TGIF! We’re always aiming to bring you the hottest and most interesting content, so from now on we’ll have regular updates of the popular videos around the Web! Here are a few to get you started while you’re waiting for the weekend:

Today Show – Was it a Stunt? Balloon Boy’s Family Speaks Out
What do you think? Was this actually real or just a publicity stunt?

Today Show – Kids Do The Darndest Things
Unpredictable and mischievous kids, from “Balloon boy” Falcon Heene to a boy who stole his parents’ car!

Community – Pencil Mouth
A clip from the new comedy – don’t try this at home!

E! News Now – FOX Apologizes to Simpson For Slam
FOX publicly apologizes to Jessica Simpson for calling her big!

Tonight Show – Clinton Cracks Under Pressure
Is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton starting to crack?

The Late Show with David Letterman – Tina Fey: 24-Year Old Virgin
Who woulda thought it?

Enjoy, and let us know what kind of content you’d be most interested in seeing in Cooliris!

Quite naturally, we’re very focused on visuals here at Cooliris. But while I work, I usually have a soundtrack going, whether through my music video playlist on Cooliris or through Pandora Radio. What I like about both Cooliris and Pandora is their generative ability to start with the seed of an idea – a simple artist or show that I’m interested in, a genre or station that I enjoy – and bring me fresh new content that may be a few degrees to the left of what I was originally looking for. It’s one of those clichés about the internet: start surfing on Wikipedia to learn a little backstory about Rube Goldberg and next thing you know you’re reading about Mongol invasions.

So Cooliris’s new Channels page is meant to both help you navigate, and bring you fresh and unexpected content. Think of it as both homepage and portal. Check it out: you can jump into any Cooliris channel, and they’re stratified by Providers, Shows, and Categories, so you have plenty of options to choose from. While checking out a network channel might turn you onto some new shows, browsing LIFE will put a wealth of iconic photos from every era right at your fingertips. You can search for a tried-and-true show and wind up catching that episode you missed or revisit a clip of that hilarious and timely one-liner. Categories offers our broadest channels with the greatest possibility for unexpected and hidden gems: find out about the latest breakthroughs in Sci-Tech, or play some great new Flash games in our Games channel!

Have fun with the Channels page, and be sure to bookmark it. It’s an easy way to bring up an entire Wall of your favorite show or station! As we add new providers and content, it’ll be your one-stop Cooliris launchpad.

We’ve just released a new beta version at www.cooliris.com/beta, so hurry and go try it out! This is a performance release, so while you may not notice many significant physical differences, the Cooliris experience should be much faster and smoother.

Please take a moment to send us feedback through the beta feedback form. We want to hear what you think of the performance and where you think we can improve! We would especially love to hear from users on Windows or on older machines – this release is aimed to significantly improve the experience for these systems.

Many thanks for your support!