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Digital Champions Sharpening Swords

We’ve been a little quiet but that’s because we are spending all of our free minutes leering at our competitors in the Phizzpop conditioning training. We’ve been digging through the dusty catacombs of C# code looking for golden treasures while avoiding the Indiana Jones-like traps of certain death. Let’s see what other metaphors can I use to make this seem like a super exciting activity…. The picture tells the truth. We’ll be receiving our challenge today at 4PM. Stay tuned!!!


ROMANS! err… Phizzpop!?!

The arena is set. The gladiators have been carefully chosen. The crowd taunts with bloodthirsty cheers (at least in our heads). The last team standing will be the victorious!

Tanagram is competing in the very exclusive Phizzpop Chicago 2008 competition. We will be competing against the 4 other top design agencies in the Chicagoland area and the grand prize is bragging rights for the rest of the year. Microsoft has gone to great lengths to secure the best and the brightest (trust us) for this invite-only event and the result promises to be a bloody bloody mess to the very end. 

The challenge will be given on November 17th and each team will have three days to create the best possible solution using Microsoft Silverlight technology and our bare hands. We already know who we’re squaring up against and while we can’t tell you who they are yet, we can say we are geared up and ready to PWN them. 

Get your tickets to the final presentation at the Chicago Cultural Center on November 20th and be prepared to bask in the glory of the victorious and the anguish of the defeated. No water balloons please and let the trash talk begin!!!


Microsoft Surface goes spherical

The folks at Microsoft Surface have begun to play further with their advanced multi-touch display. We are THIS CLOSE to getting one of these coolies to play with but now our desire has been captured by this new globe version. I think we were all amused by some of the “creative” demonstration apps they built for it, but the virtual tour demo left us wanting it purely because it looks like a crystal ball and who doesn’t want one of those???