Service principles for the postmodern news organisation
Service principles encapsulate the way a service creates, captures and sustains value for customers and shareholders.
They’re a useful benchmark in ma...
Antennagate: can Schopenhauer help?
Ever since the media eruption over the iPhone 4′s antenna design, I’ve been thinking about how we assign meanings and experience real emotions in response...
In conversation with John McCrea
We were hoping to catch up with him at SXSW this year, but in the meleé of the event weren’t able to. Recently however, John kindly agreed to answer ...
Backing the bucket (follow the Twitter list)
Bud Caddell’s collaborative Kickstarter project has three days to go but his backers have more than doubled the initial target amount $5k. I just upp...
What’s next for location-based services?
I wrote about Foursquare recently, and thought it would be interesting to follow up, given the fact that the location-based service recently hit the 2 mil...
Suggest a space on Ready for Ten
We’re very excited here at Made by Many to announce the second release of Ready for Ten. It’s got a new look and plenty of exciting new features!
Read...
Made by Many event: John-Henry Barac on the Guardian iPhone app
We’ve held some interesting talks here at Made by Many over the last couple of years, and I’m thrilled to announce that we’ve got an exciting one coming u...
CyberMummy – tales from the blogging frontline
Saturday saw the first ever conference for parent (mummy) bloggers in the UK: CyberMummy. Set up by the indomitable Sian To, Jennifer Howze and Susanna Sc...
Twitter Annotations are going to change your life
While the news of Twitter Annotations has been around for quite a while, it was announced at Chirp in April, outside of a geeky developer audience it hasn...
Guardian #Activate2010
Yesterday, I was lucky enough to attend The Guardian’sAcvtivate2010 Summit, which is dedicated to looking at how the Internet is changing the world. ...
A platform for parents – Ready for Ten presentation
Slideshare has been busy overnight putting our presentation through some kind of virtual conversion wringer, and it’s now ready for your enjoyment.
He...
Made by Many’s London Digital Event Calendar
London’s a great city to be working in digital/social/whateveryouliketocallit. There are lots of interesting events happening all the time, like the Clay ...
London cycle hire scheme. Ripe for a mobile app.
Transport for London (TfL) have put out a call for apps to promote London’s new cycle hire scheme which launches at the end of July.
This immediately ...
Ready for Ten Skillscape – a utility for parents of 6-9 year olds
Last week saw the second release of our engagement platform for Robinson’s Fruit Shoot: Ready for Ten. The build up to the release was short — only five w...
Clay at the RSA… Yay!
A few of us went to see Clay Shirky last night at the Royal Society of Arts. Some stuff we heard him talk about before, and some new stuff. I had sprinted...
News, publishers, print and digital: an update
A couple of weeks ago I had a little rant about the three things I think publishers need to do if they want to thrive in a beyond-print era. The survival ...
Hacking Safari Reader for even less distraction
If you’re on a Mac an you haven’t tried out Safari Reader yet, you should. It’s a really simple but incredibly useful little feature that detects when you...
Reviewing Amazon.com
I received this note with a product I bought on Amazon the other day. Leaving aside the horrendous grammar, I got to thinking about the algorithms be...