Add to iTunesTom Stocky - Product Manager, Google Development Products
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Introduction
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!
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.
