Author Archives: martyndavies

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Schulze & Webb partner Matt Webb really wants a heard of plastic cows for his house. Fact. This is all good, I like cows as well and I’ve often mused with my good friend Rob whether it would be possible to engineer a herd of real, live miniature cows that would graze freely in my [...]
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Links for 30-07-2008

Viral Marketing Law Elements of viral marketing and how they relate to UK law
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Links for 25-07-2008

Beijing Olympics Map from the BBC Sports journalist Ollie Williams details the development, features and plans for this all encompassing maps application   BBC Beijing Olympics Map Really nice mashup of tools from around the web. Their idea to display Tweets that are geocoded to position sounds good, can’t wait to see it in action
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Links for 23-07-2008

Social Media Stats Wiki gathering together as many stats on social media as possible, really handy for those presentations and what not!
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Links for 21-07-2008

Ideas that YCombinator would like to invest in Nice open post from YCombinator on the areas of new technology and the internet that interest and, if you’re really lucky, would attract cash!  
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Rockterscale Teaser

I’ve added a fun little extra to the projects I’m currently working on. This one is set to launch towards the end of August and will be the first I’ve lead for the BBC that revolves around hardware hacking. The hastily thrown together diagram below illustrates, in the most basic sense, what we’re trying to [...]
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Links for 20-07-2008

Upload new build to Arduino via the web I’m currently working on a project that I’m hoping we use Arduino to build – this could be valuable to make changes to it once they’re deployed.
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Links for 11-06-2008

Yahoo’s ‘Reputation’ design patterns Yahoo have released loads of helpful tools to aid planning, designing and thinking around UX, UI and business process. This set is based around visualising reputation.
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Links for 10-06-2008

Open Archives: Interoperability through metdata Interesting little piece of OS work around archiving data. Built up through long term usage and development as a bespoke product.
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Links for 07-06-2008

More Mike Butcher on the BBC Mike’s prepared to set up an event where the BBC get to answer back the recent criticisms. I think it would be a strong stance to take and a pretty enjoyable event! I’m in (not for the panel – oh no.)
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