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• Tutorial for restful_authentication on Rails with Facebook Connect in 15 minutes
• The future of wireframes?
• A Manifesto for Agile Strategy: oxymoron or innovation?
• Pulling Off The Optimal Platform Job
• Mumbai: flash mob or social media in action?

• ▼2010 (130)
  • ▼July (17)
    • Sketchnotes: Agile training day at Made by Many
    • Wikileaks, news, and the stories within the story
    • Collaborative working. New approaches.
    • 5 things I'm thinking about right now
    • Co-opting the introverts
    • Service principles for the post-modern news organisation
    • Antennagate: Can Schopenhauer Help?
    • In Conversation With John McCrea
    • Backing The Bucket (Follow The Twitter List)
    • What's Next for Location-Based Services?
    • Suggest a space on Ready for Ten
    • Made by Many Talk: John-Henry Barac on the Guardian iPhone App
    • CyberMummy - tales from the blogging frontline
    • Twitter Annotations are going to change your life
    • Guardian #Activate2010
    • A platform for parents - Ready for Ten presentation
    • Made by Many's London Digital Event Calendar
  • ►June (16)
    • London cycle hire scheme. Ripe for a mobile app.
    • Ready for Ten Skillscape - a utility for parents of 6-9 year olds
    • Clay at The RSA... Yay!
    • News, publishers, print and digital: an update
    • Hacking Safari Reader For Even Less Distraction
    • Reviewing Amazon.com
    • In case of emergency: Kevin Kelly
    • In The Night Garden: Transmedia storytelling platform for babies
    • The risks of parasitic apps
    • 125 banners, not so much clicking
    • Around Made by Many
    • Racking up the points...and the coins
    • Somewhere over the paywall: 3 predictions for news media
    • My name is Tim Malbon, and I am a Soreen Addict
    • Will Technology Creation enter its own Age of Abundance?
    • "Sometimes you have to destroy something you love"
  • ►May (8)
    • Our Digital World: A Snapshot
    • Three fallacies of newspaper thinking (and how paywalls cracked at the Frontline Club)
    • Why is Facebook so hard to love?
    • ARG-tastic, the world of the Alternate Reality Game.
    • Wanted: An Exceptional Objective-C Developer
    • Hey social web, a little privacy?
    • Designed by people that hate you. No, really
    • UK General Election candidates, who are they really?
  • ►April (12)
    • RFID packaging as a real-life eco platform
    • Steve Jobs: How to live before you die
    • Idea for a mobile app. Strategic shopping.
    • Backchannels: what's the potential?
    • Why I love TED talks
    • A review of iMapMyRide for the iPhone
    • iPhone OS 4.0: Now With Added Evil
    • A Day in the Life of a Project(s) Assistant...
    • Umair Haque is Confused About the iPad
    • Propagation Planning
    • iPhone Abroad: Usability Nightmare
    • Service design goes mainstream
  • ►March (32)
    • Designing for Collaboration: Reward and Reputation Systems
    • We love awesome stuff: Vote for Policies
    • Visual note-taking is the new religion
    • Who is your real competition?
    • When I grow up I'd like to be more like a start-up
    • Interview: Stefanie Posavec, beautifier of literature
    • We're hiring
    • We might be living in the wrong experiment
    • A Few Quick Questions: Pete Cashmore at SXSW 2010
    • Transient permanence
    • Too many tweets, but who’s the twat now?
    • A Manifesto for Agile Strategy: oxymoron or innovation?
    • Existentialism and flamethrowers at SXSWi
    • It's a wrap. SXSW over... 'til next year.
    • Birds of a feather flock together
    • The gang's back on home turf
    • Lazy panels and lazy tweeting
    • The Kingdom of Awesome
    • Can there ever be an online masterpiece?
    • Conflict resolution (or How to Deal with Bastards)
    • South by round up Day 1
    • Battle for Your TV: The Big TV Smackdown at SXSW
    • When blogging met Twitter: meet Ready for Ten
    • The iPad: one step forward, two steps back?
    • SXSW countdown: one day!
    • Paxo on Chatroulette
    • What I'm hoping for from SXSW
    • SXSW countdown: one week
    • A call to arms. Make way for 'the builders'.
    • Trying to describe what we do. It's complicated.
    • Gnawing on the bones of Hendrix
    • Introducing Made by Many's Posterous
  • ►February (15)
    • I love words: manopause, faffage, hellacious
    • Content design with cojones
    • Can I Have My Opinion Back, Please?
    • Online > offline: we still love paper goods
    • Discrepancy of scale: Ron Mueck
    • SXSW countdown: two weeks, one day
    • Going to SXSW? Come for a drink first
    • The Web is a Truth Machine
    • How Would A Robot Read a Novel?
    • SXSW countdown: three weeks, two days
    • Lurpak's Bake Club
    • Cloudculture, the internet wars and the sublimation of self
    • Why the Secret London Facebook group is so successful
    • Time for a reassessment of the human-computer interface
    • Apple Needs a Good Syncing Story Quickly (Or: How We Need that Syncing Feeling)
  • ►January (30)
    • SXSW’ward, ho!
    • A transatlantic breakfast summit
    • The Nike+ for ... sleeping
    • Wizards and haptic gestures
    • Delightful punctuation
    • New Year resolutions? How are they going?
    • Buzzing around Made by Many: January 2010
    • Creation, curation and social contract
    • Objectified: giving objects memories
    • Persuasive signup
    • Excellent, a real-life Skinner Box
    • Is the Social Web a loony magnet?
    • Pictory - A beautiful example of online editorial design
    • Awww... we were so analogue back then!
    • King banner
    • We've sorted the UX. How about the EX?
    • Penelope Umbrico rocks
    • Are we just mice trapped in a digital 'Skinner Box'?
    • A rant about how society recognize talent
    • How Facebook is digging a grave for online marketing
    • What if Apple became a bank?
    • A time to Twitter and a time to... not
    • Isolating teh awesome
    • The more you try and practice Agile the less agile you become. And vice versa
    • Less and more. Not so much
    • The Concept *is* the Execution
    • Agile as a 'Cargo Cult'
    • Twitter, the spine of the Internet
    • Old media vs. new media...and then some
    • 2010 Prediction: Many people will continue to not get it
• ►2009 (153)
  • ►December (10)
    • The TV of the Future
    • Why Twitter could do with a shhhhh button
    • Apps for Telly
    • It’s all about emotions, silly
    • The DIYist
    • Personal Platforms and the Future Of Communication
    • It’s OK to fail
    • Branded food disasters
    • Great writing does not depend on the tools
    • Enough of the R-word!
  • ►November (8)
    • Bookshops are not dead. Long may it remain so.
    • Measuring
    • Creative Review, D&AD and Adobe round table discussion on the Future of Advertising
    • Tear down this wall! Crowdsourcing comes of age
    • Life after Verdana
    • I've been Bosewatched
    • We've been nominated for a BIMA, and now we need your votes
    • Look Into My Eyes, with Twitter Lists
  • ►October (10)
    • Spot the difference: mobile phone websites
    • Looking towards more flexible web-based editorial design
    • Brand fiction and the case of Mad Men
    • Death to the banner ad, long live brand stories
    • Grow a spine you wimps
    • "Get Excited And Make Things"
    • Plotting a critical path
    • Google Wave is Underwhelming
    • Pulling Off The Optimal Platform Job
    • iPhone Developers and Language Snobbery
  • ►September (13)
    • I've had a baby. What have you all been up to?
    • We love you Spotify, but wouldn't it be great if...
    • Agile measurement
    • The future of the social web
    • Engagement vs. measurement
    • Stuff that's been floating around the office - September 2009
    • Why you should pay attention to your friends of friends (and their friends)...
    • Protect The Human - new designs for Campaign pages
    • Metrotwin Mumbai is now live!
    • Climate Squad: from social media to social movement
    • RSA talk: Connected Minds, Loneliness & Social Brains
    • Data viz talk sparks passionate debate (and a manifesto)
    • The journalist's new research tool. Twitter.
  • ►August (9)
    • LOVEFiLM homepage redesign
    • New Made by Many Event: Manuel Lima - A deep dive into data visualization
    • Made By Many at 2010 SXSWi? You Can Make It Happen!
    • Designing motivational services
    • Car ad agency brilliance
    • Protect The Human's new Actions pages now live
    • Protect The Human's Campaigns pages get a new look
    • Serendipity... WTF?
    • How Apple Exemplifies a Culture of Love Over Greed
  • ►July (10)
    • Stuff that's been floating around the office - July 2009
    • Some of the best talks at TED Global 2009
    • Moving beyond a shallow definition of "social media"
    • Tim Malbon at the IPA's Game Changers event
    • The IPA Free Event
    • On Greed and Innovation
    • Goodwood Festival of Speed
    • Taking a look at the social media landscape in China
    • What IS the future of free?
    • Howard Rheingold speaks at MxM Event: Smart Mobs Revisited
  • ►June (8)
    • Stuff that's been floating around the office - May/June 2009
    • Protect The Human, now with Facebook Connect
    • What is a browser?
    • Whoever did this should be shot
    • The Micropayments Are Coming
    • Compass and Video on the IPhone opens up an Augmented Reality World
    • Looking at the innovation process at Ideo
    • Comments on Gordon Brown's political career
  • ►May (15)
    • Who you gonna call?
    • Here comes SocialMod
    • Protect The Human new homepage
    • News: new release of Amnesty's ProtectTheHuman.com
    • New release of Amnesty's ProtectTheHuman.com
    • Why we don’t subscribe to Rupert Murdoch, and why we need a new kind of money
    • Aaron Koblin on data visualization
    • HTML/CSS ninja and a couple of interns wanted!!
    • Highlights from Mark Boulton’s presentation at FOWD London 2009
    • Temporary Autonomous Zone revisited
    • Is FriendFeed the new Twitter?
    • Data visualisation is the new rock'n'roll
    • Made By Many's new home
    • The Web as a Column of The Ocean
    • The future of wireframes?
  • ►April (12)
    • OolaMoola
    • How can we present our work?
    • Stuff that's been floating around the office - April 2009
    • Behind the scenes of LOVEFiLM's new product pages
    • A Rails Security Flaw - Destroying The Audit Trail
    • The Renaissance Is On Its Way: Thoughts on Social and Agile Ideas
    • How to be better at digital, or interactive, or new media or whatever it's called...
    • TweetMod - Moderated Twitter Stream
    • SocialMod - Moderation Service
    • Branded Utilities wiki
    • My hunch on Hunch
    • Thoughts on an open-source method of dealing with the financial crisis
  • ►March (19)
    • Case study: Amnesty UK 'Campaigning with Social Media'
    • Crowdsourcing a crowdsourcing list
    • Spooky gallery of Twitter horror-avatars
    • Crowdsourcing Examples
    • Is your attention worth more than mine?
    • Stuff that's been floating around the office - March 2009
    • A community generated zombie documentary
    • We gotta get out of town...
    • Many hats
    • SXSW-Free Twitter with Pipes. But what we need is middleware..
    • Designing the Future of The New York Times
    • So who's your Female Social Media Guru, then?
    • Seth Godin's London Session transcript - here you go!
    • Looking swell online: How avatars suit you
    • Time to change
    • "Twitter: What's all the fuss about?" presentation
    • Why all newspapers need a printed permalink
    • Stuff that's been floating around the office: February 2009
    • Skittles' radical trust experiment with Twitter
  • ►February (22)
    • How to disable IE6 in your Rails applications
    • Google says hello on Twitter
    • Tutorial for restful_authentication on Rails with Facebook Connect in 15 minutes
    • And here's something else "they" will struggle to understand...
    • Social media and the recession
    • Barriers to understanding Twitter
    • Hello World: I am so alone here on the internet.
    • Thoughts on Seth Godin's London Session
    • The Power of the Masses: The Pink Chaddi Campaign
    • London Twestival - the place for us seen to be seen
    • Have I seen this before?
    • Twitter to start charging for commercial use
    • A Novel Use of Twitter
    • The shift in marketing reality
    • The Hayseed Chronicles and Mr. Toppit now tops my must reads
    • Userfly - great for testing your users
    • Clay Shirky on group action getting easier
    • Do you trust 'social media experts'?
    • Will Lions is the new Lynnetter
    • Moderation types
    • Mostly gloom for glossies
    • Follow me: Seven online communities I'm on right now
  • ►January (17)
    • What the fig is burp.fm?
    • Stuff that's been floating around the office during the last 2 weeks
    • The first real-time presidency
    • Fashion Swap - we should all be stylish as we (credit) crunch
    • "What Is a Social-Media Agency?"
    • I don't know how our parents managed to meet
    • A visual take on volunteering
    • The future of advertising according to the IPA
    • Stuff that's been floating around the office - week ending 15th January 2009
    • LastGraphing it away
    • The first Measurement Camp of 2009
    • Crowd-funded filmaking
    • Stuff that's been floating around the office - week ending January 9th, 2009
    • Jock Kenneir is turning, no SPINNING, in his grave
    • Saasy - SaaS for Rails
    • More nice words about Metrotwin
    • Should patients be allowed to review their GPs?
• ►2008 (91)
  • ►December (15)
    • Thoughts on the concepts of popularity, authority and originality on Twitter
    • Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
    • Stuff that's been floating around the office - December 2008
    • BBC IPlayer Desktop on AIR. It's all a little bit tricky.
    • A Christmas Story
    • Metrotwin's in Contagious!
    • World Economic Forum goes full steam ahead with social media
    • WTF is Doostang?
    • A nice note from Amnesty UK
    • We love Mixwit
    • Saucy - use any font on your website
    • Morons ahoy!
    • December already...
    • Mapple, Mobbs, Brainiac Bar....sound familiar?!
    • Around the web in 3 new ideas
  • ►November (15)
    • Bring on the #moron filter
    • Anyone interested in the stock market on Twitter?
    • Amplified '08
    • Remember your first Tweet?
    • Mumbai: flash mob or social media in action?
    • Stuff that's been floating around the office this month
    • Ruby Manor
    • On being digital, transparent and generous
    • Old wine, new bottles (or why it will pay to be young in TV)
    • The future of digital agencies
    • New era shopping for the digital generation
    • Hello from the newbie, plus an interesting link
    • Around the world in 90 days... with Twitter
    • What a nice letter about Metrotwin.com
    • Playful 2008
  • ►October (12)
    • Time for tea
    • How do you say London in type?
    • The communication IS the product
    • Goodbye Leon
    • Protect The Human success re 'No' to 42 days
    • See no evil, from Amnesty International
    • Just say no to Latin
    • It's not all doom and gloom
    • Yearbook Yourself
    • Metrotwin Recommends
    • The social web: together we can be perfect(ish)
    • Tag a Dummer
  • ►September (7)
    • New Media Age Top 100 says we're "Ones to watch..."
    • Metrotwin.com err.. "takes off"
    • Amnesty's 'Protect The Human' on BoingBoing - save Troy Davis
    • “Leveraging Cognitive Bias in Social Design” - Joshua Porter, Dconstruct 2008
    • Rails Conf Europe 08
    • News from the Rails Europe conference
    • Mydeco.com signs JV deal with German publisher
  • ►August (9)
    • It's been worth the wait
    • You could always try dating...
    • Getting email around spam filters
    • Protect The Human
    • Rails Security Auditing
    • Tutorial: Easy Rails recommendations with acts_as_recommendable
    • Why we're working with Rails
    • Recommendations & Collaborative Filtering
    • It's not goodbye to UGC, it's hello to SPUG
  • ►July (1)
    • When design kills the content, or how to find a good social media designer
  • ►June (4)
    • Not For Tourists: web natives
    • A community for foodies: The Foodist Colony
    • BeerMenus.com - my kinda site
    • P2P gardening community site swapping seeds: copyright theft?
  • ►May (1)
    • CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 selectors
  • ►April (5)
    • Design and the Elastic Mind
    • Rockstar Developers
    • Brilliant graph of the Web's growth
    • How much advertising is already crowdsourced?
    • You give me Frrvrr
  • ►March (3)
    • On inspiration...
    • Oops! Natmags CEO hits back at New Media Age
    • "Instant design decisions for busy people"
  • ►February (14)
    • Snapshot of a designer #1
    • When crowds get wise
    • Act like a start-up
    • Taking 'Crowdsourcing' to its logical conclusion
    • Using Capistrano with PHP, specifically Wordpress
    • Encouragement from a fortune cookie
    • Now the little guy can afford the Semantic Web
    • How accurate is Alexa? Test reveals all (almost)
    • Taken with Toonlet
    • The world of New York taxis finally explained
    • MyDeco.com takes the pain out of interior decorating
    • Matterbox: not just a box of old crap, honest...
    • Magazine design redux
    • Seesmic rocks
  • ►January (5)
    • World through my camera lenses
    • Taking on PNG files in IE
    • Anything but the Dewey decimal system
    • How the Internet can still delight
    • Welcome to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Again.