King no longer?

Those of you who know me probably know by now that I’ve gone off Foursquare. It seems like a mystery to some, because I was once what some people, at...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   15 December 2010

Good for nothing

Last Saturday but one marked the first iteration of Good for Nothing, an initiative from the Pipeline Project, which describes itself as a "creative colla...

Cath Richardson   ·   14 December 2010

Trending is trending

Acting on a hunch, I typed "trending" into Google trends and discovered that trending is indeed trending. As the normal end of year predictions are b...

Tim Malbon   ·   14 December 2010

The internet of meta-products

I am liking the idea of 'Meta-products'. What is a meta-product? The best  examples are Nike+, the fabulously daft Nabaztag and, more recently, Alertme. G...

Paul Sims   ·   8 December 2010

Hackers! For makers, players and explorers

Launching today, the Hackers! newspaper is an exciting new idea aimed at doing things you're not supposed to do. A quarterly paper edited by Leila Jo...

Duncan Gough   ·   7 December 2010

The next step in the evolution of employee volunteering

Today is a big day for a charity we have collaborated with for the last two years.

Last night v announced the launch of Volunteering Works, a web...

Sara Williams   ·   1 December 2010

A short interview with Matthew Rosenberg of Fast Society

We noticed an iPhone app called Fast Society being mentioned on Twitter the other day. It did look interesting but we weren't quite sure how people w...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   29 November 2010

Inspiration, innovation, collaboration

I’ve been thinking about the relationship between inspiration, innovation and collaboration lately, because of a number of related research articles ...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   26 November 2010

My APA talk: the future of advertising isn't advertising

 

The future of advertising isn't advertising


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These are the slides from my talk at the APA I...

William Owen   ·   25 November 2010

The powers and possibilities of big data

Last week I attended an event at NESTA about the powers and possibilities of big data, where Hans Peter Brondmo (Head of Social Software at Nokia), H...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   22 November 2010

TV ontologies, how much do they matter?

A news program has opinions, news items (which might contain locations, types of events etc), issues, methods of finding out more. A news story itself mig...

Mike Laurie   ·   18 November 2010

We know #codefu!



"Some of what you are about to hear might not be true - but it will be accurate" @tomux tells it like it is at Coding for Dummies #codefu

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Cath Richardson   ·   16 November 2010

Internet Week Europe

Last week marked London's first Internet Week Europe. It was a week filled with inspiring talks, creative showcases, and good old networking. Attending al...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   16 November 2010

Facebook domination in 2 moves

There's a bit in the original film Karate Kid, when Daniel, almost crippled by blows to his leg, assumes the iconic Crane Kick stance and kicks his o...

Mike Laurie   ·   5 November 2010

Freedom, the press, and freedom of the press

I recently attended an ICA debate called Paywalls, Ebooks and the Death of Print. It wasn’t so much a debate about whether print was dying, but a dis...

Sara Williams   ·   5 November 2010

Design for swarmability

I saw Mark Earls talk at Planningness in Brooklyn: How to understand and create social influence, and since then I have found myself thinking a lot about ...

Tim Malbon   ·   26 October 2010

Our new experiment – signals

Back in the summer when we were shaping our new site, we talked a lot about openness and collaboration. Agencies tend to be fairly private about the ...

Sara Williams   ·   26 October 2010

HTML the modern way - using Modernizr

I recently wrote a post about HTML 5 and whether it was ready to use -- surmising that it certainly was and that we in fact built our new site using ...

Oli Matthews   ·   25 October 2010