Journal

Posted by: David Logan

28 January 2010

Fish where the fish are! Brands favour Social over traditional Campaign Sites

Brands are abandoning campaign sites in favor of long-term community engagement platforms.

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Posted by: Nigel Collier

23 January 2010

RAW2010 - Inspiration From Kanya King, Founder Of The MOBOs

“Creating The MOBOs From Nothing”: Kanya King’s speech at the RAW2010 event in Manchester on Wednesday 20th January.

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Posted by: Nigel Collier

08 January 2010

Happy New (Media) Year - The power of the internet in 2010 and beyond

2009 was a very busy year for Skylab’s social media team… building Facebook applications, creating Twitter accounts, building blogs, online apps and huge websites with social media woven into their DNA. 2010 will be an even bigger year for social media as businesses and organisations start to appreciate the inherent power of social media. Here are a few observations that mark the dawning of a Happy New (Media) Year.

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Posted by: David Logan

24 November 2009

MediaTank 1.0 our Brandable Video Platform

Studio Skylab are very proud and excited to announce the launch of our first product. It’s called MediaTank and it’s rather awesome!

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Posted by: Nigel Collier

24 November 2009

Thank you Nel… You are the daddy!

Well today is a big day for Studio Skylab. Not only is it the day that our Design Director Neale ‘Nel’ Johnson becomes a father for the second time, but it’s also the beginning of Nel’s last few weeks with Skylab. After four years helping to found and grow the business, Nel is making the very personal and entirely understandable decision to focus on life as a parent rather than as a partner at Skylab.

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Posted by: Nel Johnson

02 November 2009

No website is an island

How social media is constantly raising the bar for designers and developers.

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Posted by: Nel Johnson

01 September 2009

Calling all web design freelancers

Skylab is looking to build a roster of talented web design freelancers – get in touch, show us your guns!

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Posted by: Nel Johnson

01 September 2009

We're hiring

Due to some significant wins Skylab is looking for web designers.

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Posted by: James Lewis

30 July 2009

Slida - an iPhone-style Scriptaculous javascript slider widget

We recently found ourselves in need of an iPhone-style slider control for a web application we’re currently building. After a quick peruse of the web, it seemed nobody had already tackled this problem so we set out to solve it ourselves. Read more to find out our solution and download it for your own site.

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Posted by: Nel Johnson

14 July 2009

Skylab has given birth to its first bouncing baby font

Its name is ‘Skooper’ and it weighs in at 12pt (and more). It was originally conceived to be the face of a project we’re currently working on, a project that required something with a warm, friendly vibe.

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Posted by: David Logan

06 May 2009

We’re on the hunt for an experienced PHP developer

Manchester digital studio Skylab is looking for an experienced PHP developer who is black belt in Web 2.0 Kung Fu…

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Posted by: David Logan

08 April 2009

Skylab get naked for the day! (CSS naked)

Tomorrow (9th of April), hundreds of brave website owners across the web will remove all of their CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), stripping their website of all design!

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