Author Archive

Mission geek-possible?

By Rosie Sherry • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Community, Features

A while back Josh and Dave started a mini project, but got *slightly* stuck. That was one year ago. The problem has now been blogged in the hope that a super smart geek would take up the challenge and solve it.
Can you stand up to the challenge?



8 Random Facts about Project Brighton

By Rosie Sherry • Apr 28th, 2008 • Category: Community, Features

8facts follows on nicely from the 8 random facts meme that seems to have been spreading recently in the blogosphere. It’s a bit of fun byPaul Burgess where you are supposed to give 8 facts about yourself or ’something’ and one of them must be a lie.
Not rocket science, just a bit of fun. [...]



Mass geek art

By Rosie Sherry • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Community, Features

Some of you may remember Shardcore from his talk on Beenz.com at the £5 App Xmas Special. Geek turned artist. Or perhaps artist, turned geek then back again into an artist. Once a geek always a geek? Once an artist always an artist? Well you catch my drift.
In May Shardcore [...]



Planet BNM - a refreshing new look

By Rosie Sherry • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Community, Features

The Brighton New Media list is a successful local mailing list for people in the digital industry. Since it started in 2000 it ihas been used by local digital bods to discuss a strong mix between digital and non-digital subjects. Affectionately known as ‘The BNM’ where some of the members proactively tag [...]



The £5 Walrss

By Rosie Sherry • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Community, Features

Tuesday was a very busy £5 app night, where the second presentation of the night revealed an app developed by some of the ClearLeft gang (Paul, Natalie and Simon)
Walrss is an app for iPhones that makes it easier to access and read sites on the move.
It easily creates an iPhone version of any site which [...]



The Authentic Community

By Rosie Sherry • Apr 7th, 2008 • Category: Community

You’ve gotta love Ning for giving power to the people to set up niche communities. Libby, of Authentic Blogging, is well into using the power of blogging for learning, collaboration and expression. Recently, apart from studying for a Masters Degree and being a super-mum, she’s been running blogging and writing classes.
The natural evolution [...]



Find the right people for your project

By Rosie Sherry • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: Business, Features

Wired Sussex have been running a successful “agency free” Job board for several years now. They have recently expanded the service to a Projects Board - ideal for companies who need help from freelancers or specialist businesses for a specific fixed term project.
I recently spoke to Erica from The Life Project who needed [...]



Brighton User Experience Group

By Rosie Sherry • Mar 27th, 2008 • Category: Community

Brighton is choc-a-bloc with small design and web agencies and some of them are actually really good (if not leaders) in their fields. Jenni Lloyd has made the first step in gathering interest around creating a Brighton based User Experience Group.
Make sure your voice is heard by getting in touch with Jenni or making [...]



Locomatrix on BBC South Today

By Rosie Sherry • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: Business

The publicity for Locomatrix is kicking off.  Project Brighton wrote about them.  As did Times Online and now it is BBC South Today’s turn.  Apparently there is yet more to come!



Kwiqq, get in there!

By Rosie Sherry • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: Business

The Web Mission 08 is a project to take 20 UK technology startups to Silicon Valley. The purpose being to help UK startups explore growth opportunities.
100 companies applied. The judging took several weeks. And the results are now out (well 2 days ago, strictly speaking).
The good news for Brighton is that Kwiqq, a Brighton [...]