Ustream.tv Recognized as Most Innovative: In the category of the “web,” Ustream.tv was ranked one of the top 10 most innovative companies by FastCompany. Since launching it’s pay-per-view and social stream feature, the site has really grown “in January, the site attracted 70 million unique viewers, up 500% from the year before.”

One Quarter of New TVs Sold in January are Connected to the Internet: Making it that much harder to tell the difference between the Internet and TV, and making the online video space much more interesting, iSuppli released information that 25% of all TVs sold in January were connected to the Internet. Wonder where this will lead…

Mr. DNS is Great: I took DNS (Domain Name System) training today given by VeriSign’s very own Matt Larson. It was a terrific class. It’s fascinating to understand the history and all that goes into resolving a domain name or an email address. For those of you that would like to really know how domain names work, his podcasts can be found at www.ask-mrdns.com

Introducing the VeriSign Trust Seal: This announcement isn’t about .tv or online video specifically; but our sibling division at VeriSign had a big announcement this week that helps the Internet as a whole; so I wanted to pass it along. Fellow VeriSign blogger Tim Callahan’s blog has more details, but the new product adds daily malware scans and will make available the VeriSign Trust Seal to sites that don’t require SSL encryption.