Jan
23
2008Skyhook Wireless gets USA today treatment
23
2008
I guess it may be unhealthy for me to obsess over companies that I unsuccessfully interviewed at, but Skyhook Wireless just has a really cool technology that’s fun to keep tabs on. Their big news is that they just got their stuff built into the iPhone, which is something they were considering a longshot bet when I interviewed there just 4 or 5 months ago. Congrats to them. They just got written up in USA Today. Oddly, USA Today lists them as having 270 employees. When I interviewed there, last summer, I think they had about 15. Either USA Today needs to do its fact checking, or they’re counting the part-time drivers as employees, or Skyhook had an impressive 2,000% increase in headcount in just a few months.
A bit of an ironic twist: I got a tad lost when I was heading to my interview there, and was on foot with only a Blackjack cell phone to guide me. If I had a Skyhook enabled iPhone, it would have made things a lot easier.
The day the iPhone update came out, the location tool zeroed right in on my street, in front of my building. Last week when I headed out to drive to Providence, it zeroed in at lower res at home, around the corner on another street (which added round the block steps to the start of my trip). While in Providence, it was zoomed way out within broad vicinity of 95. Any word on any changes following the initial launch?
Mark 1/27/08 @ 12:20 am