July 2009 Entries

10,000 Supporters for IndonesiaUnite: A Twibbon Twibute

  IndonesiaUnite – Twibbon Twibute On Friday 17th July 2009, terrorists, presumed by authorities to be suicide bombers, launched co-ordinated attacks on two up-market hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital. Nine fatalities were confirmed, whilst at least fifty more people were reported injured in the atrocity. As a worldwide audience gradually learned of these events over the subsequent hours, many began to form part of an extraordinary online movement, which has grown exponentially since in a moving and powerful display of solidarity. By Sunday 19th July, just two days later, the IndonesiaUnite...

Twibbon.com goes live; Start Something Now!

                           Storm Ideas have launched an essential free Twitter application, Twibbon - the easiest and most powerful way to spread awareness about your cause. Twibbon was born out of Twitter’s transformation from a social...

Summer Cabinet 2009 – Social Mapping with Silverlight

It turns out that sexy Silverlight based maps are a bit like buses, you don’t see any for a while and then two come along at once! Regardless of lame metaphors regarding the frequency of public transport we’ve got another mapping application which has just gone live: Summer Cabinet Map 2009 Quick Video: While the DWQR Map we published earlier in the week was more about the presentation and dissemination of information – pretty much a one way flow - the Summer Cabinet Map is much more about trying to engage with a community...

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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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Storm Ideas has completed official branded Twibbon destinations for hit reality television shows, The X Factor and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. Following these successes, Storm Ideas has been commissioned to invigorate the social media drive for ITV’s Dancing On Ice.

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