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Kyte.tv Mobile Content

By Nathan Lubeck | October 21st, 2008
A few months back I contacted Tesa from Kyte.com to find a way for volunteers during the KCRW pledge drive to interact with listeners. We setup a webcam streaming volunteer comments via branded Kyte player and received around 150,000 player hits in a week. Since then the station purchased Nokia N95 8gig phones to hand [...]
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Guest DJ Art

By Nathan Lubeck | October 17th, 2008
The Guest DJ Art I designed was featured on NBC.com. Check out the audio sets at the KCRW guest DJ Page (including Conan O’Brien, John Favreau, Danny DeVito, etc) — The “mic” branding at top I designed early this year.
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KCRW Media Player featured on Adobe

By Nathan Lubeck | October 17th, 2008
The Flash based media player we at KCRW and Digitaria worked so hard on was featured today in Adobe’s Customer Showcase as the “Site of the Day” Previously mentioned in Wired and given a Webby honorable mention. The player serves up on-demand and live video through a CDN network. Ads and pre-rolls are served through Castfire.
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E-Commerce Solutions

By Nathan Lubeck | October 16th, 2008
I’m sometimes asked by clients: whats the easiest most accessible ecommerce solution out there? The answer usually depends on budget, who they have to manage the online store (if anyone), and their product line. For more customized self-hosted solutions I tend to go with Zen Cart. Its open source, there’s a ton of plugins, and an [...]
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Wordpress

By Nathan Lubeck | October 15th, 2008
While researching the migration of all the KCRW blogs from Vox to a local install of Wordpress, I figured it would be a great idea to create my own blog.  =) Part of a larger SEO strategy for KCRW, I’m looking into moving our Vox hosted Left Right and Center, KCRW Music News, Good Food, etc. [...]
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