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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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 ...