Google Buys Web Video Conferencing Technology
“To clarify.. we acquired Marratech’s software, not the company.”
According to this article on Mercury News: “As a company, we thrive on casual interactions and spontaneous collaboration,” Douglas Merrill, Google’s vice president of engineering, wrote in the blog post. “So we’re excited about acquiring Marratech’s video conferencing software, which will enable from-the-desktop participation for Googlers in videoconference meetings wherever there’s an Internet connection.” Marratech is owned by Swedish mutual funds, employees, and founders. Google said Marratech’s research and development team will remain in Sweden.
Smart money bets they’ll bolt this into YouTube 
- Also of interest - so says the machine:
1videoConference: Open Source Web Conferencing
1videoConference is a free web conferencing tool in alpha stage that’s burning up the charts on Sourceforge. Site administrators can then invite users to participate in a video, voice, text chat and screen sharing web conference. The product is far from perfect today, but if these sorts of services canPalBee — Copy, Paste, and Video Conference!
PalBee.com announced today that is has begun a beta test of its Mashup API. The Mashup API allows beta participants to embed a PalBee video conference anywhere on their own web site. This is made possible by a widget that allows real time video conferencing to anyone who visits theYahoo Buys Maven Networks for $160M
As reported on eFlux Media: Applying the well-known saying: buy or you’ll be bought, Yahoo Inc. got back to business Tuesday after rejecting on Monday, Microsoft’s $44.6-billion takeover bid and announced it had purchased a broadband video start-up, Maven Networks Inc., for $160 million. Six-year-old Maven Networks, in Cambridge, Mass. includeVideoSift: Digg’s for YouTube and Google Video
We’ve all seen lots of YouTube and Google Video portal type content but now - and lets face it folks it was only a matter of time - here’s a a Digg like collaborative community driven site for trolling up the video on the web; check it out atGoogle Trials Video Adsense
Using its nearly ubiquitous AdSense network, Google is going to start delivering video ads from The Wall Street Journal, Life/Style Television and others to a small group of sites that choose to test the new program. Like their standard text ads, the video ones will be determined contextually. Of course,Google, MTV Reach Web Video Content Deal
MTV has struck a partnership with Google in which the internet company will distribute the music video broadcaster?s video programming to a series of niche websites. As part of the deal, MTV Networks will also sell episodes of its programmes through Google?s video store. It has similar agreements with AOLHBO Special - Hacking Democracy
Since America 'votes' today we thought this was a timely post.. via Google video. (Run-time 1hr 21mins)Panel of Web Community Founders
Guy Kawasaki moderated this panel at the CommunityNext conference with the founders of six very successful web properties; hi5, Suicide Girls, Slide, HotorNot, PlentyofFish and Fark. If you’d like to learn how these companies became successful without “proven teams, technology, or business models,” you’ll love this video.Google Video Link to the Scene
Has this ever happened to you? You’re watching this documentary on monkeys and then halfway through, this monkey does the funniest thing ever. So of course, you want nothing more than to share this hilarious monkey moment with your friends. Now, on Google Video, doing just that is easier than
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