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 […]

Silicon Alley Insider has a great post highlighting the ways that you can watch the elections online. While you probably expected each of the major networks to provide live streams, you can also get live streams coming from the candidates themselves: John McCain’s Live Ustream Channel Barack Obama’s Live Ustream Channel

Orb Networks has introduced a new iPhone app, OrbLive (App Store link), that plays live TV, Internet TV, and webcams on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The app is optimized for media streaming over WiFi. Note: OrbLive is currently limited to Windows PC users,

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Netflix today said that it has reached a deal with TiVo to provide digital movie streaming to many of the 800,000 broadband-connected Tivo subscribers. The companies are testing the new service in several thousand U.S. households and expect it to be broadly available in early December. Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” Web streaming service, with a library of more […]

The popularity of online video services has grown significantly with women and older consumers over the last six months, helping close the age and gender gap within the online video audience in the U.S. Recent data from Ipsos MediaCT’s MOTION study document the widespread appeal online video now has with the majority of today’s Internet users, […]

Netflix today announced it has released its 2nd-generation media player, based on Microsoft Silverlight, which brings the company’s Internet video service to subscribers with Intel-based Mac computers for the first time. The deployment, which will initially touch a small percentage of new Netflix subscribers, is the first step in an anticipated roll-out of the new platform […]