Popular video portal Hulu.com today announced the launch of Hulu Labs, “a place to try out experimental projects from Hulu and share your feedback while they’re still in development.” Hulu Labs consists of four new features: Hulu Desktop, a downloadable application that enables what it calls a “lean-back” video watching experience from the viewer’s personal [...]

The public television network PBS is taking some of its viewers’ favorite programs and making them available via its newly-launched video portal, PBS.org/video.  Today’s debut of the streaming site marks the first time that programming from a variety of series producers has been available in from one location. The new video site features a broad [...]

VoIP pioneer Jeff Pulver, host of online tech show PulverTV, announced today the launch of PulverTV, which he is calling “The First 100% “Indie Internet TV” Channel.” The staff at PulverTV are creating 12-14 hours/week of original programming. In addition, they’ve enlisted several dozen producers of independently created Internet TV to include in the daily [...]

Respected interviewer and journalist Charlier Rose, best known for his Charlie Rose Show on PBS, has introduced a new video portal that’s a great example of a corporate video destination. The site, now in beta, has great content, is well organized, has news feeds, tagged content, comments, well-implemented search and integrated ecommerce. You can explore [...]

AOL has launched an update to its AOL Video portal. New features include: A redesigned main page that makes it easier for consumers to discover, search for and find millions of videos from across the Web; A redesigned video search experience that leverages Truveo video search technology and features better presentation of Web search results [...]

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said his company “is going to move in the direction” of rewarding video creators for their content. Hurley says that he intends to share revenue with video producers, and that YouTube did not do that at first because he wanted to build a community [...]

StumbleVideo is a new site that lets visitors browse through video content from MySpace, Google Video and YouTube using a simple interface, and vote videos up or down, like a video Hot or Not. The site is based on the technology of StumbleUpon, a company that provides a toolbar for “stumbling” onto new Web sites. [...]