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Google Experiments with Video Blogging

Posted by timothy on from the hi-mom dept.

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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  1. Googleporn... by kwoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  2. Bandwidth? by thundercatslair · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The potential abuse of this service could be immense.

  3. pr0n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why doesn't it surprise me that the first posts are about pr0n?

  4. Good luck. by nunchux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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...

  5. We're getting there by dep01 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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