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YouTube has announced that it will begin testing of a new platform this morning will that will allow broadcast partners to begin live streaming content.

The test began at 8 a.m. PT this morning and will feature live-streaming content from four partners: Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood.

Every day, thousands of scheduled events happen on the Internet. These range from live video and audio shows to chats, poker tournaments and sales on Woot and Groupon. The problem, though, is that there is no single place to find out about these upcoming events. Live Matrix, which just launched, wants to change this. The service aims to be a TV Guide for all scheduled events on the Internet and currently indexes about 100,000 events per week.

Google is holding a big search event at the San Francisco MOMA this morning. The company has not released any specific information about the content of today's announcements, but the recent doodles on Google's homepage and various Twitter messages from the official Google accounts point towards a faster search experience, possibly with streaming, as-you-type search results. We assume that this will be the core of today's announcements, but there will surely be a few surprises as well.

The event is scheduled to start at 9:30am PT/12:30pm ET. You can find our live blog below.

The Web is no longer static pages of text and still images. It's alive with tweets, tweetups, live video conferences, uStreams, live-blogged product launches, webinars, live auctions, virtual world meetups and events, time-limited sales and contests, live audio and video podcast recordings, live chats, and more. And it's all happening in real-time. If you happen to be online during one of these events, then you're a part of the action, a part of the now-ness of the new Web. But if you log off for a minute (gasp!), you could miss it all.

What's the solution? Stay up all night? A new startup launching this week called Live Matrix has a better idea. Live Matrix is your program guide to the real-time Web, allowing you to search, save and create reminders for all the live Web events you want to be a part of.

Live video, from around the world, streaming right through the phone in your hand: that's pretty incredible. It's not science fiction anymore, it's now something that millions of people have experienced.

San Francisco's Justin.tv announced today that almost one and a half million people have downloaded the company's live-video-stream-viewing app to their iPhones in the first month it's been available. From Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech, to the Future of Money conference, to a lot of content I don't care to watch, Justin.tv is definitely getting traction. This isn't the only company fast finding a lot of consumer interest in mobile video streaming, either.

YouTube has announced an exclusive deal to broadcast live online the entire cricket season of the upstart Indian Premier League this year. "[This is] the largest and most extensive live streaming that we've ever done, I think that's ever been done on the internet before," Shailesh Rao, Managing Director, Google India said yesterday. The season will be shown everywhere around the world except inside the United States.

YouTube streaming live sporting events? That could really shake things up. The UK Guardian said today that the deal is "casting into doubt the value of British TV broadcast rights." Contrast this cricket deal with Major League Baseball's $110 per year online subscription service.

Flixwagon, one of the top providers of live video broadcasting applications for consumers, has just announced the launch of a new telco-grade platform targeting both mobile carriers and media organizations. The platform is designed for integration with carriers' handsets so that their users will be able to stream live video from their phones directly to their blogs, social networking sites, video sites, and more, simply by using the Flixwagon mobile application. With this platform, they are paving the way for news organizations to incorporate more citizen journalism and user-generated content into their online offerings and TV broadcasts.