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 […]
Category: Dharmafly Creations
Put Yourself on the Map
December 4, 2008 – 11:00 am
If you had a map and you could show it to anyone, what would you put on it? These days, maps are playing a big part in the development of social media. Imagine you were to run an event, or make a journey around the world, how could you represent it online? How could you […]
3-2-1, Blast Off to Planet Crunchy
September 6, 2008 – 9:30 am
URL: dharmafly.com/crunchies Planet what? ‘Planet‘ sites are a new and wonderful way to draw people with common interests together online… and today is the day we get to demonstrate how. What’s all this green stuff? This weekend, at Barcamp Brighton3, we’re giving Brighton’s best New Media pros some special treats, in the form of Dharmafly […]
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.
Goo Music
April 2, 2008 – 11:46 am
URL: goomusic.net Goo Music are a vibrant, young band management company in London. They manage The Subways, a high-energy band who are currently putting together the final touches to their second album and are about to launch a world tour. We’ve created a distinctive website for the business, in the style of a one-page fanzine […]
YLiveGroups: Live Video at BarcampBrighton2
March 15, 2008 – 1:09 pm
This weekend is BarcampBrighton2, a grassroots technology conference organised and run by the participants. Over the last couple of days, we’ve been piecing together a special Greasemonkey userscript for the conference, which enables Yahoo Live users to broadcast live video as a group. We call it YLiveGroups. » Install the script We first used Yahoo […]
Social Compost: Liberate Your Peelings!
March 14, 2008 – 11:57 am
I’ve submitted “Social Compost” as a project proposal to Social Innovation Camp. SI Camp is a grassroots conference, where social entrepreneurs and web developers get together to help each other out. A number of great ideas have been submitted, a few of which will be selected for the event. My idea is to connect local […]
SemanticCampLondon
February 19, 2008 – 1:45 pm
This weekend was SemanticCampLondon (alt) – a grassroots conference of semantic web developers. Semantics is all about meaning – and the idea of the “semantic web” is to use techniques that add greater and greater meaning to web content. The intention is for computers – as well as humans – to “understand” something of the […]
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 […]
BBC Bangladesh River Journey
November 7, 2007 – 3:00 pm
URL: www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/bangladeshboat Phew! We’ve been busy these last three weeks! From commission to launch in just 12 working days (and nights), Dharmafly has built a site for the BBC that explores social media and cutting edge Web technologies… The Bangladesh River Journey is a mashup of posts from a BBC World Service trip to track […]