Carsonified

Kevin Rose recently challenged me to shave my head for charity and it sounded like a great idea (and Gill even gave her blessing). So this Thursday, Aug 14th, is the big day. I’m going to shave my head live on Ustream.tv.

Read the rest of this entry »

Future of Mobile 2008 is up and running. The conference takes place on 17th November at Kensington Town Hall, followed by a day of workshops on mobile business and technical development. There is also a prelude event being developed by the Carsonified stealth operations team, more on this in due course. We think the new look site looks fantastic, hope you’ll agree.

This year we spent a great deal of time and effort consulting some of the movers and shakers in the mobile industry to get ideas and themes for this years content. Many many thanks to all, for the kindness and help received along the way. There are some very interesting speakers confirmed already and we are still talking to several organisations to secure some more great content over the next month or two. There is a lot of very intelligent comment on matters pertaining to the mobile industry coming from the UK. It is a great pleasure to welcome six of the UK’s most interesting technology bloggers to FOM for the 6X6 session. This will provide some strong and occasionally contentious opinions to stimulate the conversation at the event.

A conscious effort has been made to broaden the horizons of this conference to ensure that the future of mobile is examined across much more than the mobile web and in a worldwide context. We are building a programme designed to inform and inspire people from all walks of the mobile industry. It is never going to be possible to cover all the important topics and please everyone in just one day though. There is still a little room for more so please go ahead and comment here once you have looked at the event, or contact me directly.

There are great early bird discounts available now and student tickets for less than the cost of a decent evening of binge drinking.

At Carsonified we hire smart creative people. With that said, I’d like to say a big welcome to Louise, Mike, Dominic and Elliott - the newest members of the Family.

Read the rest of this entry »

Mike is working on some new designs for Carsonified HQ and they’re looking fricken great.

Read the rest of this entry »

As you’ve all been hearing, we spent last week building Matt (Multi Account Twitter Tweeter). We’re absolutely thrilled with the way it went. We finished on time, we got some great feedback, and we learned a lot. But everybody’s been asking: What was it like to build it? What went wrong? How did you guys find Django? Why does Elliott spend all day snacking?

Read the rest of this entry »

Sorry it’s late! Once again, here’s Wednesday of Matt Week at super-high speed. Now there’s only Day Four to come - and a special Matt Week Summary Video. Stay tuned!

Read the rest of this entry »

Keir recently came up with a really fun web app idea … so the whole team is taking a week off to build it. It’s going to be called ‘Matt’ and it’ll be built in Django on a popular API, include a desktop AIR app, and will be hosted on an elastic computing cloud (probably Flexiscale, but yet to be determined).

Those of you who have been following us for awhile will remember that we did something similar recently called Idea Week where we built HugMyMac.com. It was a blast and we’ve decided to do something similar again.

We’ve never built anything in Django, AIR or used elastic computing, so it’ll be fun to learn. It’ll also be a difficult but fun challenge for Mike to come up with a complete visual identity, site, web app interface and desktop interface - all in four days. Yikes.

We’ll be starting on June 30th, so I hope you’ll tune in for the adventure. If anyone is stopping by Bath, come on over to Carsonified HQ to say hello.

P.S. Thanks for the photo Scott
P.P.S. Any affiliation with Matt Mullenweg, WordPress extraordinaire, is entirely coincidental :)