Last year was a wonderful one for Alley. We accomplished a lot—so much so that we had to take a month or two to bring it all together for this post! Here are some of the highlights.
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Many of Alley’s publishing clients use Brightcove’s video platform with custom plugins to handle more complex ads and analytics functionality. Here’s how to fit it into a local development workflow.
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Late last year, Alley Interactive played a significant lead role in the development effort around the migration and re-launch of People.com. We’re excited to announce the launch of another project for this well-known media property: People’s flash briefing skill (voice application) for Amazon’s Alexa.
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After conversations with Hacks/Hackers founder (and Alley friend) Burt Herman, we jumped at the opportunity to redesign hackshackers.com and overhaul their global branding.
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The MIT Media Lab hosted journalists, technologists, librarians, academics, and even a former fake-news publisher to explore how tools ranging from cognitive science to ad tech can combat the influence of misinformation (unwittingly distributed false info) and disinformation (deliberately distributed false info).
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We’re avid travelers at Alley, and airline miles are a common topic of conversation in our company Slack. Because we’re on the go so often, we’re big fans of Brian Kelly and the team at The Points Guy.
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Alley Interactive partner and chief strategy officer Brad Campeau-Laurion recently spoke at LoopConf about Alley’s internal code review process. Brad explained how Alley’s company-wide code review mandate helps boost collaboration within the development team while also ensuring high standards and quality control for all projects.
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Alley’s product development team builds smart tools to fix common problems. So we created Simplechart, an open-source project that helps anyone edit and embed interactive charts within any CMS.
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Here at Alley, we’ve recently completed a six-month project to migrate from Redmine to JIRA for issue tracking and project management. Migrating hundreds of users, tens of thousands of issues, and hundreds of thousands of comments is a daunting task, but we managed it without disrupting our projects, clients, or day-to-day work.
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People is one of the best-known media properties in the world and People.com is the go-to destination for millions of readers interested in lifestyle content, human interest stories and celebrity news.
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In early September, Alley launched three sites for Digital First Media properties in Northern California, known collectively as the Bay Area News Group. The redesigned MercuryNews.com represents the long-standing paper of record covering the San Jose and South Bay area, while EastBayTimes.com and SiliconValley.com focus on the East Bay and the tech industry, respectively.
