For those of you using Google Apps and looking for a reason to move up to the Premiere (read paid) version of Google Apps, perhaps this is the excuse you are looking for! Google announced yesterday that Google Video will now be available as a branded and secure video service for hosting training and other videos using a YouTube-like environment. Lest any concern over administration, it will allow administrators to add/edit/delete videos uploaded by their users, to control the tag taxonomy as well as take advantage of Google’s copyright violation filters.
More information in the following links:
- Product overview video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWzwLGJ0BIo
- Press release: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080902_video_in_apps.html
- Product marketing home page: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/video.html
I ncase you’ve been living in a hole, Google also released Chrome yesterday. Chrome is their new browser that was written from scratch by Google’s teams to address the most pressing needs that people experience these days: instability when running more complex web-based applications. Of course Google has good reason to want to pursue this, and if you look at it, it comes very close to a little mini-operating system. If you are looking for more information on Chrome, you can find a great deal of introductory information in their Comic Book.
While not necessarily game changers, both of these new releases make Google a more compelling business tool!
At Over The Top and Exhibit A Communications, I've programmed solutions for Google as well as at least one other company that was later acquired by Google.
I've been CTO of an Internet SaaS company and spent my time pretty evenly between guiding the future technical strategy of the company, architecting software solutions for my dev teams, designing and running a data center to service our clients world-wide as well as being a technical evangalist/sales engineer to our media clients large and small.
I've also been Chief Photographer of the Daily Sun/Post newspaper back when it was a 5-day a week daily newspaper.
I also spent a great many years as a beach lifeguardfor the City of San Clemente as well as Jr. Lifeguard instructor and then as it's program coordinator.
Bragging rights
Private Pilot with Instrument rating and proud husband of soon to be 25 years (and counting).
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