Unlikely that Google didn't even have a clue about adding a template wizard to ADT in early April, and had the feature added by early May. They can't move that fast to add features.
I think the best lesson here is that if you don't have some amount of traction or cash pile to back yourself up, don't share unpatentable ideas with someone who's legal army outnumbers you.
In all fairness... they did not steal your ideas... you gave them your ideas in the form of some screencasts. I understand that when you gave them the screencasts, you were hoping for a different result. But none-the-less... you gave them the screencasts.<p>That being said, if they did use your screencasts as inspiration for coding some features they had never thought of before then that is pretty slimy of them. But I (and probably you) have no way to know when they started planning those features.
Good ideas are not rare or inherently valuable. It's like giving someone a phone number and then being annoyed they didn't let you dial it for them for a fee or authorial credit.
Google has proved time and again that it has no regard for IP and Copyright. So nothing of surprise here. It's the new 800 pound gorilla so the only recourse I guess is to publicize it and have them acknowledge it.
Attribution is a basic feature of software. Google should fix this or they risk appearing slimy.<p>Google per se is not evil. But it is a competitive environment internally. So some idiot had the bright idea of ripping off the idea so he or she could look good internally. Presto - the code appears in the build one morning, and others to avoid controversy keep quiet. Or the whole team wants to look good in front of upper management. Either way, it's now in the code line, and if someone upstairs likes it, it takes on a life of its own. This is how evil comes into being.<p>Now Google's brand and PR folks will review this situation, his post, even my comment, and then may push internally for Google to "do no evil".<p>Your move, Google.<p>(Btw, only those who have never or congenitally unable to come up with good ideas are the ones who cry loudest about how ideas mean nothing)