Posted by Alicia on September 19, 2008 in Announcements
If you haven’t already noticed – and shame on you if you haven’t – we have had a rather dramatic relaunch of our site. It isn’t just the great new visual interface we have built, which is simple, elegant and clean… but we have done lots of little things that overall will make your experience of Skimbit so much more pleasurable, fast, intuitive… we have learnt so much over the past year as to what works and what doesn’t and we have taken all those learnings and implemented them in our new site.
So, give it a try, and please take a moment to tell your friends about Skimbit. Sites like Skimbit really make it when their community of users take pride in telling other people about it, so please help us become known and loved. We built Skimbit to really help and be useful for any sort of internet research or decision-making task, so keep us in mind whenever you are doing any research online, or are trying to decide on something with a group!
Posted by Alicia on August 14, 2008 in Experiences
We are growing bit by bit – welcome the newest member to the Skimbit team, Tamas from Hungary.
We are continuing our trend towards being a hugely multicultural company: we have an Aussie (me), English (Joe – well, he is kinda Aussie though), Ciaran (Irish), and Matthieu (French). What will our next recruit be?
Posted by Alicia on July 4, 2008 in Experiences
Skimbit has changed a lot since I past posted. We are now a team of four, working in new offices in Shoreditch, London. We are working hard on our new visual design, on speed optimisation, on usability enhancements, and great new features. We have launched a really snazzy monetisation platform that is – we think – a world-first method for monetising user-generated content in a non-obtrusive way. You won’t even realise it is happening! We are really proud. We get to earn money and still be ethical, objective and non-salesy.
So, when I read that Visit London (a tourism board for London) was putting on an outdoor office, I thought my team utterly deserved a day in the park.
Posted by Alicia on May 16, 2008 in Announcements
And finally, my final post on Startups.co.uk reflecting on Web Mission 08 and what it has meant to Skimbit:
I have been back a few days from my Web Mission expedition to San Francisco. It’s taken me this long to recuperate and take stock of everything that went on.
Posted by Alicia on in Experiences
And here is my mid-trip post from Web Mission 08:
It’s Day 2 of Web Mission 08, and I have not stopped yet. From the minute we landed in sunny San Francisco, we’ve been schmoozing, networking, visiting, exploring, learning, and, inevitably, drinking. The only thing I haven’t done enough of is sleeping… But what with unavoidable jetlag and a frantically buzzing mind unable to rest as I constantly think of what I should do next, I suppose sleeping can wait.
