Thanks to everyone who has been a loyal reader of this blog. After some consideration, we recognize that we're not generating enough content here to warrant your time, so we won't be posting here any longer. We encourage you to visit the Product Ideas page at http://www.google.com/productideas to leave your feedback for Google Groups.

Lasse Wassermann, The Product Ideas team

As you’ve probably noticed, we’re just changing things up here on the Product Ideas team, and going for a new approach. Some of our series are closing down temporarily, and we’re going to focus on short-term PI series to collect your feedback for Google products.

This doesn’t mean you’ll never be able to be a part of a Product Ideas series for iGoogle, Mobile, or any of the other products we’ve featured. Instead, we’ll do a PI series for a product when that team is best able to act and respond to your ideas.

Simply put, we’ve always felt that the whole Product Ideas experience should be exciting and fun. It’s a chance for Product Managers and Product Support Teams to learn more about users. More important, it’s a chance for users to become advocates for what’s important in the products that they use. Moving to this new approach means that the PI team can focus more fun and better results into each series that we do. And it gives us time to make cool videos.

Ethan Ambabo, The Product Ideas team

The Google Places team has been hard at work crafting some great video responses to your submissions to Product Ideas for Google Places. You can visit their YouTube channel for all videos, or take a look below.





Product Ideas for Google Places is now closed for new submissions and voting, but you can still view all the archived ideas and votes at http://productideas.appspot.com/#15/e=c32b6&t=cee31&v=5

Ethan Ambabo
Product Ideas Lead

The Local Business Center has been renamed to Google Places to better connect people who use Place pages with the tools that enable business owners to manage their presence on Google. With this launch, we want to collect your feedback and feature request for Google Places.

The team has launched a Product Ideas page to collect what you have to say. For the next month, you can submit your ideas and vote on the Google Places ideas that are most important to you. The more feedback we get the better, so please take a moment to check it out here.

Remember, the series is only open for a month. So head over and submit your feedback, and keep checking in to see what others have to say.

Ethan Ambabo, Product Ideas Lead

Our first round Product Ideas for Google Buzz was a great success. We received a lot of feedback, and the team has already made improvements on collapsing comments and better inbox controls. More improvements are in the works, and we'd like to know more.

Since Buzz is changing, you may have seen that we've opened up a new topic in the Product Ideas for Buzz series that will be open for the entire month of April. We'll still be paying attention to the ideas you submitted in March, but will also make room for new ideas for April as well.

Head on over to Product Ideas for Buzz to submit your ideas and vote on the ideas of others, and don't forget to follow the Google Buzz Team on Buzz for updates on your ideas.

Ethan Ambabo, Product Ideas Lead

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

Now that Product Ideas for YouTube has closed, we wanted to update you. Mia from the YouTube team has posted an excellent recap on the YouTube blog, including answers to your ideas about HTML5 and a cleaner video page.

For more information, take a look at the YouTube blog, and feel free to go back to the Product Ideas series for YouTube. While the series is closed to voting and new questions, you can still see what other users had to say, and view our responses.

It's always very exciting to hear what you have to say on Product Ideas. If you have feedback for other Google products, such as iGoogle, Docs, Reader, Mobile, Images, or Apps for Admins, head on over to Product Ideas to let us know.

If you've been visiting the Product Ideas page recently, you've probably noticed we have a series running for YouTube. As part of the YouTube team's spring cleaning project, we're collecting your feedback and ideas to make YouTube better.

So, head on over to Product Ideas for YouTube today to submit your ideas and cast your votes on the ideas most important to you. We'll be responding to some of the best ideas we see.

Don't wait too long, as we'll be closing the series at 11:59PM on February 2nd.

Ethan

Product Ideas Team

Are you an AdSense publisher? If so, we invite you to submit your ideas for new AdSense features on our Product Ideas for AdSense page.

Whether it's an idea for a brand new feature or just a small tweak that would simplify your work flow, we'd like to hear it. While we aren't able to guarantee that all the ideas on this page will be implemented, we can guarantee that we'll take the top ideas (as voted by you), and bring them to the AdSense Product Management team for review.

This series will be closed to new submissions and votes on December 15th, so be sure to submit your ideas soon. We look forward to hearing your ideas!

If you could change one thing about Google Images, what would it be?

We want to know your answer to this question, so that's why we're launching a Product Ideas page for Google Images today. This page lets you post your ideas and see what other users are suggesting at the same time. If you like their suggestion, vote for it!

With Product Ideas for Google Images, your ideas will be seen directly by the Google Images team and others using Google Images. This is your chance to influence the development of the product. We'll be keeping a close watch to see which ideas float to the top of the list.

When we were developing Google Sidewiki, we knew that we wanted to make a Product Ideas page available as soon as the feature launched.

That's why we now launched several Sidewiki topics on Product Ideas to solicit your thoughts around how to improve Sidewiki.

Be assured that we always take your feedback to heart, and we will use your feedback to help drive innovation and make Sidewiki the best service it can possibly be. While we won't necessarily answer or implement every idea, we'll check in to let you know what we've decided.

Don't wait too long; we will be closing this series to new questions and votes on October 12, 2009. Visit Product Ideas for Google Sidewiki.

We're excited to announce Product Ideas has just launched for Google Apps administrators! If you manage Google Apps for your company or organization and have an idea to share, then we want to hear from you. Read more about it on the Google Enterprise Blog.

The Product Ideas team has been very busy lately, and you've probably noticed some changes on the Product Ideas page in the past week that we're very excited to tell you about. Since we launched Product Ideas, we've received a lot of feedback about Google mobile products, Blogger, and Webmaster Tools, and we've identified a lot of ways to better gather your ideas. Now, with our new series for iGoogle, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Sketchup, Google Ad Planner, and Google Custom Search, we're excited to officially unveil version 2 of Product Ideas.

In this new version, we've added several features to keep the ideas list fresh, and to help you better categorize, sort, and filter to find the most relevant ideas for you to vote on. At the top of every idea list, you'll see four ways to sort:

* Top Voted - sort ideas in a topic by the total number of positive votes

* What's Hot - sort by the most popular ideas right now

* What's New - see the most recently submitted ideas

* Ideas in Action - will show you the ideas that we've reviewed and responded to, so you can see how your feedback has helped us make Google products better

In addition, you can now submit an idea into multiple topics. For instance, if you have a great Google Spreadsheets feature request that's relevant to educational use, you can now choose both "Feature Request" and "Education" in the "Pick a Topic" selection box.

The best part is, we're only getting started. Now it's time for you to share your thoughts and tell us what ideas matter most.

Have an idea you'd like to share with the Google Docs team? Maybe it's an idea about Google spreadsheets, or something that bugs your about presentations. Share them now using Product Ideas for Google Docs.

We encourage you to share your feedback about Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Just like before, we'll be listening to your ideas with an open ear, and we'll be keeping you all in the loop about your ideas. Be on the lookout for updates in our "Ideas in Action" section.

We can't wait to hear all your fabulous ideas. Happy idea sharing and voting!

-The Product Ideas Team

The Webmaster Central team does our best to support the webmaster community via Google's Webmaster Tools product, our Help Center, the Webmaster Central blog, our YouTube videos, our forum, and a fellow named Matt Cutts.

However, we know users want to share their ideas, and we've seen the impact user feedback has had on Google Mobile and Blogger, so the Webmaster Central team set out to open up Product Ideas. Given the recent launch of our new user interface, this is a great time to ask for feedback and further new ideas.

If you've got ideas and suggestions for Webmaster Central - features you want, things we can do better - tell us! From now until Friday, July 24, 2009, Product Ideas for Webmaster Central will be open for feedback. Every suggestion you add will be seen not only by the Webmaster Central team, but by other users and webmasters. We'll review every submission, and we'll update you regularly with our progress and feedback.

The more feedback the better, so get started now.

Sagar Kamdar, Product Manager, Webmaster Tools Team

You've always been able to view your labels in Gmail for mobile, but you asked for the ability to apply and remove labels on messages. We listened. Last month we added more advanced support for labeling in Gmail for mobile when accessed in the browser on an iPhone or Android-powered device.

Related ideas

"There's no way to add a label to your Gmail messages on iPhone."

Go Bears!, San Jose, CA

Official Google Mobile Blog post:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/05/iterative-web-app-gmail-for-mobile-gets.html

As always, thanks for your input!

Sincerely,

The Product Ideas Team

Product Ideas for Google Mobile has shown us that users like you have great feedback and enjoy sharing it with the world. As you have seen from previous blog posts, you've shown us that you care about location sharing through Google, access to documents on your phone, and more. We've listened to these ideas, and now we're excited to open this up for another Google product, Blogger.

From now until Friday, May 14th, Product Ideas for Blogger will be up for users to share their great ideas, issues, feature requests, and even their favorite blogs of note. Just like other Product Ideas series, you'll be able to submit your own idea and then vote on the ideas of others. The Product Ideas Team will be here from time to time to check in, and we'll be updating you once the series is done.

So, don't wait until May 14th to submit your idea. Start sharing your thoughts to the world today!

We recently made it easier to manage events with Google Calendar for mobile browsers, which should be great news to all those who voted for the No. 1 idea on Google Product Ideas. You can now edit, delete, and respond to events using Google Calendar for mobile browsers. These features are currently only available in the English interface on Android and iPhone devices.

We're happy to see such enthusiastic voting and even happier to see one of the most popular ideas already live!

Keep those ideas and votes coming!

Product: Google Calendar
New Feature: Support for editing, deleting, responding to events in Android and iPhone browsers

Announcement: Google Mobile Blog

Related Ideas:

"Manage Google Calendar on Google Mobile (add, update, delete an event with all functionalities of the web application) (ex Phone : Iphone)"
Yvo, France

"Can't fully edit Google Calendar events on iPhone in Safari browser (or create all-day event)."
Matt, Atlanta, GA

"allow changes to be made with Google Calendar for when used on Iphone, like adding an appointment on a specific day/time, deleting, changing appointments."
baldcats, NY

"Can't fully edit Google Calendar events on iPhone in Safari browser (or create all-day event)."
Matt, Atlanta, GA