YouTube is about to join the fold of Google+ in a more tightly knit and cohesive way. No longer will you be able to simply Like a video, now you’ll be giving it a +1 according to recent reports  of a big switch over at the world’s largest online video site

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Google Doesn’t Like Likes: YouTube Adopting +1 Button Instead?

There’s no denying it: slow page load will kill your conversion. This illustration from StrangeLoop demonstrates that: Just one second and you can lose 7% of sales

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A Quick and Dirty Guide to Optimizing Your +1 Button for Speed, Placement and Conversion

They always seem a bit behind, comScore, not the Brits. Considering that it’s almost mid-March and we’re just getting UK numbers for January.

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comScore Says Almost 22 Million Brits Touched By Video Ads In January

I got an advance sneak peek at Ooyala’s Video Index for Q4 2011 , and I didn’t even have to beg! Every quarter, Ooyala looks at more than one billion analytics pings a day, follows the viewing habits of over 100 million unique viers and then sums it all up in nice tidy packages every quarter for the industry.

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Tablet Video Viewing On Fire – Ooyala Q4 2011 Video Index

The social media space is one of the most competitive industries in today’s digital world. This became clearer than ever in 2011, a year when we saw social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn evolve, and the birth of new players like Google+. Despite having an uphill climb ahead of it, Google knows that Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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The Ability to Search by Location in Google+ and its Benefits to Marketers

If you dabble at all in product videos for any reason, and you have a list of New Year’s Resolutions, you should consider adding one more. I know, I know..

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Start The Year Off Right With Treepodia’s Product Video Best Practice Guide For 2012

Google obviously wants Google Plus to do very well.

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Now You Have No Choice But To Sign Up For Google Plus

In case you’re just now recovering from all the recent changes YouTube has made to their system, it’s time to brace for another round of major changes.

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YouTube Removing Subscribers & A New YouTube Player On The Way – The Reel Web Episode 22

Google is hoping that games can do for Google Plus what they did for Facebook–get people hopelessly addicted until they’re spending every waking moment playing social network games and annoying friends with automated status updates based on meaningless gameplay objectives. Um… sorry..

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Video Marketing Done Right – Google+ Teases Google Map Video Game

So Google recently made a change to their search results that rolls in content from your Google Plus account and your Picasa account.

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Did Google Forget About Video? New Personalized Search Doesn’t Extend To Videos