Apps for the people
We’ve worked on a great spectrum of social web applications, from interactive apps for The Science Museum, 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.
Collaboration Tools
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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. -
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.
Web Strategy
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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.
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
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.
Social Media
Goo Music

Dharmafly’s social media radar for band managers, Goo Music, synchronises their Twitter and MySpace posts as well as those of their feisty band, The Subways. The design takes the form of a homemade fanzine. Read more.
Rafi.ki

This global social network connects first- and third-world schoolchildren, with video conferencing, chat and collaborative projects. We created the visual design and information architecture for the charity, Gemin-i.
Thoughts of PR Sarkar

A social media campaign of inspirational blog posts, tweets and a Facebook app of quotes from Indian philosopher, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar.
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. -
GoldenRectanglizer

An app for photographers and artists to use the Golden Ratio when cropping images. -
Portfolio Viewer

A portfolio viewer for illustrations, sketches and paintings by Mary Kuper.
Site Redesign
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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) -
Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust

We re-structured and re-designed the website and content management software for the UK’s largest brain cancer charity. (the old site)
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