June 2004

Civilizations are Crumbling

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It's been a depressing couple of weeks for me in a literary way. I've just finished reading Asimov's Foundation and HG Well's The Time Machine and I've just begun Jane Jacob's Dark Age Ahead. I started each book entirely without consciously choosing a common theme and I ended up reading three … read more »

Mozilla Store Launched

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I'll try to not get into the habit of posting on my weblog everytime silverorange launches a new site, but this one seems special. On Sunday night, the new Mozilla Store went live and we're pretty excited.  •  We designed this site from the ground up, including the front-end interface and a …

Throw a Disc for Charity

For the second year in a row, silverorange is organizing a frisbee golf tournament for charity! This year, our pals at GoodBasic are co-sponsoring the event and we appreciate their help.  •  The tournament is happening on July 10 at Strathgartney Provincial Park and is open to anyone. You honestly …

Itchy Feet Syndrome

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A lot of people who know me might know this already, but I'm moving to Toronto in August. Mostly a case of itchy feet syndrome. I've visited Toronto on many occasions and I have family there, so I'm really looking forward to living in the city for a while.  •  From Toronto, I'll still be working …

Favourite Favicons: Four

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I just keep on coming across stellar examples of favicons, so I'll keep adding to the original collection. Again, suggestions are always welcome.  •  I've decided to stay fairly strict with limiting anti-aliased favicons but Jason Santa Maria's makes the grade. Also, check out the accounting firm …

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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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