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Online video platform Brightcove is going public. In an SEC filing on Monday, the company set the price range for their public offering: 5 million shares of common stock at a range of $10 to $12 per share.

Original web series destination site Blip has just closed a $12 million financing round to develop new tools and services for independent producers.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Barry Diller’s IAC is reportedly looking to sell half of Vimeo. Last night PandoDaily’s Erin Griffith reported that “two sources familiar with the situation” say that IAC is pairing a spinoff of Vimeo with a $50 million round of funding

Online video platform Brightcove is going public. In an SEC filing on Monday, the company set the price range for their public offering: 5 million shares of common stock at a range of $10 to $12 per share.

Why has they decided to “channelize”? CEO Salar Kamangar explained in an interview earlier this week at All Things Digital’s D: Dive Into Media conference. Check it out after the jump.

Flowtown and Column Five have put in the work so you don’t have to – they’ve put together a Social Media Cheat Sheet for small businesses that covers the ins and outs of the social media ecosystem and can help you navigate the major social media sites on the web.

In a recent webinar, VidCaster co-founder and CEO Kiernan Farr debunks common misconceptions about online video and teaches you ‘How to make effective videos for your business – without spending a dime!’

Time to dust off the old Encyclopedia Britannica, because all your online facts are about to go unchecked. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has confirmed that the free online encyclopedia will shut down on Wednesday, January 18 in protest of the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), two anti-piracy bills that are currently [...]

Where there’s a mention of “tech,” the word “bubble” is never far behind.  The wildly popular gaming company Zynga made its New York Stock Exchange debut at $10 per share, but dropped 5% on the first day of trading and didn’t recover, which had many analysts wondering if the company could live up to the [...]

Google’s new personalized search engine, Google plus Your World, is under fire as critics say the company is using its dominance in the search engine market to squash social media competitors like Facebook and Twitter. Unconvinced, I asked Eric Goldman, Associate Professor of Law at Santa Clara University Law School if he thought that Google was heading for an antitrust lawsuit.

Back in March Hulu’s CEO Jason Kilar predicted that the video streaming site was on pace to make half a billion dollars in revenue in 2011. They didn’t quite make it, but according to statistics released on the Hulu blog they came very close, clocking in at $420 million in revenue last year.