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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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• Techcrunch Disrupt Posted Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Dave Berard 4 Comments

  All this week, Constant Contact will be at TechCrunch Disrupt.  Throughout the week (Mon-Wed), I’ll be updating the presentations and what the buzz is through our blog.  Stay tuned for updates if you aren’t able to be there!  I’ll be commenting on the technology and how it will impact Small Businesses and Organizations.

  *** Views expressed by Conference speakers are in no way a reflection on Constant Contact, Constant Contact Labs or myself (unless I say they are my views ) ***

   
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• QuickView Web: Coming soon for iPhone, Android, Palm and more Posted Monday, July 26, 2010 Jim Garretson 2 Comments

  
  Labs is excited to present QuickView Web, a third entry in the QuickView family of mobile Constant Contact applications. QuickView Web is a mobile web app - an application delivered through the web browser, but with the look, feel and functionality of a native app. It’s intended to be compatible with any WebKit-powered mobile browser, including iOS, Android, Palm, and this fall’s new Blackberry and Symbian devices.

  Read on for more info, including a chance to help us beta test!

   
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• Concurrency Insights from Web Server Technologies Posted Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Marc Schaedle 0 Comments

  

  As we explore the scaling of Web applications in many dimensions (number of users, size of data, UI functionality, and more), there are various challenges, many subtle and surprising.  Some of the thorniest arise from the high latency of communications over the Internet, which generally leads to designs supporting greater concurrency.

   
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