December 2011
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Customer's success stories
Our very own @steffentchr was one of the speakers at this conference a few weeks ago. A conference focusing on social media in e-commerce, hosted by Social Semantic. Steffen presented a good variety of our customer’s success stories on using video for e-commerce. This stretches from Poul Stig who use other social media to make the most of their videosite, to Unisport who have created their...
November 2011
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Move your feet
As a relatively new member of the 23 family I quite often happen to come across inspiring videos. I’m talking about cases that challenge the communication for and even trigger interaction with the audience. A recent example is Novo Nordisk.
November 14th was this year’s FNs World Diabetes Day and in to generate awareness Novo Nordisk made a video that engaged employees around the world. Their...
March 2011
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Lifting 23 Video to new heights
Today, we are bringing 23 Video an across-the-board lift with The Lift Release. The release is dedicated to our customer, The Lift Conference, as they are launching their brand-new videosite with all these new features.
We are lifting up the user experience and your page rankings through sections; video quality is being boosted to Full HD; and 23 Video now comes with support for Apple Airplay,...
February 2011
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23 Today: Getting ready for workshops
We’re getting ready to invite about 150 people to workshops about video communication in organizations over the next few day. It’s a great occasion to welcome people to our new offices for the first time — but also requires a bit of preparation.
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23 Video goes deep into IKEA country to visit new...
http://reinvent.23video.com/video/1074784/hello-clarice
The benefit of being a startup located in the Nordics is that we get to travel around Europe and occasionally drop-in to some of our good friends and partners along the way. This time I was traveling around IKEA country, Karlstad (Sweden) being my destination, to visit our relatively new partners and gracious hosts - Hello Clarice.
Hello...
December 2010
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23 Developers Training Programme
One of the biggest challenges in running an ever evolving platform is keeping integrators up to speed with the possibilites they have at hand. Therefore we’ve recently started the 23 Developers Training Programme where our partners’ developers can recieve a thorough introduction into the realms of the platform.
At a recent developer training session we created an extensive slide deck...
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TEDxCopenhagen - long live the long tail
The second TEDxCopenhagen took place in central Copenhagen on Tuesday. Great speakers, a great venue and 350 participants with high expectations where in place.
As keen supporters of the TEDx project, 23 Video were on site to help live stream the event and publish the talks on the TEDxCopenhagen videosite.
The live stream almost doubled the number of “participants” at the event - adding a...
October 2010
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[dk] 23 Video oktober update og "The Everywhere...
En lille update på hvordan det går hos 23.
180 VIDEOSITES, 12+ MÅNEDER
Det er nu lidt mere end 12 måneder siden at vi lancerede 23 Video i Danmark. Modtagelsen har været overvældende og vi kan nu løfte sløret for at mere end 180 videosites kører på 23 Video. Fra startups, medievirksomheder, nonprofits til globale koncerner. Fra videosektioner på organisationers hjemmesider, dedikerede...
September 2010
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Kilroy helps students visualize their travel...
Kilroy has recently joined the bandwagon of companies using online video to connect with their customers. With their newly launched video microsite, Kilroy aims to be the inspiration source for youth to travel and explore the world.
“A couple of years back, our main focus was to display products and prices on our website, but after some research, we found out that people were more interested in...
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COWI shares their stories using video
A couple of months ago COWI decided to redesign their website as part of their marketing strategy. The idea was to update the design to match COWI’s identity today, and also reorganize their content.
One of the goals of the redesign was to make COWI’s site more engaging by including interactive media, and therefore, the use of online video became an obvious choice.
Tina Lybæk, Multimedia...
August 2010
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23 Video with .NET API and SharePoint
We’re releasing two new pieces of software today — a .NET library for the developers using the API behind 23 Video, and a Microsoft SharePoint web part that lets you control access to a 23 Video site directly through SharePoint.
23 API library for .NET
The 23 API is designed to be used with pretty much any programming language out there, and up until now we’ve only included a...
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Join our birthday party!
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19TH, 3PM · ESROMGADE 15, RAMPEN
On Thursday we are celebrating our 5th birthday and we would love to party with you!
Its been 5 years since we launched 23 Photo Sharing in front of a small crowd in Copenhagen, and a lot has happened for 23 after that.
As if this wasn’t enough, we have also welcomed 5 new people to Team 23 this month, and we’ve moved in to...
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23 lunch
more photos from steffen
June 2010
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oEmbed in 23 Video and 23 Photo Sharing
Quite a while ago we added support for oEmbed in both 23 Video and 23 Photo Sharing. This makes it easy to turn a URL from either service into a piece of HTML which is can be embedded into a web site or a blog. For example, this makes it easy to embed video into a WordPress blog post by simply pasting a link to a video into your editor.
I won’t dig too deeply into the technical stuff since...
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Act Visually — an online inspiration catalogue
On June 3, at Videoday, we launched the redesign of www.23video.com and we have been really happy about how it turned out. However, that is not the only website we launched.
Since we introduced 23 Video a year ago, we have helped launch more than 130 sites and that number keeps growing. We believe that over 90% off all video sites launched in Denmark in that period are running 23 Video, and we...
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Did you notice?
You probably didn’t notice this, but in the mad rush to get VideoDay up and running last Thursday we also managed to relaunch the 23 Video product site and our company web site with a new design and a some nice new information.
First, the 23video.com has been upgraded with much more information about the platform’s features, about our many wonderful partners and some of the best...
May 2010
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WebM, VP8 and 23 Video
The future of video on the internet changed yesterday when Google launched The WebM Project and open sourced the VP8 codec. Effectively this puts us on a trajectory where broad support for browser-native video (usually called HTML5 video, which is a terrible term) will be a reality in about 6-9 months. That is huge.
For the geeks in the audience, Robert Nyman has a nice recap of the current...
April 2010
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Videoday - Bringing the online video community...
Businesses and organizations are embracing online video like never before, but untill now there hasn’t been a place for people to come together and share ideas and learn from each other. So in 23 we’ve decided its time to gather all the people in Denmark, who are working with or have an interest in online video to a day filled with inspiring cases and conversations.
Videoday is...
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But how am I going to embed HTML5 video?
We’re just back from a nice week in Berlin where we visited the re:publica conference and met with nice people. We shot a bit a video (with berliner backgrounds) showcasing some of the geeky stuff we’re working on for 23 Video. Here I am talking about some of the challenges of purely browser-based video playback (and of course, how we’ll solve that in an awesome and timely...
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Dull and unflashy video
Mark said it on Friday: We absolutely adore HTML5, and the prospect of delivering great-quality, speedy video directly in your browser without using Flash has us thinking unpure thoughts here at 23. (There are plenty of reasons why we’re not quite there yet. I won’t dive into the details, but if you want me to drag you in to that vortex, just ask…)
We’ve actually used HTML...
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We ♥ HTML5
You can already make your 23 Video site run on iPhone, Android and a whole bunch of other mobile phones that support H.264 encoded video, but we’ve just got our hands on a rather promising device…
We present to you: Obligatory Blurry Pic Of Beta Service Running On Cool Hardware:
We don’t have a timeframe on when this will be wider available, but watch this space, and...
March 2010
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Normann-Copenhagen receives social media award
Congratulations to Normann-Copenhagen who was awarded for their use of social media last night at the Danish e-business award. We are of course very proud of the fact that the danish design company is using 23 Video as part of their online presence.
But 23 Video is only one of many platforms where you’ll be able to meet Normann-Copenhagen. I had a short chat with online sales & brand...
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Short update on SXSW
So, I’m sitting in Chicago O’Hare airport, trying to think about what has happened at SXSW the last few days.
SXSW is a web conference in Austin, Texas, and has bumped the number of attendants this year with 50% so now there is 15,000 people in the Convention Center. It is an amazing combination of thinkers, doers and makers with strong focus on interaction and development of all...
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Rock'n'Roll Videosite for Royal Beer
In less than two weeks more than 200 bands have entered the Royal Beer rock competition by uploading videos and music on RoyalBeer.tv. The campaign is crafted and designed by online agency Stupid Studio and features are beautifully integrated 23 Video solution. The agency were given free hands as to which platform to use as long as the final site could support a competition centered around...
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Comments and Facebook integration
A few days ago, we asked you to test the new comments section we’d been working on. Now, we’ve made about nine or ten extra tweaks based on the feedback and the new comments section is online on 23 Video. The upgrade includes better spam protection, it features buddy icons from Gravatar, it is faster — and (at least to our fingertips) it feels a lot better. And then there’s...
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3 Free Seminars - Get inspiration for your online...
We’re very happy to let you all know that our two partners, Plant and Eyeworks, has teamed up to create 3 inspirational seminars on how to get an online video project to take off.
The two agencies has several years of experience with online video projects and will share their experiences from a joint project they did for Novozymes. Novozymes will also be present to let you in on their...
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Tell us how our comments feel?
I’ve fallen into a bit of a black hole of development these past few days. Usually, we’re pretty focused on bringing you guys new features, but this week I’ve dedicated way too much time to make an existing 23 Video feature bet…. Well, I was going to say ‘better’, but let’s settle for ‘different’ for now.
I’ve never loved how comments...
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Sneakers for videos - hummel behind funky campaign...
The international sport fashion brand hummel recently launched Playstadil.com. Here they challenge their customers to compete with videos for sneakers and a spot in their international spring fashion campaign.
The campaign is a great example of the flexibility you get with 23 Video. First thing you’ll notice is the custom background and header, followed by the link colors. But it’s...
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Niche Videos Attracts Customers to Ecommerce Site
Video drives traffic, and more traffic increases the number of webstore checkouts. This is, in short, the idea behind the newly launched WebTV station from Scandinavias largest online soccer store Unisport.
The main content is a featured Unisport show with a charismatic host who explores new soccer equipment like boots and balls with enthusiasm, historical facts and a critical eye to details. A...
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Visual para-what?
I recently read an interview with the “punk rock mathematician”, Tom Henderson, and found myself thinking a lot more than I regularly do when reading articles about teachers.
His teaching methods are weird and crazy, but highly enjoyable for those who attend them. Usually, teaching methods described as “cool” and “hip” make me cringe and feel sorry for...
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23 in London und Hamburg
We’ve been on a road trip again and as last time, we were so busy we couldn’t write anything. Luckily, the iPhone camera is actually halfway decent if you process the images through Camerabag.
So here goes - a walkthrough of sightings from London and Hamburg:
At The Hospital Club:
Crazy elevator:
It rained a lot. But then again, what did we expect - it’s London:
And...
February 2010
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Service window tonight
We have a scheduled service window tonight between 12.30am and 1.30am for both 23 Video and 23 Photo Sharing due to some software upgrades. This will result in the web services becoming unavailable for a short while, but we expect a maximum of 10 minutes of total downtime.
Update: The maintenance was completed at about 12.50am (CET), and everything is back up after 9 minutes of downtime. We know...
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23 Video - The Olympic Release
If you’ve been following The Olympics you know that being very close counts for little, what matters is being The Best. The constant drive to improve even when it comes to details is what makes the professional athletes so inspiring.
We’ve taken that important lesson and applied it to 23 Video and in the spirit of the Danish Olympic Athletes in Vancouver we give you - 23 Video, The...
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Umbraco brings Corporate Video to another level
We’ve always known that our friends at Umbraco knew how to make a killer open source CMS. But their movie making and acting talents surely caught us by surprise. This is by far the most sophisticated corporate video production we’ve seen at 23. What a classy way to announce a new hire.
Can’t wait to follow the Father, the Earl and the Duke on their North American adventures in...
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Bootstrapping a 23 spotting
23 spotting is a sport we take very seriously here at 23, and sightings in the media have never be that hard to come by. We’ve seen the number both on the screen and in print. Over the past week there’s even been discussion about the meaning of 23 in relation to Shepard’s Psalm (which of course in the real reason for the naming of our company) in the Lost community.
More...
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Getting up close with the Danish athletes
A crashing snowscooter, tips on how to prepare your skis or skates, and the everyday troubles of parking a mini-van. The Danish athletes at the Olympics in Vancouver are using 23 Video to bring the audience closer to the games than ever before.
The athletes were already engaged in their preparations in different places around the world, when Team Danmark got the idea of having them videoblog, but...
January 2010
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Consuming media with your fingertips
Yes, the inevitable iPad post has hit the 23 blog.
Obviously we’re very excited about the iPad - not only because Apple introduced a new product (we are dedicated, naïve fanboys here at the office), but because the shape of the device itself is interesting for us. After it was introduced, our internal “digital watercooler” - Yammer - was red hot with posts from 23-employees...
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23's bezoek aan Amsterdam
Last week, part of the 23 team were in Amsterdam to touch base on the local scene and get to know a bit more about the lovely Dutch people’s opinion on video. It was a nice trip that took us all around the city, and we got to meet up with people from the web business as well as government and public service. Hopefully we’ll soon be able to show you some more tangible outcome from the...
December 2009
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Roadie after the 23 Christmas party
This is one of my favorite photos of the year. Taken by andjohan of mr. Moltke after our joint Christmas party with our friends from Socialsquare.
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Upload photos by drag and drop
At 23 we’re always excited to see new features being made available to web users, and luckily the developers of Firefox, Safari and Chrome all seem to be pulling in the same direction. The most recent beta version of Firefox includes support for file drag-and-drop, and we thought we’d give you a preview of how this would work for uploading photos to 23.
So, if you’re using...
June 2009
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Face recognition on 23!
Our good friends from Polar Rose launched support for 23 yesterday — and today we’re very excited to announce face recognition on 23: We’ll now be making it very easy to find and name people in your photos on the site.
First, what Polar Rose does is both very simple and very tricky: They look through your photos − you can select if you want this to be only your public photos −...
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Maria and her new camera
March 2009
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23 is running on new servers
If you didn’t have the pleasure of following the 23 server team on Twitter over the past hours, here’s the short version: 23 was offline for a few hours while we moved to brand-new hardware. Everything went pretty smoothly and we’re hoping this will make for a faster, more stable and just plain better 23.
Thank you for your patience over the past few hours.
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Service window on Sunday
We’ve been preparing to upgrade 23 to entirely new hardware for quite a while. Back in the summer of 2008 we took the first step towards this by moving the current server park to Denmark. Over the fall we’ve been assembling bits and pieces of the new set-up, and in November we took Visualblog live on the new hardware.
Finally, the time has come for 23!
The consequence is that...
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Twittering with 23
This weekend we released some new features on 23, the biggest of which (literally) concerned the design of the photo pages. The other notabvle improvement in the go-around, however, was Twitter and microblog integration. You’ll find the control panel for these features under Options -> Status Updates. Using this panel you can connect to Twitter or to Ping.fm.
Now, here’s a short...
February 2009
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Large!
A little under two months ago we posted a lundry list of features we wanted to implement for a February Release of 23. And with more than five hours to spare, those features are now available on 23, The Large Edition.
Larger photos: The most notable new feature is the photo page which now sports more photo and less navigation. Large is great when you’re shooting hearts, beaches, fields,...
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Unresponsive system
Some of our servers have gone offline — and 23 is unreachable. We’re working to solve the problem as fast as possible.
Update: The system is online again. Downtime was about 45 minutes.
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23 schwag for 23 people
We’re suprised about how much attention the schwag post got. Funnily enough we quickly hit 23 emails. The email stream stagnated on 23 (coincidence?)… but then came more waves. Thanks.
As steffen commented we ordered more sticker in various sizes, for you guys. But when we recieved the stickers last week, the color was pale in comparison with the actual 23 logo color (#5D9C4B) and...
January 2009
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23 schwag?
We’re a bootstrapped company and this is probably why you’re not seeing too much 23 schwag in the wild. No 23 caps, no 23 pens, no 23 mouse mats (we’ve got our name on pretty much every street in the world though)
We do have a few shirts and a few stickers laying around to share with y’all. So: the first twenty 23 people to write team@23visual.com with the subject...
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Plans for The February Release
We’re going to try something new for the next set of changes to 23: Listing all the changes we’re planning to make beforehand and see if we manage to complete the list, and if we do so on time.
This is what we’ve got our minds set on:
Much larger photos on the photo one page. An example of this can already be seen on Guan’s account — but it’ll look slightly...