10 December
The offices of today’s leading internet companies
An office is the mirror of the company and what’s going on inside, the perfect way to communicate with your employees, customers and investors. Hence why so many say, your office is your face. Knowing it, we decided to make a list of the most known internet companies and see what they have to offer on the inside. Here’s a list featuring 10 internet company’s office photos -
Blip.tv, images by Scott Beale
blip.tv is a video sharing service designed for creators of user-generated content. blip.tv provides content creators with free hosting, support for a variety of video formats, distribution using technologies like RSS and an opt-in advertising program with a 50/50 revenue share. blip.tv focuses on “episodic content” or “shows,” rather than viral video. Their wiki entry
Jaiku, images by Jyri Engeström
Jaiku is a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter. Jaiku was founded in February, 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland and launched in July of that year. It was purchased by Google on October 9, 200.7. Their wiki entry
Songbird, images by Jonathan Koshi
Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.
Twitter, images by Craig Kohtz
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface. Their wiki entry
GigaOM network, images by Joanne Wan
The blogging network consists of the sites GigaOM, NewTeeVee, Earth2Tech, Web Worker Daily, and Found+READ.
Skype Stockholm, images by PKingDesign
Skype is a software program created by the entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. Skype allows users to make telephone calls from their computer to other Skype users free of charge, or to landlines and cell phones for a fee. Their Wiki entry
Tocquigny (toe-kee-nyee), images by Thomas from Tocquigny & Pierpont
Tocquigny is an advertising and marketing consultancy in the United States. Their wiki entry
LinkedIn is a business-oriented networking site, mainly used for professional networking. As of November 2007, it had more than 16 million registered users, spanning 150 industries and more than 400 economic regions. Their wiki entry
NetVibes, images by Romain Colin
Netvibes provide a place on the internet where you can set just the content you like, a super easy way of building your personnalized homepage, available anywhere, anytime. TecCrunch coverage
What company has the best office? Leave us a comment below
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Inspiration
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/12/10/monday-inspiration-creative-workplaces
http://www.flickr.com/groups/inspiringworkplaces/pool/page2
http://positivesharing.com/2006/10/10-seeeeeriously-cool-workplaces
http://www.officesnapshots.com
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December 10th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
GigaOM network office looks similar to Quirks Offices.
Some rad offices in there.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
I really like the SongBird offices, they have CDJ1000s .. rad brick paving interface
December 10th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Awesome post Charl, if there’s one thing I love, that’s seeing the interior designs of some big companies!
Perfect article, 10 diggs from me!
December 10th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
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December 10th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Nice post mogul!
December 10th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Jaiku sucks and Songbird rules. Give me bricks and I’m very good with my office.
December 11th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Great one Charl! Must admit, the two offices that looks most appealing to me is blip.tv and Songbird. Seeing that I reaaaaally like Songbird, I reckon that would be the one!
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