RSA talk: Connected Minds, Loneliness & Social Brains

Some time back, I wrote a very frustrated post on how experts from the field of psychology make sweeping generalizations of what it means to use onli...

Elin Sjursen   ·   9 September 2009

Data viz talk sparks passionate debate (and a manifesto)

For starters, we were almost twice oversubscribed for the talk and only just managed to squeeze everyone into the room (thanks to BBH London for hosting u...

Justin McMurray   ·   3 September 2009

The journalist’s new research tool. Twitter.

Last Thursday (27th August) at 09:49 I posted the following tweet…


Ikea want to give the same impression on the web and in print so they use Verda...

Simon I'Anson   ·   1 September 2009

LOVEFiLM homepage redesign

The previous home page had grown organically over the last few years and hadn’t keep up with how the business has developed. Since the last major update L...

Julia Wojcicka   ·   28 August 2009

New Made by Many Event: Manuel Lima – A deep dive into data visualization

The power and beauty of data visualization is something that the crew at Made By Many always get excited about.

Making previously ‘invisible’ inf...

Justin McMurray   ·   18 August 2009

Made By Many at 2010 SXSWi? You Can Make It Happen!

So it’s that time of the year again when those 4 letters of the alphabet start popping up on every geek’s radar with a frequency that probably makes ...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   17 August 2009

Designing motivational services

We use Basecamp to manage projects. It’s great for creating tasks and milestones that can be assigned to those responsible. It keeps conversations neatly ...

Elin Sjursen   ·   13 August 2009

Car ad agency brilliance

Ad agency Nova Vista in Norway has found an innovative way of keeping cars clean. Buckle in tight, here it comes……Female drivers.

The agency is now on...

Elin Sjursen   ·   13 August 2009

Protect The Human’s new actions pages now live

Following on from my last post about PTH’s Campaigns pages, the new Actions pages are now live as well. Together they make for a much improved user experi...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   13 August 2009

Protect The Human’s campaigns pages get a new look

We’ve been labouring long and hard with the folks at New Bamboo and of course Amnesty UK to deliver some important design changes to the Protect The Human...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   5 August 2009

Serendipity… WTF?

A tweet randomly flew through my cascading deck over the weekend, containing a link to a blog I’d never visited before.


Contra the NY Times t...

Tim Malbon   ·   4 August 2009

How Apple exemplifies a culture of love over greed

A quick follow-up on my post about love, greed and innovation.

In some discussions since, I’ve pointed to Apple as an example of how greed is trumped ...

James Higgs   ·   3 August 2009

Stuff that’s been floating around the office – July 2009

Here we go:

1. Semanti:A few months ago, after Facebook introduced Facebook Connect, Razorfish created a presentation that looked at the possibilities...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   29 July 2009

Some of the best talks at TED Global 2009

Thanks to Graeme Douglas at W+K London, I was able to attend the Nokia-sponsored live-streaming of TED Global’s talks on Thursday afternoon. 

I’ve bee...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   24 July 2009

Moving beyond a shallow definition of “social media”


David Armano. Photo uploaded to Flickr by jdlasica

@bbhlabs sent me a link to this great blog post on the Harvard Business site by David Ar...

Tim Malbon   ·   22 July 2009

Tim Malbon at the IPA’s Game Changers event


We did tweet about it at the time, but for those who missed it, here is Tim’s talk at the IPA Game Changers event from 2 months ago. Better late than ...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   20 July 2009

The IPA Free Event

I was pleasantly surprised when I heard that in keeping with the spirit of Chris Anderson’s Free, which was the inspiration for the evening, the IPA had c...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   20 July 2009

On greed and innovation

Last week, Howard “Smart Mobs” Rheingold came to give a talk here at Made by Many. It was a fascinating look at how smart mobs have functioned when given ...

James Higgs   ·   14 July 2009