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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will arrive in Toronto on Wednesday to launch the company's first foreign expansion: the Canadian market. For now, Canada's version of the movie-by-mail service won't actually include the "by mail" option - it will only offer online streaming, according to a recent Reuters report.

Streaming video service Dyyno just launched an interesting new product for anybody who wants to stream live video, presentations, games or movies from a desktop to the Web. Thanks to integrating closely with Justin.tv, Dyyno's Universal Broadcaster for Mac and Windows now allows users to share their content with millions of online viewers on the popular streaming video site. Besides signing in to Justin.tv, all it takes is a simple drag-and-drop gesture to start the live video stream.

The Internet is a series of tubes - man, that joke just doesn't get old. Or rather, the Internet is a series of text documents. That isn't so funny if you're trying to optimize your search engine rankings for video content on your website. Other than the title and description, videos don't provide the text that robots from Google and others use to create those search rankings. You can, of course, transcribe your videos but that can be time-intensive and cost-prohibitive, particularly if your site is video-heavy.

Enter SpeakerText which relaunches today with a transcription service that combines both the human and the artificial - a combination of natural language processing and crowdsourced human transcription.

Microsoft plans to unveil the design of Internet Explorer 9 next week, but thanks to a new leak, we now have a pretty good idea of what the next generation of Microsoft's browser will look like. Currently, Microsoft only offers "developer preview" versions of the browser that do not feature the new user interface. The enterprising Internet Explorer 9 fans at IEBest.com, however, managed to get an early copy of the browser and captured the new interface on video.

SublimeVideo, an HTML5-based video player from Switzerland-based development and design firm Jilion, has launched SublimeVideo.net, an HTML5 Video-Player-as-a-Service. The goal of the new site is to provide tools for Web publishers that will allow for the easy deployment of zero-maintenance HTML5 video on a website in a matter of seconds, and without the need to understand the complexities of the different Web browser versions and their various specifications.

Sometimes, the best and most relevant part of a video is three minutes and forty two seconds in and it only lasts for 33 seconds - how do you convey that to your friends when you share it on Facebook? How about if you want to share it with your classmates or coworkers?

Interactive video transcription and captioning service 3Play Media has an answer with a video clipping feature it announced today that "allows users to quickly create and share specific portions of a video simply by highlighting the spoken words in the transcript."

Clicker, the company that wants to become the TV Guide for the Internet, just launched its first iPhone app. The new app is a companion piece to Clicker's web service and aims to make it easier for users to quickly find iPhone-compatible videos on the Web. In addition to indexing these iPhone-friendly videos, Clicker's iPhone app also offers a number of social networking features, including the ability to  check in when you are watching a show.

Today at 3 PM PST (6 EST), Facebook will unveil its new official live video streaming channel, Facebook Live. To kick off the launch, actress America Ferrera will stop by Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, California and use Facebook Live to announce details of her new movie, "The Dry Land," a Sundance Film Festival entry.

Facebook says that, in addition to special celebrity-oriented videos like today's, the live video channel will also be used for official Facebook announcements, press events, live chats with Facebook engineers and live streaming of its developer conference, f8.

Chatroulette, the face-to-face random video chat service, is growing slightly less random. The service is adding Localroulette, for location-specific chats, and Channelroulette, for specific topics.

Given the surge of interest in location-based apps, the choice to create a geolocating chat is not surprising. The utility of the themed channels is a bit less easy to grasp once you see what's there.

Back in April when Opera Mini was released into the AppStore, as an iPhone user I naturally downloaded it and checked it out. Yes, some pages loaded faster, but navigating was choppy and there was no way to make it the default browser. These days I am lucky enough to have both an iPhone and an Android device - the latter of which saw an updated version of Opera hit the market today. So how does the new Opera mobile browser stack up to the competition and its predecessor? Check out the following video with a side-by-side comparison to find out.