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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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• QuickView Web Update Posted Friday, November 12, 2010 Jerry Gulla 3 Comments

  

  It’s been awhile since we talked about a web-based version of QuickView, and we thought it would be a good time for an update. For those that are wondering “What is this about”, well, let’s just say we’re trying to give non-iPhone users (such as those running Android, WebOS and the latest Blackberry OS) a first-class mobile app using modern HTML5 enabled devices.

   
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• Web 2.0: The “No Expo” Expo Posted Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Reneldy Senat 0 Comments

  

  Last week I attended the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC held by O’Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb. I’ve wanted to attend this conference for a while now and finally had the opportunity to go this year. Overall this was both one of the better conferences that I’ve attended, and probably one of the worst expos as well (more on this later). In this post I’ll walk you through, from a very high level, my experience at the Web 2.0 Expo and what I thought about the event.

   
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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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  Apps • Blog • CMS • Conference • Facebook • Innovation • iPad • Mobile • Platforms • Social Networks • Twitter • Web Development
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