The final nail in Google Video's coffin.

http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2010/11/hd-quality-videos-in-picasa-web-albums.html

When will they allow uploading videos from the browser (since videos don't work in the Linux version of Picasa).

Did old videos get transcoded localy, in Picasa, before being uploaded, or are the originals online and will they be converted?

google switched the player a few months ago. same for blogger.com