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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.'"
I guess this is how Google is going to get into the porn business.
Seriously, though -- when you're inviting people to upload a lot of something, how do you keep tabs on it? They are likely studying that as part of the experiment, but it would be great to see some sort of publically-announced result.
Of course it's unlikely to happen, but a guy can dream.
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The potential abuse of this service could be immense.
Why doesn't it surprise me that the first posts are about pr0n?
Average color of the moving pixels:
a) green
b) flesh
What if a few savvy business owners use the google service to distribute their own marketing videos and infomercials. I've found that often it isn't feasible to distribute large and informative videos over the Internet. This would atleast solve the issue for serving the videos, i'm sure this service will have plenty of space and more than adequate bandwidth.
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I often get requests from clients about putting up huge 10Mb+ videos to show how their products work. They aren't wanting cheesy marketing videos, they usually have some very unique products and want to find a way to tell long distance customers why they are better than anyone else.
Here is an example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:B7zHjtLzBbYJ
Would this be an abuse of the proposed google system? Or would this lend to the experiment they're trying to
Brandon Petersen
If it's truly open to the world, the RIAA and MPAA and God knows who else would shut this thing down in a week. Not because it's competition, but because the copyright violations we're going to see are going to be immense. Is Google going to police every video to make sure the filmmakers aren't using copyrighted music, or clips from "real" movies and TV shows? And how is Google going to protect itself from being sued by the infringed-- a disclaimer and a box to check saying you aren't using "borrowed" material when the film is uploaded? I don't think that's going to hold much weight...
I think it's only a short matter of time before there are VideoBlogs just like Photoblogs that are all over the net.. It's really a question of video compression and bandwidth. Eventually, though, once everyone has a video camera on their cell phone and mobile networks' bandwith has improved, we'll see that migration to videoblogs.
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
Just do what tangotime.com does -- Peer moderation, tangotime was originally a totally no nudity site (back when it was a slew ratemy(insertbody part).com run by a guy who's moved on and made a lot of money selling his website, and photo rate engine to a porn company. people viewing the porn/viewing the 'non adult' portion can 'report' images. when it was a no nudity engine images had to be approved kinda like hotornot, and that required a lot of unpaid volunteers. the whole ratemy____ sites allowed certain people's pictures to show up without needing pre-approval too i think, through a 'salute' system but i can't remember.
But for blogging in videos to become a reality, you need great bandwidth for your internet connection - which is a pipe dream for majority of the netizens at the moment. In my country, internet connection that is sold with the name broadband is just 128 KPBs. So you can imagine .....
But it is a good move by google in the right direction.
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This was told to me by the head of their engineering department, directly. Google does not have a "research and development" group, he said. They have an "engineering and development" group.
The difference? Engineers hack new applications together. They come up with cool, clever ways of making web-based map applications scroll, even in older browsers. They make fast webmail interfaces. They put together clever tricks, like with Google Suggest
But what they -don't- do is research.
Researchers, on the other hand, come up with fundamental new ways of doing things. They are the ones that create the techniques for speech recognition, from audio. Or face detection and recognition, from images. Or that come up with new and interesting ways of determining the similarity between text documents.
It's true that Google started with research (i.e.: PageRank). But since then, it's been engineering ("hacking") rather than basic CS-related research. And I've got that from the horse's mouth.