September 2008 Entries

Make $$$s with Silverlight, DeepZoom and Affiliates

Apologies for the get rich quick style headline, but it’s what the people click on! Here’s a description of an idea on how to make some cash using Silverlight, DeepZoom and affiliate programmes. Additional Notes: You can host the applications for free on Silverlight Streaming services (up to 10GB) this will save on bandwidth costs

posted @ Sunday, September 21, 2008 4:28 PM | Feedback (0)

I Hate Parking Tickets

Thinking of putting any ideas for systems I have online as video’s – the first thing that sprang to mind was a hatred of parking tickets! Technorati Tags: ideas,stormideas

posted @ Sunday, September 21, 2008 2:34 PM | Feedback (2)

DropBox presentation from TechCrunch50

http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/presenter.php?presenter=77 I was surprised that in the following Q and A no-one on the panel mentioned Live Mesh, which seems to offer the same functionality, more than double the free storage and the fact that your data is stored on Microsoft servers rather than a start-ups. Wonder whether this comes down to anti-Microsoft bias or simply lack of awareness for Live Mesh in and around the start-up community? Technorati Tags: mesh,live mesh,microsoft,dropbox,startups

posted @ Sunday, September 21, 2008 1:22 PM | Feedback (0)

Getting Silverlight to work in Google Chrome

Google Chrome was a no no for me due to it’s lack of Silverlight support, but with the latest builds it seems to be much improved. So much so that I was using it as one of my browsers when demoing colaab lately. There’s a few hoops to jump through to get the latest build: Goto: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel And download the: Google Chrome Channel Chooser Run this and you get the following dialog: Select the second option and click “Update”. Next open Chrome, click on the spanner icon: And...

posted @ Sunday, September 21, 2008 11:41 AM | Feedback (3)

That would have been REMIX08 then wouldn’t it

Got back into Edinburgh late Friday night from a couple of excellent days in Brighton for Microsoft REMIX08, here’s some notes and thoughts on some of the sessions I saw there. Keynote – Bill Buxton, Scott Guthrie Bill Buxton kicked off the keynote discussing the importance of design. He went on to suggest that in many cases in the software industry design was added as an afterthought in the process rather than being an equal component right from the start. Had to laugh when he showed an image of a lipstick alongside an image of a pig. “Putting...

posted @ Saturday, September 20, 2008 11:50 PM | Feedback (0)

Heading to REMIX08, Brighton

I've been working on our first web app for several months now, which was inspired by playing with the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha bits released around 18 months ago. As soon as I starred coding Silverlight in C# I was totally sold. Closely following the progress of Silverlight from the 1.1 Alpha through to v2 Beta 2 we started development of colaab around 6 months ago, starting from scratch with the Beta 1 release. As such It's exciting to find it getting to a stage where it can be begin to be exposed publicly. Over the coming weeks I'm keen to...

posted @ Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:42 AM | Feedback (0)

New Platforms - Big Opportunity

I had (what felt like) a bit of an epiphany this morning regarding this. Thought I'd get it down while it was still running hot. Background In recent years we've seen the emergence of various new application platforms – in particular I was thinking about the Facebook Developer Platform and the iPhone AppStore from Apple. In both of these cases we've seen small, new or unknown companies able to get in and make significant returns with relatively simple applications. One of the reasons behind this is that you tend to have an existing large audience (Facebook users, iPhone owners) in an environment where...

posted @ Monday, September 15, 2008 7:14 PM | Feedback (0)

Silverlight hits its stride. Is Microsoft starting to ‘get’ the web?

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten." Bill Gates. When developing applications for the web there comes a point when you start to push at the boundaries of its base technologies. HTML was designed to present hypertext documents, with its initial incarnations not even supporting the display of images. With the rise of broadband driving the demand for richer experience, over time we've managed to push the HTML + JavaScript paradigm to extraordinary lengths. We tried to ditch the page refresh,...

posted @ Monday, September 15, 2008 6:58 PM | Feedback (0)

About storm ideas

storm ideas ltd, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, was formed in April 2008 with the purpose of building web applications that allow communities, networks and businesses to connect and collaborate.

In this vein, we are passionate about the viral framework of social media and the opportunities networking sites represent to connect web-users from across a socio-geographic spectrum.

Equally, we are inspired by Microsoft Silverlight as an enabler for creating richer applications within the browser and, with this in mind, we look to create systems that provide new ways of understanding and interacting with information.

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