Mint Digital

The last few months have been exciting times for Mint, with many new projects, several great new hires and the momentous decision to spin off Picklive and with it our beloved Tim, Noam and Krzysztof. (Now promoted to the Mint Hall of Fame.)

It seems a good time to reshuffle a few things at Mint. The aim of these changes is mainly to bring clarity and focus to the business and to ensure that Mint is in great shape to achieve its goals.

We are just launching a new project called Quotabl.es. The aim of Quotabl.es is to be the freshest and most accurate quotations site on the web. Long term, Quotabl.es aims to do for the dusty quotations dictionary what Wikipedia did for the Encyclopedia Britannica.

But that's the long term aim.

Today, we need your help. If you've got a minute, please add one quote you love. (Go to Quotabl.es, sign up and click on ‘Submit Quote’.)

To see regular updates of popular quotes, follow @QuotablesLoves.

Quotabl.es is work in progress. Any feedback much appreciated (either in the comments below or to hello@quotabl.es).

And remember:

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

It's not often you get a soulful moment in a job ad. I love this sentiment from our normally stone-hearted CEO:

We all have a responsibility to help those less experienced than ourselves. Those of us who are experienced developers can all look back on mentors who helped us along the way. It's the nature of life that we can never really repay those mentors, so the only thing we can do is help others to develop their skills as well. At Mint many of our "junior" developers have moved into senior roles in the last two years, and we're very proud of this aspect of our culture.

We are hiring a variety of developers (London, New York or, with luck, Glasgow) and an interaction designer in London.

Please note: The Glasgow office is at the planning stage. This expansion will be subject to a government grant, which we hope to conclude within the coming weeks. So, no guarantees!

Buoyed by the success of our iPhone app building weekend exercise, the fantastic response to our World Cup real-time visualizer, and the confidence from working on production projects in the mobile web space for blue-chip clients, we are ready to declare our mobile division open for business.

Just over a month ago, we wrote about a concept World Cup real-time visualiser for the iPad. We had some tremendous feedback since then, so thank you for your interest. Over the course of the month, we have been working hard to build that application.

I'm delighted to announce LivePitch is now available, for free, on the App Store!

I'm nervous about USA v England tomorrow. We all know that the USA has better dentistry, better writers, better mix-tapes, better magazines, higher GDP per head, more charismatic leaders. Football is what England is supposed to be good at. What makes it worse, there are characters in our New York office who will never shut up if USA win. 

We are fascinated with data and what you can do with it.

We are fascinated with '2Screen'. People using a second device to augment TV is increasingly common.

We are fascinated with the real-time web. Information delivered to you, as it happens, opens a world of possibilities. 

We have combined these passions before. Picklive Football, our two screen, real-time game, has been spun out as a separate start-up.

Lately, there's something else we've been fascinated with. It's the iPad. It's one of the most exciting canvases us digital folk have ever had a chance to build stuff on.

Picklive captures a whole load of data during every football match they cover. For the World Cup, they'll be covering every single match. We always thought there were other things to do with this data. The World Cup and the iPad turned out to be the catalysts we needed to put things into gear, and we think we may be onto something quite special...

We never did report on the Web App Weekender 2010. Here's the 3 apps we created.

We are delighted to announce reinforcements to the Mint development team: Paul Fedory, Salvatore Formisano and Edd Sowden