At the big cable conference in SF today, Google cofounder Larry Page said the search company plans to put out a call for personal video clips. "We're going to start taking video submissions from people," Reuters quoted Page as saying in his speech. This would be a part of Google Video, a search service that displays stills and closed caption text from broadcast video.

The announcement comes on the heels of the launch of OurMedia.org, cofounded by Marc Canter and JD Lasica, a nonprofit organization dedicated to allowing individuals to create, distribute and market their original content. So will OurMedia gain traction if Google is ready to become the free video hosting and search archive?