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
Credits – Alex Ion editorial review
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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
[...] just published a post on Bandwidth Blog about office photos from hot internet companies. The post was my shot at creating a link bait list [...]
December 10th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
[...] posted a fantastic article about the offices of today’s internet companies on Bandwidth Blog and after he showed me I was hooked. I remember seeing pictures of the Google [...]
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!
February 5th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
[...] Blog’s first office photos post was pics from leading international internet companies and ended up being a huge hit. Today we [...]
March 10th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
[...] Qui e Qui [...]
March 12th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
[...] nomination – Best post on a South African blog, The offices of today’s leading internet companies made it to the Digg homepage with over 500 [...]
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:04 am
[...] Sadly for me, I am only allowed to use Internet Explorer 6 at work. Yeah, I don’t even have IE7 yet. But when I’m not chained to my work computer, I use Firefox. Here is a look at Mozilla’s offices. They are way nicer than our offices and we are clearly in the wrong field. See also here and here. [...]
May 16th, 2008 at 3:02 am
[...] A tour of the swanky offices of today’s leading Internet [...]
June 20th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
[...] Este post que he encontrado (mediante John Chow) muestra muchas fotos de algunas empresas ‘Web 2.0’, muchos de ellos no lo conocía y son súper populares en tráfico. Si aspiras a tener tu propia oficina para tu negocio Web, aquí hay muchas fotos para que formes la idea de cómo quieres que sea la tuya. La oficina que más me gusta de las fotos es las de ‘Songbird’. [...]
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
[...] Let me tell you from personal experience the days of razor scooters, pinball machines and funky loft spaces are over. Being a developer in Greater Boston or San Francisco is like being an actor in LA – [...]
October 13th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
The Linked In and Skype offices are cool, but my office would be a bit different:
- I would set up the gym’s TV sets for strictly business or news-related channels
- Make the game room situated completely opposite of the work environment (or if office space dictates, different floors). This way a person can “free their mind” for an hour and relax with a fellow workmate or what not
- Only put juice and/or sport drink machines in lieu of soda machines
- Have a canteen built in-house with different menu options (vegetarian, non-gluten, etc) made-to-order on top of regular menu items that are interchanging monthly so employees not only would be more inclined to go there for their meals instead of getting take-out
- Have a comfort room so people who have to work late can take veg out for an hour with 2 wide-screen TVs available (on opposite sides of the room) so people can watch what they want…almost like a home setting.
- Set cubicles with different colors to correspond to the department and/or rank of the employee (ex: Yellow cubicles w/ one white cubicle to signify who the lead of the department is)
January 19th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Thanks a lot for the article !!
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:10 am
it’s too inspiring!!
can i be able to have a copy of it’s plans and interior detail if u don’t mind
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:33 pm
The one thing that appears common to them all is the lack of people?
August 11th, 2009 at 3:42 am
Definitely Tocquigny’s offices – so sleek! Although, I might be afraid to mess things up around there. LinkedIn’s offices are a lot more playful and fun than I expected. Interesting article!
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Hi
The Linkedin and Skype offices are really good, but I always have a personal liking for Google. That’s my favorite. Nice post. A treat for eyes.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:02 am
[...] Twitter is one of the internet’s hottest startups at the moment and with any internet business you need flashy creative offices to retrain and inspire top talent. Twitter’s new space, which was previously Bebo’s SF office, is right around the corner from their old one. [...]
January 4th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
fantastic office images. i am wondering how a startup with far less infrastructural support can compete with these majors…
May 14th, 2010 at 5:33 am
i admire John Chow because of his innovative ways to gain traffic both from whitehat and greyhat methods..~;