Rockstar developers
I’ve noticed clients recoil at the phrase “Rockstar Developers”. The image of a drink, drugs and – gulp – sex-crazed development team smashing up their dr...
Brilliant graph of the web’s growth
The Swedish monitoring service Pingdom has published a couple of graphs of the Web’s growth from zero websites to 162 million. I’ve added my own commentar...
How much advertising is already crowdsourced?
I was watching TV last night when the Berocca ad came onto the box.
You give me Frrvrr
One (or two) of the things that characterise the Web 2.0′sphere is (a) an almost unnatural predisposition to omitting vowels and (b) delight in new stuff....
On inspiration…
How do you create a distinctive look and feel for a website that helps set it apart from the rest of the marketplace? Type, font, colour, image choice? Wh...
Oops! Natmags CEO hits back at New Media Age
Lots of friends, colleagues and clients have expressed bafflement at the lead story on the front page of New Media Age last week. NMA suggested very expli...
“Instant design decisions for busy people”
I find it hard to imagine a scenario when it would be appropriate – other than in a totally ironic way – to use any of the templates provided at Template ...
When crowds get wise
We went to mashup* Events Widgets last night. There were about 200 people there, four panelists and some people demo’ing new stuff. I went along to f...
Act like a start-up
Adweek published a great article this week by Benjamin Palmer of the Barbarian Group. It it, he challenges the ad industry to stop being scared, emba...
Taking 'crowdsourcing’ to its logical conclusion
Images from the Flickr Coversourcing pool
Random House have come up with a very good wheeze to promote the upcoming book ‘Crowdsourcing’. Crowdso...
Using Capistrano with PHP, specifically WordPress
Here at Made By Many we are technology agnostic. Primarily because we believe a client should use the best technology solutions to fit them and fit the pr...
Now the little guy can afford the semantic web
(the logo on the left is cooler…)
Everyone’s going on about the Semantic Web. It’s tipped to be the big thing in 2008. It’s all you can hear in t...
How accurate is Alexa? Test reveals all (almost)
We use the traffic ranking tool Alexa to keep an eye on what’s happening on the web; it’s a good measure of the speed with which social media is transform...
Taken with Toonlet
I love online cartoons. I’ve always been a fan of penny-arcade, pvponline and userfriendly. Since offline media began, monks have been scribing illustrati...
The world of New York taxis finally explained
It’s hard to think of the New York Taxi & Limousine Commission as a champion for design thinking. But I bumped into my old friend Rachel Abrams the ot...
MyDeco.com takes the pain out of interior decorating
Hoorah! After a tantalising wait, MyDeco.com has arrived. Much like a build on Grand Designs, it has been built from the ground up by a determined team wi...