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Q&A ANSWERS POSTED HERE - http://www.yallastartup.org/blog/2010/03/29/siobhan-quinn-answers/ "Ask the Expert" is part of an ongoing series of Q&A sessions with industry experts where you, our readers, are given the opportunity to have your questions answered. Our next “Ask the expert” series will be with Google Product Manager, Siobhan Quinn. Siobhan is responsible for one of largest web properties in the world, Blogger.com. She is excited about the region and has offered to share her expertise with you. Now it is up to you to ask her the hard questions. The way this will work is you ask questions and we’ll pick the top 3-5 topics for Siobhan to answer in a future blog post. Question collection will start today and will be open for one week. Here is how you can ask your questions:
Yalla! Ask way! About Siobhan Quinn *Siobhan is a Product Manager of Blogger at Google, the web's largest blogging platform. Siobhan defines Blogger's product vision and strategy, and works closely with engineers to oversee the execution of that vision through the entire product life cycle. Before joining Google's Product team, Siobhan worked as an engineer on Google Page Creator and Google Accounts, and was involved in launching many Google products, including Gmail, Personalized Search, and Google Checkout. Siobhan graduated with Honors from the University of Washington where she received a BS in Computer Science. Siobhan's interests include creating technology that enables self expression and personal creativity, cooking, and spending time with her dog Seamus.* |
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How do you prepare for a new feature in Blogger, like what are the steps you take as a PM to get a feature into blogger from the point where you listen to user's feedback until the engineer works on it and then released to new users. How long is that cycle on average ? |
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Thanks for this great opportunity. I have been using blogger as a blogging platform for more than 4 years now. And i would love to see blogger become more mature. I have been contemplating switching to Wordpress for a long time, but I was reluctant because I know it will affect my Google index especially that my blog is not very well known, so such a step can be risky to your visibility on Google search result page. It's true that you will reclaim your index after switching, but it's just cumbersome and time consuming. Blogger lacks many professional options that Wordpress offers out of the box. Are there any foreseeable plans for blogger to become a fully mature blogging platform that will compete with Wordpress? Here are my top requested feature list:
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With such diverse efforts spanning Orkut and Blogger, and now most recently, Wave and Buzz, Google seems to be investing more into social media than ever before.
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One thing we alwyays here on entrepreneurship, is fail fast. Have you had experiences in products within Blogger where you failed fast and completeley removed them afterwards ? Can you share any thoughts on this ? |
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هذه الأسئلة حول سياسة الاستحواذات لدى جوجل:
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Thanks Siobhan! Can you help share tips about how to make a blog successful? |
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We know that the main income for bloggers is online advertising, but in MENA area this industry is still very small comparing it to EU or US and even some parts of Asia. My question is what are your plans to solve this issue, Blogger and Google behinds it is the biggest player in this field, and if Google makes a step tens of other companies will follow it. So the question again is, what are the next plans for online adverting for bloggers in MENA area. Thanks Sami, Siobhan and YallaStartup. |
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Does Google see an opportunity in utilizing blogs to uncover and remedy some real social problems in the MENA region? Blogs are a most straight forward way for people to relay their day-to-day experiences. And with tags and smart search, you have got a whole lot of content that is just waiting to be capitalized upon for the generation of new solutions. And, as demonstrated by the novelty of the Arabia 2.0 event, and by the statements of Vincent Cerf (VP and Chief Internet Evangelist) http://bit.ly/dhZ7Kn, Google appreciates the growth potential in the MENA region (82M users expected by 2013), and considers innovation as a vital obligation for leaders that can positively influence the region’s ongoing social and economic development. |
Q&A ANSWERS POSTED HERE - http://www.yallastartup.org/blog/2010/03/29/siobhan-quinn-answers/