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

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

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