The first Measurement Camp of 2009

Measurement Camp, an initiative started by Will McInnes of Nixon McInnes, had its first event of this year today. One of the things I genuinely appreciate...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   15 January 2009

Crowd-funded filmaking

Iain Weatherby is a gifted writer. Usually he writes plays – he got through to the last  two on Channel 4′s ‘The Play’s The Thing’ and has been writi...

Tim Malbon   ·   14 January 2009

Stuff that’s been floating around the office – week ending January 9th, 2009

One week into 2009 and there’s enough for one of my ‘floating around the office’ posts!

1. Power Twitter for Firefox: If you use Firefox, then you sho...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   9 January 2009

Jock Kenneir is turning, no SPINNING, in his grave

Isaac Pinnock   ·   6 January 2009

Saasy – SaaS for Rails

I’ve been working on an open source SaaS solution for Rails over Christmas called Saasy (pronouced “sarrsy” – using a posh voice).

Saasy provides:

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Alex MacCaw   ·   5 January 2009

More nice words about Metrotwin

Stuart noticed a blog called Digital Strategy where Rob Innes aims to review new sites in digital “intended to inspire thinking by showing how brands are ...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   2 January 2009

Should patients be allowed to review their GPs?

Health minister Ben Bradshaw proposes a system for patients where they can comment on the experiences they have when they see their doctor, to be implemen...

Elin Sjursen   ·   2 January 2009

Thoughts on the concepts of popularity, authority and originality on Twitter

So the Twittersphere is abuzz again. This time with talks of who the people with authority on Twitter are, or, as these sites prefer to call it, Twitority...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   30 December 2008

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Elin took this photo of us during the Christmas trip to Dorset last week, and now she’s customised it beautifully as well!!! Happy Holidays, everyone!

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   24 December 2008

Stuff that’s been floating around the office – December 2008

I thought I might as well make a habit out of this, since there are some really entertaining and interesting websites or news articles that continue to be...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   24 December 2008

BBC IPlayer Desktop on AIR. It’s all a little bit tricky.

It’s news we have expected for a while, and it’s here in big bold BETA. The BBC IPlayer Desktop is going to let you download IPlayer video to watch offlin...

Stuart Eccles   ·   19 December 2008

A Christmas story

At Made by Many, young as we are, a tradition has emerged. This involves heaps of driftwood, the sound of wet, salty waves, mud that sticks like glue to y...

Elin Sjursen   ·   18 December 2008

Metrotwin’s in Contagious!

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   18 December 2008

World Economic Forum goes full steam ahead with social media

I read in the Guardian yesterday that the World Economic Forum, held in Davos in January/February every year, is really picking up in terms of outreach to...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   18 December 2008

WTF is Doostang?

I received this wonderfully cretinous spam email this evening, inviting me to join what looks like a professional social networking service that promises ...

Tim Malbon   ·   10 December 2008

A nice note from Amnesty UK

Last week we received a nice email from Amnesty UK, one of our clients, about the work we’re doing on Protect The Human.

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   8 December 2008

We love Mixwit

We’ve been having a lot of fun with Mixwit recently. We did one for Metrotwin – a mixtape based on places in New York to match one that was done by one of...

Tim Malbon   ·   5 December 2008

Saucy – use any font on your website

Fonts can be a developer’s nightmare if they’re not one of the ones installed on the user’s machine. There are alternatives such as sIFR and typeface.js b...

Alex MacCaw   ·   4 December 2008