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Play with Putty

Want to build something without spending hours setting up a development environment?

Play with Putty is a Google Labs experiment for collaborative vibe coding. It lets you work with others to turn ideas into working creations through a more visual, interactive coding experience.

It’s designed for experimenting, building, and playing around with code together — making it a fun way to go from “what if we tried this?” to something you can actually see and interact with.

DataBlur

Sharing your screen can get risky fast when names, emails, payment details, or other sensitive information are sitting somewhere you didn’t notice. DataBlur lets you blur that information live, directly on your screen, before it ever appears in a recording or screen share.

You can manually blur specific elements, areas, or words, or let it automatically detect categories like emails, phone numbers, names, cards, and API keys. You can also save blur settings for specific sites and reuse them whenever you need to demo or record.

Everything happens locally, with no cloud processing or AI, making it useful for marketers, consultants, sales teams, and anyone who regularly shares screens with client or company data on them.

MosaiQR

QR codes don’t have to look like QR codes. MosaicQR turns them into branded visual assets, letting you create custom QR codes that incorporate your logo, colors, or imagery while remaining scannable.

Just add your URL and customize the design to create a QR code that fits your brand instead of looking like an afterthought.

It’s a simple way to make QR codes feel more at home on packaging, print campaigns, event materials, business cards, and other offline marketing.

Aximote

Turn your browser into a smarter research assistant.

Aximote helps you capture and organize information from the web, making it easier to collect useful content as you research without constantly switching between tools.
Whether you’re gathering inspiration, saving references, or building a research trail, it keeps the process closer to where the work is actually happening.

A handy addition to any marketer’s research toolkit.

Tab Notes

Your browser tabs can be notes too.

Tab Notes turns your new tab page into a lightweight space for capturing thoughts, to-dos, reminders, and quick notes while you browse.
Instead of opening another app every time an idea strikes, you can jot it down right where you already are.

Simple, distraction-free, and handy for those moments when your brain has five ideas before you’ve finished reading one article.

Yatko

Need a better way to organize your ideas?

Yatko is a visual workspace designed to help you turn scattered thoughts, notes, and information into structured ideas you can actually work with.
It gives you a flexible space to collect and connect information, making it easier to see relationships between ideas and move from brainstorming to action.

A useful pick for marketers juggling research, strategy, and a dozen open tabs.

Claude Watermark

Want to know if something was made with Claude?

Claude Watermark helps you detect whether an image was generated or edited with Claude, using invisible signals embedded in the file.

Upload an image and the tool checks for a Claude watermark, giving you a quick way to verify its origin without needing to inspect the image manually.

Simple, useful, and especially handy as AI-generated visuals become harder to distinguish from human-made work.

Tiny Funnel

Google Analytics can be a little overwhelming.

Tiny Funnel shows you exactly where visitors came from, where they went, and how many ultimately converted. Simple.

The cookie-less analytics tool lets you build funnels around page visits, clicks, page states, or server-side events, then see drop-offs and individual visitor journeys in one view.

There’s no event code required for basic tracking.

New AI Tools from Google

Google is adding a new layer of AI and agentic capabilities to Google Ads and Google Analytics.

There are now AI-powered summaries on platform homepages that surface important performance shifts and trends, giving you a quicker read on what deserves attention.

There’s also a new way to build visual reports using simple prompts. You can ask Google’s AI to create visualizations and explain the “why” behind their performance.

Plus, Google is also introducing benchmarking capabilities, allowing businesses to compare their results with similar companies and identify areas where they may be underperforming or missing opportunities.

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