In case of emergency: Kevin Kelly

There’s nothing like a dose of Kevin Kelly to blast away any weak thoughts that might start creeping into one’s brain after reading something like th...

Tim Malbon   ·   11 June 2010

In The Night Garden: transmedia storytelling platform for babies

A recent post by Henry Jenkins got me thinking about In The Night Garden as a Transmedia storytelling platform.

In his post, He-Man and The Masters of...

Tim Malbon   ·   10 June 2010

The risks of parasitic apps

Twitter’s new and native URL shortening functionality (t.co) is going to make other URL shorteners such as ow.ly, is.gd and bit.ly totally obsolete.

I...

Mike Laurie   ·   9 June 2010

125 banners, not so much clicking

I’ve read too many blog posts recently about pay walls and the future (or lack thereof) of journalism. With the debate raging and being nowhere close to r...

Isaac Pinnock   ·   8 June 2010

Around Made by Many

I noticed a cool map on the AnalogFolk website recently, and thought it would be interesting to plot some of Made by Many’s favourite hangouts near our of...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   4 June 2010

Racking up the points…and the coins

I’m probably not the best company nowadays to non-Foursquare users, because checking in has become almost an obsession. When I’m too immersed in the event...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   4 June 2010

Somewhere over the paywall: three predictions for news media

Two weeks ago, some colleagues and I attended a Frontline Club talk on apps, paywalls and the future of journalism (for a recap, see William Owen’s excell...

Sara Williams   ·   3 June 2010

My name is Tim Malbon, and I am a Soreen Addict

I've been meaning to post thanks and share my exciting Soreen unboxing moment. Yup, *amazingly*, the good people who look after Soreen's PR sent me a...

Tim Malbon   ·   3 June 2010

Will Technology Creation enter its own Age of Abundance?

The proliferation of computer software and the internet has brought many powerful tools to the masses.

From desktop publishing to cheap and powerful d...

Stuart Eccles   ·   2 June 2010

“Sometimes you have to destroy something you love”

That’s one of the many stirring quotables from a blog post published last week at John Winsor’s blog.

John is the CEO of Victors and Spoils, the new m...

Tim Malbon   ·   2 June 2010

Our digital world: a snapshot

I did a quick poll via Twitter and email last week to see what sites, services and apps some of the people I know are using in their daily lives. These ar...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   27 May 2010

Three fallacies of newspaper thinking (and how paywalls cracked at the Frontline Club)

My first trip to the Frontline Club last night (thanks, @saradotdub) was rewarded with a lively and contentious debate on the future of newspapers featuri...

William Owen   ·   20 May 2010

Why is Facebook so hard to love?

Here’s a phrase I’ve been reading a lot on blogs and comments recently:


“I’m finally through with Facebook. Seriously, I’ve made my mind up a...

Tim Malbon   ·   19 May 2010

ARG-tastic, the world of the Alternate Reality Game.

Before I go on… ARG = Alternative Reality Game – an interactive, cross-media narrative.  ARGs are cross platform games that explore storytelling in a...

Tara Bloom   ·   18 May 2010

Wanted: an exceptional objective-C developer

We have a very small and talented development team here at Made by Many. We’re technology agnostic, and while we have a very strong Ruby backbone, we regu...

James Higgs   ·   17 May 2010

Hey social web, a little privacy?

Imagine being able to share conversations, pictures, links or movies on your chosen social network, safe in the knowledge that your information isn’t goin...

Mike Laurie   ·   12 May 2010

Designed by people that hate you. No, really

Self-service checkout machines. Is there any other machine we interact with in the modern world that is quite so odious?

As I stand in line to use one...

Isaac Pinnock   ·   11 May 2010

UK General Election candidates, who are they really?

Forget reading manifestos, analysing policy impact on your monthly take-home pay or weighing up the pros and cons of entry into the Euro. Who are our poli...

Simon I'Anson   ·   4 May 2010