Over the past few months I’ve been picking away at planning an upcoming week to ten day backcountry trip to the Lewis Hills area of Newfoundland. I’m planning to go in mid summer. Part of the planning process involves getting my hands on some topographic maps of the area. I was hoping to get …

If you have ever had to write a business plan you will remember the part where you need to do a competitor analysis. Who are your competitors? What are their weaknesses and strengths? And so on and so forth. Over the past few days I have been thinking about that question. Who are our competitors …

If you’ve been hanging around the Internet for the past few months then by no doubt you have heard of the new web browser that is taking the world by storm. Firefox, the Mozilla Foundation’s alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, has been gaining momentum in the last few weeks before it’s …

Today Jason Kottke posted a quick one paragrapher on the Web 2.0 conference. A line from the post struck me as quite intriguing:  •  “  •  “The sheer amount of supposed novelty being blasted at the audience is exhausting…everything is changing the world in a significant way.””  •  When I sat back …

Today Steven, Peter, and I sat a microphone on our lunch table. The end result was what you'd expect. It sounds like we just put a microphone on our lunch table. You can hear the pan flute in the background, the food on the table, and us ordering our lunch. Thankfully our chewing was not loud …

Today the Nielsen Norman Group released the winners and accompanying report for their latest intranet design competition. We’re glad to say that the report, the Ten Best Government and Public Sector Intranet Designs, features a silverorange designed and built intranet.  •  The winning intranet …

silverorange has just launched a new side project called stuff.silverorange.com.  •  From the about page:  •  ““The silverorange stuff website is a collection of product reviews by the people of silverorange.””  •  I’ve posted a few reviews. This is going to be a great side project. We’re having a …

Over the past few months we’ve been working with Hampshire Pewter to redevelop their website. Yesterday the new site went live. Hampshire Pewter is located in the quaint Rockwell-esque New Hampshire town of Wolfeboro. They’ve been making beautiful pewter pieces for years upon years. On top of …

Steven, fellow silverorange slice, and his crack team of designers have unleased the new artwork for Thunderbird, the Mozilla Email Application.  •  In my opinion, and I am somewhat biased, this is some fantastic work. The amazing part is the process. Because the team working on the branding and …