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Irrepressible invitation to developers 1 November 06
Due to the massive success of irrepressible.info’s launch earlier this year the site was swiftly internationalised with the addition of French, Spanish and Arabic language versions. Irrepressible’s continued appeal has now driven the release of another suite of features to further boost the acclaimed campaign against Internet related censorship and repression.
The site has seen tremendous growth in the last few months and ranked amongst the 5,000 most popular web sites worldwide (source: alexa.com). Irrepressible.info’s database of censored material has been accessed globally more than 39,000,000 times through it’s supporting blogs and websites (new feature). Crucially the campaigns’ popularity has led to more than 50,000 people signing the pledge, greatly exceeding the original goal of 30,000 signatories.
A Soda take on agile process 8 August 06
For some time now we have been looking at our design and development processes. We have also been talking to trusted advisers, clients and partners about different elements of this and have finally come up with a form of words to describe our revised processes. Our desire is to ensure that the way we work should allow us to play to our technical strengths and our creative culture whilst making sure that our partners and clients needs and requirements are always at the centre of our design and development activity.
The PDF file here is the latest version of this and we are now using this with clients. However, we welcome further comment and input as we will continue to review our processes.
Download Soda’s Iterative design and development process Aug 2006.pdf.
Irrepressible.info goes global 20 July 06
Following the success of the irrepressible.info launch in the UK, Soda has teamed up with Amnesty again to release an updated truly global version supporting multiple languages (currently English, French, Spanish with Arabic to follow soon). This is the second phase of irrepressible.info with an exciting third phase already in the making.
The update coincides with an Amnesty report about the role of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google in internet repression in China. The report can be downloaded from irrepressible.info or Amnesty (see press release).
Please keep up the amazing support for this campaign so that we can keep making it even better! Also your feedback is much appreciated and will help shape the next phase of irrepressible.info.
Discovering Newtoon 14 July 06
An exciting new Soda project “Newtoon, A play’n’create ecology for physics learning and mobile gaming” is one of just two proposals to be chosen to enter the “discovery phase” out of almost two hundred entries to Futurelab’s latest call for innovative learning technology ideas.
Soda’s previous collaboration with Futurelab has recently been launched as a commercial product in partnership with Harcourt at www.moovl.co.uk.
School Robot test drive 21 June 06
Matt and Fiddian were delighted by the children’s response to the prototype robot Soda has created for them with the help of Creative Partnerships London East. They were incredibly excited and took immediate ownership of the child sized mobot (Mobile Robot). Their first impressions were: “it’s sweet” , “it’s fast” and “it’s like a footballer!”
together we are irrepressible 28 May 06
Join us in defending freedom of expression on the Internet with Irrepressible.info, a campaign conceived and realised by Soda for Amnesty International.
in between 13 May 06
Soda is proud to be speaking at b.tween06 and creating a new artwork in collaboration with Chinese artist Yang Lei called b.tween2cultures.net.
Damascus and London get together 13 August 05
At www.nahnou-together.org young people in Damascus and London are getting to know each other through visual art. British Council and Tate Britain are running a project for teenagers to collaboratively explore their cultural identities. Soda has enabled this exploration through the use of a shared blog and is producing a generative artwork to showcase the teenagers work for a show opening at Tate Britain on June 5th 2006.
Visionary web site 13 June 05
Soda has launched the VisionLondon web site for Creative Partnerships London East. It is part of the FriendShip Week celebrations for London‘s Olympic bid. The web site is a showcase for schools in London to present art works created with professional artists and to enable them to share their hopes and dreams about the future of London.
sodaconstructor Wrocs 13 May 05
David talks about things such as utilising sodaconstructor creatures to make music and playing rock classics on customised motorbike engines, a collaborative effort with Christopher Lum aka Xper.Xr, at the Wroclaw Media Arts Biennale, Poland.
OFFF to Sunny Spain 13 May 05
Moovl is being shown at the OFFF festival in Barcelona from 12th to 14th May. Ed will be giving at talk on 12th May at 12.30pm. We hope to see you there.
Leading the Way 13 March 05
Soda have created a new game about leadership for the Learning and Access section of the Churchill Museum web site. Take a Walk in Winston Churchill’s Shoes to find out what kind of leader you are.
Lounging Around 13 February 05
Soda are the featured artist at the Medialounge in Huddersfield. ‘Sodaplay Transfigured’ will be showing from 3 February until the 8 April 2005. This version specially created for the gallery enables users to create and add their own models to the projected work. Fiddian and Ed will be giving a talk at the gallery on 10th February at 7pm.
BETT on it 13 January 05
Soda are proud to be part of the NESTA Futurelab Innovations stand at BETT, the education technology show at Olympia. Registration is free for the four day exhibition and you will be able to meet members of Soda and see demonstrations of Moovl.
Free speech 13 December 04
Continuing the series of talks in the ICA Digital Studio Matt Gould, Director of Learning will talk about ‘Learning through Creativity’ on Thursday 2nd December. Fiddian Warman, Managing Director, will talk about ‘Art Practice in a Small Company’ on Thursday 9th December. Both talks start at 6.30pm and are free with admission.