Research & development for the social web
Playing and pitching
This past month has seen us playing with BBC programmes and closed-captions data using Muddy as well as finishing off a couple of projects like this University of Sheffield project. The BBC programmes work has been particularly interesting. You can glimpse some of the outputs from the @channelography twitter feed.
We’ve also been pitching this month, which is a relatively new thing for us. Most of our work is word-of-mouth but we’ve often felt a bit out of control relying on that, flattering as it is. So we’re trying to be more proactive and take what we do to a wider audience. We’re pleased to be going back to speak to the UK’s biggest online retailer about a project and also back to the last round of a client that’s a British Institution that’s lost its way a bit. This isn’t familiar territory for us as we don’t do ‘marketing’ and we’re not a digital agency; we research and develop solutions that engage people mainly using the social web and data. That’s not catchy and it can be a hard sell until you actually get a foot in the door to show people stuff at which point they generally go “can we have one of them?” and we say “… probably”.
Other news: Frankie bought his first car and Rob is getting 7hrs sleep a night after only two weeks of parenthood, the heating is on in the office and we’re struggling with the fact that “the 32bit build of mongodb has a limitation of 2GB”.
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