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Week #1275

James seems to have been a whirlwind of activity this week, making the rest of us look like three-toed sloth’s in comparison.  His particular achievements have included : Writing the report for project Clarkston Researching dashboards (see http://www.technogoggles.com/2010/07/dashboards-for-pretending/) Writing up the workshop for the Huddersfield Music festival Chasing the Natwest to try and get statements so we [...]

Week #1274

Hello. It’s year end so we’ve been paper shuffling, identifying and bug tracking the odd anomaly in the accounts. It’s the kind of activity that’s crying out to be made more playful and interesting (a web service-cum-mech-turk like Mazuma perhaps?) because it really is so deathly dull that I’ve precious little incentive to do it. [...]

Introducing the Holiday Calculator App

We launched a mobile phone app this week. It’s called the Holiday Calculator App. It’s a first for us in a few different ways: the first thing we’ve done targetted at mobiles, the first time we’ve really started to use HTML5 features, and the first consumer app that we’ve released for sale. So, I thought [...]

Week #1273

Near the studio there is a square of greying tarmac, scarred with the foundations of playground equipment long since removed and banked on three sides by a glorious wildflower border. I had thought that the display was an unintentional but welcome, showy demonstration of ground left wild. I  paused by the corner this week and [...]

Week #1272

Wow, this week has flown by. The most interesting thing we did this week was on Wednesday, where we had the whole team in the office for our second internal ‘Hack Day’. We started this back in May, and the idea is each month the whole team works together to build something in a single [...]

Week #1271

This week started out in a reflective mood, we’re nearing delivery on project Largs but decided it’s not quite there yet.  We’ve done some critical reviews and decided it’s a 0.1 but it really needs to be a 0.2.  It’s difficult when you realise what you’ve produced isn’t quite what you expected it to be [...]

Week #1270

Last week seem to have disappeared and we put this down to the crack we saw in the wall: Apart from noting fissures in the Universe, the last week has involved work on project Clarkston for Sheffield University Students’ Union and project Elgin which is our own Rattle ID project. This is real Elgin, and this [...]

Week #1268

A football focused week, with Terrace Tweets for Umbro having it’s second outing, tonight, for the England vs. USA match.  There were big technical challenges processing hundreds of thousands of tweets. I say big, but I only gauged this from the way Rob went quiet, chuckled when I mentioned odd behaviours in the app and [...]

About The Pretend Fan Machine

Today we’re launching a mini app we’ve built for the 2010 World Cup (which starts tomorrow, if you’ve not noticed the blanket seasonal marketing). The whole thing was conceived, designed and developed in a single day a couple of weeks back (with a few minor tweaks since then) as part of an “app in a [...]

Communicating stuff

We’ve just used the Newspaperclub newspaper to report on the learnings for a project we did called My Life As An Object. We think it works really well as a way to get people reading stuff, partly due to the form factor (people are used to newspapers, rather than A4 bound reports or Powerpoint print [...]

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