According to Vanessa Callison-Burch, the Facebook product manager for the feature, memorialized profiles have been around since 2007 (she's been working on them for close to two years).
Heller previously worked as a designer and product manager for social features around Microsoft's Xbox before moving on to Activision as a senior vice president working on that studio's breakout hit, Call of Duty.
When I spoke with Aaron Bronzan, the senior product manager for profiles, a feature that the company calls its "core," he seemed extremely happy with his team's work.
Version 5.5.4 of BOINC Manager for the Macintosh features new, stricter security measures.
Josh Cohen, the business product manager for Google News, said the feature is consistent with the company's mission to bring as many news sources online as possible.
He mainly praised the return of "The Dwight/Jim dynamic", writing that he "briefly rethought the idea of Dwight as long-term boss", and went on to praise the writers for featuring Dwight as manager for only one episode.
Sangyup Lee, exterior design manager for the car, pointed out features of the Camaro as passers-by stopped to study the car.
"What really enables that rapid scaling is anonymous crowdsourced data from Android users," says Stephan Seyboth, Google's product manager for traffic, transit, and directions features of Google Maps.
Abheek Gupta, product manager for the Lookout app, says this feature is meant to protect against a new class of mobile malware referred to as dialer-based threats.
Jeff Chin, product manager for Google Translate, said that this feature, like many others rolled out of Gmail Labs, uses the "power of cloud computing" to scale this tool to all Gmail users without having to buy servers, install software, or write code that needs to be integrated into each application.
