We made a few changes on Yahoo! Video that I thought you’d like to hear about. Due to popular demand, we’ve surfaced all of our video sharing functionality on our video player page. So, by default, you’ll automatically see your various sharing options, including links to Digg, Facebook, and MySpace below each video.

You’ll also see a simplified and expanded stats section that shows how many times a video has been favorited. It looks like this:

My favorite feature is our new play-inline search capability. Now, when you do a video search, you can play the videos back without even leaving the search results page. And, if you like what you see, you can hit the full-screen button to continue watching the video in glorious widescreen.

Go ahead, search for dramatic prairie dog, and see what I mean. It’s a whole new way to browse video search results.

-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team

It’s Monday morning and people are popping popcorn with their cell phones. Or so the latest viral video phenomenon tells us. And apparently it’s a worldwide phenomenon. Yes, not just crazy Americans. The Japanese are in on it as well. French versions of the video have also sprouted up around the web.

The viral hoax department here at Yahoo! Video is calling it early: there’s no way this is real. Mostly because if we did think it was real we’d be forced to abandon our cell phones tout suite.

-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team

Eight months ago, The Marx Song, premiered on Yahoo! Video. The animated ode to communist philosopher Karl Marx changed my life. No, it did not make me a communist. But it did start an obsession with two teenage nu-metal philosophers by the names of Nietszche and Kierkegaard. This unlikely duo play songs aimed to educate teenagers on important philosophers. They also live in the totalitarian, socialist, and completely imaginary state of Slabovia.

I’m pleased to say that Yahoo! Video is currently the only video-sharing site on which you’ll see the animated adventures of these two philosopher punks. However, you can watch more video and find out more about Nietszche, Kierkegaard, and the state of Slabovia on their official website.

-Comrade Kent, Yahoo! Video Team

People of the Internet (or, heck, as the Meth Minute called them first: Internet People) have a new theme meme song, and this time it’s not We Didn’t Start the Fire. It’s Weezer’s ‘Pork and Beans’. Only as one parody points out, the song has nothing to do with Miss Teen South Carolina, Dramatic Prairie Dog, or Numa Numa. Video-to-song relevance aside, the Weezer video does prove that there’s nothing Internet people love more than a video retrospective. After all, the video has been tops on the Viral Video Chart for two weeks now.

The question remains: will the album top the charts, or pull a Tila Tequila, and enter into the internet hall-of-fame while tanking into dismal record cd mp3 sales?

-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team

One of our most popular Networks—believe it or not—is the Yahoo! Local News Network. Seems kind of odd, given the choice between fast cars and local news stories that people would choose local news stories, but there you go. Actually it is a pretty great network in that all the local news stories are divided up by locale. Want to know what’s going on in New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco? You can watch all the recent stories in our seamless Network player. Yup, all the political scandals, harrowing balcony escapes, and bank robbery mishaps that are fit to webcast. So, see what’s going on in your ‘hood (or greater metro area) at the Yahoo! Local News Network.

-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team