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Introducing Odadeo - a new site for dads

17th
Jun. × ’08

For Fathers’ Day 2008 I have launched the ‘private beta’ of new site that I’ve been working very hard on for the last three months.
It’s called Odadeo and is a site that aims to answer the question “how am I going to be a better dad?”
I broke the news with a comment on Mashable, who [...]

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“Please don’t discount these voices” - accepting the Webby for First Light Movies

10th
Jun. × ’08

I’m in New York accepting a Webby award for the work that we did with First Light Movies - an organisation that enables young filmmaking all across the UK.
I hadn’t actually realised how seriously these awards are valued in the states, because in the UK we don’t often get many people winning them and it [...]

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Web 2.0 or Blah 2.0?

30th
May. × ’08

With apologies to the Marcus Angermeier whose original is the famous:

What is Web 2.0?
I was asked this question this week by the organiser of an event that I was asked to talk about called “Power your Business with Web 2.0” (I can’t seem to direct link the event on the Creative Networks site?)
You know what [...]

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The New Created in Birmingham Design

28th
May. × ’08

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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Give your homepage a mini facelift in about 3 hours

27th
May. × ’08

“The plumber’s tap always drips”, or so they say. The same is true of web consultancies.
For a good few years I’ve had a nagging embarassment at my own company website, 3form, in that it hasn’t changed significantly since about 2002 when I first built it in about 48 hours over a weekend.
Geekier readers will know [...]

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