Cloudculture, the internet wars and the sublimation of self

The launch event for Charles Leadbetter’s Cloudculture pamphlet at the ICA last night let loose a rain-shower of thoughts about individuality and ownershi...

William Owen   ·   9 February 2010

Why the Secret London Facebook group is so successful

Tim recently pointed me in the direction of a Facebook group called Secret London. It currently has 188k members. This isn’t entirely surprising until you...

Mike Laurie   ·   9 February 2010

Time for a reassessment of the human-computer interface

A great blog post by Lukas Mathis has been floating around Twitter for a few days now. In it he talks about the removal of features in software developmen...

Simon I'Anson   ·   3 February 2010

Apple needs a good syncing story quickly (or: how we need that syncing feeling)

Now that the dust has settled from the latest application of the Reality Distortion Field and we are all salivating at the chance to get our hands on the ...

James Higgs   ·   2 February 2010

SXSW’ward, ho!

Big news, little doggies…

Flights have been booked, passports renewed, and Tim’s brought his ten-gallon out of mothballs. Yes, that’s right — Ma...

Sara Williams   ·   29 January 2010

A transatlantic breakfast summit

This morning I took part in a transatlantic blogger meet-up in the Martini Lounge (alas, not a one in sight, though it was 9am) at the new Arch Hotel.

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Sara Williams   ·   28 January 2010

The Nike+ for … sleeping

There’s a pretty cool iPhone app that I’ve been trying out for a few days nights which seems to capture the imagination of everyone I talk/Twitter/Faceboo...

Justin McMurray   ·   28 January 2010

Wizards and haptic gestures

One response among designers and UX folk to Apple’s new iPad has been to criticise the effort required of users to command the haptic interface. Microsoft...

Mike Laurie   ·   28 January 2010

Delightful punctuation

As an erstwhile pedant and ex-employee of a major dictionary publisher, I have had my fair share of run-ins with punctuation. So I chuckled to see this br...

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   28 January 2010

New Year resolutions? How are they going?

It used to be fags and booze that people gave up as a New Year resolution. 2010 was the first year I heard lots of people claiming they wanted to giv...

Tim Malbon   ·   27 January 2010

Buzzing around Made by Many: January 2010

This post is a sort of modified version of my ‘Stuff that’s floating around the office’ posts that I used to do earlier. With our increased use of Twitter...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   27 January 2010

Creation, curation and social contract

People are sharing stuff online more than ever before. The popularity of services such as bit.ly, ShareThis and even Twitter are evidence of this.

You...

Mike Laurie   ·   27 January 2010

Objectified: giving objects memories

This time last year I was deep in third year project stress at university.  Given the guideline that we could do ‘anything’ there was initially quite a bi...

Tara Bloom   ·   27 January 2010

Persuasive signup

Signup forms are always a pain in the arse. For a long time, the volume of email addresses captured (as if they could get away) has been a pointless littl...

Mike Laurie   ·   25 January 2010

Excellent, a real-life Skinner Box

Instead of rodents, they’re using journalists – and instead of a Skinner Box they’ll be locked inside a French farmhouse in Perigord for five days and onl...

Tim Malbon   ·   24 January 2010

Is the Social Web a loony magnet?

The BBC’s Digital Revolution blog has been telling the story of the making of the new BBC2 series (which may be called The Virtual Revolution(?)) tha...

Tim Malbon   ·   24 January 2010

Pictory – A beautiful example of online editorial design

I’ve talked before about exploring different ways of navigating and consuming content online.

I first came across Pictory a few weeks ago and absolute...

Simon I'Anson   ·   21 January 2010

Awww… we were so analogue back then!

Digital technology is such an ingrained part of most of our lives these days that I think we forget just how far it has come in our lifetimes.

We...

Sara Williams   ·   20 January 2010