing here? And so Google, committed this was what, two or three years ago.  [00:07:32] Committed to not going through e-mail and while the dirty secret is that they may not be going through it, but a wall street journal examination found that app developers, software developers, who are using Google's API's are going through your e-mails. One of the companies that they had a look at and this is from an article from Douglas Macmillan over at the Wall Street Journal. One of those companies does Return Path Inc. Now they collect data from marketers, they scan the inboxes of more than 2 million people who signed up for, one of the free apps and Return Paths partner network, using a Gmail, Microsoft or Yahoo email address, so, think about this. Think about the that what was that silly game, that people used to play over on Facebook where you are planting things you know you're a farmer. What is the name of that? If you know the name. Go ahead and text me 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. I can't think of it, anyway. [00:08:41] Those games when you sign up for them the app developers now gain access to certain of your information, and they don't have to be a game. They can be a tool, and you might remember of course that's what Cambridge Analytica was doing, yeah take our survey and now they've gained access to all kinds of Facebook information about you and your friends and their profiles. Right, then that's why they got into so much trouble. That's why Facebook, also this week, got this huge fine from the European Union. The maximum fine possible under this new G.D.P.R which is the new data protection policy. So, they levied the maximum fine possible which really, Facebook's not going to notice, from a financial standpoint, because it's Facebook just makes so much money.  [00:09:29] So, Google is giving that information away. You've got to be careful. Oh, yea Farmville. That's what it was. Thanks, guys. Farmville. There are a few of them I guess but that's when I was thinking I was Farmville.  [00:09:43] So, Return Path is one of them. [00:09:46] They're analyzing about 100 million emails a day, apparently, and at one point two years ago Return Path employees were reading about 8000 unredacted emails, employees. Okay, real people reading your emails per day eight thousand a day, while they're training their software. So, in another case, we've got Edison software which is another Gmail developer. They make this mobile app for reading and organizing your email. They personally reviewed the emails of hundreds of users to build a new feature and that's according to the company's CEO. So, letting users, employees read private potentially private right not necessarily all e-mails private but you know you consider e-mail private, don't you. That's a reasonable expectation, isn't it? You'd be upset if you found out people were reading your e-mails, Right. So, in this case, it's become common practice, for employees to read your e-mail. And frankly, it's a dirty little secret. Now neither Return Path or Edison asked users specifically if it could read their e-mails. They were just granted access to it. Really, really, bad news here. Now Facebook has allowed outside developers to gain access to the user's data, we know about that because of the Cambridge Analytica breach. Facebook says it stopped it in 2015. We're not going to go into all of that, but it's it's really kind of interesting to look at all of this, but remember, your data is not your data. Again, you are the product, right? We keep having to say that but a lot of people seem to forget about it. You are the product, you are not the customer? So, keep that in mind as you are going online and use your free e-mail and your free Facebook site to your free ecetera. Right. It isn't free. There is a cost [00:11:55] All right, it is cyber attack time here, with Craig Petersen. You know, that's what I do for a living. I don't attack people I protect them from attacks. In fact most of the time I get involved with a company when they have already been attacked. I picked up three or four new clients, this week alone, that have been attacked. One, of them, basically lost all of their finances. This is a small family owned business and they made, really kind of a cool little device, and wow, things things are bad when your bank account information is used or when your payments are redirected from you when the hackers get into your computers now, gain access to your bank accounts and just wire the money out, it's gone in 90 seconds. it's just nuts what happens out there while SANs came out, the SANS Institute. [00:12:53] Now, these are great guys and gals, obviously, but the great guys and they put together a number of training courses that you might want to check out, online at SANS dot org. Now one of the things they do is obviously they keep track of the exploits, and they just came out with their 2018 survey on Endpoint Protection and Response. So, they polled almost 300 I.T. information technology professionals. They asked about endpoint security concerns and practices. This year's survey. I want you guys to think about this for yourself. How do you measure up? Where do you fall in? In this survey, if you were asked OK. 42 percent of respondents reported and point exploits. So, that's pretty darn high. That's almost half as getting close to half of the respondents. These are information technology professionals, so, these are people who know the bottom line here of whether or not they're hacked, at least they're supposed to. And, almost half of them said that they did have exploits on endpoints. Now what the endpoint? Those are your computers. Basically, it's your Windows machines for the most part. Maybe your Mac? your Linux machine? Etcetera. Now, what's good about this is they're saying that's down from 53 percent last year, but the number of those who reported that they didn't know that they'd been breached, jumped from 10 percent to 20 percent. [00:14:36] So, maybe we're getting a little less honest, in some regards, this year with the tools, now. [00:14:43] You know I've talked about this before, in fact, if you attend one of my webinars I'll go through these stats but what is being reported right now, from our friends over at SANs is, that your traditional antivirus software, just doesn't work anymore. Antivirus systems, according to the survey. Now, these are professionals right. This isn't me. This isn't some marketer, right. Do you believe these guys? Do you believe these I.T. professionals? Well, they're saying that the antivirus systems, the traditional antivirus stuff, only detected endpoint compromise 47 percent of the time, 47 percent. Other attacks were caught through various types of automated alerts end point detection and response platforms, 32 to 26 percent. OK, so the most important attacks are intended to exploit the users. More than 50 percent of respondents reported drive-by incidents on the web. Now, all of this stuff is preventable and I think the industry, the security industry is doing everyone a huge disservice because they're all tooting their horns about how great they are and yet they are not great. None of the standard antivirus software companies you can think of, none of the standard firewall firms you can think of, None of these guys are actually anywhere near as good as they need to be or should be. And, I've I've said this before, right. [00:16:27] And so how can you believe their marketing. You've got John McAfee out there the founder of McAfee anti-virus saying McAfee antivirus is the worst. You've got Symantec senior executive saying yeah, antivirus is dead, don't use Symantec because it's just not worth it. And, then by the way somehow leaving his position the next day, it's just amazing. So, it goes on and on but, credential theft was used in many of these compromises. So, keep an eye on that. Keep an eye on phishing make sure you know what's happening. You want to use a really, really, good stack. You're not going to find that frankly from anybody, right now except Cisco. And unfortunately, it's not just antivirus software, anymore. It's what we're doing now. And what you're going to see most of the really good security professionals doing is a layered approach. I mean layered, layers, upon layers, there's multiple layers, on the endpoint on the multiple layers, on your computer. There's multiple layers on the network, and there's multiple layers of the network edge, where you might find a firewall. Okay. So, keep an eye out for that. And while it's disappointing but somehow this SANs survey is not surprising. Things are getting worse in Anti-Virus Software it's effective in less than half of the cases. [00:18:04] Speaking of antivirus and hacks, we talked on the show before, and it was all over the news about what the FBI had to say. Now, you know I worked with the FBI pretty closely I run their, national webinars for the entire InfraGard program which is the infrastructure Guardian stuff. Check it out online infragard dot org if you're involved with protecting your company's physical facilities or maybe your data facilities networks and stuff check it out, infragard dot Org. There are chapters, everywhere, there's like 80 chapters I think eighty plus nationwide and there is every state even here in New England. We have these chapters, so join your chapter. Keep up to date know what's going on, it's so important to have that information, in fact, you got to the webinar, I'm doing, again. We bring in experts, right. But in a few weeks and we're going to be talking with FRSecure, about this very issue here of how do you do security because you know you mentioned before the break in the last segment here how we have multiple layers on every part of the whole infrastructure. Well, he goes into some more detail where he's talking about the employees and the physical infrastructure. It's all well and good if you got the best of you know firewalled and anti-malware prevention and protection software and IDS and IPS, and all this stuff. But what if someone walks out the door with your server? And that's part of the HIPAA regulations. By the way, if you are involved with a medical practice, you've got to make sure all of your devices are physically locked down. All right, So, there's a lot to know, a lot to remember, a lot to learn. [00:19:52] So we'll be we'll be having him on. I just recorded the Web an hour with him yesterday, in fact, we're having him on soon. So. FBI warned and I brought it up here on the radio show too before the FBI warning came out warned globally that there are hackers who have hacked many of our routers. If you're using a router that has not had a software update a firmware update in a while? Particularly if you're using a lower-end router like a small business router or a personal router for your home. That device has been used, to send all of your data to Russia where important information is harvested out of it, and then it is sent back to you. So, you don't even know it's happened. It's really bad. Some of the stuff is crazy complex that they're doing. So, if you have not updated your router yet, I've got an article about that up on my Web site that leads you through, gives you step by step depending on who the manufacturer is. Some of the older ones you will not be able to update or upgrade. If you have a true business class router, a higher end router, and firewall something you pay north of two-thousand to five-thousand dollars for. And, by the way, you should be paying around five grand for a decent firewall, nowadays. But if you have one of these you're probably OK, at least for now. This article and I mentioned this is the beginning of this show is mind-blowing, because it's our number 1 drone out there, the MQ 9 Reaper drone. This is the number one drone, the top in the world. This thing can send missiles and can just do all kind of stuff.  [00:21:46] Well we found online in the dark web and by the way, I hope you're doing Dark Web scans for yourself and your family. But we found or having them done, we found out there, the plans not for the reaper itself, but the entire maintenance manual, manual on the MQ 9 a reaper, wow, ok. This is the maintenance. This is Delta training is included in this where it's showing how to use the reaper to attack and to blow up IED's that might be on the road. How to hit a convoy, OK. All of this information and it is being sold for, drum roll please 150 and 200 dollars, for the lot.  [00:22:39] Isn't that something. How did they get the information?  [00:22:44] Well, turns out, that apparently, and this is according to bleeping computer, here, Kaitlynn but apparently the military bases I.T. team had not changed their routers default F.T.P. credentials. In other words, the default credentials now they're using a Netgear [00:23:08] router. WHAT???? That is a personal home router, it is not military grade, it's not business grade. What the heck are they doing, using the Netgear Router or are they NUTS? And for two years give or take we've known that these Netgear routers have a default set of FTP credentials.  [00:23:34] So, the hacker also bragged about accessing footage of the MQ 1 Predator. My gosh what's going on? [00:23:44] So, if you're a business don't use these things! If you're the military, what the heck are you doing using these things? And if you're just a listener wondering what's going on, Appreciate you joining us today. Craig Peterson, of course, you can visit me online, all of today's articles including the ones we didn't get to like, 30 years on how well did global warming prediction stand up. Quick answer. They didn't. [00:24:08] And Google's 90000 employees how did they stop phishing. I'm going to have to do a special on that one. Top voting machine vendor admits it Restall installed remote access software on voting machines, that were sold to states. Your data is a fingerprint. And Facebook, Google, Twitter, they're all using AI to battle over your content. It's kind of interesting lots of stuff. Of course, you don't have time to get to it today. But, I appreciate you guys joining me. Visit me online Craig Peterson dot com. Make sure you get my alerts. The only way to do that is to text me. [00:24:47] You can ask any question, you can sign up for alerts, whatever you want. 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 8 5 5 3 8 5 5 5 5 3. Have a great week. Thanks for joining us. Bye-bye.  --- Related articles: --- Gmail app developers have been reading your emails Inside Facebook, Twitter and Google’s AI battle over your social lives A Hacker Sold U.S. Military Drone Documents On The Dark Web For Just $200 Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States Google’s 89,000+ employees have had zero phishing incidents since switching to hardware security keys in 2017 Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up? ‘Data is a fingerprint’: why you aren’t as anonymous as you think online --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Message Input: Message #techtalk Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Hacking has the potential of providing grave and broad impacts threatening finances, power grids and privacy. Today in the show, we will talk about an attack on Gmail that you need to be concerned about, also we will share commonly used passwords that you need to change, and the technological advancements that scientists are worried about that can lead to man’s doom.   Gmail Google’s Gmail service, is a service that is used by over 1 billion users around the world. If you have a Google account here is something that you need to be aware of.  A few days ago, Hackers made the news again with a phishing attack that is stealing login information of users of Gmail. What I find disturbing about this attack is that even seasoned tech users, experts in the tech field are being fooled into providing their emails and passwords to hackers.  In this latest attack, hackers created a login page for Gmail that looks like the authentic Gmail login page that you normally see when you try to sign in to your Gmail. The way they pulled this off, is that a hacker sends an email from a name of one of your contacts, on seeing this you automatically think that this is a valid email from someone you know, now, on opening that email there is an attachment that looks normal. It has a name that you can relate to.  By trying to open the attachment a new tab opens to the fake Gmail login page. Here you’re ask to sign in to view the attachment. By entering your email and password you are giving your login credentials over to the hacker and thus compromising your account. In response to this attack, Google said: “We’re aware of this issue and continue to strengthen our defenses against it. We help protect users from phishing attacks in a variety of ways, including: machine learning-based detection of phishing messages, Safe Browsing warnings that notify users of dangerous links in emails and browsers, preventing suspicious account sign-ins, and more. Users can also activate two-step verification for additional account protection.” If you are a Gmail user and have not set up the 2-step verification, I would highly recommend that you do so. The link is: https://www.google.com/landing/2step/ For the full story, go here: http://itincanadaonline.ca/index.php/c-level-insight/security/2007-tech-experts-fooled-by-latest-phishing-attack    Commonly used passwords Despite being warned many times by security experts to set strong passwords, people are still using easy and guessable password for their online lives. In 2016, a year that we’ve seen a huge amount of cyber-attacks, it is still baffling to experts to see people us passwords like "123456", "qwerty" and "111111" during the course of last year.  According to Keeper, a password manager software, in 2016 they sifted through 10 million passwords from data breaches that happened in year and they found that 50 per cent, that is 1 out of every two people use the top 25 most common passwords, and almost one in five - of all users having "123456" as their protective code.  If you are guilty of this, I am pleading with you, please change your password by using a variety of numbers, letters, symbols and upper and lower cases in your passwords and don’t use a string of numbers or letters on your keyboard or use this site: http://correcthorsebatterystaple.net   Cyber and Doomsday  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock ahead by 30 seconds, taking the world to 2½ minutes to midnight. This is the first time that it was moved by 30 seconds since it was first used in 1947 as a means to measure how close we are to destroying ourselves.  There are a few factors that weighed heavily in making the decision to push the clock closer to midnight, mainly climate change and the talk about more nuclear weapons. But there is another concern as well, it’s technological – in the cyber and artificial intelligence fields.   Thanks for listening.

How To Monetize Your YouTube Videos In this article, I am going to show you connect your Google Adsense account to your YouTube channel and monetize your YouTube  Videos. Let's talk briefly about what this guide will help you do. When you open a YouTube channel and begin creating content one of the things you may want to do is monetize your content with Google's built in ad platform called Adsense. It can be a tedious process that can cause many headaches. This guide is to help you eliminate those problems that may come up. What You Will Need:   1.) An active youtube channel with at least 5-7 uploaded videos. 2.) An active Google Adsense account that has been approved by Google. 3.) A website/blog to provide to Google Adsense when setting up your account. I'm going to assume you already have an active YouTube channel with content already uploaded. (Make sure that all the videos on the account are yours and you are not using anyone's content). If you do this, you will be at risk of having your YouTube channel AND Adsense account permanently banned.   ---> One of THE most common mistakes when linking your Adsense account to your YouTube channel is not having a website to provide to Google Adsense when setting up your account. When you are signing up for Adsense they will ask you to provide them with your site, if you do not have one, your account will not be approved. Also, you need to have some content on the site and not just a URL to provide them. To learn how to set up a WordPress website/blog in under 10 minutes CLICK THIS LINK. Google Adsense Frequently Asked Questions: - You must be 18 years of age to sign up (You can use your parent's information if they are ok with it). - To get paid, you must have an active bank account to provide Adsense when signing up. (They will not send a physical check). - To receive a payout you MUST have made $100 total. (This means that you can make $50 in January and $52 in February and be paid the $102 the following month). - You WILL NOT see your earnings from YouTube on the Adsense dashboard. This information will be under your YouTube analytics under "Estimated Earnings". - When signing up for Adsense, you need to choose "Individual" and not "Business". (Unless you are a corporation). Google Adsense Sign Up Process: For this to work properly, you need to make sure you follow these steps to set up your account correctly. Step 1: Go to www.adsense.com and click on the sign-up button on the home page.   Step 2: Once you are here it will ask you to either sign in with your Google account or create a new one. If you have an account, you can sign in, if not create a Gmail (Google) account to use. Step 3: When you are signed into your account the next step will be to provide Adsense with your website URL. It should look like this ---> http://www.websiteaddress.com Step 4: Select your primary language for your content and then click Save and Continue Step 5: The next screen will be the contact information form. Fill ALL of the fields out with appropriate information. (Example: Name, Address, and Phone Number). When you are done filling this form out click the Submit my application button at the bottom of the screen. Step 6: On the next page it will ask you to read the Terms of Service and accept them. Once you have read it check the yes box and click the accepted box. Step 7: After you have completed these steps you will be presented with the thank you for applying screen where it says that your application is being reviewed, and they will contact you when you have either been accepted OR rejected. (This process usually takes anywhere from 1-3 business days). If you did this correctly, you would be contacted either way. Once you have been accepted to the Adsense program, you can now link your Adsense account to your YouTube channel and start monetizing your videos. How To Link Adsense Account To YouTube Channel ---> Remember that you will need an active YouTube channel with at least 5-7 videos uploaded. Step 1: The first thing you need to do is Verify your YouTube Channel. To do this, you need to go to your creator studio. It will look like this: At the top of the page, you will see something that says "Account Status." Underneath that, you will see your YouTube Channel's associated email address or your name and next to it a button that says "Verify." Click the verify button. The first step will ask you to choose your country of origin and how you want them to check your account. You can either choose the Call OR Text option. Once you have chosen your desired form of verification and provided them with your phone number, you will be sent a verification code to insert into the box provided. After you receive the code and enter it into the provided box, you will be presented with the congratulations page saying your Channel is now verified. When you have completed the verification process go back to the creator studio and make sure you see the word "verified" next to your name under account status. Step 2: The next thing to do now that you are verified is to enable your channel for monetization. Still, under the creator studio click the "Enable" button next to the Monetization feature. Once you click the enable button, you will be presented with another page that tells you about monetization and the terms of service. Click the "Enable My Account" button on this page. After accepting the YouTube Partner Program Terms of service, your account will be enabled for monetization. You will then see a confirmation page that shows your account is activated for monetization, and you can put ads on your videos and start making money. How to monetize your videos once you have been approved To begin making money from your videos, you will need to activate monetization on EACH of your videos. Follow the steps below to enable ads on your videos. Step 1: Go to your video manager within YouTube. (To get to your video manager click the channel icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and go to the creator studio. On the right-hand side of the screen you will now see a link that takes you to your Video Manager). Step 2: Under the video that you want to monetize click the edit button. You will now be presented with all of the options to edit your video. Click on the monetization tab under the video preview. Once you are there, click the slider next to the words that say "Monetize With Ads." You will then be able to set the types of ads you want to show on this particular video. (I recommend checking all of the different ads types, BUT as you get more familiar with what is working for your channel you can select the ones that work best). Click save and you are done. Step 3: To confirm that your video is monetized go back to the video manager and look to the right of that video you just monetized. You should see a green circle with a WHITE money symbol inside of it. If the video is not monetized, it will show a GREY money symbol with NO green circle. (Please remember that there is a chance that your content does not get approved for monetization if you are not using your OWN content). Where to find your earnings To see how much you have made, you will need to go to your analytics section of your YouTube channel. It will be located within your creator studio, and the link will be on the right-hand side of the screen. When you are at the Analytics overview page you will need to click on the "Estimated Revenue" or "Revenue" links to see how much you have made. THIS INFORMATION WILL NOT BE IN YOUR ADSENSE DASHBOARD. Also, sometimes it takes a few days for YouTube to provide you with these stats. With that being said just be patient and wait a few days to see how you are doing. Important Things To Remember If You Are Having Problems - You must have a website associated with your Adsense account to get approved. - You CAN link multiple YouTube account BUT have to have both of them verified. - If your Adsense account is NOT approved, I recommend going through the steps one more time and make sure you followed EVERY one of them exactly. - You MUST have some videos uploaded to your YouTube channel to enable monetization. - You WILL NOT see any earnings in the Adsense dashboard from your YouTube earnings. All of this data will be under your YouTube analytics. - If you change your YouTube channel name, it will NOT have any effect on your Adsense account OR your ability to monetize. - If you use songs, pictures or videos that are not yours, you will run the risk of getting your Adsense account shut down, and your YouTube channel banned for life. - All information on your Adsense contact form needs to be CORRECT due to tax purposes. - Google will take out taxes from your finalized earnings (You may make $167.00 in one month, BUT the payment will be for $112.00). - If you do not have a bank account, you cannot sign up for AdSense After following all of these steps, you should be running ads and making money from your YouTube channel. If you are having any issues with any part of the process, feel free to email me at technologyguru77@gmail.com, and I will try and help fix your problem. In closing, if you have followed these steps exactly you should have no problem running ads on your videos and begin making money. Remember, Rome was not built in a day, and you have to be patient. This is not a get rich quick scheme if you create great content and build a YouTube community you can make a decent amount of money each month with this method

Crear cuenta de Google con Gmail   Crear cuenta de Google es muy rápido y sencillo ya que lo único que vas a tener que hacer es crear una dirección de correo electrónico en Gmail donde vas a poder disfrutar de todas las consecuencias que eso conlleva.     [Tweet "Todo aquel que quiera una vida perfecta debe buscar primero conocimiento https://bit.ly/curso-becado-1"]   Transcripción literal del vídeoSabias que cuando creas tu cuenta de Google de forma automática ya tienes acceso a todas las herramientas gratuitas de que dispone esta plataforma…   Hola te saluda Toni Herrera fundador y CEO de eMarketerSocial.info en este tutorial te voy a enseñar como crear tu cuenta de Gmail para tener acceso a todas las herramientas gratuitas de la plataforma de Google.   Como ya sabes para poder utilizar todas las herramientas gratuitas de las que dispone la plataforma de Google debes de crearte una cuenta en dicha plataforma y en este vídeo te presento Gmail, la primera de las herramientas y la más importante de Google porque para utilizar la plataforma y todas sus herramientas debes de crear un correo electrónico con Gmail, tienes dos formas de hacerlo, directamente crear el email con Gmail o bien utilizando un correo electrónico de tu propio dominio pero eso ya te lo explico en otro vídeo.Vamos a ver ahora los pasos a seguir para crear tu correo electrónico con Gmail, para ello me dirijo a la pantalla de mi ordenador.   Lo primero que vamos a hacer es acceder a la página de Google y aquí tenemos dos opciones para poder acceder a Gmail y crear nuestra cuenta. La primera sería escribir en la barra del explorador Gmail, y de forma automática ya, en primera posición del buscador, tenemos Gmail Google. Hacemos click y nos da acceso ya a la página para crear la cuenta y la segunda opción es, en la página de Google, nos dirigimos hacia la parte superior y veréis que hay unos cuadraditos, simplemente lo que tenemos que hacer es click ahí y se desplegarán todas las aplicaciones que tiene Google, pulsamos y aquí tenemos la opción de Gmail. Hacemos click en Gmail y nos trae a la misma página. Vamos a crear nuestra cuenta pulsando en el botón azul de la parte superior “Crear una cuenta” Como veis aquí ya esta para crear tu cuenta de Google, Solo necesitas una cuenta, accede a todos los servicios de Google con solo un nombre de usuario y una contraseña. Podrás acceder a todas las herramientas de Google ya que aquí hay simplemente unas cuantas. Vamos a seguir los pasos para crear nuestra cuenta desde el principio.   Para crear nuestra cuenta lo que tenemos que hacer es rellenar este formulario. Vamos a empezar poniendo nuestro nombre, apellido o apellidos y a continuación aquí tenemos que elegir lo que va a ser nuestro nombre de usuario en la cuenta de Google. puedes utilizar letras, números y puntos, voy a poner mi nombre de usuario y ahora dirá si está libre o no. Como ves me sale el anuncio de que ya existe ese nombre de usuario. ¿Quieres volver a intentarlo? y me da distintas opciones. Vamos a cambiar el nombre de usuario simplemente añadiendo un uno. Como ves ya me lo ha aceptado. En la casilla de abajo ponemos la contraseña.   Vamos a poner en la casilla correspondiente, me está diciendo que la contraseña es segura. En la casilla de abajo hay que volver a escribir otra vez la contraseña, luego nos pide que pongamos nuestra fecha de nacimiento, colocamos el día, aquí hacemos click en el triangulito y seleccionamos el mes y a continuación ponemos el año. Seguidamente hay que colocar el sexo, hacemos clic y selecciono hombre y luego un número de teléfono esto es muy importante, entonces vamos a poner un número de teléfono, como ves ya sale predeterminado mi país España y el código internacional.   Luego tienes que poner una dirección de correo electrónico que tengas actualmente, colocamos una dirección de correo electrónico aquí y ya por último, demuestranos que no eres un robot,

Episodio un poco más largo y con temas variados, donde hablaré de Streak para Gmail, la aplicación para Series.ly, clientes de podcast y otros temas. Let’s Luk, aplicación cliente de Series.ly que nos permite transmitir vídeos de nuestras series y películas directamente a nuestro Chromecast. Google Chrome beta 38, en la versión de escritorio implementa ... Leer más Noticias, aplicaciones y dudas: Streak para Gmail, Google Chrome, podcasting y másEl contenido Noticias, aplicaciones y dudas: Streak para Gmail, Google Chrome, podcasting y más se publicó primero en Elías Gómez.

Episodio un poco más largo y con temas variados, donde hablaré de Streak para Gmail, la aplicación para Series.ly, clientes de podcast y otros temas. Let’s Luk, aplicación cliente de Series.ly que nos permite transmitir vídeos de nuestras series y películas directamente a nuestro Chromecast. Google Chrome beta 38, en la versión de escritorio implementa ... Leer más Noticias, aplicaciones y dudas: Streak para Gmail, Google Chrome, podcasting y másEl contenido Noticias, aplicaciones y dudas: Streak para Gmail, Google Chrome, podcasting y más se publicó primero en Elías Gómez.

DigitalOutbox Episode 164 DigitalOutbox Episode 164 - Google I/O Playback Listen via iTunes Listen via M4A Listen via MP3 Shownotes 1:45 - Google I/O - Just one keynote this year....that lasted for 3 ½ hours - Notable absence - no new hardware. Unlike previous years there were no hardware announcement, but all attendees did get a Chromebook Pixel. There was however plenty of new software and services (but nothing on Google TV and no new version of Android). Key announcements... - Google: 900 million Android activations to date, 48 billion app downloads - Google announces Play game services, Android's cross-platform answer to Game Center - The platform will support cloud saves, thereby allowing users to save their progress or game state and pick it up on a separate device, as well as achievements and leaderboards using Google+. - API will enable both turn-based and real-time multiplayer - Google Play game services will be supported for titles on Android, iOS and the Web - truly cross platform - Google Play services updated with new location, Google+ sign-in, and cloud messaging APIs - 3 new location API’s including Geofencing and Activity Recognition API that will help users track their physical activity - Android Studio - It’s an IDE based on IntelliJ. - This tool has more options for Android Development, making the process faster and more productive. A “live layout” was shown that renders your app as you’re editing in realtime. - Tools to support beta testing and language translations - Google takes on Spotify with Google Play Music All Access subscription service - web and mobile interfaces feature millions of songs you can play instantly, recommendations, charts and playlists, and instant radio stations. The Spotify competitor launches today in the US for $9.99 a month, comes with a free trial month, and sign-ups before June 30th get it for $7.99. - Everything from your Google Music locker is automatically pulled into Google Play Music All Access. Beneath the content you own, everything else an artist has ao All Access is automatically listed and plays at a tap. More countries will get Google Play Music All Access soon. - Google redesigning Play apps and Play Store on the web - Google turns the Samsung Galaxy S4 into a Nexus phone, coming June 26th for $649 - Unlocked - Vanilla Android - no Samsung crapware added - Should get quick updates of new Android releases - Google takes on Apple in schools with Google Play for Education - Play store for education - currently trialling now - Google+ completely redesigned with new cards-based interface - 41 new features - Multi column stream (Like Facebook or Pinterest) - Auto tag posts - New features for hangouts and photos - Photos - automatically enhance the tonal distribution in an image, soften skin, sharpen certain parts of an image and remove noise – and all of those computations happen in the cloud. - system can now analyze your images and kick out blurry photos, duplicates, images with bad exposure (which it will try to fix). It can also recognize good images with certain landmarks, for example, and detect faces and see if people are smiling and/or of those people are in your Google+ circles. It will also try to make some decision based on aesthetics. What used to take hours of work, Gundotra said, now happens automatically in the cloud and take seconds. - Now that Google offers everybody 15GB of free storage, users an also upload 15GB worth of full-size images to Google+ Photos. In addition, the autobackup feature provides unlimited storage space for photos at sized under 2048px. - “Awesome” – can automatically detect when an image is part of a series and stitch it together in one image or an animated GIF. “If we detect that you took a series of photos, in burst mode or otherwise, we can stitch them together,” Gundotra told us. To recognize these images, the system does a bit of analysis to make sure the background hasn’t moved. - This is about more than animated GIFs, though. This new feature – which Google calls “auto awesome” – can also automatically create a group photo from a series of photos and pick the one where everybody is smiling. It can stitch together landscape photos to create panoramas and create HDR images from a series of photos where it detects bracketed exposures. All of this happens extremely fast, too, thanks to the power of Google’s data centers. - Google unveils Hangouts: a unified messaging system for Android, iOS, and Chrome - replaces the numerous Google services that currently help you have real-time conversations with other users, such as Google Talk, Google Voice and Google+ Hangouts. - It will launch on most major platforms later today, including iOS, Android and the Web. (iOS works well, Android - doesn’t support Nexus 7) - Conversations can either be one-on-one or in larger groups; the new Hangouts app can do both. - As with many other apps, such as WhatsApp or even iMessage, conversations support multimedia content, including high-resolution photographs. - Video chats as well - Text, emoji, photos, video, see who’s typing, read receipts - The service’s Google+ integration is one of the best features in the entire product: every photo that you or a friend posts is automatically saved in a private, shared album on Google+. - One flaw - doesn’t bring in SMS, so not fully unified - Google confirm that SMS is coming soon - Google adds button-free voice search in Chrome: just say 'OK Google' - You should, according to Google, be able to ask it when your upcoming flight is, and where your package might be in transit. - Search getting a lot smarter - improving knowledge graph - Making claims that search is only starting - next generation search coming....end of search as we know it - Google Now updated to include voice reminders, emails, and public transit data - new cards include a location-based Reminder feature, public transit travel times, and information about books, music, TV shows and video games that might be of timely interest to users. - Reminder feature is based on time, people and location and can be set with simple voice commands using natural language processing. It’s like the geofenced Reminders that are used by Apple in iOS, but looks to be arguably more useful since it ties into the Google Now knowledge graph. Reminders takes Now further by giving users a way to actively set and retrieve content, which should help prove its worth among users who weren’t getting much out of the automated results previously being generated by the engine. - Google Wallet comes to Gmail - Google announced two important features regarding Google Wallet. The first is integration with Gmail so you can pay by sending an email. The second is the launch of the Google Wallet Instant Buy Android API, which lets developers integrate payment features into apps for selling physical goods and services. - The first feature, which is rolling out “over the coming months” to all US Gmail users over 18 years old, means you can send money to whoever you want directly from Gmail. Recipients don’t need to have a Gmail address: any email will do. Google lets you send money for free as long as your bank account is linked to Google Wallet or using your Google Wallet Balance. There are “low fees,” however if you are sending money using your linked credit or debit card. - Google redesigns Maps for mobile - Android, iOS incl iPad version coming this summer - New look for Android, based on iOS - iPad coming soon - new floating search box is the highlight of the main map view, and it incorporates a new suggestion engine that will help you find relevant places nearby and more. - new version of maps will also have live traffic incident reporting and re-routing. - Google Maps integrates Google Earth and Street View in completely redesigned interface - new version of Google Maps is heavily customized for every user, with knowledge about a user contributing to discovery of new places using the same data as Google Now. - new service collates imagery from Google Earth, Google’s Street View and special projects including its space and underwater imaging. Instead of having to bounce around between products, you’ll now be able to get all of that in one place - new overhead view, which is also rendered in 3D using WebGL, like Google Earth: - Flight search and place reviews are now integrated fully into Google Maps, giving you the ability to search for directions including flights in one go. Reviews and ratings can be culled from top reviewers or your Google+ circles. - Larry Page then came on stage, said a few statements (slammed Oracle - in it for the money, then went into a 45 minute Q&A. Most was fairly interesting but there was one bizarre statement.. - Google CEO Larry Page is holding a rare Q&A session with attendees of today's Google I/O keynote, and he's been offering up some pretty unfiltered answers. In response to a question about reducing negativity and focusing on changing the world, Page noted that "the pace of change is increasing" and said that "we haven't adapted systems to deal with that." Specifically, he said that "not all change is good" and said that we need to build "mechanisms to allow experimentation." That's when his response got really interesting. "There are many exciting things you could do that are illegal or not allowed by regulation," Page said. "And that's good, we don't want to change the world. But maybe we can set aside a part of the world." He likened this potential free-experimentation zone to Burning Man and said that we need "some safe places where we can try things and not have to deploy to the entire world." Google is already well-known for coming up with some pretty interesting ideas — the idea of seeing what Page could come up with in this lawless beta-test country is simultaneously exciting and a bit terrifying. - Also, this - Every story I read about Google is ‘us versus some other company’ or some stupid thing, and I just don’t find that very interesting. We should be building great things that don’t exist. Being negative isn’t how we make progress. Most important things are not zero sum, there is a lot of opportunity out there. - A few hours later they put out a cease and desist on Microsoft - Following Google's demands for Microsoft to remove its Windows Phone YouTube app, Microsoft has responded saying it's happy to include advertising. Google sent a cease and desist letter to Microsoft recently, with concerns that the Windows Phone YouTube app does not display ads. "We’d be more than happy to include advertising but need Google to provide us access to the necessary APIs," says a Microsoft spokesperson. - Microsoft appears to want to rectify the situation, noting Google CEO Larry Page's comments at I/O today. "In light of Larry Page’s comments today calling for more interoperability and less negativity, we look forward to solving this matter together for our mutual customers." Microsoft recently released an update for its Windows Phone YouTube application to support sign-in, downloads, and a full YouTube experience. The application has been available for just over a week, but Google has demanded that it be removed by May 22nd for violating its YouTube API rules. 32:52 - 50 Billion Downloads 34:10 - YouTube launches its paid subscription channels with select partners 37:05 - Google Unifies Its Free And Paid Storage Options 38:40 - Google completes the feedback loop 40:20 - Lulzsec hacker group handed jail sentences 40:58 - BlackBerry bringing BBM to Android and iOS this summer 43:51 - Nokia unveils the Lumia 925 46:18 - HTC First to be discontinued 47:25 - Windows Keeps Getting Better 47:57 - Players force EA to drop online pass for used games 49:35 - GT6 for PS3 52:29 - Chris Hadfield - the astronaut's best tweets, photos and videos

Intro In our previous discussion regarding gaming we learned about Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games or MMORPGs. Among the most popular was World of Warcraft. This week we consider The Webware Wars. Among the factors that have led to the proliferation of webware are: increased adoption of high-speed internet, greater bandwidth, cheap storage and a new dynamic and interactive web architecture enable by a collection of technologies referred to as Web 2.0 and AJAX. Everybody's getting into the act, including big players like Microsoft and Google, and little fish like Zoho and Thinkfree. Mike, let's start out with what we have been using the longest - What are some of the New Features in Google Docs and Spreadsheets? As with any Google product, new features are quietly added with little notice or fanfare. Since we last talked about Google docs and Spreadsheets (GDS), there have been a number of additions and improvements - mostly on the spreadsheets side of the house. The first addition is actually within Gmail - Google's popular web-based email. In the past, when a Gmail user received an email attachment (either word or excel) the only option was to open the attachment as an an html document-viewing only, or download and open the attachment. Now when a users receives an excel document, the have the option of opening that spreadsheet directly in GDS - presumably, a similar functionality will eventually be available for word documents. Can you describe GoogleLookup? This a new feature in the spreadsheets portion of the GDS that takes advantage of the online nature of GDS. In fact, it's a formula in the spreadsheet that attempts to answer a question by using information from the web. The syntax is fairly straightforward: =GoogleLookup("entity", "attribute") [the double quotes are required!] Some examples include: looking up the population of New York City [=GoogleLookup("New York City", "population")] or when Google was founded [=googlelookup("google", "founded")] =GoogleLookup("Springfield, MA", "population") gives us 152,082  =GoogleLookup("NJ", "population") gives us 8,414,350 If you mouse over the cell, you'll see links to the source pages. Don't expect to change the world with this function, but have fun with it. What are some of the entity types you can look up? Here are some of the types of entities you can access using GoogleLookup, and a few popular attribute names (some entities won't have all these attributes, and some will have more, so experiment): Countries and Territories (like "Burkina Faso"): population, capital, largest city, gdp U.S. States (like "Tennessee"): area, governor, nickname, flower Rivers (like "Amazon River"): origin, length Cities and Towns (like "Chicago"): state, mayor, elevation Musicians (like "John Lennon"): date of birth, place of birth, nationality Actors (like "Audrey Hepburn"): date of birth, place of birth, nationality Politicians (like "Anwar Al-Sadat"): date of birth, place of birth, nationality U.S. Presidents (like "Zachary Taylor"): date of birth, place of birth, political party Baseball Players (like "Wade Boggs"): games, at bats, earned run average, position Chemical Elements (like "Helium"): atomic number, discovered by, atomic weight Chemical Compounds (like "Isopropyl Alcohol"): chemical formula, melting point, boiling point, density Stars (like "Betelgeuse"): constellation, distance, mass, temperature Planets (like "Saturn"): number of moons, length of day, distance from sun, atmosphere Dinosaurs (like "Velociraptor"): height, weight, when it lived Ships (like "USS Chesapeake"): length, displacement, complement, commissioned Companies (like "Hewlett-Packard"): employees, ceo, ticker What about GoogleFinance? While GoogleLookup provides access to a wide variety of data, another new feature, GoogleFinance provides just financial data pulled from Google Finance. Using a similar syntax, you can look up the price of Google stock [=GoogleFinance("GOOG")] or the 52-week high of Apple [=GoogleFinance("AAPL", "HIGH52")]. And since this type of data changes fairly frequently, they are updated in your spreadsheet automatically. How has Publishing Improved? Google has also improved web-based publishing of spreadsheets. You can publish your entire spreadsheet (or just one sheet of it) so that other people can view it as HTML, or PDF - without having to sign in to a Google Account. The HTML even updates is the original spreadsheet changes. Last week in Houston you demo'ed something called Thinkfree - can you tell us about that?Thinkfree http://www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo A new addition to the webware wars is Thinkfree and their online office suite. Like GDS, Thinkfree provides online access to Word and Excel documents - what differentiates it is the addition of powerpoint and the ability to create charts in calc - their version of Excel. Thinkfree provides 1 Gig of space for their Thinkfree Write, Calc and Show suite. The collaboration and revisioning features are very similar to GDS. I would rate the interface a little cleaner and more user-friendly - Thinkfree refers to your online documents as your webtop, as opposed to your desktop. Like GDS, the architecture is AJAX-based, but Thinkfree uses JAVA as well. Another interesting feature that the Thinkfree suite provides is a doc exchange - an online repository that users can publish their documents to and share with one another - in fact this feature allows for a variety of creative commons licensing options. Another neat option is the Bulletin Board - sort of a guest book, where you can view all of your published and blogged files, collaborate with other Thinkfree users and get feedback from people all over the world. Another unique thing about Thinkfree's Online office suite is that it's just one of a number of products that they have launched. In addition to the free online version, there are commercial versions available including a server version, a desktop version and a portable version. The desktop and server versions are cross-platform, running on Windows, MAC and Linux and are reasonably priced ($50 desktop, server pricing starts at $30 per user per year). The portable addition runs on a U3 drive - similar to a USB drive, but with the ability to run applications - see http://www.u3.com/default.aspx for more info on U3 technology. Finally, there's a version of portable show (powerpoint) for the iPod. Are there any other applications we should take a look at?Solodox http://www.solodox.com Not nearly as far along in development as either GDS or Thinkfree is Solodox. In fact, on their website, the product is listed as an alpha - in the nomenclature of software development and testing, alpha-testing is internal testing that occurs before the software is made available to the public for beta-testing. So why bother discussing a product that's not ready for prime time? Well what's unique about Solodox is that in addition to providing a web-based word processor with features similar to other such products (creating, editing and sharing documents) Solodox And Solodox supports English, Japanese and Chinese.Where is Microsoft going with this webware technology? In the December 4 issue of Business Week Seattle Bureau Chief Jay Greene interviewed Kevin Johnson, co-president of Microsoft's platform and services division, which makes Windows, and Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's business division, which is responsible for Office. Here's a couple of quotes from this interview: In the Web 2.0 world where everything seems to be moving online, it almost seems anachronistic to be talking about packaged software. RAIKES: The new world of computing is the combination of software and services, and Microsoft is very, very focused on that services opportunity. I think the point that some of the competition misses is they think of it as an either/or situation when in reality it's an "and" situation--it's software and services, and you use the combination to do the best job for the customer. But doesn't the growing importance of the Web and all sorts of devices require Microsoft to take a different approach? RAIKES: You might think the core of our business is the PC. That's the misconception. The core of our business is software. And the software can be applied to the PC, the software can be applied to the server. When K.J. [Johnson] was joining the company [14 years ago], servers were kind of just getting started for us. Now we're big in game consoles. Did we want to get into Xbox because we wanted to be a hardware company? No, Xbox is a vehicle that allows us to deliver software. Zune is about software. So we are about software, and if you stick to that understanding of our company, then it's a lot easier to see how we transform.You can find the entire interview at: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_49/b4012009.htm The pricing has me a bit concerned: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX101754511033.aspx