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Welcome to your Blog!

To begin using your site, click Create a Post under Admin Links to the right. What is a Blog? A Blog is a site designed to help you share information. Blogs can be used as news sites, journals, diaries, team sites, and more. It is your place on the ... Read post
Michael Smith 05 February 2010, 1:38 PM

Olympic Error Handling and Fiddler as a Remote Proxy

As we're nearing the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, our team is busy testing failure and recovery scenarios. We want to ensure that even if something goes wrong in our video delivery stream, users will have as seamless an experience ... Read post
Bob Cowherd 15 January 2010, 6:01 PM

Additional Features Released for NBCOlympics.com Video Player Powered by Vertigo

Last month, our team at Vertigo announced the release of the NBCOlympics.com HD video player and Deep Zoom photo experience powered by Vertigo for NBC's coverage of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. These players are live today, and you can use them to ... Read post
Bob Cowherd 21 December 2009, 1:42 PM

Quick Tip: Radians vs. Degrees

You can build Surface applications using WPF or XNA. While the two are different from one another, once you get used to it, switching between WPF and XNA isn’t too bad. There is one thing that always trips me up though: when the manipulation ... Read post
Vertigo Surface 17 December 2009, 11:37 AM