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...

Tim Malbon   ·   9 April 2008

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...

Tim Malbon   ·   9 April 2008

How much advertising is already crowdsourced?

I was watching TV last night when the Berocca ad came onto the box.

Tim Malbon   ·   8 April 2008

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....

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   7 April 2008

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...

Isaac Pinnock   ·   31 March 2008

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...

William Owen   ·   7 March 2008

“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 ...

Tim Malbon   ·   1 March 2008

Snapshot of a designer #1

Isaac Pinnock   ·   29 February 2008

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...

Tim Malbon   ·   29 February 2008

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...

Tim Malbon   ·   27 February 2008

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...

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   26 February 2008

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...

Stuart Eccles   ·   26 February 2008

Encouragement from a fortune cookie

Tim Malbon   ·   24 February 2008

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...

Tim Malbon   ·   21 February 2008

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...

William Owen   ·   11 February 2008

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...

Stuart Eccles   ·   6 February 2008

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...

William Owen   ·   5 February 2008

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...

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   4 February 2008