Transcoding as a Service Providers (TaaS)

This is a list of online video transcoding providers in no particular order. More for my own reference.
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Switch to dot com, or just redirect?

For a long time Zencoder has had the domain zencoder.tv. Since then we’ve purchased the dot com version from the original owner. The question now is whether to completely switch over to the dot com version, or just redirect dot com requests to dot tv.
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Two O’Ten starts in Silicon Valley

I’ve started the decade by moving up to Silicon Valley. Los Gatos, CA to be specific. Myself and two other founders of Zencoder are here to do some focused work and hopefully raise some capital for further development.
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Adobe AIR: Opening external links in another browser

I’ve moved this post to the Sevenwire blog:

http://sevenwire.com/blog/2009/08/26/adobe-air-opening-external-links-in-another-browser.html

First Snorkel Sale!

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Last weekend a friend and I put a little more work into our snorkel website. We’ve still got a ways to go, but it’s looking a million times better than it did. Apparently it paid off because today I got an email that we made a sale! We sold a pink Kapitol Reef Snorkel interestingly enough. We only sell Kapitol Reef snorkels at this point, but pink is the last color I expected. Continue Reading »

Can’t video chat in iChat

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I recently solved an annoying issue with iChat video not working. Just posting it here incase it’s helpful to anyone else.
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Testing Roommate App

Just posted on the Roommate App blog about testing. Trying to get back into posting regularly.

Tumblon - Best Parenting Website

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Today is my sister’s birthday, and for her gift I’m moving her new baby’s website from Totsites to Tumblon, and getting her a year of the premium subscription. Both sites allow you to blog about your child, post photos, notify family members, etc., but Totsites has super cheesy templates while Tumblon is really clean. Not to mention it’s owned by a friend of mine from Zencoder, John Dahl.
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Adding to Wikipedia for the first time

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I wanted to add both Zencoder and Flix Cloud to a list of video editing software on Wikipedia, but Wikipedia is pretty picky about external links. My links got erased after only a day.
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Online Video Encoding Apps (plus guide)

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On2 just released FlixCloud to the press.

It’s quite an awesome app. Blazing fast at encoding video. Infinite input/output formats including VP6 flvs obviously. I wrote a PHP wrapper/library for their API that I still need to make available on Github. Contact me if you need it.

In case you haven’t seen anything about it, FlixCloud is a partnership between On2 and Zencoder.

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