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 Video To Launch Video Playback Service

Shortly after the Google video search feature was launched, company co-founder Larry Page issued a request for people to submit their personal videos, which Google would then catalog and make searchable. Apparently, the response to Page's appeal was considerable because Google is launching a video playback service that will allow users to access this content, considering they know how to query Google's database.

VCs Cashed In Big On Google Stock

Greg Linden pointed me to Bill Burnham's excellent accounting of the amount of money the two venture capital firms that funded Google in its early days, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, earned off the mega-billions Google IPO. Suffice to say, they made out like bandits, earning roughly $4.5 billion and $4.7 billion, respectively.

Some Folks Like Spyware… Really!

You'll have trouble winning an argument with Eric Goldman, because like any good lawyer, he seizes on logical inconsistencies and factual shortcomings in arguments, and uses them to get spurious charges thrown out of court.