News from the Rails Europe conference
Stuart and Alex are over in Berlin at the moment at the Rails Europe conference.
Mydeco.com signs JV deal with German publisher
I read in yesterday’s Telegraph that mydeco.com have signed a joint venture deal with German magazine publisher, Burda, for the sum of £2m. Having worked ...
It’s been worth the wait
A few of us at MxM have waited several weeks for O2 to sort out their supply issue with iPhones for business users (we nearly gave up and bought them as o...
You could always try dating…
With the economy in general down-turn and the consequent drop in advertising spend, we joked with a client last night that they should look at investing ...
Getting email around spam filters
Sending email programmatically can be tricky, especially if you’re sending it in bulk.
Unless you’re careful it tends to get marked as spam, and the p...
Protect The Human
Our latest release, Protect The Human, a social campaigning platform developed for Amnesty International’s UK division, marks an important milestone in Ma...
Rails Security Auditing
I’ve recently been doing a bit of Rails auditing, and I thought that I’d just run through the main things I check; all fairly generic attacks that aren’t ...
Tutorial: Easy Rails recommendations with 'acts_as_recommendable'
Following up on Alex MacCaw‘s post on collaborative filtering. The plugin we recently released acts_as_recommendable allows Rails developers to quickly ad...
Why we’re working with Rails
A few weeks ago I was quoted in a New Media Age article about Ruby On Rails and the London agency market (available online for subscribers) and it’s worth...
Recommendations & collaborative filtering
Data-based recommendations have really revolutionized marketing and web services, making patterns out of the massive amount of information collected about...
It’s not goodbye to UGC, it’s hello to SPUG
A client reported yesterday that members of the Europe-wide internet group of his parent company had reported that UGC (ooh, that ugly term) had crested t...
When design kills the content, or how to find a good social media designer
Made by Many is the first company that I’ve worked at that is solely focused on social media. This has come with its own opportunities and challenges, not...
Not For Tourists: web natives
Okay, this is the third and almost the last of my posts about who I met in NYC. Not for Tourists is an independent publisher of guidebooks. They do a...
A community for foodies: The Foodist Colony
Another of the cool people I met last week in New York was David Ziegler, founder of Foodist Colony – a community website that allows food lovers to ...
BeerMenus.com – my kinda site
I met Will Stephens for a beer last week in a pub in Williamsburg (I can’t remember what it was – very hoppy) to find out more about Beer Menus – a v...
P2P gardening community site swapping seeds: copyright theft?
MyFolia.com, an innovative new online gardening community and organiser that lets you list the plants you want to grow and matches you to gardeners w...
CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 selectors
I’ve been meaning to check out the more complex selectors in CSS 2.1 for a long time but never seemed to find the time to experiment. So having some downt...
Design and the elastic mind
MOMA have established a seriously inspiring online exhibition to accompany ‘Design and the Elastic Mind‘. It explores the impact that technology, science ...