July 2011
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Prototype for new uploader in 23 Video
With 23 Video we (at 23 receive a large number of really, really large files every day. At times, we get files of several gigabytes transferred over a simple HTTP connection. Usually, this works out alright, but we’ve wanted to make better use of some new features in modern browsers to make uploads more stable — specifically, to allow users to pause their uploads and have the uploads automatically...
February 2011
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Control the size of thumbnails
The most frequently requested feature from developers over the past months has been the ability to control the size of thumbnails on 23 Video. Up until now, we’ve offered about 10 different built-in sizes, but obviously this has been a limitation when designers wanted full control over their grid.
We’ve seen a number of excellent hacks to overcome the problem, but from today designers...
January 2011
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Developer's introduction to the 23 Video plaform
One of the biggest challenges in running an ever evolving platform is keeping integrators up to speed with the possibilities they have at hand. Therefore we’ve recently started the 23 Developer Training Programme where our partners’ developers can receive a thorough introduction into the realms of the platform.
At a recent developer training session we created an extensive slide deck...
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Using oEmbed with 23 Video
Quite a while ago we added support for oEmbed to 23 Video. This makes it easy to turn a URL from either service into a piece of HTML which is can be embedded into a web site or a blog. For example, this makes it easy to embed video into a WordPress blog post by simply pasting a link to a video into your editor.
I won’t dig too deeply into the technical stuff since there isn’t much...