Used to be, if you wanted to watch your favorite show online you'd have to wait until after it was broadcast on TV. That's where premieres and new episodes were always shown, in order to keep the majority of the audience watching the programs - and the commercials that came along with them - on television.

Last week, though, NBC announced that this fall it will be streaming season premieres of many of its shows on Hulu.com before they're broadcast on TV. It won't be long before TV and the Internet are the same device...

Google has added a video sharing feature to its Apps Premiere. This fee-based service from Google will give subscribers the ability to upload and share videos on a private platform modeled after YouTube, according to news reports.

I haven't had the chance to check out this new service, but I think it's a great idea and will be extremely useful to many businesses. I've always been a big proponent of using video to promote businesses online, but it's just as useful for internal business communications. Companies can use this service to upload training videos, software demonstrations and recorded meetings, among other things.