This from ZDNet:

SAN FRANCISCO--Google will begin archiving personal video clips as part of its ever-expanding search service, company co-founder Larry Page said Monday.

"We're going to start taking video submissions from people" in the next few days, Page told a crowd at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association show here. Later, in response to a reporter's question, he called the move an "experiment in video blogging."

An interesting move from Google. A few questions:

1. Does this mean Blogger (Google’s blogosphere service) will more easily support videoblogging?
2. Will Google have a player to show the clips or just use the native player on the user’s desktop?
3. Will Google drop ads in the videos, and if so, will they have a revenue-sharing deal?
4. Does this mean Google wants to be a media company, even if it’s one focused on the long tail of content?

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Headline from the Pew Internet Life folks... talk about stating the obvious.

Mike and I have been saying for nearly a year that companies like Starbucks, need to give away Wi Fi access and focus on the content opportunity (beyond selling CDs) and other vertical aspects of their businesses. By offering free access, it’s a no-brainer that folks will stay longer at the coffee shop and buy more coffee, more food etc… That alone will pay for the cost of access.

In the future, however, these Wi Fi centers will be important hubs for content foraging. Details of that scenario are in Mike and my proprietary research.

This story is in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal:

Dunn touts free Wi-Fi as edge against coffee chains