Archive : December 2008

So the Twittersphere is abuzz again. This time with talks of who the people with authority on Twitter are, or, as these sites prefer to call it, Twitority or Twithority. To start with, let me point you to a few well-written blog posts – which were highlighted by the folks at Made By Many – that provide much of the food for this post: Pete Sabilla on Twitter Combinatorics, Phil Windley on Asymmetric Follow,JP Rangaswami’s experiment on the breadth of information on Twitter, TechCrunch on re-tweeting as a measure of authority, Dan Zarrella on the most re-tweeted people on Twitter and MichaelLitman’s thoughts on Twitority.

Elin took this photo of us during the Christmas trip to Dorset last week, and now she’s customised it beautifully as well!!! Happy Holidays, everyone!

I thought I might as well make a habit out of this, since there are some really entertaining and interesting websites or news articles that continue to be passed around at Made By Many – some new, some not so new but all a good read. In December, these were some of the things that occupied our attention, however briefly (we do work, in case you were wondering!):

1. Good.is: A collaboration of individuals, businesses and nonprofits pushing the world forward. (courtesy David)

It’s news we have expected for a while, and it’s here in big bold BETA. The BBC IPlayer Desktop is going to let you download IPlayer video to watch offline at a later date (well within 7 days as it’s using Flash Digital Rights Management Server to protect the catch-up window).

At Made by Many, young as we are, a tradition has emerged. This involves heaps of driftwood, the sound of wet, salty waves, mud that sticks like glue to your boots and pants, a terrifying death slide and a frying pan with attitude. Not necessarily in that order.

I read in the Guardian yesterday that the World Economic Forum, held in Davos in January/February every year, is really picking up in terms of outreach to users through social media. In advance of the meeting next month, they are inviting web users to start discussing important global issues.

I received this wonderfully cretinous spam email this evening, inviting me to join what looks like a professional social networking service that promises to get you a great job.Yeah – you know, a great job like for example:

Last week we received a nice email from Amnesty UK, one of our clients, about the work we’re doing on Protect The Human.

We’ve been having a lot of fun with Mixwit recently. We did one for Metrotwin – a mixtape based on places in New York to match one that was done by one of Metrotwin’s blogging contributors WeeBirdy for London. Now we’ve gone and done one for our client Amnesty International UK to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.