Apps
We create Apps and Services that help people simplify and personalise an increasingly complex and impersonal world. Once something is ready to stand on its own feet, we take it out of the incubation process and set it free.
Twurn Twurn is a Twitter app that helps groups of people resolve heated conflicts, such as who has to make the coffee (or take out the rubbish, or whatever) and then tweets the outcome to everyone involved.
Twurn uses True Randomness to decide whose twurn it is to do something. Once you have entered a task to Twurn, the eternal mystery of Atmospheric Noise is used to create a truly random (and fair) outcome, and then Twurn tweets the task and who has to perform it.
Our humble vision is for Twurn to solve the world's conflicts, one twurn at a time.
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http://twurn.com/
Expensure™ Expensure is a web and mobile-based service that helps people track, manage and resolve their shared flat/travel bills and expenses.
Users set up a ledger for their household or holiday and add their shared purchases and repayments to it. Expensure uses our Circular Debt Resolution™ algorithm to resolve these shared debts by looking at who you owe money to, who owes you money, and what money these other people owe to each other. The algorithm then groups all of these transactions together and works out which debts cancel each other out, and what is the simplest way to clear any outstanding amounts using the least number of transactions, so that it's never the case that money goes from hand to hand in a circle.
See how your shared expenses are changing over time: Expensure graphs all your purchases so costs can be kept under control.
Expensure also has collaborative shopping lists for all of your flat/travel necessities, which are extremely useful when planning a trip abroad or even just to a local supermarket, helping your household or holiday run more smoothly.
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http://expensure.com/
Creativenvironment™ Creativenvironment is an enterprise web application that allows creative companies to manage their business workflow and creative, financial and production processes through a single, unified web application.
Simple project/collaboration applications help a business to cope, but management of the overall workflow is what makes a business profitable. Creativenvironment integrates the features that allow creative businesses to do just this, including project scoping, estimating & budgeting, dynamic task management & time tracking, asset management & distribution, and collaborative client feedback & approval, along with the key metrics business managers need in order to increase profitability.
This product is currently in private beta but will be released in mid 2009 for you all to enjoy.
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Specle Specle is a new web-based publishing specification service that increases the accuracy and reliability of of the ad creation process by providing a single verified point for accessing global publishing specification data.
Specle also improves the ad production workflow for advertising and pre press agencies by streaming accurate realtime data into Adobe production tools through the SpecleCreate™ InDesign Plugin for sizing, resizing and print/colour management.
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http://specle.net
Carbon Voyage Carbon Voyage is a new web-based car-booking service that reduces both carbon emissions and travel costs by linking your journey milage to an approved carbon offset scheme and by pairing users through a unique real-time travel-share engine.
These two steps radically cut the cost and carbon footprint associated with using a private car hire. Clients range from individuals to FTSE companies.
Carbon Voyage is both globally focused and locally effective. In London alone there are 22,000 licensed taxis and 46,000 private hire vehicles in daily operation. Multiply the number of vehicles by a days worth of fares and you can see how the emissions (and potential reductions) start to add up.
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http://carbonvoyage.com
Elementalise Elementalise is a new visual publishing and collaboration app from Harmonypark.
Designed to be modular, Elementalise lets you link to and upload visual media in a collaborative manner.
You can make and organise pages, then add elements to them using an intuitive WYSIWYG interface.
A page can be shared privately with team-mates, partners and clients, as well as published on the web for all to see.
Elementalise also allows you to merge web-based external content with your own content seamlessly.
It is currently being used for developing and sharing visual inspiration/references for moodboards, publishing live sites, knowledge sharing within internal briefings and client presentations.
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vzaar – video for eBay vzaar, a tool for both mobile and web, takes eBay user engagement up a level with slick and easy to use video listings.
Harmonypark came on board and took vzaar from nascent idea through to a fully-functional and successful '2.0' business.
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http://www.vzaar.com
eBay – Innovate We created the eBay Innovate hub around the idea of 'demand driven development'. The Innovate hub fosters a direct dialogue between eBay users and the development community, driving growth of the eBay experience through the creation of user-requested tools, gadgets, apps and plugins to help people buy and sell using eBay.
Users can seed ideas onto the development radar, where the community can vote on the seed idea's value, bringing it to the attention of developers who are hungry for new projects that have user support before they are even created. Take a look for yourself.
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Polydor Records – The Hives promo tool We've created several promo tools for Polydor, the latest being a Flash-based desktop application for Scando clique The Hives (they sound kind of like The Domino State, but not quite as good).
This application sits on a users desktop and ties into the OS, counting down till the album release date, at which point it explodes and reveals a link to the new release on iTunes.
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eBay – StyleSlam on Facebook & Bebo StyleSlam is a Facebook and Bebo application that combines fashion, gaming and competition. Harnessing the social interaction that sits at the heart of an online network, StyleSlam brings to life the fun of trading and securing a bargain on eBay. StyleSlam engages users by embedding into their online profiles and tying into their social interactions and daytime-playtime experience.
The application allows players to create an avatar that looks just like them, then buy, sell, wear and gift items from the marketplace, and rate the outfits of their friends. StyleSlam also features celebrity guest style advisors; most recently this involved a promotion with pop sensation Girls Aloud. The band were featured in-game with players being able to buy and wear their outfits and fan t-shirts, and receive daily style tips. Players could click though to iTunes to buy the band's latest single.
Cian Weeresinghe, Internet Marketing Manager at eBay UK, comments: “Fashion is an incredibly popular category on eBay. A piece of women's clothing sells every 5 seconds on the site. The Styleslam application combines a passion for fashion with the thrill of bagging a bargain, as you move seamlessly from dressing your avatar in the latest trends, to clicking through to eBay to buy the items for real”.
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Facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/styleslamBebo: http://apps.bebo.com/styleslam
eBay – Elementalise Elementalise is a visiontype (prototype for all you Brits) of a more personalised way of experiencing eBay.
Designed in a modular fashion, with the different functions of eBay transformed into separate elements, Elementalise lets you piece together your very own eBay buying & selling experience.
Elementalise also allows you to interact with 3rd party content via the eBay interface. Users can integrate the best that the web has to offer into their day-to-day online experience.
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vzaar – video for eBay vzaar, a tool for both mobile and web, takes eBay user engagement up a level with slick and easy to use video listings.
Harmonypark came on board and took vzaar from nascent idea through to a fully-functional and successful '2.0' business.
View:
http://www.vzaar.com
eBay – Innovate We created the eBay Innovate hub around the idea of 'demand driven development'. The Innovate hub fosters a direct dialogue between eBay users and the development community, driving growth of the eBay experience through the creation of user-requested tools, gadgets, apps and plugins to help people buy and sell using eBay.
Users can seed ideas onto the development radar, where the community can vote on the seed idea's value, bringing it to the attention of developers who are hungry for new projects that have user support before they are even created. Take a look for yourself.
