The Evolution of a Platform
Over the past few months we've encouraged our peers to create fresh and innovative fundraising campaigns for the famine in East Africa as part of the 50/5...
The A-Z of Internet Metaphors - Metaphwoar 2011
I was lucky enough to be asked to take part in this year's Metaphwoar, organised by Andy Whitlock and Poke as part of Intenet Week Europe.
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All I want for Christmas is a new release of Holler Gram
In March we launched Holler Gram, an app that turns your iPad into a glowing sign and simultaneously tweets into a predefined hashtag. It was perfect...
Reflecting on 50/50...what next?
Lately we’ve been thinking a lot about how the 50/50 campaign is going.
Both Tim and Andrew have recently posted some great reflections on where ...
We're hiring: User interface developer wanted.
The web has come a long way since its inception. Tables have long-since made way for CSS layouts and IE6 is now all but dead. At Made by Many w...
Learning the hard way
At the end of last week Tim asked us what we'd learned from 50/50. Confronted with such a seemingly impossible question, I floundered.
Stepping back a...
Skype in the classroom is a Tomorrow Awards winner
Yesterday @malbonster and @bobbyc had the honour of accepting a Tomorrow Award for Skype in the classroom, a service and technology mash-up that connect...
Introducing #FamineFriday
The coalition of projects affiliated with the 50/50 campaign has raised nearly £25k (that’s around $39k in USD), which is an amazing achievement.
True...
Class picture: our 4th birthday
On the first of September Made by Many turned four.
We took a photo to mark the occasion but in the busyness of the last couple of months, we sort of ...
FT Tilt lists and sinks: a cautionary tale of product development
The Financial Times closed FT Tilt on 13 October which was a big surprise and a bigger disappointment because it bore so many of the hallmarks of a succes...
Apple's aesthetic dichotomy
When one talks about Apple's design, one immediately thinks of Jony Ive's modernist, rational industrial designs for computers, peripherals, and of course...
The Big Ask
Okay, so most of our pals will know by now that we’ve been involved with this 50/50 thing for the last 50-something days. It was a ‘somewhat loopy’ idea t...
Announcing our Internet Week event: Lean Startup workshop -- practical ways to turn your idea into a successful product
We're proud to announce that we're running a Lean Startup workshop in collaboration with the folks at Leancamp as part of Internet Week Europe (7-11 Novem...
Kids Draw for East Africa: a 50/50 project by kids, for kids
In collaboration with my husband (@johnnybennett), I launched the Kids Draw for East Africa project last Friday on the 5050.gd platform. Utterly moved by ...
1 day to go til World Food Day: 50/50 enters the fundraising phase
Wow. So as many of you will know for the past two months we've been collaborating with Good for Nothing on the 50/50 campaign to raise £1million for...
A night of gin and irresponsible capitalism...a beginner's guide to playtesting
Last night I went to Hide&Seek's marine themed Sandpit at the National Maritime museum in Greenwich.
Sandpit is a regular playing and pl...
Lean Darth Vader – a slightly silly post for a Friday
The GALACTIC EMPIRE has secretly begun construction on a new armored space station even more powerful than the first dreaded Death Star.
When complete...
The end of the line for lone wolves and cowboys
In May of this year, Atul Gawande delivered the commencement address at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gawande is a Rhodes Scholar, a surgeon, a New Yor...