I’ve Seen the Future with the Knowledge Graph and it Almost Works for Business Video
Last week, Google introduced the Knowledge Graph .
Last week, Google introduced the Knowledge Graph .
This week, we have another tip from our friend and “viral video genius,” Kevin “Nalts” Nalty
In this week's viral video round up , I included an adorable clip making the rounds of a bear cub and wolf cub playing together. The combined effects of the odd pairing and the cute behavior has led to more than 1.5 million views, tens of thousands of shares, and untold amounts of free publicity for The Woodland Zoo in Farmington, Pennsylvania. Small Business Video Marketing Tips From A Zoo Here's the video in question: Click here to watch the video.

Stupeflix announced today, at the Business Video Expo, that they are changing the way they connect to developers and allow access to the Stupeflix video creation suite API. Whereas it was somewhat cost prohibitive in the past, they are now lowering the price of both access and video rendering to commoditize video creation. Previously, says Jean-Francois Boudier, Stupeflix co-founder and CTO, access to the API was dependent on requirements definition, commercial proposal, negotiation, contracts, signatures, etc.

I think I'm going to write an e-book... call it "Drop Out Of College & Learn Video.” I had this revelation after an email chain with ReelSEO writer, Chris Atkinson. See, Chris and I are not only co-workers, but we’ve been friends for more than a decade.

In the spirit of good-natured ribbing and constructive criticism, we asked you to help us find the very worst business videos of 2011 for our first-ever Sucky Video Awards (The Suckies) . And you responded with some fantastic examples of video marketing gone wrong. Our panel of judges, including our founder Mark Robertson and Steve Stockman, have tallied the votes and the winning suckiest videos of 2011 are below

Well, YouTube can't redesign every week, and they did that last week... so this week's online video news cycle belonged to some of the other players for once. We had several bits of rumor and speculation on the future of Netflix, Google Plus' beefed up Hangouts capabilities, Twitter's redesign which leaves a prominent place for branded video, and much more.

We spend so much time praising those great examples of quality branded video that it's easy to forget how much bad video is out there.

I interviewed social media strategist and author of “The NOW Revolution,” Jay Baer, who was one of the featured presenters at the recent Blogworld New Media Expo in Los Angeles. In this video interview I asked Jay how he recommended companies handle the growing expectation for near-immediate responsiveness with business video and other media, while managing to stay out of trouble? How to Be Prepared to Move in Real-Time Click here to watch the video.

Google and American Express have join forces to launch a new program called,