June 2007

Pownce!

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Leah, Kevin, Shawn and I finally have Pownce ready for a limited initial release! I won't go into a ton of detail about what we've created other  •  than to say I'm super excited about it and there's lots of info over on  •  the Pownce site.  •  We're very excited to get real people sending real …

Comes to Life Indeed

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My sister spotted this in an American Airlines in-flight magazine last night... mmmm....  •  “Enterprise Fish Company - Santa Monica and Santa Barbara. In an historic setting, the freshest fish is served. A stones [sic] throw from the water front [sic]. Patrons can watch and smell their meals come …

Tin Foil Chapeau

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An important new empirical scientific study finds that aluminum foil hats actually augment radio waves in a devious reversal of their wearer's intent.  •  “Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We …

Feel Free to Comment

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We just rolled out a new comments system today at Digg. Redesigning one of the busiest and most vibrant comments areas on the web is pretty intimidating. Every day quite a few thousands of people participate in the comments and many more read the comments even if they're not participating. Despite …

Rapha + Paul Smith

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I've always loved Rapha's swelligent wordmark. I was just going back to their site today to get a little inspiration for a little side project I'm working on and maybe to tempt myself to actually order something. Then I came across this absolutely gorgeous jersey Rapha has created with Paul Smith …

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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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