{"id":10286,"date":"2011-06-22T08:09:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=10286"},"modified":"2011-06-22T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:09:39","slug":"carter-maslan-leaving-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/carter-maslan-leaving-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Carter Maslan Leaving Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carter Maslan, the longstanding\u00a0Director of Product Development at Google Maps, has apparently left Google. He had been at Google since March 2007. His LinkedIn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/profile\/view?id=64903&amp;authType=name&amp;authToken=xRnV&amp;locale=en_US&amp;pvs=pp&amp;trk=ppro_viewmore\">page<\/a> is yet to be updated. 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