Product Manager

YouTube has an­nounced that it is in the pro­cess of re­mov­ing the 15-min­ute time length re­stric­tion im­posed on videos. While the lim­it has, so far, on­ly been lift­ed with a few spe­cial con­tent part­ners like National Geographic and Lonelygirl15 (a chan­nel which ap­par­ent­ly still has view­ers), it should pave the way for longer videos for all mov­ing for­ward. So, why the change now after years of lim­its? Joshua Siegel, a pro­duct man­ager at YouTube told The New York Times that the com­pa­ny now has (...)

At a con­fer­ence in Paris yes­ter­day, Twitter VP of Product Jason Goldman an­nounced that he is step­ping down from his role at the end of the year. Twitter said it is now “look­ing for some­one to lead pro­duct man­age­ment” to re­place him. Goldman of­fered the news in a con­ver­sa­tion at LeWeb, say­ing he’d main­tain an ad­vi­so­ry role, that he’s not leav­ing to start some­thing new, that he’s not go­ing to Facebook or Google and that he just needs “a bit of a break.” Twitter has no lack of pro­duct lead­ers, (...)

Today is the first page in a new chap­ter of our mis­sion to im­prove ac­cess to the cul­tur­al and ed­u­ca­tion­al trea­sures we know as books. Google eBooks will be avail­able in the U.S. from a new Google eBook­store. You can browse and search through the largest ebooks col­lec­tion in the world with more than three mil­lion ti­tles in­clud­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands for sale. Find the lat­est best­sellers like James Patterson’s Cross Fire and Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, dig in­to pop­u­lar reads like Laura (...)

Earlier this year we an­nounced the dep­re­ca­tion of Google Mapplets. As part of the dep­re­ca­tion plan for Mapplets we will short­ly be switch­ing from ren­der­ing Mapplets with­in Google Maps, to ren­der­ing them on a ded­i­cat­ed Mapplets page: http://maps.google.com/maps/map­plets?mod­uleurl=http://www.google.com/ig/mod­ules/geo­scratch­pad.xml In con­junc­tion with this tran­si­tion the Google Maps Directory will be closed, and links to Mapplets will be re­moved from the My Maps tab in Google Maps. (...)

We have im­proved our Shopping Shortcuts to in­clude even more of the hottest items for this hol­i­day sea­son. Our Shopping Shortcuts show you some of the most pop­u­lar prod­ucts and let you see what others think about an item you are in­ter­est­ed in. You can al­so learn about pos­si­ble al­ter­na­tives and choose the best place to buy when you are ready to make the pur­chase. Search for “g­ps” and the Shopping Shortcut will show you the top GPS prod­ucts, along with price, rat­ing, and num­ber of re­views. (...)

The tran­si­tion of lo­ca­tion based ser­vices from sim­ple game-ori­ent­ed ex­er­cis­es to valu­able re­view repos­i­to­ries is well un­der way. From the promise six months ago by pro­duct man­ager Siobhan Quinn that Foursquare's val­ue would be from friends' tips to Yelp and Facebook Places, peo­ple are shar­ing their thoughts and ex­pe­ri­ences about places they shop, eat and vis­it. Monday night, Google jumped in­to this fray with both feet with the sim­plest, most lightweight plat­form I have seen yet, called (...)

We’re al­ways look­ing to im­prove the ac­cu­ra­cy of our maps and the val­ue of the ser­vices we of­fer around them. To do that we need to have the best qual­i­ty map data pos­si­ble, and we be­lieve that no­body knows the world around them bet­ter than our users. For this rea­son we’re al­ways ex­cit­ed when we can up­date our maps and en­able users to par­tic­i­pate in im­prov­ing them, as we have pre­vi­ous­ly in the United States and Canada. Today we’re adding Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Liechtenstein, (...)

With Google Instant you get re­sults as fast as you type, but your search doesn’t stop there. Once you get re­sults back, you choose a site to vis­it based on the in­for­ma­tion in each re­sult—­like the ti­tle, a snip­pet of text and the URL. Over time we’ve made steady im­prove­ments to our search re­sults and snip­pets to help you pick a great page. Now we’re mak­ing a leap to im­age-based snap­shot­s—a new kind of vi­su­al search re­sult we call “In­stant Previews” which makes it even faster to choose the right (...)

Last week, Adobe Photoshop Product Manager, John Nack men­tioned on his blog that Adobe was cur­rent­ly work­ing on ways to in­cor­po­rate the iPad and other tablet de­vices in­to the Photoshop work­flow. While I think that it’s great that they are cur­rent­ly work­ing on new ways to in­ter­act with our fa­vorite app. I won­der, what’s the point? When we asked you guys over the week­end what you thought of the idea, over 75% of you said that you liked it. I don’t blame you. In prin­ci­ple, I think it’s pret­ty (...)

The Giants won and we are hear­ing that the Cowboys are look­ing for a new coach – send in your apps to­day! Check out the lat­est jobs post­ed on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the lat­est Web in­dus­try jobs de­liv­ered di­rect­ly to you. Featured Jobs: Internet Marketing Manager – Retail Specialist at Cookson Precious Metals Producer – Digital Sports at Nike Web Software Developer at Berklee College of Music More (...)

This is a guest post by Julia Krysztofiak-Szopa, pro­duct man­ager at Inflavo and former com­mu­ni­ty man­ager at Adtaily. On Twitter she is @ju­lenc­ja. If you hap­pen to be a smart, English-speak­ing pro­gram­mer in Poland, there is a good chance you will work in a start-up. An American one. Ryan Janssen, CEO of New York based SetJam.com start­ed his com­pa­ny 18 months ago. His first chal­lenge was to build a team of qual­i­ty de­vel­op­ers but, ac­cord­ing to how he sees the tech scene in New York, (...)

Nielsen has un­cov­ered a glitch in its sys­tem that led it to un­der-re­port the amount of time users spent on web­sites and is in­ves­ti­gat­ing the is­sues, the com­pa­ny said in a client let­ter (pdf) ob­tained by AdAge. While it doesn’t ap­pear that data re­lat­ed to count­ing web­site traf­fic was af­fect­ed, Nielsen said it is con­tin­u­ing to in­ves­ti­gate the cause of is­sue. Specifically, Nielsen said the prob­lems were found in the NetView ser­vice, which mea­sures time spent on web­sites. The full ef­fect on (...)

Filed un­der: Video, Google, Open Source Ever since Google an­nounced its 'open source' WebM video for­mat, they've been slow­ly but sure­ly transcod­ing the en­tire YouTube video li­brary. According to an up­date from John Luther, the Product Manager for WebM, while speak­ing at the Streaming Media West con­fer­ence, as it stands now, 80% of all video avail­able through YouTube is in the WebM for­mat -- a sig­nif­i­cant amount of video in­deed. This is good news for pro­po­nents of the VP8 video codec and (...)

Can the iPad save the magazine star? It might, if Portland, Oregon star­tup Urban Airship has any­thing to say about it. For all their dreams of suc­cess in a medi­um that priv­i­leges big pic­tures, mul­ti-me­dia and a touch in­ter­face, pub­lish­ers of pe­ri­od­i­cal con­tent have been frus­trat­ed by the lack of sub­scrip­tion sales op­tions on Apple's iPad. Urban Airship is a small star­tup that has be­gun to pow­er iPad sub­scrip­tion to con­tent for pub­lish­ers in­clud­ing NewsWeek, the Atlantic and the (...)

The Maps Data API is be­ing dep­re­cat­ed and will no longer be avail­able after January 31st 2011. For more in­for­ma­tion, in­clud­ing how to pre­serve your data and al­ter­na­tive so­lu­tions, read on... When the Maps Data API was launched in Google Code Labs last year, it pro­vid­ed de­vel­op­ers with a scal­able dis­tribut­ed plat­form for host­ing geospa­tial data. Since then we have re­ceived a lot of valu­able feed­back from de­vel­op­ers, such as the need for vi­su­al­i­sa­tion of host­ed data in Maps API (...)

We’ve just learned that ChoiceVendor founder and CEO Yan-David Erlich has left LinkedIn, just un­der two months after his star­tup was ac­quired by the pro­fes­sion­al so­cial net­work. Erlich was a former­ly a pro­duct man­ager at Google, Battery Ventures EIR and founder of Mogad/Social.IM. He sold the lat­ter to iSkoot be­fore he found­ed ChoiceVendor, which he then sold to LinkedIn for an undis­closed amount ru­mored to be in the $5 mil­lion rage. Sources say that Erlich, who must be walk­ing away from (...)

I love to dis­cov­er new places, from sand­wich shops in my neigh­bor­hood to great mu­se­ums around the globe. When I start look­ing for some­thing in a new area, like a bar­be­cue restau­rant in Austin, I usu­al­ly do quite a few search­es. I might search for a list of restau­rants and then search for de­tails about each place, like which one has the best at­mo­sphere and live mu­sic. Today we’re in­tro­duc­ing Place Search, a new kind of lo­cal search re­sult that or­ga­nizes the world’s in­for­ma­tion around places. (...)

Earlier this year we an­nounced our plans to build and test ul­tra-high speed broad­band net­works in a small num­ber of American com­mu­ni­ties. Since then, a team of Google engi­neers has been hard at work ex­per­i­ment­ing with new fiber op­tic tech­nolo­gies. And fol­low­ing a series of tests we’ve run on Google’s cam­pus, we’re ex­cit­ed to an­nounce the next step in our pro­ject. We’ve reached an agree­ment with Stanford University to build an ul­tra-high speed broad­band net­work to the uni­ver­si­ty’s Residential (...)

One of the first ques­tions we were asked fol­low­ing the Google I/O ses­sion at which we launched Styled Maps in the JavaScript Maps API ear­lier this year was whether the fea­ture would al­so be of­fered in the Maps API for Flash. Since then we have seen par­tic­u­lar in­ter­est from the cre­ative arts com­mu­ni­ty, and from news or­ga­ni­za­tions who use Flash be­cause it en­ables rapid de­vel­op­ment in re­spon­se to un­fold­ing events, and who would val­ue a sim­pli­fied base map to quick­ly fo­cus the read­er's (...)

Ready for an­oth­er earn­ings sea­son? Yahoo! Finance Search is in­tro­duc­ing a new fea­ture for in­vestors on the prowl for next big in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ty. When you en­ter tick­ers or com­pa­ny names in the search box, you may now find a new “Re­lat­ed Tickers” mod­ule in the left-side of your search re­sult page for se­lect queries. This new fea­ture sug­gests up to 10 re­lat­ed tick­ers we think you might be in­ter­est­ed in, so you can easi­ly ex­plore more in­for­ma­tion with­out hav­ing to think about your next (...)