Many years ago, in sunny Sydney, Alicia found herself organising yet another group holiday for friends. This as usual involved weeks of researching on the internet, discussions with friends, loads of emails back and forth, before a decision could be made and the holiday organised.

She found that holiday accommodation was not the only type of decision that involved in depth internet research: buying a TV or car, finding a place to live with roommates, choosing the venue for a party… these all resulted in frustrating efforts to manage the options she found, get feedback from friends or family, and then communicate the results to everyone else.

So, in mid-2006, Alicia decided to do something about it, and created Skimbit. Working with an international team of designers and technologists in Romania, Japan, and France, Alicia has created a service aimed at making busy people's lives a little simpler. Skimbit doesn't try to change the way you normally search for things online, but once you do find things you like, Skimbit helps you skim the best bits from that site, so you can manage and act upon your findings easily and quickly.

Then, in mid-2007, Alicia expanded the business and created Skim-in-a-box, which is a powerful platform that can customise and create instances of the entire Skimbit tool for other portals or companies. For example, its perfect for wedding websites (or home improvement, travel or preparing for baby websites) that want to offer a skimming tool for their own users, or production companies (or concierge services, interior decorators, or wedding planners) that want a better way of collecting feedback from their clients.

We are a young company, but an ambitious one. We have loads of ideas on how to improve our site, and are looking to grow quickly in the next year, so please feel free to be part of our community and part of our journey. We would love to have you with us!