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OpenFreecycle won at OpenHackLondon!

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 […]

Twitterer Floats Away at Twestival

This month, we’re taking great pleasure in helping out both the London and Brighton Twestivals on the 12th of February. We’re donating a mind-expanding, floaty prize to the London Twestival raffle, and we’re a main sponsor for the Brighton Twestival.

Twitter Gets Real

Twestival is a global series of local events, happening in over 100 cities worldwide (including London and Brighton), on 12 February 2009. Twestival bridges the gap between the off- and online worlds. It provides a chance for communities on Twitter (a web service that allows users to share their thoughts with their peers) to meet […]

It’s Getting Windy in Here

After a thorough search, we are now working with a new web hosting provider for the websites that we manage. Web hosting is where a website lives on the Web. It needs to be fast, reliable and supported by a dedicated technical team. And… it needs to be powered by 100% renewable energy. Web hosting […]

Social Compost: Liberate Your Peelings!

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 […]

Climate Change in Social Media

I am afraid it is no exaggeration to say that what we saw was a hellish scene. [source] It has been a sobering experience to see reports of the Bangladesh cyclone – and to watch them flow through the Bangladesh River Journey site we built for BBC World Service. The project’s original aim was to […]

BBC Bangladesh River Journey

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 […]