Automatically Crop Videos Without Losing Focus
Delivering videos according to the aspect ratios defined by social media for multiple devices and platforms is a growing challenge. The continuously rising volume of vertical videos and the...
View ArticleFTP API for Cloudinary Part 1: Real-Time Synchronization
tl;dr Diagrams and blueprints for FTPing on Cloudinary As a robust, effective solution for managing digital media, Cloudinary offers a RESTful API for provisioning and maintenance. That API enables...
View ArticleGreen Screen Queen: Dynamic Video Transparency Fit For Royalty
If you were reading your social media or news feeds on or around June 11 this year, no doubt you came across your fair share of posts about Queen Elizabeth and her outfit-color faux pas. For her 90th...
View ArticleVideo Manipulations and Delivery for Angular Video Apps
On social media, videos posted by users constitute a significant amount of the content appeal on those platforms. From upload to manipulation to delivery, a smooth, efficient, and effective pipeline...
View ArticleTechniques for Image Enhancement With Cloudinary: A Primer
Indisputably, visual presentations of events, places, people, and even intangible things make deeper impressions and linger in our minds for longer than words or any other communication medium, hence...
View ArticleFile Upload With Angular Or AngularJS to Cloudinary
Angular, now at version 8, is an open-source front-end framework that was developed by Google in 2016 and that has been adopted by software developers far and wide. Uploading Angular files to...
View ArticleObservations From the Digital Food and Beverage Conference 2019
Approximately 250 attendees, mostly from the food-and-beverage sector, attended the Digital Food & Beverage 2019 conference in Austin, Texas on July 15-17. Brands abounded among the participating...
View ArticleTop 10 Tips for Making Cloudinary Work Well for You
Typically, with Cloudinary, you want to do two complementary things for a remarkable user experience: save bandwidth and load your site as fast as possible because the smaller the sizes of the...
View ArticleAvoiding Pitfalls While Strategizing Promotion of Technology Adoption From...
Part 1 of this series describes the importance of engendering support from external developers to ensure success of innovative technologies. Part 2 delineates what energizes and inspires developers....
View ArticleAutomate Your Media Assets’ Workflow With Machine Learning
Automating the organization of your website’s media assets (images and videos) saves time and money, boosting the usefulness and lengthening the life span of those assets. Cloudinary’s artificial...
View ArticleResponsive Images and Their Creation for WordPress
With the advent of technology and the attendant fast-growing demand for feature-rich computing devices (laptops, smartphones, iPads), their manufacturers are rising to the occasion by producing...
View ArticleEasily Customize and Embed your Video Player
Steve Forbes, editor of Forbes Magazine, once said, “Your brand is the single most-important investment you can make in your business”. That bold statement is spot on, especially with respect to...
View ArticleCompress Images for Web and Boost Performance on Your Site
Slow-loading web content and problematic media displays that involve seemingly interminable scrolling tick off users to no end. Compressing online images is, without question, a critical task for...
View ArticleOpen Hack Week: Building for the Future
Between July 29 and August 3, the Google Developer Student Community of the University of Lagos, Nigeria participated in a week-long hackathon called Open Hack Week (OHW). Sponsored by Cloudinary,...
View ArticleVue.js Tutorial: Images Optimization for Web Apps
Launched in 2014 as an open-source JavaScript framework for building user interfaces for web apps, Vue.js has become a tool of choice for many developers. Currently, Vue.js is the most starred...
View ArticleVue.js Tutorial: Image Optimization for Web Apps
Launched in 2014 as an open-source JavaScript framework for building user interfaces for web apps, Vue.js has become a tool of choice for many developers. Currently, Vue.js is the most starred...
View ArticleRotating Or Removing Image Backgrounds With Cloudinary
As a rule, user interfaces, whether for mobile or desktop apps, encompass a significant amount of visual media (images and videos), necessitating close collaboration among designers and front-end...
View ArticleThree Tips for Faster, Easier Video Delivery
Videos make websites more engaging and lively, promising audience “stickiness” and return visits. However, research studies show that slow startup or playback stalls of videos often leads to visitor...
View ArticleQuesting for Technology Adoption and Advocacy by External Developers: Their...
Part 1 describes the importance of engendering support from external developers to ensure success of innovative technologies. Part 2 delineates what energizes and inspires developers. Part 3...
View ArticleProud to be Named to the Forbes Cloud 100
Last night I attended a very special event honoring companies named to the annual Forbes Cloud 100. It was an incredible night spent with the founders and leaders of many companies I’ve long...
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