YouTube has announced updates to its embeddable video player, adding high-quality start images, search, video annotations and Closed Captions.

Time has selected its picks for the top inventions of 2008 and Internet video startup Hulu made the list, at #4.  About Hulu, Time notes: When cable eventually dies, websites like Hulu will be held responsible. Unlike YouTube and other amateur-video-upload sites, Hulu is a hub for network TV shows and movies: Hulu offers shows […]

See more funny videos at Funny or Die Attack ads from the bitter Palpatine-Calrissian presidential race. via Neatorama

Yahoo!’s Brickhouse team has announced that the company will be killing off Yahoo! Live, a live video conferencing service: Our mission here on the Brickhouse team is to quickly develop product ideas that can add value to Yahoo! as a whole. To do this effectively we constantly evaluate our early-stage products and sometimes have to […]

YouTube has added a new auto-translate feature that adds real-time machine translation to any caption tracks you upload. This increases the values of captioning your videos – when you add captions to a video in one language, it will automatically be readable to almost everybody through auto translate.  To get a translation for your preferred language, move […]

Kaltura’s All in One Video Pack plugin for WordPress gives you the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and create video playlists, all at no cost. Features: Upload, record from webcam and import all rich-media […]

NBC‘s 30 Rock got series high ratings for its season premiere on Thursday, taking advantage of the buzz surrounding star Tina Fey, whose appearances as Gov. Sarah Palin have proven to be a viral goldmine. Tina Fey’s recent popularity is turning the status quo of television on it head. First, Fey’s SNL skits as Sarah […]

RADUS today unveiled a new media hub platform that lets you simultaneously discover, search, share, and view rich media across leading computer, mobile, and social networking services, including Facebook and MySpace. RADUS (ray-dee-us) was designed to address one of the major issues confronting online content delivery—the lack of a consistent user experience. RADUS lets you […]

Among the announcements Monday from Internet TV network Revision 3 was the discontinuation of its licensing agreement with the popular video podcast, Wine Library TV. Rev3 had produced a special edition of the show featuring highlights of the daily series called Wine Library Reserve. I caught up with the creator and host of Wine Library […]

Revision 3, the video podcast production network launched by Digg founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson, today announced the elimination of three of its original shows. The layoffs are said to include nine staff members. The cancelled shows are Pop Siren, Internet Superstar, and the longer-running Photoshop show Pixel Perfect. Of the two newer shows, […]