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Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

Major User Experience Improvements and Opera Support

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

It has been awhile since we sent out an update on our company and technology. Since getting accepted into the DreamIT Ventures program we have acquired new office space and two full-time employees. Greg Bright, one of the original founders, joins us full-time as the VP of Engineering ...

Vuzit featured in Metro

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Vuzit was featured with DreamIt Ventures on the second page of the Philadelphia Metro yesterday in an article by Solomon D. Leach. The photograph was taken while we were diligently working at the Manayunk Brewery around noon on Memorial Day. The online version of the article can be ...

Vuzit wins Most Innovative Product at “The Bennies”

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Our company, Hovitate, just won the Most Innovative Product award for Vuzit at the Ben Franklin Emerging Business Awards, also known as "The Bennies". Below is the article published yesterday in the Philadelphia Business Journal newspaper, and the online version can be found on the PBJ website. ...

DreamIt Ventures chooses Vuzit

Monday, April 28th, 2008

The number of blog posts may have slowed down over the past month or so but things have been moving very fast for the Vuzit team.  I have a few announcements that I'll be slowly leaking out over the next couple of days. To start things off we were chosen as ...

Major Imaging Update

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

We recently pushed out an update that improves the imaging back-end. Here are some notes about the update: Improved the image quality (drastically in many cases), so your documents will look better than ever. Reduced the image size by 50%, so your documents will load significantly faster. Processing time for initial ...

Vuzit MediaWiki Extension

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Evan Sultanik has written a simple extension for MediaWiki that allows you to display documents inside your MediaWiki instance! MediaWiki is the open source software behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia which claims 5% of all internet traffic. We are grateful for the time Evan spent developing and documenting ...

Embed documents on your website or blog

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Vuzit now has the capability to embed documents using a small snippet of HTML you can easily paste into your website or blog. It is built on our REST-based API so you can easily set the default zoom-level, page number, and even the X/Y position of the page ...

Linkit easily converts your document links to use Vuzit

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Switch your document links to the Vuzit online document viewer instead of the bloated alternatives, and your users will thank you. By including a small snippet of Javascript you can breathe new life into your document links. By default, a small icon will be displayed to the right of the ...

Let there be images!

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

We are letting document images roam freely. Our new developer tools include the ability to access an image of a particular page in 4 different resolutions including the thumbnails. These are enabled by the Document.getUrlImage() and Document.getUrlImageThumb() functions of the Javascript API. You can view our example as ...

Full screen viewer

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Many of our users asked for the ability to display Vuzit in a full screen landing page. We have added an example of this to our examples page which you can view as rendered html and code. It's worth noting that all of our examples are compliant with the ...