TeeZilla is back and this time they’ve joined forces with Women’s Aid. Anyone can upload a design to TeeZilla and anyone can vote and comment on their favourites. The design with the most votes is printed onto t-shirts which are sold through the TeeZilla store with 100% of the profits going to a chosen charity. …
Rails Girls is coming to Bristol on Saturday June 15th 2013 and we’re proud to be sponsoring the event. Rails Girls was founded by Linda Liukas and Karri Saarinen. The first event, held in Helsinki in November 2010, got over 100 interested girls signed-up for the workshop. The event, which will be held at @Bristol, …
Here at Simpleweb HQ, we provide our team with healthy sandwiches and soups (courtesy of GeekFeeder) every day, as well as loads of fresh fruit for snacking. So why do we do it? They love it Delicious sandwiches and soups delivered straight to their desks makes the Simpleweb team very happy. And being happy motivates …
The Leap Motion is a new device that claims to revolutionise the way that we interact with our computers. Like the Microsoft Kinect the Leap Motion uses infrared light to detect the position of objects in 3D space. Heres a video that Leap released demoing the technology – Several weeks ago I signed up for …
Earlier this week, Mark wrote a guest post for Brit Mums Blog with 6 ways to keep your kids safe online. There’s some useful advice in the post and we recommend you take a look, especially if you have kids. But there’s one point we’d like to reiterate here… Did you know that every photo taken …
On February 9th 2013, Bristol’s Watershed is hosting the UK leg of World Information Architecture Day 2013. We’re pleased to be sponsoring the event, which will be hosted by 15 cities in total, including Los Angeles, Tokyo, Dubai and Milan. World IA Day brings together experts in the field of Information Architecture, User Experience and …
We’ve gained 4 new Simplewebbers in the last few months and we’d like to introduce you to them. Kylie joined as Office Manager back in November, taking care of admin and generally making sure the office runs smoothly. Then Dr Paul M. (yep, he has a PhD in Computer Modelling) joined us …
We’re pleased to announce our 20% stake in local startup W2 Global Data Solutions Ltd. In return for our stake, we will act as a virtual tech team for W2. W2 Global Data Solutions, founded by Warren Russell in 2011, is already a leading provider of data, software and services to access in depth information …
There are so many great startups out there, it’s almost impossible to choose our favourites, so we’ve narrowed it down to some local good guys based here in Bristol and the South West. 1. Bardowl Who are they? Bardowl, based in Bath, have created an app that allows you to stream unlimited audiobooks to your …
I’ve had a few people tell me how lucky we are to have a growing, thriving business in times like this. I’m not sure how much of it was luck… 2012 has been a fantastic year for Simpleweb. We’ve built some amazing software for a diverse range of clients, ranging from some of the biggest …