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Justin.tv has changed its user interface which it hopes will be easier for users to users.  The company made the announced earlier today.

Ustream, one of the big live streaming video sites, announced on Friday that it is beginning a pay-per-view scheme on some of the sites channels. 

Earlier today, Brightcove, a providers of video publishing and distribution services, debuted its live platform in streaming a news-making speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the topic of Internet Freedom.

LAS VEGAS–HP, the world biggest computer maker is making its HP SkyRoom video conferencing software and service available for free on its new line of business notebooks and workstations.  The announcement was made at CES.

Later today at CES, Cisco is expected to announce a sophisticated consumer teleconferencing product, a slimmer extension of the very pricey TelePresence system for big businesses and governments, according to a report by Maggie Reardon of CNET News.com.

The NFL is finding growing viewership to its cable network and online site.  Saturday night's New Orleans Saints vs. Dallas Cowboys had 10.1 million views on television and over 1 million streams of the game online, both records, the NFL announced tonight.

Justin.tv, the big live Web video site that says it has 35 million monthly views, will launch a pay-per-view platform next month for a few content creators and then roll it out across the entire network in Q2.

Live Web video around events is the fastest growing sector for Livestream, says founder and CEO Max Haot.

Video teleconferencing, long an expensive technology, hidden inside the enterprise firewall, is becoming a pervasive social media platform.

Livestream, the New York-based live video services company, is getting traction with its premium service, booking some $350,000 per month in revenue from 1,000 premium customers who pay $350 each.

Watch live streaming video from beet_tv at livestream.com If you missed our live roundtable from Washington yesterday, you can watch when you want right here: Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable   Below is the live blogged by Daisy Whitney.  AP

On Tuesday (12/1) in Washington, Beet.TV will gather an extraordinary group to talk about online video and its role in the evolving news environment.

SAN JOSE — NBC Sports is demonstrating the highly interactive functionality of its online experience with Sunday Football.  Much of this functionality will be part of NBC's Winter Olympics online presentation.

SAN FRANCISCO — At the NewTeeVee conference this month, we caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies. The company has launched a new server appliance for transcoding live HD video at very fast rates, "faster than real time," the company says.

Introduced originally as videogame console, the Xbox from Microsoft is fast becoming a powerful video viewing device with the introduction of Zune, the new video streaming platform.

TEDx live webcast from Amsterdam.

Earlier this month, Peter Kafka at MediaMemo reported that Apple has a new initiative to sell broadcast and cable programming via iTunes for a monthly fee of $30.

NBC Sports will announce plans today  to use Microsoft Silverlight as the software for Web viewing the Winter Olympics Games in the United States.

The big challenge facing mainstream media with online video is scale; a lack of inventory of content and viewers, according Vivek Shah, head of digital news at Time Inc.

Microsoft’s Silverlight software is powering the new videoplayer used by NBCSports.com for Sunday Sunday Night Football.