Introduction

On this episode of ReadWriteTalk, we talk to Pete Koomen and Paul McDonald product managers for Google App Engine. Tomorrow at the Google IO conference, the App Engine team will be announcing a few new features including: new APIs for image manipulation and integrating memcached like functionality (update after interview from Paul: API created by Brad Fitzpatrick).   They also are going to be releasing information around pricing to purchase additional computing resources beyond the free throttled access and eliminating the wait-list so all developers can have access. We discussed these announcements as well as the current state of App Engine on the episode.

Finally, I apologize in advance for some of the audio quality in parts of this interview. We are actively working on improving the sound quality for these interviews and should have a new solution in the next few weeks.

 

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Links

• Google App Engine Overview
• Google App Engine Blog
• Google IO Conference

Transcript is coming later this week

Introduction

This is an interesting episode of ReadWriteTalk. On Friday April 4th, I interviewed Tom Stocky a Product Manager with Google Development Products. After the interview, we sent the audio over to be transcribed. At the time, I had no idea that on Monday April 7th, Google Development Products would announce arguably their most ambitious project yet - the Google App Engine. At that point, we considered releasing the interview immediately. But decided that while it would have been interesting context before the announcement at that point we should go through our normal process waiting for the transcribing to be complete. We did cover the announcement thoroughly on ReadWriteWeb, for listeners I link to all our coverage on the show notes.

Anyway,we still think this its very interesting context and hope you agree. The first half of the interview covers a number of different projects, other than the AppEngine (because that was still in stealth mode). The second part gets into how Google evaluates the success of the different Development Products. It is interesting to apply the same metrics and goals Tom discusses to the App Engine and consider what other projects may be coming soon from Google.

One thing we’re considering moving forward is releasing the audio immediately after the interviews are adding the transcript later. Please let me know what you think about that idea!

 

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On this epside I am joined by Eric Gilmore the Senior Product Manager for Office Live at Microsoft. Eric discusses a product he’s responsible and we recently covered on RWW Office Live Workspace. Eric also discusses how they are soliciting customer feedback on the product, plans for allowing other services to build on top of the platform and observations on the so called ‘enterprise 2.0′ market and how it fits in at Microsoft.

 

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Links

• RWW Post on Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs
• OLW Community main
• Eric’s posts on the Office Live Workspace Blog

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A few weeks ago at CES, I sat down with Adam Taggart the Director of Product Marketing at Yahoo! He shared some of the recent news they had announced at CES around opening up their mobile platform for other developers and his perspectives on the mobile market.

 

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On this episode of Read/WriteTalk I sit down with Kevin Marks. Kevin is one of the public faces of the OpenSocial project at Google in his role as a developer advocate.  Before coming to Google, he was a principal engineer at Technorati and one of the driving forces behind micro-formats.

In this episode, we focus on the state of the OpenSocial project and also highlight some of the work around opening up activity streams which is one of the features I feel has been overlooked in the conversation around OpenSocial.

 

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