Google Experiments with Video Blogging

PunkOfLinux writes "TechWeb has an article about Google's plans to start a video service that sounds similar to Picasa. Excerpt: 'While there's no formal announcement yet, Google co-founder Larry Page said Monday that the well-known search engine concern would soon let the general public upload self-produced videos to Google's servers, partly in an effort to learn more about how to more efficiently search and display information about video-based data.'"

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Google wants to get good at searching video.

[Anonymous Coward]

They've formed some kind of partnership with a new cable TV channel: http://abcnews.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=6410 91, in addition to video.google.com.

From the article:
"The channel also has established a partnership with the Google search engine, which will provide twice-an-hour updates on viewers' top Internet searches. Sergey Brin, the 31-year old co-founder of Google, praised the channel as an effective way to distribute video in a way that frees it from the limited bandwidth and other technological challenges that has kept it from being widely available on the Web.
"The one remaining area where it's been hard as both a contributor and as viewer of user-driven content is video," Brin said. "Given that Current has taken on this challenge ... I think this could be a really fantastic experience. I'm looking forward to a much greater breadth of TV viewing.""

its already done

[Venexiano]

here }:)

maps.google.com

[DrRiffic]

Did anyone else see that Google maps supports Satellite maps now?

Re:Googleporn...

[Wesley Felter]

when you're inviting people to upload a lot of something, how do you keep tabs on it?

SafeSearch has been around for a while. Google's stated position on porn is that if you're looking for porn they want you to find it, and if you're not then they don't. It seems like they could do this for video too. This will probably require considerable research, but it doesn't seem impossible.

Re:Bandwidth?

[HybridJeff]

"Thousands of gigabytes of data would have to be downloaded before Google started to scratch."

I would think it would need to be much more than that. If this service takes off, there would be thousands of people video blogging, uploading home movies, and creating their own amatuer tv shows and movies. These things take tons of space. Assuming they let people use a decent bitrate an hour of footage would take a minimum of 300MB, multiply a popular video blog by a few hundred or thousand viewers and were talking immense bandwidth.

I cant wait.

Re:Capturing Desktop as MPEG Video

[mcrbids]

So what's the best way to capture your desktop as compressed video?

Take a look at a Qarbon viewlet - it turns part of your screen into a flash movie in just seconds!

Works on Windows, Mac, Linux... We have it, and use it for training videos for our software product - it's as easy as anything could be, and cross-platform to boot!

Firstly, IT ISN'T BLOGGIN yan-can-cook pencil car

[tod_miller]

I went to video.google.com and searched for lemon, and I got a yan-can-cook hit as number one!

What is ponzu sauce, homemade ponzu sauce? What you have is you've got a little bowl here. This is ponzu sauce. Ponzu sauce is actually a Lemon Citrus stir-- Citrus type of soy sauce flavor, okay? This is soy sauce, okay? This is sugar. Japanese food, they use quite a bit of sugar. This is rice.

All you base or what! I love this guy! I remember watching him on cable when i was 6 years old... he is the jackie chan of the kitchen!

Now the blog rant

Fucking hell, if google actually put 'blog' anywhere on this, it will piss me off, and it annoys me that people want to peddle the blog word on every article.

Google with offer video sharing, video uploading, video commentary. No need to talk about blogging or video blogging, or podding or modding or anything else.

A new definition for meme is in order:

meme: (whorenoun) any word that when used to link to your own site can whore you site on google and make you lots of benjamins.

laugh.

Re:Bout freaking time.

[polyp2000]

they have the facility to match the altavista search. (in terms of searching for files - altavista does not allow searching the content of audio file as such - only the filename any maybe meta information) to achieve the same on google its extremely simple. try googling like this

song filetype:ogg

nick ...