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Ziggeo Plans Release of its Video Player 2.0 as Open Source

In the coming weeks, we will be releasing our Video Player 2.0 as open source. It will be the best open source video player on the market. You can find out more about our video player 2.0 here. To be immediately notified of the open-source release of our Video Player 2.0 , please follow us […]

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Beta Release of Ziggeo’s Video Player 2.0

We’re super excited to announce the beta release of Ziggeo’s Video Player 2.0. Here are a few of its features: Built entirely from scratch with no outside dependencies HTML 5 Flash fallback for old browsers Fully responsive, even when it reverts to Flash Fully customizable by themes Fully extendable by tapping into our state machine […]

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Top 5 Ways HTML5 Video Recording Facilitates Candidate Video Submissions

Here are the top 5 ways HTML5 video recording facilitates candidate video submissions: The process of video submission is straightforward: no need for candidates to open up a YouTube account, upload a video, and send you a link. Candidates record videos right from their phones or computers and submit videos directly to your platform; they can also […]

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It’s “Super Easy” To Push Videos To Your System

Ziggeo Founders Oliver and Susan explain how easy it is to push videos to your system, either to your own S3 bucket or to FTP servers. Check out their video here: You can find more information on pushing videos to your system here on Ziggeo.

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Capturing Humanity (aka Why We Do What We Do)

At the heart of what we do is — and the reason we do it — is to capture humanity in all its quirkiness and wonder. We seek to highlight individuals’ stories by letting them be told directly, in their own words. And we hope to create opportunities by shedding spotlights on those who would […]

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What it Takes to Build Your Own Video Recorder

If you’re considering building your own video recording solution, here are 6 tips to keep in mind (we’ve done it ourselves so we really know): Make sure videos can be both recorded and played across all browsers, operating systems and devices, including: Chrome; Safari; Firefox; Opera; Internet Explorer; Mac OS X; Microsoft Windows; Linux (e.g. […]

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Poised For Peak Performance

Ever watch videos that are sluggish and choppy? They may have been recorded by old computers or ones that had a million windows open at the time of recording. Ziggeo has decided to do something about it. It can detect if a computer isn’t recording well, and if so, will post appropriate warnings. So if a recording […]

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Ziggeo Adds New Form Template

Ziggeo has just added a new template to its open-source submission forms. The new form is a one-pager that asks for basic information and a video recorder all on one page. Here’s what the form looks like: This form supplements another form template in which basic information is first submitted before a video recording is requested. […]

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Happy New Year!

We hope your new year is filled with humanity, wonder, and technology that brings you closer together. -The Team at Ziggeo

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Adding Branding (aka Bugs) to Videos

Ziggeo Founders Susan and Oliver discuss how from Ziggeo’s dashboard you can add bugs (e.g. logos or branding) to videos and then automatically launch them to YouTube or Facebook. You can see the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QueKrWUuZI For more information on adding bugs or marks to videos, see here on Ziggeo.

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