Dave McClure who I really like with his recent push of investing and unearthing all internet related trends and startups has a great interview with Bradley Horowitz, VP Product in the enterprise and applications at Google. Bradley is one a rare talent both an entrepreneur and big company guy now at Google. Before Yahoo Bradley founded a company called Virage with Dave Girouard who is now President of Google Enterprise. Bradley and Dave Girouard are teamed back up together to keep innovative products coming at Google.

Dave “Master of 500 Hats” McClure featured him at his March monthly startup dinner called Startup2Startup. Nice work Dave McClure.

Bradley oversees product management for Google Apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Talk, Google Voice, Google Docs, Blogger and Picasa. Before joining Google, Bradley led Yahoo’s advanced development division, which developed new products such as Yahoo! Pipes, and drove the acquisition of products such as Flickr and MyBlogLog. Previously, he was Co-Founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.

Here is the short interview

Here is the long interview of Bradley Horowitz.

Part I

Part II

Liz Gannes has a writeup on it and highlights some important points in his talk

Horowitz, who said the motto he’s given his team is “We build apps for people, not markets,” said though Buzz stumbled out of the gate, Google is fully behind it as well as the general idea of improving products by making them social. “We can’t care about Google’s goal of organizing the world’s information without talking about people,” he said. T

Some of the key items on Buzz’s roadmap include “feature-full APIs,” an expansion of who and what people can follow on the service, and better relevance tools, Horowitz said. “Ultimately we’d like to provide something that’s a tool for managing attention.” …. “that would allow me to get the parts of your life I’m interested in and filter out…most of it.”

Second, the notion of following would extend beyond friends and people to brands and places, just like it does on Twitter, where any entity can have a profile, said Horowitz.

Horowitz said that Buzz may find a way to make use of its original idea of autofollow, which pre-populated users’ Buzz profiles with their contacts and was the most widely decried feature. “Autofollow was really misunderstood,” he said.

Lastly, on the topic of Google Docs, Horowitz said to expect multiple new launches in the coming year. He noted that the product was cobbled together from a variety of acquisitions — like Writely, JotSpot and Zenter — and there are more opportunities for integration across document types.