All Posts Tagged 'clients'

The local press in Helsinki, Finland have taken notice of Bryan Boyer and the launch of Helsinki Design Lab.

From We Are Helsinki:

Designer-architect BRYAN BOYER, originally from California but now settled into Helsinki, is puzzled by the misuse of terminology. "Strategy often gets mixed up with planning. To be strategic, you have to also make difficult decisions and produce results," ponders the Harvard graduate, who has been working on Sitra's Helsinki Design Lab project since the fall of 2008.

Read the rest here.

Posted 71 days ago by Katie Spence. Topics include HelsinkiDesignLab clients press

Scott Rosenberg, who we are working with on MediaBugs, has just posted an interesting challenge: how do we categorize all of the different types of errors a journalist could make while reporting a story so that people can file bugs about them?

There's already a lively discussion going on in the comment thread of Scott's post on the MediaShift Idea Lab blog, so head over there to share your thoughts.

Posted 258 days ago by Ben Brown. Topics include mediabugs journalism clients

We're excited to announce today that our latest project, dooce Community has launched! We've been working closely with Heather and Jon on this new branch of the mega popular dooce empire, and we're very proud of the results.

The new site will allow members of the dooce community to get to know each other in a way their semi-anonymous commenting system never did. The site is a question/answer site ala Yahoo Answers, but members will be welcome to discuss whatever they like - from babies to cameras to politics.

Like the main dooce blog, the community is powered by Drupal. XOXCO built a bunch of new social gadgets for this site, and if you'd like to learn more about how we did it, come see Jon and I give our talk all about the site at this year's Do It With Drupal conference.

Many thanks to Jon and Heather, Ben Durbin, the support staff at LiquidWeb, and our friends at Lullabot whose help with Drupal's idiosyncrasies was invaluable.

Posted 270 days ago by Ben Brown. Topics include dooce clients launching

According to TechCrunch and GigaOm, NeighborGoods has officially launched in Los Angeles! They've got lots of nice things to say about our work, and we're super proud to have worked with Micki to get this far!

NeighborGoods is built on top of PeoplePods, XOXCO's new social software toolkit. Using PeoplePods means we were able to skip all of the infrastructure building, and instead spend all of our time in product design and ideation. Throughout our alpha release, and now moving into our beta release, we've been able to quickly and easily add functionality to the site simply by creating new "pods" of content and functionality.

PeoplePods will be released under an open source license within the next few weeks! Follow PeoplePods on Twitter for the latest information.

Posted 295 days ago by Ben Brown. Topics include clients neighborgoods launching

It is our pleasure to announce the launch of our latest client project, Soul of the Community.

Soul of the Community (SOTC) is three-year study conducted by Gallup of the 26 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation communities across the United States employing a fresh approach to determine the factors that attach residents to their communities and the role of community attachment in an area's economic growth and well-being. The study focuses on the emotional side of the connection between residents and their communities.

We had the help of some great folks on this project: Jesse Keyes, Courtney Patubo and Brian Oberkirch. We're pleased with the result of our combined efforts and we feel lucky to have worked with the Knight Foundation on such an important study.

Posted 302 days ago by Katie Spence. Topics include clients launching

Our work with Total Immersion on the Go Hamster Go! Facebook application has been named the #1 augmented reality application by Revolution Maggazine because it represents "a fantastic example of how the technology is being integrated within the media environment." If you haven't suction-cupped a few hamsters to your face yet, we highly recommend it.

Meanwhile, NeighborGoods is rapidly approaching a public beta, and they've launched a cool partnership with Los Angeles Metblogs. Readers of LA Meblogs can join the site and immediately be introduced to othe readers of the blog using the cool new group invite system that we built. If you live in LA, check it out now so you can tell your friends you were a member before the site went public.

Posted 307 days ago by Ben Brown. Topics include clients

XOXCO has been working with Micki Krimmel over the past few months on a really cool project, and we are now getting tantilizingly close to letting you play with it.

NeighborGoods is a tool that will make it easier for you to share your stuff with your friends and neighbors, and to save money by borrowing or renting stuff that you'd otherwise have to buy and then store in your closet. We can't wait to loan you our awesome (but hard to store) collapsible 16-foot ladder!

Sign up to be one of the first people to use Neighborgoods, and follow us on Twitter for tantalizing tidbits of info that Micki will be releasing over the next few months.

Posted 388 days ago by Ben Brown. Topics include clients neighborgoods launching