Yesterday I said I was going to discuss further Apple rumours. I recently pieced togethor some stuff about Google I think you might be interested in right now, so I'll push the Apple rumour stuff back a day in place of these Google rumours...
"CES":http://www.cesweb.org/ is a massive event. Google are talking about new Google innovations at this event on Jan 6 2005.
"This":http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=65%E2%88%82=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog blog entry hints at a possible desktop video player coming from Google with a factual basis. When I read this I was somewhat sceptical.
But then I read "this":http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=64%E2%88%82=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog blog entry that tells us that a video downloaded on Google Video displayed an overlay saying "Buy this video to view the full 9 sec". Anyway, if you go back to the video now the overlay isn't there....
"Google also plan on allowing content publishers to charge for their videos.":http://video.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=26535
It's interesting that Google brought out Google Maps and Google Earth, one a desktop app the other a fancy Ajax browser app. They also have Google search, and Desktop search. Google already have Google Video, could they be bringing out Google Video for the desktop?
Selling content on demand appears to be the "next big thing". Apple are already there. Google could be there on Friday. Others like Sony, Microsoft are following.
I'm speculating this Friday Google will announce they will start selling content on demand.
This move from Google would make a lot of sense. They would basically be doing for video what they have done for search. The logical move after this would be music.
I think some analysts will be doing overtime this weekend. Whatever the case, Google stock next week should bring some interesting viewing.