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CDN of Choice?

Apr 30, 2012 | Live Webcasting, Web Development

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...

The Latest on HTML5 Video

Apr 27, 2012 | General

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...

The Case Against Native Mobile Apps

Apr 16, 2012 | General

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...