August 2004

Domed Stamps

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This news is a few months old but certainly worth mentioning. The US Postal Service has released a commemorative stamp in honour of the brain behind the weirdly fascinating geodesic dome: inventor Buckminster Fuller. This has to be one of the finest concepts for a commemorative stamp I've seen …

Mozilla Website Beta

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As Steven announced earlier today, we've just launched a beta redesign of the Mozilla website. We're looking for debugging help and feedback from everyone before we launch the new design.  •  As some people have kindly noted, the front page content of the beta site has not yet been updated. This …

Right Back at You

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Alright, after quite the soap opera that involved half-finished repairs, broken promises, and one fired superintendant, I've moved into my new place. It feels good to have a homebase again.  •  Much has happened in the past month. Friend and fellow silveroranger Steven Garrity has gotten engaged … read more »

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Daniel Burka

My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm the director of design with a startup called Tiny Speck and for several years I was the creative director at Digg. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

Currently, I'm the director of design at a small gaming startup called Tiny Speck. Until October 2009, I was the creative director at Digg. I was also one of the co-founders of the social content-sharing site Pownce, which is now a part (heh heh) of Six Apart. Back in 1999, I helped found silverorange, a stellar web development and design firm based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I continue to work with silverorange, but as an inactive partner.

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I'm not currently looking for any kind of work and sometimes I take a long time to respond to email, but if you'd like to contact me please send an email to daniel [at] deltatangobravo [dot] com

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I tweet when the mood strikes at Twitter

I sometimes review products on Silverorange Stuff

I sell my amateur photography on Clustershot

I post some of my personal photos on Flickr

I used to contribute on the Digg Weblog

I connect with people I actually know in the real world on Facebook

This Blog

The technology that powers this blog was built by silverorange on their Swat open-source web application toolkit. I'm no longer working on day-to-day projects at silverorange, but they're available for hire if you're looking for top-notch interface design or web application development.

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