Author: Richard Pope

Dafydd Vaughan joins the team

We’re very happy to welcome Dafydd Vaughan to our little development team. Among other things Dafydd is responsible for cllrtweeps.com which tracks down and aggregates local councillors using twitter to talk to their constituents. Welcome Dafydd!

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Open Companies House project / RewiredState.org

A couple of weekends ago, with a different hat on, I helped out organising an event called RewiredState – National Hack the Government Day. The idea to get a bunch of programmers to reuse government data in new and useful ways. It was a great day: people seemed to enjoy themselves and some really cool [...]

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Make Do and Mend

Describe your idea: A simple question / answer website for how to fix products. What problem does it solve?: Encourage people to fix broken equipment rather than replace it.

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Getting started: a plan

As part of the general setup of CFLabs, we’ve tried to come up with a plan for our first few months that’ll let us get going quickly and get us building some really useful stuff straight away. We’ll be running a call for proposals via this website to gather some of the best ideas for [...]

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Getting started: technology set up for an in house startup

Over the last month we’ve being busy setting up the basics for CFLabs, and are nearly ready to launch our call for proposals, and then get building some hopefully useful consumer tools. For people interested in what’s needed to set up a micro in-house startup like CFLabs, below is a list of the technology we’ve [...]

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