Apps for the people
We’ve worked on a great spectrum of social web applications, from interactive apps for The Science Museum and Press Association, to crowd-sourced lobbying tools for WaterAid, data visualisations for Participle and The Guardian, collaboration apps for Bright One and NetDev, and long-term community building with the National Deaf Children’s Society. Most of these projects have come to us as recommendations from previous clients.
We’ve also been working on an ongoing series of high-profile apps for BBC World Service. Several of our productions have won awards from Yahoo!, the BBC, Sony, Hewlett-Packard and UnLtd.
☞ Read more about what we’re doing, in our blog
Data Visualisation
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Southwark Circle’s Social Impact

A visualisation that uses real-time data from Participle’s “Southwark Circle” welfare project, to track the life changes of members within a real-world community. -
Government spending data, for The Guardian

Exposing the hidden stories within the UK Treasury’s historic release of public spending data, produced for The Guardian. Read more. -
Backr

Backr is a real-world peer support network for people moving into a new career. We built a richly visual approach for people to sign up.
Collaboration Tools
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Drum

A web app for meetings, conference calls and sharing documents. It uses responsive design for desktop browsers, tablets like iPad and smartphones like iPhone, and is built with Node.js on the back-end and Backbone.js and HTML5 on the front. Created for NetDev and currently in private beta. -
BrightWorks

A visually immersive task-management app to help volunteers perform tiny tasks for charities, using our open-source engine “Tasket”. Read more.
Widgets
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BBC World Service widget

Dharmafly’s widget for BBC World Service displays articles, audio and video for news from around the world.It has versions for 12 different languages and global regions, and can be run on personal blogs, Facebook, WordPress, iGoogle, Netvibes, Opera and the desktop. Read more.
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International Tree Foundation widget

This is a simple little widget that allows sponsors of the International Tree Foundation to display on their website the number of trees that they have donated. The number updates automatically when new trees are planted. -
MiShorts widget

The MiShorts widget displays the latest short films from directors on the MiShorts film network.
Mapping
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BBC Bangladesh River Journey

This site, built for BBC World Service, follows 40 journalists on a boat trip through Bangladesh to track climate change. The map can be explored, to show the the team’s blog posts, tweets and photos from along the way.The site won major industry awards for its cutting-edge use of social media and visualisation. Read more.
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EastHampshire.org

We created interactive maps to display community events, news and groups for East Hampshire’s social networking website. Read more. -
BBC Talking America

A live site for the BBC World Service crew, as they journeyed across America in a social media bus, finding the views of everyday Americans, in advance of the historic 2008 presidential elections.Our site dynamically pulls in the BBC’s photos on Flickr and lays them alongside the journalists’ writings on an interactive map of the United States, following the bus along its journey. Read more.
Open Source

You can download or fork our free, open source code libraries, tools and applications at github.com/dharmafly and github.com/premasagar.
Community
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Async
We created Brighton’s popular JavaScript developers’ meetup group, “Async”, for local knowledge sharing and collaboration. Twice per month since 2009, we’ve had an incredible line-up of talks, workshops, demo nights and hackathons.
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Lab for the Recently Possible
Lab for the Recently Possible (L4RP) is our creative, experimental, educational workspace in Brighton & Hove. We’ve held regular community ‘Lab Days’ for learning and building with new web technologies, hosted student interns, taught non-coders to code and curated a creative atmosphere, filled with plants, paintings, books, robots and trinkets. Read more.
Museum installations
Science Museum’s Atmosphere

Our concept development formed part of the touchscreen interface at the Science Museum’s major gallery on climate science “Atmosphere”.
Monitoring & lobbying
WASHwatch.org

A grassroots tool for workers of WaterAid, Unicef, Oxfam and Save the Children to report on how each government around the world is keeping its promises on water, sanitation & hygiene.
Citizenship
GOV.UK

A huge effort to re-imagine the one-stop website for all government services in the UK. We played just a tiny part of it: to help prototype a framework for walking through questions to reach a simple answer (e.g. maternity pay).
Art & Culture
Artfinder

We built a small collection of components for the iPhone, iPad and Android applications of this innovative art discovery service (more info).
Web Strategy
National Deaf Children’s Society

We worked with the National Deaf Children’s Society over a number of months, helping them become more effective at their use of blogging, social networks such as Facebook, and web-based productivity tools for their distributed groups of charity volunteers.
Site Redesign
Bright One

An ethical PR company, connecting students, mentors and charities. We simplified, re-organised and re-designed Bright One‘s website, in preparation for their new phase of growth. (the old site)
Little Tools
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HackHUD

Scripted in just 24-hours, HackHUD won an award for its overlaying of user-generated media, live inside the BBC’s news website. -
Flickr AllSizes+

An application for Flickr that makes it easier to include photos in blog posts and more. -
Portfolio Viewer

A portfolio viewer for illustrations, sketches and paintings by Mary Kuper.
Give us a call to discuss your project.


