Sclipo wins European StartUp 2.0 award

Posted on May 28, 2007

It is a great feeling, I must say. We started something out of the blue, just believing that a social skills-network makes sense. Now, by winning the first place prize of the European StartUp 2.0 award, we are quite a step closer to knowing that a our social skills-network makes a lot of sense.

Thanks, above all, to our users. Without them, there would be no award.

Thanks to our team - Edwin, Dani, Luis, Otto, Rafi, Sebas, Sergi, Xevi and myself (Gregor) - without them, there would be no Sclipo.

Thanks to the organizers - Alianzo, Spri, La Caixa, First Tuesday, MADRI+D - without them, there would have been no competition and no extra boost of energy and buzz, which a start-up needs like oxygen.

Thanks to all participants - without them, winning would have been … hmm … boring. (Can’t list them here, there were close to 300 hundred).

A special thanks goes to Carlos from nvivo.es - also a finalist in the StartUp 2.0 competition and a wonderful site to find the best concerts in Spain - without his help, connecting with the Basque audience in such an incredible venue like the Bilbao Guggenheim would have been much harder: Eskerrik asko Carlos.

Sclipo announces SclipoLive in Blogak / StartUp 2.0 at Guggenheim in Bilbao

Posted on May 24, 2007

We are proud to announce, SclipoLive which we will be officially launched in its BIO (By Invitation Only) version on Monday, May 28, 2007. With this, Sclipo is the world’s first, user-generated skills-network offering a web-cam for live teaching.

SclipoLive will make a significant impact on non-academic learning: With SclipoLive, a Master can instruct one or many students anytime and anywhere in the world. Masters can charge students for the class, if they want, at the price they want. All classes are recorded.

Now, Hans from Hamburg can learn Flamenco-guitar from Pepe in Sevilla and Weihong can practice English with Jennifer from Seattle. SclipoLive also allows Students and Masters to chat during the class, to take notes and to exchange supporting documents. These are time-stamped and deep-tagged into the recorded class. Students can now review their classes much more efficiently then before: they just go to their notes and comments they made during any live class. Reviewing classes will easier and more productive than ever before.

For now, SclipoLive will only be accessible for selected users by invitation. If you want to be a beta-user, create an account on Sclipo and send us an email with your username to SclipoLiveBeta@Sclipo.com. If you want to be notified when SclipoLive goes live, please send an email to SclipoLiveNotification@Sclipo.com.

Thanks!

Sclipo launches new Master’s page

Posted on May 23, 2007

Today we launched a new Master’s page. We re-designed the layout so Masters can better communicate and promote their skills. We added a blackboard, where anybody can post a public message for a Master, like asking her/him to create a special skills-video. The new Master’s page also allows users to network around the skills of the Master: you can see and click through to all Students (= subscribers) of the Master and you can see who the Master is learning from in the myFavorite Masters box.

Also: each Master has now a unique, easy URL. So, Master Amanda’s URL is sclipo/user/amanda. So, open your Sclipo account fast to make sure to get your name on Sclipo.

We hope you like our new Master’s page.

Sclipo selected a top 5 EU web 2.0 startup

Posted on May 19, 2007

StartUp2.0 - a memorable happening! A great event to meet interesting companies and people, including ourselves (we took the opportunity and made the competition our first off-site).

We are very happy that we have been selected for the final to be held on May 24 at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, where we — together with the other 4 finalists — will have another opportunity to present Sclipo. You can register here for the event, which will be part of Blogak 2.0.

Thanks to the organizers of StartUp 2.0, its jury and all the people who are helping to make such events happen. These are important for start-ups like us. They create energy and enthusiasm among the team, they foster culture, they create a buzz, the reinforce your vision and motivate you that we are doing the right thing.

The Sclipo Team

Sclipo - a top 15 web 2.0 start-up

Posted on May 8, 2007

We are very excited that we were selected a top 15 EU web 2.0 company in the StartUp 2.0 contest. StartUp 2.0 is a competition of European web 2.0 sites. The selection was made based upon votes from Internet Users and a jury of prominent web experts, including Martín Varsavsky and Loic Le Meur.

Congratulations to all other selected web 2.0 firms. We are looking very much forward to meeting you in Madrid. We are excited about the exchange of ideas, in special about highly innovative smart flash players and other breath-taking technologies to delight the social network community.

We would like to thank the organizers Spri, Alianzo and La Caixa. We very much welcome your initiative!

A very special “thank you” to our Masters and users!

Your Sclipo Team