While out casting my net in hopes of finding something interesting to tell you all about, I ran across a recent video over at the Kaltura Blog that was talking about Video Analytics best practices and I thought, gee, that’s some interesting stuff. Especially since my earlier video analytics article this week got such a great response. Girish Bettadpur, Sr.

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Akamai and Kaltura Offer Video Best Practices for Video Analytics

YouTube has enhanced their minimal audio editing options with a few nifty features, steps I hope bring YouTube closer to becoming a more dynamic editing tool.  On Wednesday, software engineer Bob Glickstein announced on the YouTube Creator Blog a few new exciting changes that will make audio a little easier to deal with from this …

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YouTube Adds More Audio Editor Options For Video Creators

Those mad tinkerers over at YouTube keep tinkering away, although the new features recently announced are actually pretty useful.  The YouTube Blog announced some changes to their player that will be in effect in the next few weeks that give users the ability to look ahead in a video to find the part that they want to see, or give them a preview of what is to come, or find a spot where the video was previously stopped.  By running your cursor over the timeline, a thumbnail is generated to show what you’re about to see.  For long videos, you can even scrub the timeline to get a series of thumbnails.  Sweet! YouTube’s New Look Ahead Features The most basic one will be that you will be able to place your cursor anywhere on the timeline and see a thumbnail of that part of the video, as seen here: But there are even more dynamic look ahead features, and they can be seen right now on the free crowdsourced movie Life in a Day .  One feature allows you to place your cursor over the timeline, and a bar representing 90 seconds pops up over the timeline.  You can navigate that entire bar for thumbnails.  Take a look: And even better, if you scrub the timeline on Life in a Day , it will give you a series of thumbnails so you can have a wide variety to choose from.  Here’s how it looks: So overall, these are some pretty useful features, and it looks like YouTube thought a lot about the different kinds of searching you might want to attempt. If you’d like to try out the new features, they are on select videos right now.  I was able to do it on Life in a Day and the Star Wars Uncut crowdsourced film .  The new features aren’t on most videos right now, but it appears to be something that will be a normal, everyday feature very soon

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YouTube Introduces Handy “Look Ahead” Features To Player

Because YouTube has Google money to spend, the online video destination has an attractive place for people who are already in show business or hope to launch an entertainment career.  Recently, the defection of Food Network’s Bruce Seidel to Electus’ unnamed new YouTube food channel , set to debut in July, hit the news wire and it brings up an interesting question.  Are we going to be seeing executives, already entrenched in TV, defecting in large numbers over the course of this year?  With online video sites seeing numbers that rival cable networks in viewership, I don’t think that’s a stretch.

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Food Network Executive Jumps To YouTube: A Sign Of Things To Come?

Doubleclick adds a couple new tools to its lineup of services for publishers.

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DoubleClick Video Ads & Mobile Ads Join Lineup of Services for Publishers

Bing is continuing its heavy investment in travel features. Their most recent round of extras includes a revamp of how their “attractions” are displayed in the Bing SERP and Attractions page. The Upgraded Bing Attractions Bing introduced “Attractions” earlier this year as part of its ongoing efforts to provide travel search tools.

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Bing Revamps “Attractions” Presentation

By now most of us know that any sort of automated link building (or buying) service isn’t going to go out and build awesome links in bulk.

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Link Building Tools I Wish Someone Would Build

Digg , the user-powered social news website, has released its new version – Digg 4. If you are not familiar with exactly what Digg is, here’s the long and short of it. Created in 2004 Digg allows users to post links to stories they find interesting to share with other members of the site

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Digg 4 is Released, But Are Users “Burying” This New Version?

A few weeks back we were promoting a link bait article on digg.  Before long, the submission hit the front page but in a matter of minutes was then buried.  In the meantime, however, it was quickly picking up steam on Twitter.  Within a few hours, the article got picked up by a major online news source, retweeted, and it exploded from there. (and is still going 3 weeks later) As of today, the link bait article that went viral on twitter has 32K backlinks (according to Aaron Wall’s SEO toolbar ) many from highly trusted websites and news sources.  While I don’t usually give much credence to pagerank, after the recent PR update, the article’s page has a PR 6 while the site’s homepage remains a PR 4.  This simply speaks to the quality of the links to the article.

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When Promoting Link Bait, Twitter is King!