Today Solarsilk, along with Droga5 and Newcastle Brown Ale, launched a new Facebook application called The Subtexter that allows users to call out the true meaning of their photos on Facebook. It’s a primary component in Newcastle’s #NoBollocks campaign, and with over 600,000 Likes on Newcastle’s Facebook page, we can’t wait to see the user…
Solarsilk teamed up with Droga 5 to create a full-featured Facebook page for the Kraft Athenos brand of feta cheese, pita chips, hummus and other Greek treats. Athenos’ spokes-grandmother, YiaYia, gives her unique comment on each user-submitted recipe, based on some pretty fancy backend logic code. Submit your recipe.
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….
This week our first iOS app, Caption Action went live on the App Store (we removed it November 2012). 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…
Solarsilk teamed up with SS+K to create a Facebook application that actually helps the environment. The app has a simple but powerful premise: “plant” a virtual tree on your Facebook wall, and Chevrolet will plant a real tree in a US forest, up to 175,000 trees. It was an honor to work on such a…
Last week we launched a Facebook app with SS+K for Allstate Insurance. It’s called DSGN8D TXTR and serves a very worthwhile and important purpose: encouraging teens (and everyone else) to never text while driving. The goal is to register 25,000 DSGN8D TXTRs via the Facebook app and through live events around the country. Solarsilk’s backend…
Our latest demo app, called solarTweetAR fuses Augmented Reality, Papervision3D and realtime Twitter search! Check out our other AR demo here.
We just launched a beta version of solarTube, a demo project showcasing a combination of technologies. It combines: • Flash AS3 OOP • Papervision3D • pulling YouTube RSS feeds, using the AS3 YouTube Data API written by Martin Legris • displaying a YouTube video in Flash using YouTube’s new Chromeless player • Facebook Connect’s Comments…