David Black
@davidblack.bsky.social
Managing Director at Google UK. Advisory Board at The King’s Trust. Board and Trustee of Media Trust. Technology, media, digital, skills and social mobility.
Happy 27th birthday to Google! 🎂 🎉
To celebrate, today we've gone retro and taken our homepage back to 1998 with the original Google logo:
To celebrate, today we've gone retro and taken our homepage back to 1998 with the original Google logo:
September 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Happy 27th birthday to Google! 🎂 🎉
To celebrate, today we've gone retro and taken our homepage back to 1998 with the original Google logo:
To celebrate, today we've gone retro and taken our homepage back to 1998 with the original Google logo:
🚀 Announcing the Google AI Futures Fund! 🚀
We're investing in and collaborating with startups building the future of AI. Get early access to GoogleDeepMind's latest models like Gemini, Veo & Imagen, expert collaboration, Google Cloud credits & potential equity.
We're investing in and collaborating with startups building the future of AI. Get early access to GoogleDeepMind's latest models like Gemini, Veo & Imagen, expert collaboration, Google Cloud credits & potential equity.
May 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
🚀 Announcing the Google AI Futures Fund! 🚀
We're investing in and collaborating with startups building the future of AI. Get early access to GoogleDeepMind's latest models like Gemini, Veo & Imagen, expert collaboration, Google Cloud credits & potential equity.
We're investing in and collaborating with startups building the future of AI. Get early access to GoogleDeepMind's latest models like Gemini, Veo & Imagen, expert collaboration, Google Cloud credits & potential equity.
Sign up for Google Marketing Live #GML2025, streaming live from Dublin on May 22! Join us virtually to explore how Google AI & the latest ads innovations for Google & YouTube can help businesses to grow faster. Expect insights, demos, & live Q&A with our experts. Register: goo.gle/GML-EMEA-register
May 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Sign up for Google Marketing Live #GML2025, streaming live from Dublin on May 22! Join us virtually to explore how Google AI & the latest ads innovations for Google & YouTube can help businesses to grow faster. Expect insights, demos, & live Q&A with our experts. Register: goo.gle/GML-EMEA-register
Reposted by David Black
Our #AIEssentialsBootcamp is designed to help you understand, explore and integrate AI into your work, exploring topics such as:
💻 Maximising productivity with AI tools
⚙️ Discovering the art of prompt engineering
👥 Using AI responsibly
Apply now:
mediatrust.org/youth-progra...
💻 Maximising productivity with AI tools
⚙️ Discovering the art of prompt engineering
👥 Using AI responsibly
Apply now:
mediatrust.org/youth-progra...
May 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Our #AIEssentialsBootcamp is designed to help you understand, explore and integrate AI into your work, exploring topics such as:
💻 Maximising productivity with AI tools
⚙️ Discovering the art of prompt engineering
👥 Using AI responsibly
Apply now:
mediatrust.org/youth-progra...
💻 Maximising productivity with AI tools
⚙️ Discovering the art of prompt engineering
👥 Using AI responsibly
Apply now:
mediatrust.org/youth-progra...
Brilliant programme with @mediatrust.bsky.social supported by Google.org to support AI skills - apply here:
Our #AIEssentialsBootcamp is designed to help you understand, explore and integrate AI into your work, exploring topics such as:
💻 Maximising productivity with AI tools
⚙️ Discovering the art of prompt engineering
👥 Using AI responsibly
Apply now:
mediatrust.org/youth-progra...
💻 Maximising productivity with AI tools
⚙️ Discovering the art of prompt engineering
👥 Using AI responsibly
Apply now:
mediatrust.org/youth-progra...
May 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Brilliant programme with @mediatrust.bsky.social supported by Google.org to support AI skills - apply here:
✨ AI could boost the UK economy by a massive £400Bn by 2030 - but half of that growth depends on helping UK workers to make good use of AI, according to Google UK's AI Works research.
April 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
✨ AI could boost the UK economy by a massive £400Bn by 2030 - but half of that growth depends on helping UK workers to make good use of AI, according to Google UK's AI Works research.
Reposted by David Black
AI Mode in Google Search uses a custom version of Gemini to issue related searches. This "query fan-out" technique finds real-time info from the web, our Knowledge Graph & more. This provides a greater breadth & depth of info than a traditional Google search. Learn more: blog.google/products/sea...
April 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
AI Mode in Google Search uses a custom version of Gemini to issue related searches. This "query fan-out" technique finds real-time info from the web, our Knowledge Graph & more. This provides a greater breadth & depth of info than a traditional Google search. Learn more: blog.google/products/sea...
In March the Sidemen sold out @wembleystadium.bsky.social to 90,000 people with their amazing charity football match 👏 Find out what they've learnt about marketing in the digital age. 👇
April 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In March the Sidemen sold out @wembleystadium.bsky.social to 90,000 people with their amazing charity football match 👏 Find out what they've learnt about marketing in the digital age. 👇
Happy 20th birthday today to YouTube!
📈 46 million UK adults now watch YouTube every month.
1️⃣ If UK viewers could only watch one service for an entire year, the number one platform they chose was YouTube.
🇬🇧 YouTube's creator ecosystem contributes £2bn to UK GDP.
What are you watching on YouTube?
📈 46 million UK adults now watch YouTube every month.
1️⃣ If UK viewers could only watch one service for an entire year, the number one platform they chose was YouTube.
🇬🇧 YouTube's creator ecosystem contributes £2bn to UK GDP.
What are you watching on YouTube?
April 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Happy 20th birthday today to YouTube!
📈 46 million UK adults now watch YouTube every month.
1️⃣ If UK viewers could only watch one service for an entire year, the number one platform they chose was YouTube.
🇬🇧 YouTube's creator ecosystem contributes £2bn to UK GDP.
What are you watching on YouTube?
📈 46 million UK adults now watch YouTube every month.
1️⃣ If UK viewers could only watch one service for an entire year, the number one platform they chose was YouTube.
🇬🇧 YouTube's creator ecosystem contributes £2bn to UK GDP.
What are you watching on YouTube?
✨ This is cool. Gemini Live with camera and screensharing is now live.
Find out more: blog.google/products/gem...
Find out more: blog.google/products/gem...
Gemini Live with Screen Sharing & Camera Capabilities on Pixel
With Gemini Live, you can point your camera at something and get instant help understanding it. Show Gemini a landmark, storefront, or even a dish on your plate, and it will function as an AI assistan...
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April 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
✨ This is cool. Gemini Live with camera and screensharing is now live.
Find out more: blog.google/products/gem...
Find out more: blog.google/products/gem...
Reposted by David Black
The beautiful cover of my new novel THE ART OF A LIE 💚🍍🍦
Abir Mukherjee
@radiomukhers.bsky.social: 'A breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl . . . This book has it all. Masterful'
PREORDER here: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/laur...
More info below & more exciting news to follow soon...
Abir Mukherjee
@radiomukhers.bsky.social: 'A breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl . . . This book has it all. Masterful'
PREORDER here: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/laur...
More info below & more exciting news to follow soon...
January 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The beautiful cover of my new novel THE ART OF A LIE 💚🍍🍦
Abir Mukherjee
@radiomukhers.bsky.social: 'A breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl . . . This book has it all. Masterful'
PREORDER here: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/laur...
More info below & more exciting news to follow soon...
Abir Mukherjee
@radiomukhers.bsky.social: 'A breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl . . . This book has it all. Masterful'
PREORDER here: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/laur...
More info below & more exciting news to follow soon...
My brilliant bridge partner has written another superb book - find out more:
The beautiful cover of my new novel THE ART OF A LIE 💚🍍🍦
Abir Mukherjee
@radiomukhers.bsky.social: 'A breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl . . . This book has it all. Masterful'
PREORDER here: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/laur...
More info below & more exciting news to follow soon...
Abir Mukherjee
@radiomukhers.bsky.social: 'A breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl . . . This book has it all. Masterful'
PREORDER here: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/laur...
More info below & more exciting news to follow soon...
January 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My brilliant bridge partner has written another superb book - find out more:
Google Santa Tracker 2024 is live! 🎄🎅🛷
Check out Santa’s magical progress around the world as he brings gifts and spreads joy.
santatracker.google.com
Check out Santa’s magical progress around the world as he brings gifts and spreads joy.
santatracker.google.com
Google Santa Tracker
Explore, play and learn with Santa's elves all December long
santatracker.google.com
December 24, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Google Santa Tracker 2024 is live! 🎄🎅🛷
Check out Santa’s magical progress around the world as he brings gifts and spreads joy.
santatracker.google.com
Check out Santa’s magical progress around the world as he brings gifts and spreads joy.
santatracker.google.com
Sunday fun - design a chess piece using GenAI. ♟️
Just say what you’d like in your design and Google’s most advanced GenAI image generation model, Imagen 3, will create it. ✨
Check out GenChess: labs.google/genchess
Just say what you’d like in your design and Google’s most advanced GenAI image generation model, Imagen 3, will create it. ✨
Check out GenChess: labs.google/genchess
December 1, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Sunday fun - design a chess piece using GenAI. ♟️
Just say what you’d like in your design and Google’s most advanced GenAI image generation model, Imagen 3, will create it. ✨
Check out GenChess: labs.google/genchess
Just say what you’d like in your design and Google’s most advanced GenAI image generation model, Imagen 3, will create it. ✨
Check out GenChess: labs.google/genchess
Find the most popular links being shared by the accounts you follow on Bluesky:
this new site is flippin awesome, sort of a spiritual successor to Nuzzle
you can connect your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and then it compiles popular links and shows you who is sharing them
https://sill.social
you can connect your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and then it compiles popular links and shows you who is sharing them
https://sill.social
November 26, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Find the most popular links being shared by the accounts you follow on Bluesky:
Reposted by David Black
this new site is flippin awesome, sort of a spiritual successor to Nuzzle
you can connect your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and then it compiles popular links and shows you who is sharing them
https://sill.social
you can connect your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and then it compiles popular links and shows you who is sharing them
https://sill.social
November 25, 2024 at 8:41 PM
this new site is flippin awesome, sort of a spiritual successor to Nuzzle
you can connect your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and then it compiles popular links and shows you who is sharing them
https://sill.social
you can connect your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and then it compiles popular links and shows you who is sharing them
https://sill.social
A great starter pack of marketing, commerce and measurement accounts:
I've created this starter pack for (potentially) interesting accounts to following in marketing, commerce and measurement.
I've started small but will add to it over the coming weeks. Also as more people come over to BlueSky.
go.bsky.app/KGUe8Lj
I've started small but will add to it over the coming weeks. Also as more people come over to BlueSky.
go.bsky.app/KGUe8Lj
Interesting marketing and measurement people
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
November 25, 2024 at 11:24 PM
A great starter pack of marketing, commerce and measurement accounts:
Reposted by David Black
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
Bluesky searches still growing fast, Google Trends data shows:
trends.google.com/trends/explo...
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November 18, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Bluesky searches still growing fast, Google Trends data shows:
trends.google.com/trends/explo...
trends.google.com/trends/explo...
Reposted by David Black
"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
November 16, 2024 at 11:36 AM
"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
Reposted by David Black
They should have called this site AFC Twitter
November 15, 2024 at 6:51 AM
They should have called this site AFC Twitter
Reposted by David Black
Made another highly specific apology card.
November 14, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Made another highly specific apology card.
Bluesky now the number one free app on the Google Play store chart:
November 15, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Bluesky now the number one free app on the Google Play store chart:
Significant growth in Google searches for Bluesky in recent days, according to Google Trends:
trends.google.com/trends/explo...
trends.google.com/trends/explo...
November 15, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Significant growth in Google searches for Bluesky in recent days, according to Google Trends:
trends.google.com/trends/explo...
trends.google.com/trends/explo...