I got this from a newsletter today:
According to
Joohn Batelle's Searchblog, Google plans to launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player.
According to John, Google will make all those videos that were tagged as "free" available for real-time streaming through the VLC player. Google has also modified the player, which will be available for download on Monday morning.
But, it's what John has to say next that really grabs my interest:
"...it's clear this will be integrated with the Google payment program which was revealed to be in process last week. Plenty of folks uploaded video to Google with a payment option, and that has yet to roll out, but you can expect that it will. "
This means that you or I can upload a video, and charge people to download it. I talked about Podcasting in the last issue of the Tribune -- this is the next step.