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The Alexa Fluor family of fluorescent dyes is produced by Molecular Probes, a subsidiary of Invitrogen. Alexa Fluor dyes are frequently used as cell and tissue labels in fluorescence microscopy and cell biology.
The excitation and emission spectra of the Alexa Fluor series cover the visible spectrum and extend into the infrared. The individual members of the family are numbered according roughly to their excitation maxima (in nm).
Alexa Fluor dyes are synthesized through sulfonati...

Sharing Your YouTube Video With Blogs--The YouTube Creator Playbook

There's no doubt that getting your video to show up in YouTube and other search engines is important.  But when you are first starting out, the search engine isn't going to exactly favor your videos or channel because you aren't popular just yet.  Getting people ...

Relax, People, Bing Isn't Overtaking Google Anytime Soon

New data this week from Hitwise shows Bing on a pretty impressive upswing in the search engine market share race. And while that's definitely something worth pointing out and taking notice of, it's not really earth-shattering. It's definitely not a sign that Bing is about ...

Philip DeFranco Drops Bombshell On Reddit - Some YouTubers Make Six Figures A Month!

The Internet has seen its fair share of articles speculating on the profits of the top YouTube users. We wrote about ABC's estimates on how much money was being made. TubeMogul had come out just a few months earlier with their own guesses at what ...

The Search, Social and Video Trifecta - YouTube Beats Yahoo for 3rd Most Visited Website

YouTube, once just the second largest search engine has now snuck up and tapped Yahoo! on the shoulder, sneaking past them in the latest Internet Top Sites report. Maybe, they got a helping hand by their life partner, Google, who knows. Alexa.com is reporting that ...

The Web Is Dead, Says Wired - But Video Is Alive and Kicking

Today  everyone's talking about a piece in Wired Magazine entitled, "The Web Is Dead.” Naturally, they posted the story on their website, and probably in a few other dead media formats as well, like print. The article's first paragraph reveals that its headline is somewhere ...

Mobile Version of YouTube Starts Showing Ads

Citing numbers that show that video views on mobile devices are up a whopping 160%, Google announced yesterday that the mobile version of YouTube will now begin showing ads.  Specifically, the ads will be running on the main YouTube home page, the search page, and ...

YouTu.be Wades Into The Crowded URL Shortening Space

Do you have your own URL shortening service?  Because if you don't, you're totally not following the "in crowd.”  Because everyone who's anyone is launching their own URL shortening service.

Bitly.tv Launches To Track Real Time Viral Video Trends

Bit.ly, the most popular URL-shortening service, has unveiled a very interesting new service called Bitly.tv.  Leveraging their status as the default URL shortener for Twitter messages, Bitly.tv aims to keep its finger on the pulse of what videos are going viral at any given moment.

Viral Video Marketing Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Video Successes - 10/25/2009

This is the second of what we hope will be a weekly series examining viral video success stories.  We aim to point out what's popular in the world of viral video, and also attempt to analyze what it is that helped create or foster that ...

Hulu Vs. Nielsen The War of Numbers

According to the New York Times, Hulu is angry, angry with Nielsen. ComScore, who probably doesn't even like Nielsen considering their past, sides with Hulu. Hanging in the balance are the true traffic numbers of Hulu and the reputations of all involved. The problem gets ...

How Websites Around The Globe Leverage Online Video

Back in March, we published some research which we believe helps to provide some unique insight into how various companies and vertical markets leverage website video content. Today, we offer up the following research, which takes a look at website video usage for the top ...

Does Truveo Video Search Cover The Planet Better?

Truveo recently did some research which showed they outshine all others in European video search coverage. You might want to take with a grain of salt considering they were doing the research on their own industry and their own service and it might be slightly ...

List of Video Sharing Web Sites and Destination Sites Like YouTube - Share Your Videos

One of the top viewed pages on ReelSEO is that of a post that I put out with a resource list of video sharing sites. I took the time to update the list, and add a bunch more – more than 300 video sharing websites ...

List of Video Search Engines and Video Search Web Sites

After many hours of clean up, I am pleased to present a brand new and updated, 2009 list of video search engines and video search sites - below. I encourage you to bookmark this post as I'll be updating it every now and then.

Dailymotion Subtitle Capabilities In Multiple Languages

DailyMotion call themselves the world's largest independent video entertainment website (so does Metacafe). However, we have found out that they have just added the ability to put subtitles right into any videos you upload which might propel them into that position. The new feature allows ...