Lost amidst all the Google Chrome hubbub, Google just unveiled a new addition to Google Apps: Google Video for Businesses. The service allows corporate users to share videos within their organizations (think: YouTube for enterprises).
Hey, wait a sec, you can already share videos across YouTube and countless other services, right? Right, but the idea here is to share training videos, corporate announcements, personal messages, and the like with co-workers, teams, or the entire company — not the world at large. Because this is part of Google Apps, you can create what amounts to a company-video home page — an intranet YouTube, as it were. Google provides secure, private hosting and streaming for your videos, and allows them to be viewed in any browser. Peep the above video for a brief product tour.
Google Video for Businesses is now included with Google Apps Premier Edition, which costs $50 per user per year (same as before). For each Premier Edition domain, you get 3GB of video storage per user account, with a file limit of 300MB per video. What do you think? Is this something you can use? I smell a hit. [via ReadWriteWeb]
