I interview entertainment and new media attorney Gordon Firemark for a guide on two controversial bills in Congress and the top online video crisis of 2012 – the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which are threating to censor our free expression and remove our ability to do business with online video. My video interview with Gordon Firemark on SOPA and PIPA You can just watch my video interview with attorney Gordon Firemark below, or go right to the article and accompanying videos further below. Click here to watch the video.

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SOPA And PIPA May Cripple The Web Video Ecosystem, Unless We Fight It

Video and rich media are fast becoming (and I would argue already are) a fundamental part of any online strategy for both startups and established New Media companies. That’s the central theme of our upcoming  FREE webinar,  titled “Jumpstarting Online Video for Startups & New Media Companies,”  next week, Thursday, December 1st, from 10-11am PST.

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FREE Webinar: Web Video Strategies for Startups & New Media Companies

What’s the next major shift for video in the enterprise?

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The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Video

There’s no hiding the fact that the Online Video Platform ( OVP ) space is crowded, even more so than the Content Delivery Network (CDN) space was three years ago when the CDNs marched fearlessly down the inevitable path of commoditization. Today there are over 90 streaming video platforms fighting for customers and trying to secure a place in the future of online video.

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As the Online Video Platform Market Crowds, Smart Companies Adapt

It’s been a busy week for various reasons, mostly NAB. That means a lot of news that might interest the Reel Readers but not warrant a full article. So I’ve chopped them all into bite-sized clips here for you to peruse.

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Mid-Week Online Video Reel Quick News Clips – April 13, 2011

Holy BA…ZOOKAS! NVIDIA dropped me a note today, oddly at GDN and not ReelSEO, to tell us that they now can help you stream 3D on the web. Hot diggity, that would be cool, if I were really interested in 3D video (which I’m not all that keen on, due to having to wear those silly glasses). Anyway, this is interesting and I thought lots of you might be interested

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NVIDIA Gives Websites Ability to Stream 3D Video with Silverlight Plug-in

I know, Thursday, but Thursday morning! So still two days left in the work week.

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Mid-Week Online Reel Video Quick Clips 7 April 2011

Jeroen “JW” Wijering is an online video pioneer, Chief Digital Architect of LongTail Video and the creator of the Internet’s most popular and ubiquitous media players, the JW Players , which have generated millions of downloads since their launch in 2005. The unassuming Dutch internet entrepreneur helped changed the face of the online video industry with his open source JW Player which can be found on tens of millions of websites. Even YouTube ran on the JW Player for the first 18 months of its existence.

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Who is JW? A Documentary of an Online Video Superhero

Adobe wants its Flash player to the be the one stop shop for the TV Everywhere industry.

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Adobe Pass Unlocks TV Everywhere

Longtail Video announced that JW Player 5.5 is available and features a whole new set of features specifically for HTML5 including a new JavaScript plugin model, and mode-specific configuration options.

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JW Player 5.5 Gets HTML5 Javascript Plugin Support, HTML5-Specific Configuration