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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Video Marketing Infographic | Video Marketing, Social Media ...

?Online video?, a format ?traditionally? entailing short rather than long online clips, is the subject of Marketing?s latest infographic investigation.

The point that emerges most strongly out of our visualisation of comScore?s data is the rapid increase in the amount of video being consumed and the increase in the amount of time spent watching as more long form content moves online. These findings point to a future where connected TVs merge what is considered online video today and traditional broadcast television.

?more at?Infographic: Online video snapshot

With the omni-presence of smartphones and tablets these days, more and more of us are interacting with online marketing content in new and dynamic ways. One of the trends it?s becoming hard to ignore is the increasing power of video in online content marketing.

Research also shows that many marketers allocate video budgets based on a ?maturity curve,? meaning that more established platforms (including Internet and TV) get allocated more funds than newer channels (including connected TV and tablet), regardless of proven effectiveness.

If you?re a small-business owner, you can call your own shots and dedicate your video marketing funds to the growth areas likely to best connect with your target audience.

?more at?Time to Add Video to Your Content Marketing Strategy

Infographics are powerful tools for video marketing. Infographics put statistics into a practical and easily intelligible manner. We have compiled 11 video marketing, video production, and internet video info graphics in this video blog. We hope that you?re able to use these info graphics in your next video marketing and internet marketing campaigns.

2012 Q1 State of the Online Video Industry
The Growth of Video Streaming
Five Years in History of Online Video
A Brief History of Digital Video
How To Increase Your Video Viewership
How BIG is Online Video?
The Video Production Process
The American Video Viewer
The Ultimate Guide to Hosted Video SEO
Why Clickthrough Rates Can?t Accurately Forecast Online Video Ad Success
YouTube Killed TV

2012 Q1 State of the Online Video Industry

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The Growth of Video Streaming

Five Years in History of Online Video

A Brief History of Digital Video

How To Increase Your Video Viewership

How BIG is Online Video?

The Video Production Process

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The American Video Viewer

Why Clickthrough Rates Can?t Accurately Forecast Online Video Ad Success

Why Clickthrough Rates Can't Accurately Forecast Online Video Ad Success

YouTube Killed TV

Newly identified stem cell population in skin's epidermis responsible for tissue repair

ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2012) ? Researchers at the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, ULB identify a new stem cell population in the skin epidermis responsible for tissue repair.

The skin, which is an essential barrier that protects our body against the external environment, undergoes constant turnover throughout life to replace dead cells that are constantly sloughed off from the skin surface. During adult life, the number of cells produced must exactly compensate the number of cells lost. Different theories have been proposed to explain how this delicate balance is achieved.

In a new study published in Nature, researchers lead by Pr. C?dric Blanpain, MD/PhD, FNRS/FRS researcher and WELBIO investigator at the IRIBHM, Universit? libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, in collaboration with Pr. Benjamin Simons, University of Cambridge, UK, demonstrate the existence of a new population of stem cells that give rise to progenitor cells that ensure the daily maintenance of the epidermis and demonstrate the major contribution of epidermal stem cells during wound healing.

In this new study, Guilhem Mascr? and colleagues used novel genetic lineage tracing experiments to fluorescently mark two distinct epidermal cell populations, and follow their survival and contribution to the maintenance of the epidermis overtime. Interestingly, in doing so, they uncover the existence of two types of dividing cells. One population of proliferative cells presented a very long term survival potential while the other population is progessively lost overtime. In collaboration with Pr. Benjamin D. Simons, the authors developed a mathematical model of their lineage tracing analysis. The authors proposed that the skin epidermis is hierarchically organized with slow cycling stem cells residing on the top of the cellular hierarchy that give rise to more rapidly cycling progenitor cells that ensure the daily maintenance of the skin epidermis. Analysis of cell proliferation confirms the existence of slow cycling stem cells and gene profiling experiments demonstrate that the stem and the progenitors cells are characterized by distinct gene expression.

Importantly, by assessing the contribution these two populations of cells during wound healing, they found that only stem cells are capable of extensive tissue regeneration and undergo major expansion during this repair process, while the progenitors did not expand significantly, and only provide a short-lived contribution to the wound healing response. As well as resolving the cellular hierarchy of epidermis, this is the first demonstration of a critical role of epidermal SC during wound healing. "It was amazing to see these long trails of cells coming from a single stem cell located at a very long distance from the wound to repair the epidermis" comments C?dric Blanpain, the senior author of this study.

In conclusion, this work demonstrates the existence of slow-cycling stem cells that promote tissue repair and more rapidly cycling progenitors that ensure the daily maintenance of the epidermis. A similar population of slow cycling stem cells that can be rapidly mobilized in case of sudden need has been observed in other tissues, such as the blood, muscle and hair follicle, and the partition between rapidly cycling progenitors and slow cycling stem cells could be relatively conserved across the different tissues. This study may have important implications in regenerative medicine in particular for skin repair in severely burnt patients or in chronic wounds.

This work was supported by the FNRS, the " Brain back to Brussels " program from the Brussels Region, the program d'excellence CIBLES of the Wallonia Region, a research grant from the Fondation Contre le Cancer, the ULB foundation, the fond Gaston Ithier. C?dric Blanpain is an investigator of WELBIO and is supported by a starting grant of the European Research Council (ERC) and the EMBO Young Investigator Program.

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Guilhem Mascr?, Sophie Dekoninck, Benjamin Drogat, Khalil Kass Youssef, Sylvain Broh?e, Panagiota A. Sotiropoulou, Benjamin D. Simons, C?dric Blanpain. Distinct contribution of stem and progenitor cells to epidermal maintenance. Nature, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/nature11393

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Purported Nokia Lumia 820, 920 Pureview pics arrive on Twitter

Our old friend, the @evleaks Twitter account is back, claiming that it's gotten the first official shots of Nokia's Lumia 820 and 920 with Pureview. The terse tweets claim that the 820 is a 4.3-inch handset, while the 4.5-inch 920 will arrive with Nokia's magical new imaging technology. We're understandably skeptical, given the small size of the lens on the 920 (pictured, left) compared to the 808, but we can't fault the feed's track record for leaks so far.

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