Solarsilk Interactive http://solarsilk.com a digital production shop providing a full range of web development services Mon, 07 May 2012 01:05:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Solarsilk Celebrates 5 Years in Business http://solarsilk.com/2012/04/01/solarsilk-celebrates-5-years-in-business/ http://solarsilk.com/2012/04/01/solarsilk-celebrates-5-years-in-business/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:57:30 +0000 admin http://solarsilk.com/?p=1045

Solarsilk launched on April 1, 2007 and today we celebrate our 5 year anniversary. We’d like to thank all of our partners and clients who have made these past 5 years a great success!

Thanks to our partners
Agency.com
Agency 5-0
Arnold Worldwide
BBH
Calliope Studios
Digital Urbana
DraftFCB
Euro RSCG
FieldAndStream.com
Goodby Silverstein
Gotham
Heartbeat Digital
JCC Manhattan
JWT
LaunchPad
MGX Labs
Millennium Web
MTV Networks Digital Fusion
Parenting.com
Present Company
Profero
PSLA
Saatchi & Saatchi
Scholastic
Scripps Networks
Serious USA
SS+K
TBWA\Chiat\Day
Transistor Studios 		Thanks to our clients
Activision
Allstate
Ameriprise
AOL
Axe
British Airways
Bulldog New York
Carnival Cruiselines
CenturyLink
Chevrolet
Chris Webber Foundation
CIBA Vision / Novartis
Coach
Coke Zero
Conde Nast
ContextWeb
Elephant Post
Food Network
Fresca
Glaxo SmithKline
Hyundai
I Love New York
IMS Health
JC Penney
Kraft / Tassimo
Kraft / Mio
Lean Cuisine
LG Electronics
Mars Snackfoods / Combos
Microsoft
Miller High Life
Mohegan Sun Casino
Motorola
Olay
Ronzoni Pasta
Saks Fifth Avenue
Scholastic
Sears
Toyota Trucks
Tyra Banks
The Wall Street Journal
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Check it out and get in on the global fun!

]]> http://solarsilk.com/2012/03/27/caption-action-4-months-after-launch/feed/ 0 Solarsilk helps Mohegan Sun bring 360 degree camera system to the masses http://solarsilk.com/2012/03/19/solarsilk-helps-mohegan-sun-bring-360-degree-camera-system-to-the-masses/ http://solarsilk.com/2012/03/19/solarsilk-helps-mohegan-sun-bring-360-degree-camera-system-to-the-masses/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:21:11 +0000 admin http://solarsilk.com/?p=1007 Solarsilk had the opportunity to work on a unique project, encompassing many different web technologies: The Shine 360° at Mohegan Sun Casino.

A 360° camera system, created and implemented by Digital Air captures 48 still frames from all angles simultaneously, stitches the images into a video and delivers it to the system that Solarsilk developed.

Our system does a variety of things. It’s made up of 3 Mac computers: 1 admin machine and 2 user kiosk machines. Each new video is delivered from the Digital Air system to the admin machine which houses a database of videos, and acts as local web server for the 2 kiosks. The kiosk software, built in Flash, utilizes custom Firefox extensions as well as data connections to the admin machine in order to accept user info, display the latest videos, and post directly to Facebook and Twitter. The admin machine uploads all videos to the web page on MoheganSun.com that we developed, sends registration info to Mohegan Sun’s CRM systems, and displays an up-to-the-minute playlist of user videos on a 55″ LCD TV at the casino.

Check out the videos on MoheganSun.com that visitors to the casino have been creating.

Architecting our system was a complex and exciting challenge! Here are some behind-the-scenes pictures of the Shine 360° from start to finish.

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We’re excited to show off our iOS development skills. This app was built in Apple’s native programming language Objective-C, which enables the full capabilities of the device to be harnessed. Some 3rd party development tools that translate their code into Objective-C can’t produce clean, bug-free native code. We plunged into Objective-C to ensure we can tackle any app feature our clients can dream up. Check it out!

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It was an honor to work on such a meaningful project.

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Our new contact info:

Solarsilk Interactive
349 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Phone: 646.504.8833

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Thanks to our partners
Agency.com
Agency 5-0
Arnold Worldwide
BBH
Calliope Studios
Digital Urbana
DraftFCB
Euro RSCG
FieldAndStream.com
Goodby Silverstein
Gotham
Heartbeat Digital
JCC Manhattan
JWT
LaunchPad
MGX Labs
Millennium Web
MTV Networks Digital Fusion
Parenting.com
Present Company
Profero
PSLA
Saatchi & Saatchi
Scholastic
Scripps Networks
Serious USA
SS+K
TBWA\Chiat\Day
Transistor Studios 		Thanks to our clients
Activision
Ameriprise
AOL
Axe
British Airways
Bulldog New York
Carnival Cruiselines
Chris Webber Foundation
CIBA Vision / Novartis
Coach
Coke Zero
ContextWeb
Elephant Post
Food Network
Fresca
Glaxo SmithKline
Hyundai
I Love New York
IMS Health
JC Penney
Kraft / Tassimo
Kraft / Mio
Lean Cuisine
LG Electronics
Mars Snackfoods / Combos
Microsoft
Miller High Life
Motorola
Olay
Ronzoni Pasta
Saks Fifth Avenue
Scholastic
Sears
Toyota Trucks
Tyra Banks
The Wall Street Journal
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Solarsilk’s backend system accepts registrations via the Facebook app, and returns the data to the app in XML format for display and interaction.  The backend also allows SS+K/Allstate to update live event registration numbers, define Facebook photo albums associated with the events, and more.

Check it out – and register your DSGN8D TXTR – don’t text and drive!

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