Branded utilities wiki
I’ve been thinking of the concept of branded utility, and brands being useful, good or nice for some time.
My hunch on Hunch
Yesterday I spent 15 minutes answering questions about my personality, likes and dislikes on Hunch, to which Stuart generously invited me since...
Thoughts on an open-source method of dealing with the financial crisis
Not enough people in this industry talk about the economy. Charles Frith wrote an interesting post on this a while ago. On Wednesday, I spotted two more p...
Case study: Amnesty UK ‘Campaigning with Social Media’
Made by Many has worked with Amnesty UK since January ’08, and helped them design and buildProtectTheHuman.com – their digital activism community.
Crowdsourcing a crowdsourcing list
Anjali announced earlier this week that she’d just created a crowdsourcing wiki. She’s too modest to tell everyone how successful it’s been, so I’m doing ...
Spooky gallery of Twitter horror-avatars
For some reason – probably the fact that it’s a close-up of a single, leering eye – Shane Richmond’s Twitter avatar really stands out. Of all the peo...
Crowdsourcing Examples
Crowdsourcing is something that keeps coming up in our work at Made By Many, and I’m sure in a lot of other places as well, given that the power of the in...
Is your attention worth more than mine?
Today, most advertisers pay the same amount to serve 1,000 ads to a hyper-connected super-influencer as they do to my granny (granny only rarely uses the ...
Stuff that’s been floating around the office – March 2009
I know March isn’t quite over yet but if I waited any longer, this list would have grown too big. So here goes:
1. Informapping: Interested in knowing...
A community generated zombie documentary
On the last day of the SxSW Interactive festival a couple of young female zombies shuffled over to us. They’d been ‘turned’ that very morning and wer...
We gotta get out of town…
At a Cajun restaurant last night we started extending the Made by Many identity using crayons on our tablecloth. We may have been in Austin for a little t...
Many hats
We found this really great hat shop in Austin – Hatbox – where we are attending SxSW.
SXSW-free Twitter with Pipes. But what we need is middleware..
Right, that’s it. I’ve had enough of not being at SXSW and getting assailed with people going to cool lectures, eating Tex-Mex and drinking cocktails. I’v...
Designing the future of the New York Times
That was the title of a talk at the SxSW Interactive Festival here in Austin, Texas, that a few of us went to yesterday afternoon.
We were all lo...
So who’s your Female Social Media Guru, then?
Who is the UK’s Top Female Social Media Guru? asks Jamie Burke over at his blog Social Glue. To find the answer to the question, he’s arranged a little bi...
Seth Godin’s London Session transcript – here you go!
So, if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may recall that a bunch of us from Made By Many went to see Seth Godin speak in London a short while...
Looking swell online: How avatars suit you
My avatar has changed.
Uh oh. Big deal, you might think – some people change their avatars as often as they change shoes. And so do I – but not here a...
Time to change
Randall Rothenberg’s recent blog post, “‘A Bigger Idea’: A Manifesto on Interactive Advertising Creativity“, about the state of interactive advertisi...