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Presenting CoverJunction - the place for Facebook Covers

CoverJunction is the place for creating, sharing and discovering the highest-quality Facebook Covers on the web - http://coverjunction.com Last month, Facebook announced some of the biggest changes to its site in its 7-year history, which may well fundamentally change the way that we all interact with the site. One of these changes was the launch of the brand new Facebook profile called “Timeline". The new profile allows you to highlight, share and curate your favourite events, photos and updates from your entire life. The result is a little something like this: At the very top of the new profile is a wide, prominent...

posted @ Tuesday, October 04, 2011 12:00 AM

TagViews: the New Facebook App for Massively Social Crowd-Tagging

TagViews is our brand new Facebook app that allows fans to tag themselves and their friends in high-res photographs taken at large-scale events and gigs. Combining Microsoft DeepZoom technology with TagView functionality, crowds of thousands of people can be easily navigated; allowing fans to tag themselves in massive crowd images in seconds. Our latest creation has already been snapped up by rock festival High Voltage, and Brit Award-winning boy band JLS, who have been using the app to engage fans during their UK-wide tour. With over 1.5 million people following the band via their Facebook fan page, TagViews has proved an instant hit...

posted @ Tuesday, August 02, 2011 12:00 AM

Storm Ideas scores a hole in one with Facebook apps for The Open Championship

We've teed off preparations for this year’s Open at Royal St George’s with the launch of two Facebook apps, specifically designed for The Open Championship. The oldest championship in professional golf, The Open may be entering its 151st year but is no stranger to the digital age with just as much buzz on Facebook as there is on the green. Our innovations for The R&A have seen the launch of two very different Facebook applications; both with the aim of increasing engagement with Facebook fans and enhancing overall brand awareness. The first application enables The R&A to run a variety...

posted @ Friday, July 08, 2011 5:22 PM | Feedback (0)

Scottish Government data visualised with Storm Ideas’ Interactive Silverlight Mapping Application

Storm Ideas has completed a rich interactive mapping application and web site for the Scottish Government, visualising a wealth of data for the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD). The web site comprises a careful balance of the latest advances in mapping technologies and optimised accessibility, engaging as wide an audience as possible with this data. The SIMD identifies concentrations of deprivation across Scotland. Indexing these areas allows effective targeting of policies and funding with the aim of focusing on concentrated areas. The mapping application incorporates a broad range of data indicators covering areas such as...

posted @ Friday, October 30, 2009 10:48 AM | Feedback (2)

Marc Andreessen on Charlie Rose

Excellent interview with Marc Andreessen (Founder: Netscape, Loudcloud, Ning, Investor: Plazes, Netvibes, Twitter, Board: Facebook, eBay) being interviewed on Charlie Rose. I love what he has to say about the lowering of production and infrastructure costs for web applications bringing a new wave of innovation. With colaab we’ve seen this first-hand. The tools available have enabled us to build an advanced RIA for collaboration, with a small passionate team. We’re running on Amazon Web Services which means that we only pay for usage and we can scale our infrastructure up and down dependant on demand. storm ideas was founded specifically to...

posted @ Monday, February 23, 2009 10:34 AM | Feedback (0)

11 Ways How colaab Got Real

37signals.com, the team behind popular project management site Basecamp, wrote an eBook a few years back about how they took an idea for an app and turned it into a thriving enterprise. Getting Real, describes the unconventional philosophies that propelled their company into the spotlight. When we began to develop colaab, we stumbled upon Getting Real while searching for ideas and inspiration for creating a killer web app. Backed up by their monumental success (they have over 1 million subscribers), they probably know what they’re talking about. Having studied it vigorously and applied most of its suggested techniques to the development of...

posted @ Monday, January 19, 2009 5:50 PM | Feedback (5)

Trimming Your Web App's Hedges... Effectively

Everyone’s application needs a good clean once in a while. When you’ve been building and implemented new code for a sustained period, there’s bound to be one or two bugs that need rinsing out. Spending a good couple of hours (or more or less depending on the size of your app) sweeping your product is a lot of time out of your day when you could be doing, let’s be honest, more exciting and creative activities. So you need it to be a productive session. And for every problem that you miss,...

posted @ Monday, January 12, 2009 5:50 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.

Get in touch hello@stormideas.com
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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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