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  • Client-side Image Composition with HTML5 Posted Monday, April 11, 2011 Jim Garretson 0 Comments

    As Constant Contact produces more and more video content, we’ve started to run into some unlikely bottlenecks in the video creation process. One of the big ones turns out to be the creation of preview thumbnails, which requires compositing a play button over a frame of video and saving out the resulting image. This simple, but still time-consuming, procedure is a problem we’ve solved for Constant Contact customers through our new Insert Video feature, but it’s still been eating up significant time internally! Rather than continue to create these images manually, Labs took a look at the problem and came up with an automated solution that uses some pretty cutting-edge browser features. Read on for details and a demo.

     
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    Interface Design • Platforms • Web Development

  • Now Announcing Fax Marketing Posted Friday, April 1, 2011 Joseph Henrich 8 Comments

    Update:  April Fools!  This post will remain up for your amusement. 
    Are your emails not real enough?  Do you want your customers to feel your campaigns in their hands?  Are you tired of licking stamps?

     
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