Google to host video

Move over blogging -- here comes Internet-based home video, to a Google server near you.

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.

"It's an experiment we want to run," said Page of the video-uploading service, which he said the company will formally announce "in the next few days."

from Advanced IP Pipeline Google To Host Home-Video Uploads
via Slashdot Google Experiments with Video Blogging /.

I kind of feel like when the Windows people finally discovered audio and video, after the Mac and Amiga people had been using it for years.  The comments in Slashdot were good.  "They have reinvented USENET."  I had Internet video running on Sun SPARC workstations at Queen's University circa 1991.