Category Archives: Birmingham

The New Created in Birmingham Design

28th
May. × ’08
By stef

We’ve spent some time rebuilding the Created in Birmingham site, updating the design, adding some extra features and generally adding improvements throughout.
Here’s a run-down of some of the things that are going on under the hood:
We’ve gone all ’semantic web’ with Microformats
There’s been a lot of discussion over recent years on how the web needs [...]

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We Won a Webby Award!

6th
May. × ’08
By stef

Well what d’you know? The First Light Movies website that we built at 3form has only gone and won a Webby Award!
A great big thank you to everyone who worked on the project!
So I’ll be jetting out to New York for Internet Week in June to pick up one of these spirally babies:

And in a [...]

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Let’s take the ideas in the Big City Plan and run with them

21st
Apr. × ’08
By stef

In the first of my video blog posts I was pretty amazed by one of the comments in particular that came back and it looks like we’ve spawned a project if I can find some people to collaborate with to make it happen (open invite).
So how about we apply some of that ‘Local Ideas Bank’ [...]

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WordcampUK comes to Birmingham

18th
Apr. × ’08
By stef

(Image with thanks from Antoine Mallet for the freeware map image)
Great news for Birmingham’s ever-growing blogging and social media scene!
Fans of the Wordpress blogging platform have been springing up left right and centre of late, and the icing on the cake is that a first-of-its-kind-in-the-UK event is now being planned for this summer to connect [...]

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Why doesn’t Birmingham have wifi like Austin?

9th
Mar. × ’08
By stef

A conversation with Pete Ashton at SXSW about Birmingham’s woefully inadequate and probably very expensive wifi solution, compared to the ‘everyone just make their connections free’ model that Austin has.
It’s excellent here - if Birmingham wants to be a ‘digital’ city it needs to get with the programme.

 
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