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Video Player Customizable On So Many Levels

Ziggeo’s video player has a number of customization dimensions. Here’s a chart that outlines the dimensions in which our player can be customized: For more information on our video player, see here.

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Video Is A Cross-Browser Mess

As it stands today, video is a complete cross-browser mess. Without transcoding, videos can only be played on certain browsers, depending on their format. Here are the formats required a tossed browsers: As such videos need to be transcoded so they can be played across all browsers. That’s what we do.

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Ziggeo’s Founders Explain Keyword Extraction Feature

Ziggeo Founders Oliver Friedmann and Susan Danziger explain the keyword extraction feature on Ziggeo that makes videos searchable. The text is transcribed and keywords (with individual confidence ratings) are extracted. Check out their explaining their keyword extraction video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB2nvJbfEzI For more information on Ziggeo’s searchable video feature, see here: ziggeo.com/features/keyword-extraction

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Our Video Player is a Chameleon

Our new video player behaves like a chameleon: it can look and act any way you like — all to fit into your surroundings and use case. With its stretch responsiveness it automatically adapts to any size box or rectangle. And you can set requirements so it looks and performs as directed. Change the color, […]

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Ziggeo Launches First Stretch Responsive Video Player

Ziggeo’s CTO, Oliver Friedmann, was frequently annoyed that embeddable video players didn’t stretch to conform to their surroundings. So he decided to do something about it. The result: the first “stretch responsive video player” — a term coined by Oliver. How does it work? The video player automatically conforms to any shape or size of […]

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Ziggeo Offers Hosted Pages

For those customers that don’t have their own servers and need a hosted solution, Ziggeo offers hosted pages. Ziggeo founders, Oliver Friedmann and Susan Danziger explain in this video. See here for more information: ziggeo.com/features/hosted-pages

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Another First: Ziggeo’s Video Player Automatically Switches Languages

Ziggeo’s video player automatically switches languages depending on the language of your browser. So for instance if your browser displays in English so will your video player. Once a Spanish-language browser is detected, the video player (and corresponding instructions) displays in Spanish. The same is true for: French, Italian, Portuguese, German – see all here.

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Ziggeo’s Video Recorder and Video Player Now Offered in SDKs for iOS And Android

Ziggeo has released an iOS SDK for video recording/playback to complement its previously released Android SDK video recording/playback. The iOS video recorder and iOS video player in addition to the Android video recorder and Android video player offer the same features that Ziggeo offers in its web versions. Here founders Oliver Friedmann and Susan Danziger […]

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Video Hack Day 2 – Debriefing

Video Hack Day 2, held this past Saturday, was an enormous success. It kicked off with an introduction from Susan Danziger, Founder/CEO of Ziggeo and Founder of Video Hack Day as well as a talk from Albert Wenger, partner at Union Square Ventures. More about his talk here. Video Hack Day also included an inspirational […]

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The Next Best Thing: Asynchronous Video For Selecting Whom To Interview In Person

We often wish we could meet someone in person to get the clearest impression as to what that person is all about. So for instance in selecting whom to invite in for a job interview, when faced with hundreds of resumes (with 50 or so that look pretty much alike), it’s a toss up whom […]

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