We recently posted a tour of Rubicon Project’s New York office, and thought you might enjoy seeing a video vour of the Los Angeles space. And Yes. It was the set of the original 24. I was supposed to visit the company a few weeks back, but I forgot my camera, and had to reschedule. Dumb me.
It’s been a couple years since we last visited Mozilla, so we thought we’d check in again. Good thing we did, cos they’ve got a new place in downtown Mountain View. Not that their old place was bad, but this one is nicer and quite a bit more spacious. And with Firefox’s huge growth over the past few years, I’m sure they need it.
There are a couple things I really love about this office. First of all, they have a Speakers Room, where, yes, speakers can come in to, yes, speak to the company. Seems like a really cool way to keep everyone in the office engaged and constantly learning. Anyways, secondly, they have an enormous assortment of snacks, including, but not limited to, Pirate’s Booty, Pop Chips, and Kettle Chips.
Sorry about all those commas.
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It’s a new season, and you know what that means, Twitter migrated to new offices. We’ve seen their space a number of times (version 1, version 1 video, version 2), and the company has just kept exploding in size. So naturally, they would need to step up their offices space to meet whatever needs they come upon.
This new space is extremely roomy and open compared to their last couple offices. And by roomy, I mean very roomy, with the different areas being a good 30 feet apart. I’d assume that each one is assigned to a different task, so that spacing could definitely minimize the sounds coming from other work areas. Unless of course, they have one of those loud laughers that keeps getting knee-slappers retweeted to him.
The wall colors and decoration are fun, the carpet is what I imagine carpet looks like when we are all wearing foil for clothes, and the windows are great. Surely, lots of natural light too! The kitchen area looks well stocked, and the common area is so large, all of Oprah’s followers could have a tweetup and have some seats left over. All that said, the space is very plain, which I know for a fact will be the downside people talk about. However, that could easily be because the space is so new, it doesn’t have any of those ‘been worked in’ touches to it yet. As you can tell in a few photos, it looks like it is still being worked on.
For those of you that haven’t heard of TOMS Shoes, it is a pretty neat business run out of Santa Monica, California. They sell shoes that people like. For each pair of shoes someone buys, they donate a pair to someone in need in the world. the company has grown quite large over the last couple years and looks to only grow larger.
The TOMS office isn’t a typical workplace by any means. As you can see in the video, it is basically a combination office/warehouse that has a collection of interns and employees scattered about. Instead of cubicles, they just hung canvas sheets from the ceiling to give some privacy. The environment seems pretty laid back, but you can’t really complain when the business started out of the guys apartment and has been able to give away over 140,000 pairs of shoes.
In case you hadn’t noticed, watching moving pictures is one of the modern world’s favorite pastimes. Creating video content is also very popular, but taking time to transfer video onto your computer, and then upload it to your favorite video hosting site can be a pain. On top of that, all that time spent meant that live video is impossible. Qik is the answer. With its patent-pending method (aka magic wizard potion), they can take video from your mobile device and stream it instantly to the web so people can watch what you do right then. They also save the video for your viewing pleasure later.
Their offices are located in Redwood City, CA and occupy a nice expansive room with great lighting and a good number of workstations. The high ceilings really give the place a great feel as well. The office is equipped with a nice little gaming and entertainment corner, and of course has a Google tent. Special thanks to
Daniel Brusilovsky for these images.