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Silverlight Will Raise the Bar

written by Dave Merwin
Thursday, May 3, 2007

Perhaps you have heard the buzz surrounding Silverlight.

To get a snapshot with some links, read “Silverlight - a welcome surprise from Microsoft

Dave is a Second Life newbie

written by Dave Merwin
Thursday, January 11, 2007

For those of you who do not know, Second Life is a paid online community taking place in a completely interactive virtual world. What a fascinating place. A completely virtual world with out constraints like death or physics, disease or a personal history. My head is spinning with what this new world represents. What it will mean to sociology? What will it mean to corporate responsibility?

Dashboard Widget Design

written by stephen.h
Monday, July 11, 2005

If you don’t own a Macintosh then you might never have heard of a Dashboard Widget. If you do, you’ve probably already figured out that it’s one of the most talked about new features of Apple’s latest operating system, OS X Tiger.
What I find most intriguing is that Dashboard Widgets are a perfect way to […]

Dashboard - Bordering On Interware

written by stephen.h
Tuesday, May 3, 2005

There are many exciting new features about the newest release of OS X, Tiger. But what really caught my attention, and was pointed out by a good friend of mine, was how the widgets on the new Dashboard feature are being implemented.
Many of the widget’s core files are .HTML pages and Javascript. This means […]

Interware

written by stephen.h
Friday, April 29, 2005

There has been a lot of buzz in the air about the future of the internet. I previously touched on this in The Bleeding Edge. I thought it might be intriguing to dig deeper into the future of the internet and give you one idea that I think will pan out in the upcoming years.
The […]

The Bleeding Edge

written by stephen.h
Thursday, April 7, 2005

CSS and Web Standards have pretty much been beaten to death. As a result most websites are designed very similarly, in the typical blog style. Flash made a huge splash and fizzled. It was a phenomenal idea, many people have implemented it well, but for the local masses it became more time-consuming […]

You have to see these guys…

written by Dave Merwin
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

B L A N K | Design’s Heart and Soul
Great site, cool ideas. Check it out.