Sunday, March 13, 2011

Cynergy’s Dave Wolf Weighs in on the new iPad Newspaper The Daily

Cynergy’s Dave Wolf Weighs in on the new iPad Newspaper The Daily


Cynergy’s Dave Wolf Weighs in on the new iPad Newspaper The Daily

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:20 PM PST

Dave appeared live on WTTG Fox5 News this evening to discuss the new News Corp. iPad app and first iPad newspaper, The Daily. Watch the video below. The Daily, First iPad Newspaper Debuts : MyFoxDC.com...( read more )...(read more)

Gamifying Email

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:20 PM PST

At Cynergy we love to take an old idea and make it better. At the first ever Gamification Conference in San Francisco, we did just that by demonstrating a gamified interface to email. We presented a new take on email by applying game mechanics and motivational...( read more )...(read more)

The Era of Gamification

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:19 PM PST

The first ever gamification conference took place last week in San Francisco. The leading experts in game design and engagement science gathered to share their insights to a sold out crowd. Many of the leading names in the space from Amy Jo Kim, Nicole...( read more )...(read more)

World of Workcraft

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:19 PM PST

World of Workcraft is a project out of Cynergy Labs that brings a variety of game design techniques into the enterprise, reaping the motivational benefits of games without incurring the cost of purple dragons and magical swords. We developed the World...( read more )...(read more)

Closing the eReader Gap

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:19 PM PST

When was the last time you read a page-turning textbook? As a leading expert in this new field of Gamification; or as I call it 'Motivational Design'; I am working on a new book on the topic and thought I should use my knowledge to create page-turning...( read more )...(read more)

Paleolithic 3d Displays

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:19 PM PST

Holding one of the new LG Optimus 3D cellphones in my hand at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona was an experience that changed not just how I think about 3d displays but how I view the entire history of visual art. Before seeing this phone, I was...( read more )...(read more)

Keeping Design In The MIX

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:19 PM PST

The organizers of MIX face a bit of a challenge. Once a designer/developer conference on web technologies, MIX is now being set up to be the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) conference. Yesterday, Microsoft broke big news (IE9! Multitasking!) on upcoming features...( read more )...(read more)

Softwear: Fashion as User Experience

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:19 PM PST

Working for Cynergy, I travel quite a bit—usually to climates warmer than my home city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. During the winter, flying with a bulky coat is inconvenient, so I usually leave my coat in my car and go dashing through the snow to the...( read more )...(read more)

eBay SimpleLister with Silverlight 4

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:03 PM PST

Just a month ago, Dave (Building Innovative Windows Client Software) and Myself (Building the eBay Simple Lister with Silverlight) were at mix showing the world the eBay simple lister. Today I am VERY proud of the whole Cynergy and eBay team to announce...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 5: In the Trenches

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:03 PM PST

Silverlight 5 has made it to the light of day. Silverlight 5 is going to be an amazing leap forward. Yet this isn't a blog entry rehashing the Silverlight 5 features, I'll Leave that to Tim Heur: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/12/02/silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

Leveraging Silverlight in the USA TODAY Windows 7-Based Slate App

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:03 PM PST

Today we were really excited to announce the new USA TODAY software for Windows 7-based slate devices. This has been a pretty great ride, developing for these new bread of devices, and I'm really excited to see this app ship with devices like the...( read more )...(read more)

Windows Phone 7 Runtime Debugging

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:03 PM PST

Ok, I'll admit it ColdFusion was one of my first web dev loves <insert snide dev look here />. When moving from cgi and asp classic to, at the time Allair, ColdFusion felt like a breath of fresh air. With all the tag-based efficency it was...( read more )...(read more)

Creating a Silverlight Out-of-Browser Splash Screen

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:03 PM PST

More and more we're seeing the out-of-browser Silverlight functionality really take off. Lots of different customers are seeing OOB Silverlight as a great option not only for cross-platform desktop apps (even on Linux now with Moonlight 4 beta out...( read more )...(read more)

Application Library Caching in Silverlight 4

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 08:07 AM PST

Sometime your Silverlight application becomes too larger and creates a bigger XAP file. This causes issue while loading your XAP file for the first time as it increases the loading time for downloading the XAp. So, what will you do in this case? There...( read more )...(read more)

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