Stuff that’s been floating around the office during the last 2 weeks

It’s taken me a while to get down to compile this – we’ve been busy at Made By Many! I was actually contemplating the necessity of this series of posts but then figured it’s a nice way of keeping our readers clued in to the kinds of things that interest us and therefore the kind of company we are. So here goes:

1. I Want You To Want Me: The brilliant team behind We Feel Fine, Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, have come up with a visualisation of online dating – a very beautiful one, might I add.

2. TypeDeskRef: Do you know what a ‘historiated letter’ is? If not, you may want to get a copy of Type Desk Ref, which explains typographic terms. 

3. A visual repertoire of Obama’s run for the White House: The biggest event of last week was definitely the swearing-in of the 44th President of the United States. Tim’s written about it in our last post. This is a site that chronicles all the online things to do with Obama since the start of his campaign. 

4. Photosynth of the swearing-in: CNN teamed up with Microsoft to consolidate all the images that people who were present at the inauguration took, and submitted. 

5. Whitehouse.gov before and after: We must give credit to the man of the moment and his team for making the switch-over so quickly. Bush gives way to Obama – and look how the official White House website changed!

6. We are All Gonna Die: There is something eerily beautiful about the ’100 metres of existence’ screen. Take a look. By Simon Hoegsberg.

7. YouTube videos now embeddable in Slideshare: ReadWriteWeb reports on this rather useful feature. 

8. En Million Historier: Danish site based on the ‘create a story’ idea.

9. Starbucks Pledge 5: Pledge 5 hours of your time to community service, and get a free coffee from Starbucks. Reminiscent of Orange Rock Corps. As Tim said, there’s definitely an Obama effect in terms of ‘doing good’!!

10. The history of the internet: This has been going around for the last week, so now it’s our turn to pop it on our blog! Jokes apart, it’s a great visualisation.

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

11. DiggGraphr: A graphical representation of the stories that are big on Digg.