{"id":9947,"date":"2011-05-06T10:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=9947"},"modified":"2011-05-06T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T14:04:40","slug":"techcrunch-interview-with-marissa-mayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/06\/techcrunch-interview-with-marissa-mayer\/","title":{"rendered":"TechCrunch Interview with Marissa Mayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This interview appeared yesterday in TechCrunch and is worth a watch.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?width=520&#038;height=292&#038;embedCode=kzcXFmMjrw81JqxQ1jFc3EefOcn3m3M2&#038;deepLinkEmbedCode=kzcXFmMjrw81JqxQ1jFc3EefOcn3m3M2&#038;video_pcode=11amo6qGw2oucN78pR-BYbDpCESk\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Takeaways?<br \/>\n* Mayer while not the top dog in Local, she is becoming its public face<br \/>\n* Google will be focusing all new local product developments in the context of their two core products, Maps and Places<br \/>\n* Latitude is just a social view of Maps to which they will be adding functionality<br \/>\n* Hotpot recommendations is the first salvo of differentiation<br \/>\n* Integration of rating and reviews into search results will lead to increased uptake<br \/>\n* Mobile will be the primary focus for local development<br \/>\n* Over 50% of Maps usage is now coming from Mobile&#8230; up from 40% only 2 months ago<\/p>\n<p>Questions that I would have loved to hear the answer to:<br \/>\nOK so Hotpot is now rolled into Places. When will Hotpot functionality really be integrated into Places and\/or Maps? <\/p>\n<p>What are Google plans for Places and Maps on the iPhone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This interview appeared yesterday in TechCrunch and is worth a watch. Takeaways? * Mayer while not the top dog in Local, she is becoming its public face * Google will be focusing all new local product developments in the context of their two core products, Maps and Places * Latitude is just a social view &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9949,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions\/9949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}