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Mobile Monday

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I was speaking at the Rutberg & Co 2007 Wireless Influencers summit yesterday so got to be a fly on the wall among many CEOs and SVPs as Google made its Open Handset announcement.

My panel was focused on Consumer Experiences for Audio and Video Discovery — i measure the success of smaller roundtable discussions by how many times people to write down what i say and engage in the conversation. By that measure it was a great success — lots of interaction and folks definitely took notes on my market research, design advice and other mobile video topics.

New YouTube APIs launched

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Yesterday we released a new set of YouTube APIs based on the Google Data protocol. These APIs are cool because:

a) enhanced scalability and stability
b) access to Google Data code libraries
c) new types of calls to get stuff like video comments, etc
d) a heady roadmap full of new things coming out in the coming months

congrats to the team! Our APIs are an important part of the strategy to bring YouTube content to audiences outside of our destination site.

Google Web Alerts – an underused personal info tool

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Was talking with a colleague today about Google Alerts, a service which allows you to be notified when information on specified topics appears on the web, Google News, blogs, etc. Many of the people who use it focus on professional interests – e.g. they set them up for their company or their competitors/industry.

But for me the most useful alerts are personal – and about information you wouldn’t expect to appear online. For example, I have alerts for my social security and mobile phone numbers. If these showed up on a website somewhere i want to know. Similarly, my street address and family names. Also one for my name + date of birth.

Google News + YouTube

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One of my favorite aspects of being at YouTube is the ability to reach back into Google and integrate with their products. Several have already been launched including a layer on Google Maps which allows you to see recent geotagged uploads to YouTube plotted on a map [go to google maps, click on MyMaps, click on ‘add content,’ select or search for YouTube videos].

Today the Google News team integrated embedded video from several major news agencies to add another layer of info to their service.

What’s especially cool IMHO is that these integrations don’t necessarily make use of any special tricks – anyone with a similar service can (or soon will) be able to do the same using YouTube’s APIs. In fact, I hope you do! 🙂

Google Gear: Dance Dance 05

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With this year’s Google Dance coming up in a few days (a party which corresponds with a Silicon Valley search engine marketing conference), seemed okay to revive the “Google Gear” thread and share some more items from my closet. Here’s the 2005 Google Dance shirt – a gem with its bright yellow fabric and groovy logo.

Google Maps + YouTube = Crazy Delicious

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[side note: so is ‘”item A” + “item b” = crazy delicious’ done yet? because if it is i’ll need to go back to ‘if “X” then the terrorists have won’]

Google Maps launched MyMaps, a neat way to overlay different data directly into your map view on maps.google.com. For example, click here to add a geo display of recent YouTube videos to your map.