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The modern world of mobile applications and dynamic websites is incredibly rich with images. Major online newspapers are overhauling their UI design with wall to wall photographs. Social network feeds are chock-full of shared pictures, and eCommerce solutions are constantly improving their viewing widgets with additional product images. As end-users,…

Website owners and application developers know that analytics and usage monitoring tools play a major role in growing their products and making them effective, and highly tuned to their customers needs. We all use Google Analytics (or similar tools) to check how our visitors use our site, the path they…

One of the hardest optimization goals when showing images to your website (and mobile application’s) visitors, is to minimize the image file size while maintaining high enough display quality. Smaller image file sizes directly translate to faster load times, reduced bandwidth costs and improved user browsing experience. But small file…

As tradition goes, we are happy to present Cloudinary’s “10 Startup companies that manage their images in the cloud” – Part 3. (previous parts: Part 1, Part 2). As Cloudinary continues to grow, so do the features and capabilities we offer. This allows for…

Online advertising is one of the most popular tools to drive traffic to your website and mobile application in a consistent and cost-effective manner. Online text ads play a very big role in this strategy. Building an effective ad campaign usually involves the write-up of different textual content to perfectly…

Modern image compression techniques have had a large impact on our lifestyle. Digital cameras can save thousands of high-quality photos on a single memory card, smartphones can quickly share high resolution images on the fly, and websites and mobile apps can show rich media quickly. All of this just couldn’t…

Two decades ago websites had such a simple usage flow. Web servers returned complete HTML pages and each user action required that a new HTML page be reloaded from the server. Later on Ajax joined the game allowing dynamic updating of specific web page fragments via simple Javascript requests to…

Do you like to show your photos exactly as they were taken or do you usually tweak them a little to get that extra punch? Just a few years ago, almost all photos were displayed and shared as-is. Image transformations and improvements were left to the Photoshop experts. Then came the…

Fashion outlets have evolved dramatically in the last decade. In the past, if you wanted to be on top of the latest fashion trends, you had to subscribe to all the latest magazines and every month wait for the mailman to drop them off. If you wanted to remember a…