Remember all the hustle and bustle there was to get HTML5 off the ground and implement immediately even though there was no standard codec, it lacks tons of functionality and all that? LongTail Video does and they broke down just where it all stands now in a nice, informative way in the LongTail Video State of HTML5 Video .

A while back I wrote about the new vid.ly service from Encoding.com . Well they have been working on it for some time now and today it’s ready to throw open its doors and welcome in the public for the rest of the beta period. Vid.ly , a new automatic transcoding, universal URL service from Encoding.com is simply genius.

A video email marketing campaign created by Opera Software with two different subject lines was distributed to 30,000 names and generated a 23 to 24 percent open rate with a 3.23 to 3.92 percent click through rate.