SkillPages
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Type of site
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Social Directory |
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| Available in | English |
| Website | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 2011 |
| Current status | part of Bark.com; no longer has a separate existence |
SkillPages was a social platform for finding skilled people and had over 20 million users on the platform from over 160 countries. The CEO was Laura Shesgreen who was appointed after the company's co-founder and former CEO Iain Mac Donald stepped down unexpectedly in 2013 due to sudden illness.
In December 2014, the Directors of the company sought the appointment of a provisional liquidator and said the company was for sale. On 2 February 2015, SkillPages announced that they had been purchased by London-based Bark.com.
The website was available in English and Spanish. It now redirects to Bark.com. The company was based in Dublin, Ireland, with offices in Palo Alto, CA, USA, and in Singapore.
On SkillPages, members created a profile that displayed their skills through multimedia (images, videos and status updates). Users who are looking for skilled people could post jobs or directly mail people on the platform that had the skills they are looking for. SkillPages is available on desktop, iOS and Android.
In 2009 by MacDonald and Michael Gallagher launched a private beta website called Weedle. MacDonald sold his previous company Perlico to Vodafone for €80,000,000 in 2007.
In March 2010 Taoiseach Brian Cowen, Prime Minister of Ireland, announced that Weedle had received funding of $4,000,000 to expand into the US and other global regions. Weedle investors included Dr Michael Smurfit and Weedle’s co-founder and CEO MacDonald as well as the Irish government agency, Enterprise Ireland.
“Weedle is a leading-edge high-tech company developing as part of Ireland’s knowledge economy,” said Cowen. “Weedle’s internet platform is a shining example of world-class research and development being used to create innovative technology with global reach and appeal.”
In January 2011, Weedle relaunched as SkillPages.
The name SkillPages was chosen because it was the closest "one word" description of what the company does. MacDonald said it is difficult to fully explain a new concept in just one sentence or one word, but the name SkillPages clearly explained the "skill" focus of the company.
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