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Summer House Cleaning

Ethan — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:13:00 +0000

As you’ve probably noticed, we’re just changing things up here on the Product Ideas team, and going for a new approach. Some of our series are closing down temporarily, and we’re going to focus on short-term PI series to collect your feedback for Google products.

This doesn’t mean you’ll never be able to be a part of a Product Ideas series for iGoogle, Mobile, or any of the other products we’ve featured. Instead, we’ll do a PI series for a product when that team is best able to act and respond to your ideas.

Simply put, we’ve always felt that the whole Product Ideas experience should be exciting and fun. It’s a chance for Product Managers and Product Support Teams to learn more about users. More important, it’s a chance for users to become advocates for what’s important in the products that they use. Moving to this new approach means that the PI team can focus more fun and better results into each series that we do. And it gives us time to make cool videos.

Ethan Ambabo, The Product Ideas team

Follow-up on Product Ideas for Google Places (with video)

Ethan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:53:00 +0000

The Google Places team has been hard at work crafting some great video responses to your submissions to Product Ideas for Google Places. You can visit their YouTube channel for all videos, or take a look below.

Product Ideas for Google Places is now closed for new submissions and voting, but you can still view all the archived ideas and votes at http://productideas.appspot.com/#15/e=c32b6&t=cee31&v=5

Ethan Ambabo
Product Ideas Lead

Collecting your feedback for Google Places

Ethan — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:40:00 +0000

The Local Business Center has been renamed to Google Places to better connect people who use Place pages with the tools that enable business owners to manage their presence on Google. With this launch, we want to collect your feedback and feature request for Google Places.

The team has launched a Product Ideas page to collect what you have to say. For the next month, you can submit your ideas and vote on the Google Places ideas that are most important to you. The more feedback we get the better, so please take a moment to check it out here.

Remember, the series is only open for a month. So head over and submit your feedback, and keep checking in to see what others have to say.

Ethan Ambabo, Product Ideas Lead

Even more Buzz news

Ethan — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:55:00 +0000

Our first round Product Ideas for Google Buzz was a great success. We received a lot of feedback, and the team has already made improvements on collapsing comments and better inbox controls. More improvements are in the works, and we'd like to know more.

Since Buzz is changing, you may have seen that we've opened up a new topic in the Product Ideas for Buzz series that will be open for the entire month of April. We'll still be paying attention to the ideas you submitted in March, but will also make room for new ideas for April as well.

Head on over to Product Ideas for Buzz to submit your ideas and vote on the ideas of others, and don't forget to follow the Google Buzz Team on Buzz for updates on your ideas.

Ethan Ambabo, Product Ideas Lead

Update on Product Ideas for Google Buzz

Ethan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:30:00 +0000

The Google Buzz team has been working hard to listen to your feedback from the Product Ideas for Google Buzz page and other sources on the web. One of the largest pieces of feedback we've received is that buzz in your inbox can get noisy. The Gmail and Buzz teams feel this too, and they've implemented new features based on your feedback to better help you control this-- settings to control what buzz goes to your inbox, explanations on why posts get sent to your inbox, and an easy-to-find "mute" button for buzz.

To learn more, visit the Official Gmail Blog.

And, don't forget to keep submitting your feedback and voting on the feedback from others in the official Product Ideas for Buzz page. We're listening, and we'll update you in the future if make future changes.

Ethan Ambabo, Product Ideas Lead

Submit your feedback for YouTube Partners Program

Ethan — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:43:00 +0000

Recently we debuted an Ideas Page for YouTube where users from around the globe could contribute with ideas and feedback to make YouTube better. It was a success, receiving almost 3,000 ideas and more than 300,000 votes. We even launched a few features that directly addressed some of the requests -- namely, an HTML5 Beta (there were many HTML5 advocates who participated) and a sneak peek of our new cleaner video page (some desired a "less cluttered" YouTube).

Today we are creating a similar Product Ideas Page specific to our YouTube Partners, where you can post ideas about how we can improve the site and your experience as partners, and see what other people are suggesting, too. If you like their suggestion, vote for it!
Whether it's an idea for a brand new feature, a small tweak that would simplify your work flow or just feedback about our Partner Program, we'd love to hear it. While we aren't able to guarantee that all ideas will be implemented, we can promise that we'll take the top ideas (as voted by you) and bring them to the YouTube Partner Team for review.
This series will be closed to new submissions and votes on April 12th, so be sure to submit your ideas soon. We look forward to hearing from you!

Filipe Lima, YouTube Partners Team
Ethan Ambabo, Product Ideas Team

Tell us your feedback for Buzz, share your ideas on Buzz

Ethan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:23:00 +0000

We recently launched Google Buzz, and it's clear that many of our users are interested in sharing feedback for the product. We're excited to hear your feedback and feature requests, so today we launched Product Ideas for Google Buzz. There, you can share your own ideas to make Buzz better, and vote on the ideas of other users that you find most important.

Additionally, blog commenter Jordan asked about finding ways to share links to the ideas he submitted on Product Ideas. Currently, you can click on your user alias inside an idea to view all the ideas you've submitted for a series. The URL at the top of this page will direct anyone else to all of your ideas, so you can easily share all of them with others. If you want to let people know what you think about Buzz, you can even post the link there too.

Product Ideas for Google Buzz will be be up until March 31st at 11:59PM EST, so make sure to submit your feedback and votes before then. We'll be keeping an eye on the series and hopping in to answer some of the best ideas that we see. For more updates, keep checking in, and don't forget to follow the Buzz team on Buzz by visiting http://www.google.com/profiles/googlebuzz

Follow up on Product Ideas for YouTube

Ethan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:26:00 +0000

Now that Product Ideas for YouTube has closed, we wanted to update you. Mia from the YouTube team has posted an excellent recap on the YouTube blog, including answers to your ideas about HTML5 and a cleaner video page.

For more information, take a look at the YouTube blog, and feel free to go back to the Product Ideas series for YouTube. While the series is closed to voting and new questions, you can still see what other users had to say, and view our responses.

It's always very exciting to hear what you have to say on Product Ideas. If you have feedback for other Google products, such as iGoogle, Docs, Reader, Mobile, Images, or Apps for Admins, head on over to Product Ideas to let us know.

Product Ideas for YouTube – 5 days left

Ethan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:49:00 +0000

If you've been visiting the Product Ideas page recently, you've probably noticed we have a series running for YouTube. As part of the YouTube team's spring cleaning project, we're collecting your feedback and ideas to make YouTube better.

So, head on over to Product Ideas for YouTube today to submit your ideas and cast your votes on the ideas most important to you. We'll be responding to some of the best ideas we see.

Don't wait too long, as we'll be closing the series at 11:59PM on February 2nd.

Ethan

Product Ideas Team