Stipple Selected for Ad:Tech SF 2012 Innovation Spotlight
Published February 28, 2012ad:tech has selected Stipple as one of the highlighted companies in their upcoming Innovation Spotlight Series at ad:tech SF. The show is scheduled for the first week of April and will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This selection means that Stipple will be presenting on-stage along with Cloudwords, Mixrank and Magnetic in the Data and Targeting category. The selection was made by ad:tech judges after reviewing several other companies in the same category. A BIG congratulations to our fellow nominee’s as well!
“We created the ad:tech Startup Spotlight Series and the Innovation Award because startups are driving so much of the growth and innovation in digital marketing today,” said Tameka Kee, Content Director, ad:tech. “In April, ad:tech attendees will get… Continue reading
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adtech, advertising, conference, images, innovation spotlight, startup, technology
Bringing the Sights and Sounds of Events to Life Through Images
Published February 27, 2012From the red carpet to the acceptance speeches, photos with Stipple tags make the sights and sounds of events come to life. Through exploration photos taken at the event, viewers can create a personal experience and will make personal connections to event happenings. To illustrate this effect, let’s see how the 2012 Oscars could be covered with the use of Stippled images:
On Sunday February 26th, Tinsel Town’s elite came together to celebrate the 2012 Academy Awards. The atmosphere was electric as scores of celebrities donned some of the world’s finest suits and gowns to recognize the work of film makers in 2011.
The red carpet did not disappoint as it was set ablaze with of the finest fashion in the world. Pictured below are… Continue reading
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Stipple Code is Unobtrusive to Sites It Runs On
Published February 21, 2012Installing Stipple on your website is not only easy, it’s very safe. As a federated platform, it is crucial for the Stipple code to play nicely with all manner of website architectures, disparate page structures and various third-party plugins and libraries. This post describes one of the strategies Stipple uses to stay unobtrusive and avoid any unintended effects on your site’s user experience.
Asynchronous Loading When a user visits a Stippled website, the first thing that must occur before any dots are displayed is the Stipple code itself must be loaded and initialized. As an embeddable javascript library, Stipple can be loaded the same way any other javascript asset would be, by adding a script tag to the page:
XHTML <script type="text/javascript" src="http://stippleit.com/stipple.js"></script> 1… Continue readingPosted in Company, Engineering | async load, asynchronous loading, code, engineering, image tagging, javascript
Automated Machine Learning in Stippled Images
Published February 16, 2012There are many ways to attack a complex problem. A quick and dirty approach might yield something viable in a very short time frame but the solution might not look at all pretty. An empirical approach (say, making your decision of when to catch a bus today based upon when it actually visited your stop during the last three days) might require a bit more background work but can sometimes offer a more reliable, repeatable solution. A purely theoretical approach would be in stark contrast (say, trusting the bus schedule implicitly) and generally works best in an ideal world (also known to work well in Switzerland). For those of us living in the real world, the reason there are these and so many more approaches… Continue reading
Strengthening the Relationship between Image, Viewer and Content
Published February 13, 2012While its very true that people want to share, it’s even more true that they also want to be seen. We enjoy watching others in our social networks, we tell our stories knowing that they will be heard, seen and discussed. It’s almost as if we share to be seen. Stippling photographs is unique because it simultaneously creates a new type of relationship between us and our audience. The knowledge shared goes deeper and is different than regular social network sharing because the content creator is layering in multiple points of information to create a story specifically with their audience in mind. When you upload a picture, what do you hope others will see? What message do you want them to hear, learn and ultimately… Continue reading
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