Madebymany.co.uk nearly as popular as The Times, shock
Is anyone visiting times.co.uk?* Never mind that, is anyone still buying the newspaper? Media Week reports today that in August The Times newspaper circul...
UK brands on Twitter
I was hunting on the web the other day for a comprehensive list of UK brands on Twitter, as part of some research. Some UK brands are included in Fluent S...
Telegraph Fashion & Beauty goes live
Super-exciting news today as the Telegraph’s new fashion and beauty channel has gone live. One of the most beautiful sites I think we’ve ever worked on, i...
5 Ways to Well-being: an imagined iPhone app
I recently watched the utterly fantastic TED talk ‘The Happy Planet Index’ by Nic Marks. The talk covers a lot of sensible ground including why the enviro...
Paths, processes and behaviours: how our work takes shape
I was invited to talk at a SheSays event yesterday on presentation skills. My talk wasn’t so much about presentation skills as it was about Made by M...
URL encoding an NSString on iOS
I’ve been working on an iPhone app for the last few weeks, which I’ve really enjoyed. Every now and again, though, you hit what seems like a bug in the iO...
A web app in 10k? Surely not!
When @stueccles first encouraged me to enter the 10k apart competition (to create a web app in under 10 kilobytes) I wondered what was really possible in ...
Customer development: a few tools and resources (or how to become an excellent stalker)
Following on from Justin’s post last week on the empty hamburger dilemma, I’ve been doing some research into what tools and resources are out there on cus...
Vote for our SXSWi panel suggestions
Made by Many has an opportunity — actually, three — to host panel discussions at South by Southwest Interactive Festival in March 2011, but we need your v...
Would the real John Hegarty please stand up
About a week ago (August 5th) a new Twitter account appeared. Nothing strange in that. But this one belonged to John Hegarty, Worldwide Creative Director ...
Big Society – a new opportunity for brands and the arts?
It’ll be a while before the full impact of the coalition’s swingeing cuts in the Arts world are realised, but one thing is clear: it’s forcing artists’ ha...
What customers want
(or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Obvious)
(also know as ‘The empty hamburger dilemma’)
Most new products and services fail. Thi...
Agile training day – another take on visual notetaking
I’ve swithered about posting these notes, given their visual inferiority to Tim’s. But what they lack in beauty, I hope they make up for in utility. I cer...
Sketchnotes: agile training day at Made by Many
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve put everyone at Made by Many through a day of Agile Training with Simon Baker and Gus Power from Energized Work.
T...
Wikileaks, news, and the stories within the story
At the start of this month I suggested that Rolling Stone’s McChrystal expose was the story of the year. I was wrong. Whistleblowing website Wikileaks’s r...
Collaborative working. New approaches.
We’re working on a side project, the details of which can wait for another post, and the very nature of it has prompted us to devise new methods for team ...
5 things I’m thinking about right now
A somewhat intentionally late entry to the question of “5 things you’re thinking about right now“:
1. The Opposite of Foursquare
Foursquare is hu...
Co-opting the introverts
Papa Sangre, being a “video game with no video” is just the kind of obtuse idea that I like. Furthermore, it appears to be closing in on a public release,...