> Kinlan also said that an OnLive-type streaming video/game service is in the works at Google, which should come as no surprise. Google + integration is almost a certainty as well: “Blank is playing Modern Warfare 3! Click here to watch. Click here to rent.”

This could be pretty cool if Google can execute well. If there's anyone with the infrastructure to make this work it's Google. I imagine they'd do things like let you click a game's trailer on YouTube and start playing a demo immediately, with some kind of psuedo-Hangout integration with Google+.

From a purely programming point of view, this looks like a very difficult task - different peripherals, different host systems. Kudos to their dev team if they can pull it off.

Not to sound ungrateful, quite the contrary, but finally on the WebRTC stuff. I've been dying to get my hands on it.

WebRTC will be awesome.

It should get into Chrome, Firefox and Opera next year. No idea about Safari and IE.

There's already a public Opera labs build with webcam support: http://labs.opera.com/news/2011/10/19/

EDIT: It's a dev build so there's no UI (i.e. it doesn't ask for permission to access the camera). There's also a known issue with some Anroid devices.

(Disclaimer: I work for Opera)

Great, thanks for the info!