URL: dharmafly.com/hpwebos-hackday/demo/ I went along with Andrea and Sym to The Guardian to join a hack day for HP’s new TouchPad tablet – an interesting alternative to the iPad that uses web standard technologies for creating native mobile applications. We won the competition(!) with a prototype app for exploring live web content, such as news, […]
Category: Awards
OpenFreecycle won at OpenHackLondon!
May 15, 2009 – 3:20 pm
URL: dharmafly.com/openfreecycle Streuth. Hot on the heels of last week’s UnLtdWorld award, I was amazed to experience the web application that I created with Tom Leitch being awarded the top two prizes Yahoo’s OpenHackLondon. And this, after winning a prize with ‘HackHUD‘ at the previous Hack Day London, two years earlier (the famous one, when […]
We Won a Bric!
May 12, 2009 – 6:06 am
At last week’s beautiful UnLtdWorld first birthday gathering, I was honoured to collect a shiny BRIC award, for “using technology for social good in the most creative and innovative way”. Thank you to everyone who voted for Dharmafly, and to all who have supported us in the last 2 years. There were five award categories,
Nominated for an UnLtdWorld BRIC Award
April 22, 2009 – 10:05 am
Dharmafly are chuffed to have been nominated for a BRIC award with UnLtdWorld, the social network for social entrepreneurs. You can vote with your feet (erm, your mouse) right here. Since its launch, one year ago, UnLtdWorld has gone from strength to strength as a platform for collaboration, helping people to work together for social change. We’re listed in […]
Bangladesh River Journey Wins Industry Awards
May 14, 2008 – 3:17 pm
The Bangladesh River Journey, a BBC World Service project to track climate change, for which we built the interactive mini-site, has recently received two prestigious awards. These awards recognise the innovative way that the project brought social media reporting on important global issues into an engaging user-experience.
HackHUD
December 13, 2007 – 5:52 pm
Well, this one didn’t get blogged yet… Back in June, we stayed up all night at the BBC / Yahoo Hack Day in London. The task was to combine data sources and build something experimental – and a little bit edgy. We forged a script to enhance mainstream news sites (such as BBC News) with […]