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Rattle’s books, naked

Fancy a peek at the Rattle bookshelves? Well, here’s our collection of hardbacks:

See ditching the dust jackets for an explanation of why they’re missing their glossy covers.

Muddy: Playing with the Powerhouse

We’re releasing Muddy in the next couple of weeks (as a web service complete with a range of APIs and also as an appliance you can rack).
It’s a service that indexes your content and finds ‘notable’ things and can tell you about those notable things (because the entities we identify are part of linked data).
This [...]

Blue plaques project update: How to create ‘guerilla plaques’

I thought I’d update you all on our blue plaques project, which has been pitched to 4iP.
The idea has evolved slightly. We’re taking it in a direction beyond simply making information about pre-existing blue plaques available on your mobile phone, and more towards building a service and a community where people can suggest new people, [...]

“As Reported”, a 4IP pitch

This post is one of many we’re going to be (hopefully) doing opening up the ideas we have which we feel have some value and which could benefit from your feedback.

This pitch was given to the Yorkshire launch of 4IP on the 4th February 2009. It was one of four pitches shortlisted for two pots [...]

Another idea: ‘What Happened Here?’

Ewan McIntosh over on the 4iP blog has picked up on our new policy of setting ideas free (starting with Bands From Here), in a blog post debating the transparency and opaqueness of the 4iP pitching process. There’s even talk of a ‘turned down by 4iP’ wiki.
I thought I’d continue our spirit of openness by [...]

Bands From Here

We submitted a few ideas for MIPTV’s Content 360 Innovation competition a while back, in the category of ‘engaging teens locally’ (sponsored by the BBC). The brief was for ideas that “will help encourage teenage audiences to
develop interests in, and to reflect, their local communities across
the UK”.
We’ve just found out that one of the ideas [...]

A crisp taste test challenge

We like crisps here at Rattle. So when we spotted the new Walkers crisp flavours - which were nominated by members of the public in a competition - we thought we should try them out.
Rather than just taste them though, we thought we’d see if we could identify all the flavours in a blind taste [...]

Our upcoming conferences and events

Well, it’s a whole new year. ‘2009′ - the end of a decade (I wonder if we really will look back and call it the ‘naughties’?).
To welcome in the new year, I thought we should kick off with a blog post about the events we’ll be going to in the coming months.
On Wednesday this week [...]

‘Prepare to die’ - an idea for Social Innovation Camp

Rattle were at London’s Kings Cross Hub last night for the announcement of the ideas that will take part in December’s Social Innovation Camp. This is a weekend-long affair, at which designers, thinkers, social entrepreneurs and coders will meet to develop seven socially-benefiting ideas into working prototypes.
Rattle submitted an idea called Prepare to die, which [...]

Pitching The Great Manchester Cultural Cookoff

We were at the Whitworth Art Gallery last week to give our final pitch in Manchester Beacon’s ‘Mapping Creativity‘ project, after being shortlisted in October.
Our proposal is for a social website and event called The Great Manchester Cultural Cookoff.
You can find out more about the project, by watching the video of the pitch, presented by [...]

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