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We’ve moved!

July 5th, 2011 | Company | Tim Heyes

After many happy (and sometimes noisy) years, Skinkers have relocated from Kirby Street in Clerkenwell over to Beech Street in Barbican.

All phone and fax numbers are the same but our address has changed to:

Skinkers
Central Point
45 Beech Street
London
EC2Y 8AD

Who would have though that Leather Lane market could be beaten? We’ll miss you, but hello Whitecross Street market!

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New Skinkers web site

December 3rd, 2010 | Company, Releases, Tech | Tim Heyes

Last week we finally managed to release a new version of our web site over at skinkers.com. It seems to be the internal projects that take the longest with client work always taking precedence, but with a final sprint to the line we succeeded in getting it live.

For a while now we’ve had the slightly tired splash page directing visitors to either our enterprise software site, or this blog.

We had to make sure we got the new site right though making sure it clearly illustrated, and demonstrated to some extent, what we do.

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Boris Bikes

November 22nd, 2010 | Company, Data, Geekery, Tech | Matt Bryson

Back in July when the boris bike scheme started we went out and tried the bikes along with some of the apps that had been released (read the post here). At the same time we had a look into the API’s and plotted the location / availability of the bikes over time. However, we totally forgot to upload our little experiment!

Boris Bikes

You can now see the result – Boris Bikes on our labs site.

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Skinkers are hiring: Sales Executive

October 28th, 2010 | Company, Jobs | Tim Heyes

Skinkers are on the lookout for a talented individual to join the team!

As a Sales Executive, your primary role is to develop new opportunities, follow-up incoming leads and further develop existing clients to close profitable business for Skinkers.

You should strive to understand your prospects goals and needs and then match these to a suitable solution from Skinkers.

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Cancer Research 10k

October 21st, 2010 | Company, Fun | Adam Maloney

Last Sunday, in the glorious sunshine, 3 Skinker-ites and a Livestation-er along with three and a half thousand others ran the Cancer Research UK 10k around Victoria Park in London.

Thanks to some super fund raising, we have hit our £1000 target and then some.

Naturally, being a little geeky I was tracking my run using endomondo‘s excellent android app. You can check out the twisty route here.

oh, and it’s not too late to donate for our efforts

http://www.justgiving.com/Skinkers-Livestation

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Game time, Skinkers update & SkinkersLabs sneak peak…

September 27th, 2010 | Company, Fun, Games | Tim Heyes

It’s been a while since we’ve posted up here because we’ve had a lot on our plates over the past couple of weeks. This is just some of the stuff we’ve been up to…

We’re soon to go live with our new site which will also include a new design for the blog, we’ve finished off a large piece of work for the BBC, pitched for and won a VERY exciting project for one of our large US customers (details to follow soon) and we’ve been getting ready to launch our SkinkersLabs project.

As we’ve always said, we really do have some awesome talent in our creative and technical teams here so to celebrate this and the fact that we’re already seeing Christmas goods in the shops, we thought we’d resurrect one of our Christmas classics so you can lose yourselves for a while.

Just click the image below to defeat the Evil Santas, Reindeer and Snowmen with your snowball catapult. Of course.

Christmas Game

This is the first of many projects, old and new that will be hitting SkinkersLabs very soon, so stay tuned for updates.

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Mon stage chez Skinkers

September 1st, 2010 | Company, Thoughts | nicolas.nouvellon

Dans le cadre de mes études d’ingénieur, je dois avoir une expérience professionnelle à l’étranger pour pouvoir obtenir mon diplôme. Il me faut donc choisir un pays et y trouver un stage. Je me dirigeais naturellement vers un pays anglophone, hors quel pays est plus anglophone que celui qui a vu naitre Shakespeare ? Apres le choix du pays, il m’a fallut trouver un stage. Après quelques recherches, je trouve un stage en plein Londres, dans une société appelée Skinkers ! Société spécialisée dans la création d’applications innovantes dans les nouvelles technologies, parfait !

Me voici donc dans le vol AF2580 au départ de Paris-CDG avec pour destination Londres-Heathrow. Il faut, auparavant, préciser que j’ai déjà eut un certain nombre de stage dans diverses sociétés françaises. Dans cette optique là,  je m’attendais à trouver une société typique : costume-cravates, bureaux, avec des rapports hiérarchiques. Eh bien, j’y ai trouvé des bureaux… Skinkers est une société complètement atypique dans ce que je pense être le monde du travail. Si je devais définir Skinkers je dirais que c’est un groupe d’amis qui partage la même passion et qui ont décidé d’en tirer profit, et ca fonctionne !

Avant mon arrivée, j’avais un peu peur de devoir faire le café (ou plutôt le thé, je suis en Angleterre ne l’oublions pas !) ainsi que les photocopies. Mon stage a été littéralement l’opposé de cela ! J’ai eu ainsi la chance de travailler de prés ou de loin sur quatre projets différents, pouvant ainsi aborder de larges projets sous différents angles. Dès les premiers jours, je me suis senti réellement impliqué au sein de la société, avec un projet vraiment intéressant ! Je pense que c’est leur mode de management qui fait cela, avec des managers très proches de leurs employés. Durant les différents projets auxquels j’ai participé, j’ai toujours put demander de l’aide a quelqu’un !

Pour conclure je dirais que lorsque vous travaillez avec des gens passionnés, vous n’avez pas le temps de vous ennuyer.

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Action man re-joins Skinkers as they strengthen Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR Team

August 2nd, 2010 | Company, Releases | Tim Heyes

Skinkers is expanding its team delivering innovative solutions to its customers utilising Adobe AIR, Flash and Flex technology

Adam Maloney, also known as “Action” has joined Skinkers Technology Team. He will be a key player in the team that works on exciting Apps for organisations such as the BBC iPlayer, American Airlines DealFinder, Zurich Insurance, the NHS, the Premier League and Proctor & Gamble.

Adam initially joined Hard Reality, part of Leo Burnett, developing games for Kellogg’s. Moving on to digital agency Holler as Head of Games, he honed his skills making hundreds of games and micro-sites for clients, ranging from Cartoon Network to bands including Muse, Busted, Girls Aloud & Jamiroquai. He initially joined Skinkers and was instrumental in the development of the successful American Airlines application before taking up a position at global digital marketing agency Wunderman as Senior Developer working on Land Rover and high profile Ford Ka projects. He then went on to GMTV Kids as lead architect and developer, producing games and sites, before re-joining Skinkers bringing his experience of working on children’s projects and developing games.

Adam said

“Skinkers has a great ethos and I am looking forward to new technical challenges, working with some great people and a new and exciting future for Skinkers.”

Rob Noble COO Skinkers added:

“We have found a very positive response in the market to our Air and Mobile Apps and we are delighted to welcome Adam to the team that creates these”

Applications developed for the Adobe® AIR® runtime use well established web technologies to build rich internet applications that run outside a browser on multiple operating systems.

For further information please contact us

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Skinkers use Guardian Open Platform

July 2nd, 2010 | Company, General News | Tim Heyes

Soon, you may start to see content on the Skinkers blog that has not been generated by us – we have started to use the Guardian Open Platform allowing us to post Guardian articles directly to the site.

Guardian Open Platform

Guardian Open Platform

This now gives us (and you) access to a wealth of articles directly from one of the UK’s most respected news organisations.

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Skinkers, the future

June 14th, 2010 | Company | Rob Noble

I’m very excited about Skinkers future prospects. More and more people are accessing the web via an app, rather than via their browser. No doubt this has been fuelled by an explosion of smart mobile devices, like the iPhone. Skinkers was the original app company and has a wealth of knowledge from creating the early desktop widgets right up to today’s sophisticated mobile apps and we’re really enjoying working with clients like the BBC and American Airlines. It’s a great time to be involved!