Hot Studio Debuts on Broadway

Eric Grant
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…520 Broadway, that is.

Our New York office has moved to a bigger space in the heart of Soho – on the corner of Spring and Broadway. We’re seven floors above Balthazar, steps away from the original Dean & DeLuca and across the street from Baked by Melissa’s famous mini stuffed cupcakes. If you’re in the neighborhood, be sure to stop by and say hello.

Changing the Game for Magazine Publishers

Rajan Dev
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The iPad’s recent debut has stirred an incredible amount of buzz in the publishing world. Here’s a device that could serve as a catalyst for an entire industry, especially for magazine publishers. Hot was fortunate enough to work with Zinio in designing and creating their free iPad app, which…

S.F. Biz Times: Zinio’s Future Is Now

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The San Francisco Business Times has a nice write-up on Zinio, whom we partnered with on developing their iPad app.

In a nutshell, the article by Patrick Hoge points out the iPad (and similar tablet devices in the offing) are the hardware Zinio needed to “show off…

HTML5 Video on the iPad – Overcoming Missing Events

Ken Hanson
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This is the second post in a series about how the Hot Studio engineering team tackled a set of interactive content modules for Zinio’s new iPad application.

In the previous post, I gave you a little bit of background – we were essentially creating an entirely new…

HTML5 Video on the iPad – 5 Essential Lessons

Ken Hanson
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I just got the amazing opportunity to attack a set of interactive content modules that Hot’s design team put together for Zinio’s new iPad application.

This is one of the first projects I’ve had as the Hot Studio Senior Design Engineer where I really flexed my muscles with all sorts of CSS and jQuery Voodoo. In the next three posts, I’ll give you a close-up, first person account of how Hot’s engineering team tackled the project and ultimately created an entirely new magazine experience.