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Skimmer on WCCO

WCCO ran a story about Skimmer on the news last night. Sadly, I can’t embed it here. But you can go watch the video on their site.

A calm before the next storm, a few Skimmer fun facts

Picture by @shreshta

It’s been an entire day since Fallon unleashed Skimmer on the world, and some of the nerds are still recovering. As you can see it was a long, long process. I asked Mike Woods, who led our team of nerds on this project for a few numbers regarding Skimmer.

While I’m not sure if I’m at liberty to release official download numbers, I will tell you that there were thousands and thousands of people who registered yesterday and that on average each Skimmer user registered more than two service accounts (like Twitter, Facebook, etc.), and every user avergaed at least one friend using Skimmer (cute!).

What I can tell you is this:
Beers had in celebration of launch = 24 + two bottles of champagne
Hours spent in meetings = ~400
Number of curse words uttered during testing = Woods stopped counting at 1,000
Hours of sleep lost to project = 800

Woods also said Brenda Fogg had the honor of submitting Trac bug ticket #500 the night of launch.

As you can see by the picture above The Nerdery never sleeps. Tomorrow we’ll tell you all about an another amazing project we completed with one of our agency partners. Trust me on this one, it’s pretty cool.

Look what we helped Fallon build

Today, Fallon launched Skimmer, a life streaming thing that lets the social-networking butterfly in you keep track of all your friends.

Skimmer collates updates from your connections on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Blogger, and YouTube. While that’s pretty cool and all, the best part of it is it opens things like TwitPics right in the app, you can also watch your pals’ YouTube videos, and see their Flickr photos right in the desktop client.

This is a project the nerds have been working on for months and months. Mashing up all those technologies in an Adobe AIR app is not an easy task. Of course, they made it work. In the coming days we’ll be taking a peek into the Skimmer project and you’ll learn all about how this awesome new tool came into existence. Right now, you can visit Chris Black’s blog to see some of the challenges the team faced working on Skimmer.

In the meantime, you should give it a try, it’s free and you can download it on Fallon’s site.