February 2005

The Naming Game

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Following a recent announcement from WebSideStory, a company that does web analytics, which expressed that Firefox's adoption rate has slowed somewhat, there have been a rash of news articles on the topic. Basically, this company released stats that suggested that after the initial excitement …

Extend My Firefox Please

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This is an open call out there for a skilled (or not-so-skilled as I'm not so sure how complicated this is) Firefox extension programmer who'd be interested in doing the world some good.  •  I'd love to see a really simple Firefox extension that recognizes special link types and at the very least …

Flash in the Can

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I've just registered for the upcoming Flash in the Can conference here in Toronto in ealry April. It sounds like a great line-up. James Patterson of Presstube fame, Dave Shea from Mezzoblue, Michael Cina of We Work for Them, and Joshua Davis who does just about everything are just a few of this …

I've Been iTrippin'

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When I finally broke down and bought an iPod last fall, I bundled an iTrip with it sepcifically for road trips. Last week, I drove up to Ottawa in a rental car and had the first opportunity to really give my iTrip a decent trial.  •  The one thing I had really been concerned about was the lack of …

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Daniel Burka

My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm one of the founders of Milk Inc.. For several years I was the creative director at Digg and previous to Milk, I was the director of design at Tiny Speck. 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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