InternetYour own private YouTube (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - YouTube is part of the social fabric of the Internet now, with ???watch this video??? e-mails of the new millennium replacing the joke-list e-mails of the '90s as high-level corporate time-wasters.

San Francisco - YouTube is part of the social fabric of the Internet now, with ???watch this video??? e-mails of the new millennium replacing the joke-list e-mails of the '90s as high-level corporate time-wasters. YouTube has made stars of some and fortunes for a few. In doing so, it has defined video as an easy, common way for regular folks to communicate with one another. Google is taking the easy video concept to business collaboration with Google Video, a video-sharing service designed for intra-business communications with team members, partners, and business colleagues. As with most Google properties, simplicity is the primary characteristic of the user interface. The UI, presented in the simple shapes and colors common to Google Apps, makes it possible to push a video onto the site, complete with tags and descriptions, in a matter of a few moments. [ See our review of Google Apps in "Cloud versus cloud: A guided tour of Amazon, Google, AppNexus, and GoGrid." See the review of Google Docs and Spreadsheets in "Office killers pack some heat." ] Once on the Google Video server, the video is presented in a format that will look vaguely familiar to anyone who???s been on YouTube. In fact, according to the company, Google Video is built on the same platform that hosts YouTube. If you simply place videos on Google???s servers and define the list of those who can view them, you can get... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

InternetGoogle's Chrome Browser Challenges Microsoft's IE8 (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - Does the world need yet another Web browser? Google thinks so and planned to make its beta version of the door to the World Wide Web available on Tuesday.

InternetHere Comes Google's Browser

The release is expected to be strong on handling video and other complex Web programs.