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Oct13Web App ‘n’ Widget Frenzy

It has most definately been a busy ole month in the development department here at OC Vision.

We’re currently working on an Equine Insurance Web-App which is due to launch in November, just finished an OS X widget for Mike Golding Yacht Racing, another 2 widgets in the pipeline and a Web App for Puma Ocean Racing just launched!

We’re very pleased with http://media.pumaoceanracing.com - our latest web-app to hit the interweb! It is simply bursting with exciting technologies such as ‘Distributed Storage’ (from the great guys at Amazon S3), Video Streaming and Live Conversion technologies from the guys over at SesameVault (http://www.sesamevault.com) and all built on a Ruby on Rails Platform.

The site is a media portal for the Puma Sponsored ‘Il Mostro’ Volvo 70 currently taking part in the Volvo Ocean Race which started last weekend. It allows registered users to log in and retrieve hi-res images as well as video in multiple formats during the race.

All processing is done behind the scenes, with the media team simply uploading single image and the system takes the image, extracts IPTC/EXIF data, creates mid-res and thumbnail images and uploads it to S3 for distributed storage.

As for video, Quicktime files are uploaded using FTP and then using the secure admin panel, videos are processed and converted into MP4, Flash, 3GP and Ogg Vorbis.

Oct01Here comes the winter madness…

If you are in any way interested in Sailing / Adventure, then welcome to silly season. A bumper winter of crazy boats, teams and solo adventurers about to take to the seas and head off around the world.

Here at OC Vision we have a legacy of excellent sailing websites, working with Ellen MacArthur, Team ABN AMRO and other solo and crewed adventures.

This winter the two big ones, The Vendée Globe (Solo, non-stop) and the Volvo Ocean Race (crewed, with stops) set off from European ports on their world tours.
And for us that means a bumper set of site launches and new projects.

First to depart, and the focus of this post, is the Volvo Ocean Race, and that means this month we have been launching new sites for the three teams we are proud to be working for.

Our full website launches are www.teamrussia.org and www.greendragonracing.com. Both sites are designed and built by OC Vision, using Expression Engine as their fully featured Content Management / Member Management Systems.

Building on the experience of working with TEAM ABN AMRO in the last race assisting in their media management and distribution, our new site launch for PUMA OCEAN RACING is a custom coded (check back to this blog for the ‘How web built’ article coming soon!) site that manages Video and Image content, allowing hi res media to be downloaded by press and employees.

The VOLVO OCEAN RACE kicks off in Alicante, Spain this weekend.

We’ll be posting about our Vendée Globe team sites in the coming weeeks….

Oct01Go on, Brighten it up…

Last week saw the release of another new OC Vision designed, built and hosted site for DIY giant B&Q.

Following our successful work on B&Q’s Olympic team sponsorship (www.teambandq.com), we were asked to put forward our proposal for the microsite to accompany their forthcoming winter PR campaign.

The resulting website (I don’t think a site this big can still be called a microsite!) features downloadable how-to style guides, interactive discussions and event a chance to submit somewhere for a free B&Q makeover.

Featured celebrity Zoe Ball adds her thoughts on brightening-up on a budget, and will soon be showing us what she did with few quid and trip to B&Q.

Check out the site at www.diy.com/brightenupbritain

Sep29YoDiv: FOWA - Vote for your favourite web apps.

Next week it’s Future of Web Apps London (a great event from the team at Carsonified) and in order to jump on the band wagon celebrate the occasion we want to you to vote for your favourite web apps.

Jump over to the great little Twitter app - DivVoted.com - and follow the simple instructions to vote for your favourite most loved Web Applications. Vote every day and check back here where we’ll be blogging about more YoDiv and DivVoted related FOWA greatness as the event approaches.

Aug19Gold medal for Ben Ainslie

Ben Ainslie has gone on to win his third Olympic Gold Medal - securing him a place in history as one of Britain’s most successful sailors. Check out his performance at Qingdao at Ben’s website http://benainslie.com

Well Done Ben from all at OC Vision!

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