Live HD Webcasting

Amazon Web Services is at it again.  The IT Computing Services shopping center in the cloud has a new offering – Amazon Elastic Transcoding.  If you’ve been looking to distribute videos on your website, and you don’t want to use YouTube, or other similar sites for distribution, Amazon has a … Read More

It used to be people bought stuff that they thought would endure. Then manufacturers came up with something called “planned obsolescence”. Manufacturers don’t want people to replace products because they’re broken, that would decrease the likelihood of any return business from that now dissatisfied customer. No, they want their customers … Read More

In my last post I talked about the reliability of cloud services and that I believed it was the right choice for Allied Pixel.  But what about security? Several days ago, Amazon.com’s homepage was unavailable for 49 minutes. Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud services was not affected, nor were other … Read More

Hurricane Sandy brought the threat of downed power lines and flooding  to our area this past month.  While we fared pretty well compared to others along the New Jersey coast, we did lose power to our office.  

People often ask us what are favorite tools for managing projects are. Here’s a rundown.

When it comes to the Olympics, I have to admit I consume the games much the same way I consume junk food.  I don’t have to have it, but if it’s there, I’m not going to pass it up.  And with these London games, accessibility to the coverage is virtually … Read More

This is a distillation of an article from our friends at LongTail Video, makers of the awesome JW Player, which we use in many of our web projects. As we all know, HTML5 is an evolving standard, and implementation of its video playback features varies quite a bit from browser … Read More

Here are the two most powerful things you can ever say: 1) I love you. 2) This gun is loaded. This post is about motivation, or more specifically, how to motivate people. How to get people to do what you want them to do. It can apply to your marketing … Read More

I’m loving Amazon Web Services (AWS)! When we got started in the streaming business a few years ago, we gravitated to Akamai as our CDN of choice. Akamai touted its edge network as the solution to optimized video delivery across the globe. We haven’t been disappointed in stability and performance … Read More

When I speak with clients about webcasting, I often get asked “Why would I want to webcast my… (fill in the blank)”. In almost any case, it can be answered with one word – Reach. Events, meetings, graduations, and just about any special event are bound by two main factors: … Read More