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• Image Hosting and the Constant Contact API Posted Monday, August 23, 2010 Dave Berard 0 Comments

  About four weeks ago, Constant Contact released an update to our API offering.  We added access to our Image Hosting capabilities through our RESTful API platform, just in time to bring more value to our upgraded Document Hosting features.  Of course, I had to play with these new APIs as soon as they came out (partially to support our Developer Challenge and anyone using them there).

   
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• QuickView Web: Coming soon for iPhone, Android, Palm and more Posted Monday, July 26, 2010 Jim Garretson 1 Comment

  
  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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• Putting the Mobile Web First Posted Friday, May 28, 2010 Jim Garretson 0 Comments

  It is unfortunate, but probably not very controversial, to say that mobile web sites tend to be second-rate afterthoughts compared to “real” desktop-browser-optimized sites. A lot of popular web sites either provide no mobile-optimized version at all, provide an overly-specific one built only for the iPhone, or provide a super-generic, watered-down WAP version that admittedly presents the content, but usually so that it looks like an unstyled bulleted list. What’s worse, none of these mobile strategies really scale well to handle new devices - say, a new class of device with a screen halfway between that of a smartphone and a desktop. The iPhone-specific version usually doesn’t display properly, the WAP version is way too basic, and the full desktop site often requires Flash, Silverlight, Java, or other heavyweight plugins that aren’t always available.

  It’s kind of a mess.

   
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