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We’re Going to WordCamp NYC 2010!
This weekend some of the Skytemple team will be making a field-trip down to New York City to attend WordCamp NYC 2010. The conference is being held at Baruch College over the days of October 16th and 17th. We’re looking forward to hearing some interesting talks and meeting lots of great people!
Also, see that awesome badge above? Our own designer, Mel, was instrumental in the design of that beautiful skyline featured on not only the badges but also the printed schedule and the conference T-shirt. Great job, Mel!
Bon Voyage, Isabel!
One of our Skytemple team, Isabel, sadly needs to leave us. We have all loved working with her and will miss her greatly as she moves back to Guatemala.
We wish her all the very best in her move and future!
Congratulations to the Snapple Tri-Team!
On September 12th some of our fantastic clients, the Snapple Tri-Team, participated in The Nation’s Triathlon. The race runs through Washington, D.C. and is focused on raising money and awareness for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. This year’s race was notable on a grand scale for the sheer number of participants, almost 7,000 people registered, and it could gain recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest race of its kind in the country.
But that wasn’t the big news for the Snapple Tri-Team, all of their five competing athletes did spectacularly! Robert Wade took 1st, winning the race with a time of 1:57:13. Hillary Cairns came in 3rd for the women with a 2:12:39 time. Dirk de Heer came in 7th and Ted Waugh and Chip Berry placed 4th and 3rd in their division of 500 people.
We here at Skytemple want to say congratulations to all involved, and we look forward to seeing more amazing races!
HTML5 Fun
Websites utilizing HTML5 are popping up all over the internet, creating web apps that don’t require Flash, or any other plug-in for that matter. The grand practical uses are being explored by sites like Scribd where you can read all manner of books and documents, viewing them as pages you can scroll down, as a slideshow, or as if they were turnable pages.
On the less practical but more playful side, a great many web developers are using the new features to explore their creativity.
Hakim El Hattabb has several games and all-around cool apps on his website. You can create a tune, avoid red dots, or play with particles.
Want to explore your creativity? Give deviantART‘s recently released app, Muro, a try. Some of the artists on deviantART have created pretty spectacular paintings with Muro. It’s certainly a lot of fun to play around with!
Some of Our Favorite Clients And Why They Are So Awesome
Skytemple is proud to have worked for and to continue to work for many amazing clients. Some of our favorite clients include successful individuals, inspiring organizations and thriving businesses.
One of these successful individual is Chef Phillip Tang, owner of the Restaurant East by Northeast in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Chef Tang specializes on traditional Chinese-style cooking with a contemporary take, using local fresh ingredients from the Northeast region.
We have also worked for many authors including E. Lockhart and Holly Black. E. Lockhart’s books have been translated into 10 different languages and her book Disreputable History was a finalist for the National Book Award. Holly Black is also a best selling author of fantasy novels for a young audience. Her books have been translated into many languages as well and her title The Wrath of Mulgarath became the 1# bestseller at New York Time’s list.
Skytemple recently launched a new website for Hillary B. Price, author of the popular comic strip Rhymes with Orange. This strip, a witty depiction of life’s trials as the author describes it, appears on 150 newspapers nationwide.
Perhaps, no other client of ours is more famous than the television drama Guiding Light. This show made it to the Guiness Book of World Records as the longest television drama to have ever been aired on television and radio! Skytemple created a closed social network to keep the cast, crew, and staff connected and up-to-date with the latest conversations and opportunities..
We also worked fo Do Something, an organization that encourages young people to become socially aware and responsible through the use of the social media. The organization connects the efforts of teenager and young adults to resources and support. Skytemple developed a flash based game as part of Do Something’s online campaign.
Just as inspiring, The Snapple Tri-Team, sponsored by Snapple’s Lyte Water, is comprised of professional and amateur athletes who participate in various triathlon and duathlon competitions. Skytemple designed both the team’s website and uniform!
We are also proud to have designed a website for Mooreland Hill School, an independent school that serves children in middle school age in central Connecticut. For more than seventy-nine years Mooreland Hill School has been a vibrant community of students, faculty and families whose primary purpose is to bring high quality and individualized educations to its students.
Finally, we enjoyed working with J. Polep Distribution Services. This company specializes in distributing primarily food products to small retailers. Since 1898, the Polep family has been running the business for more than 100 years.
We have so many great clients that we can’t do justice to them all. This is just a taste of some recent highlights, and we hope you enjoyed the insight!
