August is a long, lovely month, but a slow one for work. The French have it about right and now La Retour est arrive. I mostly wrapped up a big piece of strategy work for a client last month, which feels good. I'm looking forward to seeing that piece evolve into products with them.
This month started with a trip to Brighton for dConstruct, which was good again. The afternoon was stronger, in particular Matt Sheret's and Dan Hon's talks, but I enjoyed Kelly Goto's talk from the morning session too.
The Brighton Maker Faire was great fun too. Highlights for me were the SketchChair software and some of the robots, even the squirting one. My boys liked the mosaic making and the tangible feeling of being able to create things.
I've spent this week in planning and pitching for new clients, plus catching up with existing ones from after the summer. I've started working with SolderPad, helping them to see the right social object in their product plans. Moving open hardware from sets of personal projects to a curated whole will be very benefical I think.
Building Social Web Applications by Gavin Bell.
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