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Google is discontinuing its Google Video service from May 13. The company has asked its users to download their videos as these will be available till May 13 only.

SEARCH ENGINE giant Google is shutting down its Google Video from May 13. As per the decision of the company, Google videos will not be available for playback from April 29 and the complete service will be discontinued from May 13. Google launched this service in January 2005, and two years back in May 2009, Google Video stopped to upload videos to Google's web servers.

Google Video has asked its users through an e-mail that Google Video will not be available for playback from April 29, however video owners can download their videos till May 13. Google Video has given download option on the Video Status page.

According to the missive from the search engine giant, Google Video users can download a video after clicking on the Download Video link. After completion of download, “Already Downloaded” will appear next to the Download Video link. In case of many videos on Google Video, user can use the paging controls located on the bottom right of the page.

Google is encouraging users to upload videos on YouTube, which offers many video hosting options including video sharing option. YouTube is world's biggest video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. YouTube was launched in February 2005 and Google purchased it in October 2006 for an amount of $1.65 billion.

Google to launch new social network at SXSW?

When it comes to social networks, Google has not managed to garland itself in too much glory. Critics suggest Google doesn't quite understand what makes people buzz.

And yet an interesting report has emerged that says Google might be using an event at SXSW this evening to launch--or, at least, preview--a new social network.

According to ReadWriteWeb, Google's social network is to be called Circles. At its heart it purportedly has something that seems crucial in today's socially networked world--privacy.

The idea seems to be that this social network will allow you to share every part of your being--namely status updates, photos, and videos--with a very specific group of friends (hence the name "Circles"), rather than with the great unwashed and unfiltered.

The report suggests that Google might be at least offering a sneak peek of this concept tonight, at an event co-hosted by the ACLU, an organization that feels there is nothing mutually exclusive between privacy and freedom.

Philosophically, it would appear that this idea recognizes the fundamental truth that we are not one personality to everyone. As we connect to different social groupings, we offer a different side of ourselves--the side that we feel most comfortable showing to that group.

It may well be that after some time within a particular group, we feel better about revealing some of our more hidden traits. But that is our choice. One that this purported social network seeks reportedly to respect.

If Google Circles truly is as described in what is still a speculative report, one possible danger is that it will turn out to be complicated. It's hard enough in the real world to work out who your friends are. Worse, one day someone is your friend, and the next, they're someone you used to know.

Managing all the different permutations online might require a considerable amount of aforethought, accuracy, and alertness. These are things that don't necessarily rhyme with a world that is increasingly lazy and laissez-faire.

Still, the heart of the idea seems a very interesting one and one can only hope that it also puts pressure on Facebook to consider how much easier its own privacy controls have truly become.

It will also put additional pressure on Google to consider even more carefully its own attitude to privacy, given such difficult snafus as the "Oops, we appear to have recorded some e-mails over Wi-Fi" incident.

I have contacted Google for confirmation of Google Circles and all who sail in it and will update should I hear from the company.