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Social commerce combines the persuasive power of social media and e-commerce to deliver immersive shopping experiences. Recent research predicts that, by 2028, the global market size for social commerce will have grown by 28.4% to US$3,370 billion, with China being the current forerunner. Interactive shoppable videos, an important…

The year was 1994. South Africa held its first fully representative democratic election, Netscape Navigator became the first commercially successful web browser. Coconuts Japan re-released EA Sports’ MLBPA Baseball video game under the perhaps surprising title Fighting Baseball. Unlike MLBPA Baseball, which was licensed by the Major League Baseball (MLB),…

Introduction As media content consumption increases, the needs and wants of the consumers increase as well. This is not due to entitlement but rather the diverse nature of our society. Multiple languages being used across multiple countries creates a need for us to be able to have dynamic audio tracks…

Introduction Accessibility is important now more than ever, especially for content-heavy platforms. In this tutorial, we learn how to automatically generate transcripts for our videos using Google’s Speech-To-Text API. Codesandbox The final project can be viewed on Codesandbox. For demo purposes, you can transcribe this video You can…

Introduction An aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of an image’s width to its height. It is commonly two numbers separated by a colon such as 16:9. As we increasingly have different devices being created some with varying display sizes and viewing angles, aspect ratios help us create…

Today we have different devices with different sizes and orientations, and sending images that have been designed to look good on larger screens to users with considerably smaller low-resolution screens isn’t suitable for performance. It can also create a poor user experience. In this jam, we’ll learn how to use…

What if there was a way to learn programming and different technologies through an interactive gamified experience that eggs them on to learn more through point gains? What if you can earn custom items to equip your avatar while you are exploring a ship with fun and engaging tasks to…

Introduction The Jamstack Conference 2021, is right around the corner. Those who wish to attend the virtual conference can generate an amazing-looking badge on the website. I thought that this was super cool and wanted to make an attempt at it using Cloudinary’s chained transformations and…

Introduction We’re all familiar with how Youtube places Ads in videos with a Skip Ad button. In this tutorial, we shall be looking at how we can implement this in our own way using just Cloudinary for storage and Next.js Codesandbox The completed project is available on…