Last night I went along to the first Ad Hoc enquiries. It's a new approach to doing an event. Someone is invited to present on a topic within the broad sp...

Part 2 in an occasional series about how digital products and services can learn from real world experiences

In my last post I wrote about how we are moving forward with Picle and that we have an interim release coming out this week, well the good news is that th...

Last week we had our first Picle strategy meeting since getting back to blighty from SXSW. We have digested a lot of feedback from tweets, emails, reviews...

I’m going to share some of the thinking and code behind the Picle iPhone app starting with the camera functionality. This will involve showing some code s...

"In all honesty I must log onto the BBC website and my local news website at least 20 times a day mostly through my smartphone or work computer, and I can ho...

For a while I’ve been troubled by the effect that language can have on the group design process. When we began to come up with ideas and solutions for ITV...

As with most social online applications, you can think of the data as more like a graph than very simple objects that stand alone. This kind of an applica...

A guest blog by Robin Pembrooke, Managing Director online and on demand at ITV

A little over a year ago we kicked off the design process for our proj...

For the past ten months Made by Many has been working with ITV and ITN to transform ITV News into a multichannel news service by adding online, mobile and...

I recently caught up with a former Cambridge University lecturer of mine, David Trotter. As well as being an extremely inspiring teacher, David is an expe...

picle's a bit like a comic. As @malbonster said, it's more dreamlike than video. I think part of that comes from the spaces between the frames i...

One of my favourite talks of SXSW this year was ‘Rebuilding LEGO’ by Prof. David Robertson of The Wharton School, Pennsylvania where he teaches innovation...

So, back from another SXSW :(

It's great to be back in a country where the butter doesn't contain sugar by default, where fizzy drinks don't come in b...

Bruce Sterling's closing keynote at SXSW was typically fiery and inspirational. But whereas last year's felt like a war cry, this year there was a st...

After a week of BBQs, speeches, panels, margaritas, putting names to faces and more BBQs I’ve landed back at Made by Many HQ and I want to share some of t...

Alex Harding is an Interaction Designer  at Made by Many and the inventor of Picle. This is the story of Picle in Alex's own words - a story already blogg...

I’m counting down the hours until thirteen of the many (including myself) head out to Austin for SXSW. Just as the tradition of us sending a swarm over to...