On the 17th and 18th November 2008, Chain Reaction will bring together social leaders, community activists, policy makers, business leaders, young people and people like you from around the globe to share learning and to generate new ideas for social change, locally, nationally and globally.
In an event spread ... read more
The new, spankingly webby, 2.0 Joost is good - well done there. A far cry from the incessantly buggy and severely UI challenged application that was its predecessor (which surprisingly attracted £20m and more VC funding).
I have one problem (well, more, but am trying to stay focussed) with it, however, and it's ... read more
You may recall we were busting a gut about 5 months ago to get live tv working in the web browser on the iPhone - without any application installs (always a barrier to a good user base). There's a video of our first attempt here. We managed to keep that stream going ... read more
You can imagine the scene. A company makes a bit of tv software that's web based and brainstorm on how to market it. "Let's make it like a film trailer", they say. "Just like you see on TV".Brilliant decision guys. It's The Day Today for real.Visit the link and click on the Play ... read more
We love Animoto. Works seamlessy as well as being a Rails app. Nice one guys.
But it's a bit too MTV for our liking (we still listen to The Smiths here, for christ's sake). And it doesn't let me pick a style that I know my son would love or tailor a ... read more
This is from Workclub, a digital advertising thingy outfit which an old PlayJammer, Andy Sandoz, started a while back. The cleverest bit of viral promotion I've seen in a long while (and I bet it saves them money). I'd hire them just on the strength of this. read more
Have a look at Wordle - utter brilliance (thanks Jemima). Only Java application I've ever, ever liked. Just enter some text or an RSS feed and, in their own words: "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more ... read more
When you're developing products, there is always the worry that the initial vision gets battered by the development process so heavily that a completely different beast rolls off at the finish line. Sometimes this is a good thing - like the BBC iPlayer, which originally was a blouted bastard child ... read more
How long have we waited for this? Considering the whole thing was rendered in real time in synchronization with the music track, then the fact it has been languishing on the server for the past 4 weeks says a lot about the organisation of stuff around here. read more
