Your Videos Coming To Google Today

John Battelle has the scoop: Google Video will finally get some video today, as user-uploaded free videos will be made available to the general public through an open source Google media player. Google will only be making available those videos already tagged as free, with pay videos coming when Google unveils its payment service sometime in the future. The Google media player plays video in browser, and is based on the open source Google Code. Wow. A clear, concise strategy. with a previously mapped-out revenue model. A major service that the whole internet can benefit from. All in browser, all open source. Actual integration with multiple Google services. Sometimes Google gets it all exactly right. I'll be waiting eagerly for the media player to be put online, sometime this morning.
(via Findory) UPDATE: Dirson was nice enough to video uploader so you could add your own videos to robot dog harassing an iguana before, or a such good dancers. The clips play right in the page using the brand new Videolan project. It works great in both Firefox and IE, and we've designed it not to fight with any other video plugins you might have. We're releasing the Windows version first, with Mac (soon) and Linux (later) versions following, the same way we released the Google Video Uploader. A feature we're especially pleased with is the ability to search inside a video. Try looking for "sergey brin" and you'll see what I mean. So have fun watching, or shooting - and keep sending in your videos!(via John Battelle's Post Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog.