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We’ve been so busy with the holidays, the U.S. elections and the subsequent Obama-mania, that we almost forgot to let you know about the many new and wonderful additions to the 5min website!
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Now that our fingers have fully recovered from hours upon hours of intensive Guitar Hero and Rock Band training, the team at 5min is fully prepared to harness the power of the real thing – yes, we’re talking about that classic wooden instrument long associated with a rockin’ good time – the guitar.
Luckily for us, [...]

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OnMedia announced today that 5min.com, the leading syndication platform for broadband instructional video, has been chosen to be a part of the 2009 OnMedia 100 List. The OnMedia 100 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies in the advertising, publishing, marketing, branding and public relations spaces. 5min was selected by the [...]

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After recently launching the 5min VideoSeed syndication platform, we are pleased to announce that this powerful distribution tool is now available to 5min publishers – for free.
VideoSeed provides website publishers with a direct source for tens of thousands of videos from 5min’s extensive how-to and knowledge-based content library. VideoSeed, the semantic heart of the 5min [...]

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1) The Large Hadron Collider
For some, the way to know how everything began. For others, the beginning of the end, and according to some, 2008 was supposed to be the last year of our collective existence. Planet Earth, eaten by a black hole. As far as I know, the world is still spinning on its [...]

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Whether you’re waiting for Santa or the Holiday Armadillo, it’s holiday season! December is here, with all its spirit: days off from work, delicious food, and family meetings.
It’s the time for latkes, fried okra, and gingerbread cookies . For stockings, kawadi and dreidels!
So, put a smile on your face, and enjoy the lights [...]

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This week, we were stoked to hear 5min named as one of 5 online video startups to watch in 2009 by TVWeek’s Daisy Whitney, featured on the New Media Minute.
We’re honored to have been chosen alongside such terrific companies whose work and services we value such as Boxee.tv, Kaltura, MyDamnChannel.com and Quantcast. We wish our [...]

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I always wanted to be a rock star. Well, who hasn’t? But I took it too seriously, and at the age of 15, I got an electric guitar and became the nightmare of the neighborhood. The main problem with that is that my teacher, a progressive rock local hero, spent more hours telling me about [...]

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We’re stoked to finally be launching our exciting new syndication tools, spearheaded by 5min’s proprietary VideoSeed technology.
5min’s semantic syndication platform for instructional video programming now reaches 100M unique users via our vast network of partner publisher sites. This platform pairs brand advertising with relevant video from 5min’s library of hundreds of thousands of new and [...]

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It’s that time of year again – Thanksgiving day, and a sense of autumn all around, or at least in the Northern Hemisphere. Alongside big birds that require heavy-duty carving, the L-trytophan tripping and the exciting feeling that Christmas is inching closer, Thanksgiving is – after all – about giving thanks.
Personally, I feel I have [...]

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