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

Remember all the hustle and bustle there was to get HTML5 off the ground and implement immediately even though there was no standard codec, it lacks tons of functionality and all that? LongTail Video does and they broke down just where it all stands now in a nice, informative way in the LongTail Video State of HTML5 Video . They went through six key factors on how HTML5 Video is doing presently to give the industry an overhead look at how things are progressing and I have to say, in some areas it’s quite grim

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The State Of HTML5 Video – Growing, But Also Kind Of A Mess

After YouTube’s latest updates yesterday to the Browse page, many of you probably spent some time casually playing around with it to see what’s new. If you did, you might have come across some of the selections in this week’s round up of the best viral videos

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The Week’s Best Viral Videos & Video Marketing Lessons – Singing Obama Edition

Can You Tell Us About Your Current Job? I’m the Senior Search Strategist at Team Detroit

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Interview with Ryan Jones: Big Brand SEO, Social Media & More

Some time ago I wrote about Vid.ly – one upload, universal URL, fire and forget sort of encoding service where you could upload video, grab one single URL and it would work just about anywhere. Today, they’re announcing that everything Vid.ly offers will be directly integrated into Encoding.com for a simple workflow from uploading to delivery. To go along with that they are also talking today about the Future-Proof Video program that offers automatic preparation of Vid.ly videos for new formats/devices as they enter the market

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Future Proof Your Online Video Library With Vid.ly Integration with Encoding.com

I think I’m going to write an e-book…

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Every Brand Will Be A Studio: Philosophical Musings On The Future Of Video

Thursday afternoon, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that requested regulators investigate Google’s “Search plus Your World.” The EPIC complaint alleges that the new Search Plus feature shows favoritism towards Google’s own social network and violates Google+ users’ privacy. Marc Rotenberg, Epic’s Executive Director, said the Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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The EPIC Complaint Against Google’s New Search Plus

I video-interviewed Erik Qualman at the Chicago House of Blues for the launch of his new book, ” Digital Leader: 5 Simple Steps to Success and Influence “.  I asked him about his take on “social” and “viral” video and asked him to give us some tips for how businesses should think about and do–better social video marketing. Below is my video interview with Erik before he was about to give his speech to the crowd.

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5 Social Video Marketing Tips with Socialnomics’ Digital Leader: Erik Qualman

I interviewed the Chris Boggs via telephone and it was a very exciting geek-like conversation. We discussed SEMPO and upcoming conferences where you can see him, but more importantly we talked about the major issues he sees as SEMPO President. We also discussed Panda and what marketers and businesses are going to need to do Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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Interview with the Chris Boggs, President of SEMPO

Since 2011 is over and we’re rapidly hurtling toward the end of the world, or at least, the end of the Mayan calender, I asked everyone what they thought 2012 would have in store for online video. As I said in my online video advertising forecast , politics is going to be a major factor across the board in my mind.

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2012 Online Video Forecast – All About Connecting And Connections