Web Development

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

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.  

As convergence keeps sucking traditional businesses like agencies, corporate communications, production companies, rental and post houses into its vortex, we are left with a very blurred landscape.

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

Does your company regard Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as a key marketing strategy? Clients have long coveted the highest rankings for their keywords but have not regarded the cost to achieve those rankings as worth the effort.   Clients have looked for shortcuts to achieve high rankings.  You’ve seen the … Read More

How do you consume the web these days? If you’re like most people, you do it from a mobile device. That’s right: The majority of web viewing today is done from mobile devices, not desktops. And that is making a profound impact on how we design and build websites. If … 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

Are you considering building a mobile app? We’ve been getting a lot of requests lately. Often, we’ll suggest that we build it as a mobile website and not a native app. Why? Native apps are great if your goal is to monetize software, but they don’t make a lot of … Read More