Questions for Vint Cerf

Idly flipping through *.google.com...

• Google Video: I clicked the CSI link and got "Your search - tvshow:CSI did not return any results.", and so on for most shows. I checked out the music videos. Can I click to buy the album for a playing video? No. Is the content quality-controlled so I can trust what a video says it is? No. The whole "experience" is like browsing the media portals that ISPs provide: a joke in comparison with the iTunes Music Store.
  
• Google Calendar: where is it!? I have to schedule everything in Yahoo! Calendar or the great Windows Live Mail calendar. Related: how is the personal Google homepage site doing against Netvibes, Pageflakes and Protopage? (They can all do Gmail, so the question is really how sticky people are to Google properties.)
  
• Gmail's integration with Gtalk is clever-clever. But hardly anyone uses Gmail. Why?
• How does Google compete with Amazon offering pi/2% off any purchase if you're a registered a9.com user?
• Anything about China :-)

Update: Vint's talk was about Important Issues For The Internet Of Tomorrow, not Google's beta-of-the-day, so I didn't ask any of these questions :-) Still, I did ask him how Google can best contribute to the engineering effort around protocols like IPv6, end-user authentication and more flexible VPNs, given that Microsoft and Apple own the edges. The answer wasn't "Everyone will run GoogleOS!" :-) It was that involvement in bodies like the IETF is important, and he's pushing for that inside Google.