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After reading Bob Cringley’s article about Skype being “almost” bought for $3 billion, I had to find out more. So the obvious place to start was Skype Journal. There I found a link to the blog of Vincent Oberle which contained a fascinating glimpse into life at Skype, posted after his second week on the job (here) . Vincent talks about his delight in working for a company that understands how to empower its creative minds by providing them with the “right tools.” This excerpt from his post was most revealing: “Strangely too, there are no names of shared drives to remember in order to find documents. Project management files, functional specifications, etc, just everything is on the company wiki, and it cannot get any simpler. Everybody uses the wiki, and is happy with it. The information there is up-to-date for most of it. Nobody has outdated specifications on his laptop. Mac and Linux users aren’t excluded. And everybody knows what a wiki is…”

Vincent reminds us that simple is beautiful when he says, ” I could go on about many great things[at Skype], but let’s just mention the pleasure it is to use the right tools. You know, the simple tools that get the job done, that make you a little bit more productive instead of shamefully slowing you down. One the main quality of Skype (the product) is its simplicity and this applies also in the tools we use daily.”

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