Two years ago, I took a look at Vzaar , an online video hosting & delivery platform, and gave them a fairly good write up . But a lot of things can change in two years, just look at ReelSEO for example, and so, I thought it time I roll back into Vzaar and see what’s what.

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Vzaar: An Affordable, Customizable Business Video Platform

Over the past few months, we have followed a couple of exciting new video applications for Popcorn.js, an HTML 5 framework for video.  It was introduced essentially through Wired in October , where documentary filmmakers were able to add interactive links in their films to provide more information while viewers watched.  One movie in particular, One Millionth Tower , premiered on Wired.com in November and is filled with interactive content allowing you to explore the film with different angles, Wikipedia, Flickr, Google Maps, and more.  But other educational uses have been discovered, much to the delight of Popcorn’s creators. We also saw Popcorn being implemented into the People’s Choice Awards website , where their videos were given interactivity on special hotspots.  When someone of note is mentioned, a window pops up with articles and other links to that person. Popcorn Will Add Interactive Dimensions To Educational Video Of particular note is the work done by Kate Hudson (no, not that Kate Hudson) in a Popcorn-laden demo for Shakespeare’s that takes a scene from Macbeth where you to see a scene acted out with the dialogue written underneath .  The Popcorn framework allows you to investigate the meaning of certain phrases so that the words become clearer.  For instance, if you want to know what “Hie thee hither,” means, it’s highlighted in the text, and moving your cursor over it translates the phrase into “Come home quickly.” The video stops while you make your investigations, and then when you’re ready to watch it again, you just put your cursor over the video and it picks up right where it left off.  The video has tons of options, too.  You can use the original text, or a modern reworking, or see both at the same time.  The possibilities for education brought up by this demo are amazing.  Don’t think just Shakespeare, but math, science, and of course, history and foreign languages, would all be enhanced through interactive video.  Someone with an enterprising mind might want to check out this technology, there’s money to be had here.

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Popcorn Framework Usage Surprises Even Its Creators

IAB Canada and Brightroll recently put out their video advertising report for October and it seems that things are heating up for our northern neighbors.

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The Great Canadian Online Video Advertising Boom is Coming

I sat down with Walter Harp, VP of Marketing, from Mixpo to talk about their new SmartVideo product.

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Mixpo SmartVideo Helps Maximize Video Advertising Personalization & Impact

Internet TV Leader Empowers European Media Owners, Publishers and Advertisers to Leverage the Explosive Growth in Online Video Brightcove, Inc., the leading Internet TV service, today announced the launch of its new UK operations and the opening of an office in central London to manage the company’s growing business in the region. The Brightcove Internet TV service is already in use by the world’s leading media owners, publishers and advertisers, and the company’s expansion into Europe opens up new opportunities in the region to grow audiences and develop new revenues using video content online

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Brightcove Launches UK Operations

While the online video world continues to wait for news on the potential acquisition of streaming video site Hulu, there’s not much left for the web’s journalists to do but speculate. The latest theory gaining some ground is the idea that Hulu’s buyer won’t end up being Google, Amazon, DirecTV, or Yahoo… but a separate contender altogether… Apple.

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Is Apple A Last-Minute Contender In The Hulu Sweepstakes?

When Google released Plus, their cries that it was not an attempt to be a Facebook killer fell on deaf ears. The majority of us ignored what was said and instead saw what was presented: a site that looked shockingly similar to Facebook, only without advertisements and with a few Google-unique features

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Google+ Gets Games

Google has been facing major patent issues lately, with the most notable being Oracle’s case (launched in August of last year). Now Google may be facing an additional case against MPEG LA for Googles’ webM format.

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Google Facing Patent Case for WebM Format

In smartphones, Android continues to chomp on Apple.

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Google Android Nears 50% Global Market Share

Google has been on a binge, optimizing for smartphones and tablets for all of its services. One of the areas that’s, oddly, been left behind is search itself. Now Google has resolved that by releasing a new version of Google search designed specifically for the tablet environment

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Google Continues Tablet Optimization Push