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Microsoft Drops 3,000 Word Reason for Supporting H.264, Fails to Mention Stake in MPEGLA

Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch, has lobbed a 3,000 word grenade at Google. The grenade is a lengthy description of why Microsoft will now support H.264 for web video in their Internet Explorer web browser and allow users to load a third-party codec for WebM. The one ...

Get Your Online Marketing Degree Next Week At 2011 OMS

It's that time once again to head into San Diego and check out what's new and exciting in the world of online marketing with the 2011 Online Marketing Summit. The speaker list reads like a who's who in online marketing. Heck, even I recognize some ...

Google Publicly Accuses Bing of Stealing Search Results: The Gloves Are Off

While Google and Microsoft have been heavyweight rivals for quite some time now, they're fighting a new battle today, and the gloves appear to be coming off. Never before in my time as a search engine marketing consultant have I ever seen the kind of ...

Fear and Loathing in Online Video: The Video Codec Conundrum Continues

My last post described, what Google's decision to drop H.264 from Chrome in favor of its own WebM format means for you, and concluded that this situation creates even more complexity video publishers, along with the potential of a massive increase in video publishing costs. ...

This Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - 01/07/2011

This is my first viral video round up post since the new year began, and it's obvious from the start that this is going to be another great year in viral video. The holidays didn't slow down the online video creating community one bit. There ...

Hollywood Goes Ultraviolet With New Video Content Delivery Technology - CES 2011

While there have been some rumblings about Ultraviolet in recent months, it only just now got it's official kick-off announcement at the CES 2011 show. Ultraviolet is a digital video content storage and distribution solution that will allow consumers to store digital movies and television ...

Microsoft To Launch Internet-Ready Set Top Box, Windows TV, At CES?

There's a joke I have heard several variations of over the last several years. Question: How do you know when a new tech idea has fully taken hold? Answer: When Microsoft puts out a competing product. I couldn't help but think about that zinger as ...

New Android Tablets To Challenge The Apple iPad In 2011?

Get ready for a slew of new tablet introductions. The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show kicks off this week and manufacturers like Vizio, Toshiba, as well as Motorola, LG, Dell and Microsoft expect to introduce new tablet computers (many using the Android OS) this week in ...

The Top Viral Video Marketing Lessons Learned From 2010

2010 was a spectacular year for viral video, as more people than ever uploaded, watched, and shared videos online. While it's virtually impossible to know what innovative videos await us in 2011, we can find some clues in a trip down memory lane. What can we learn from the year in viral video that might give us an edge in the year ahead?

2010 Internet Television In A Nutshell and 2011 Predictions

Some might say that 2010 was the year of Internet TV's emergence. Sure, there were a lot of things that went right for it during the year and a couple things that didn't. So let's take a look at the highlights including the new Apple ...

Google TV Stumbles, But Will it Fall?

I know that CES is still a week away, but there have been some big news surrounding Google TV of late that I thought we might compile to demonstrate the hazards of reaching into the unknown and attempting to carve out a niche for a ...

Media Metrix November 2010 - Retail Prevails, Google Ad Network Reaches 93 Percent of US Surfers

So is it any surprise that retail and eCommerce sites showed massive uptakes last month? Nah, I didn't think so. How about Yahoo! unseating Google as top prop(erty) on the web? Here's a scary fact, the Google Ad network has more unique visitors than the ...