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LinkedIn Webex European Business Leader of the Year 2010Last Wednesday our Chief Technical Officer to Drinksin, David Murray-Hundley won European Business Leader of the Year 2010 at LinkedIn’s European Business Awards. The award designed to celebrate a business leader who has created an outstanding workplace based on a set of values that has led to a commited, effective and motivated workforce.

When I caught up with David this morning over coffee, I asked his feelings on the award, “Obviously very happy to have won the award and also so thankful to everyone who supported me. I still find it all crazy and still think I am no different to anyone else. Been an exciting year so far at Drinksin and the next 6 months will be a crucial window for us. We are shortly looking forward to launching our mobile application, as well as the World cup around the corner and of course I along with the rest of England am looking forward to us winning!

Drinksin is also growing as a company and we are currently looking for a new CEO and further funding of the business. Going to be a busy year for the team but know we can do it.”

Drinksin’s Technical award was judged and presented by PY Gerbeau, the ex Chief Executive of the Dome, VP of Disneyland Paris and current CEO of X Leisure. Reid Hoffman the chairman of LinkedIn, and ex Vice President of Paypal and Apple. Reid Hoffman also serves on the board of SixPart, Kiva and Mozilla. James Campanini the Managing Director of Cisco Webex and Cisco Systems Ltd.

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LinkedIn European Business 2010 Awards

I know why they do it, but one thing that really annoys me about development agencies are the random prices for pieces of work, when you know fully well its not that involved. Multiply the number of biscuits crumbs you have left on your desk by the number of times you’ve had to answer the phone today … there you go …. “the quote”.

3 years ago the very same thing happened when looking for a development agency to do a proof of concept with google maps and a database … £100,000 …. urrmmm, ok, i’ll do it myself.

So here I am again, prices vary, the quality varies and all I want is MY IPHONE APP.

Macs are not my thing, so ive put off looking into it, but out of pure frustration, you want a job done …. Looking at the Mac right now, its looks good but do I turn the power on ?

Watch this space and i’ll let you know how I get on !

LinkedIn European Business Awards 2010

We’ve just heard the good news that drinksin.com’s new Chief Technology Officer, David Murray-Hundley has been shortlisted for Business Leader of the Year category, LinkedIn European Business Awards 2010. Hand picked by LinkedIn’s expert panel of judges David is one of only 10 in Europeto make the shortlist.

Please show your support for David, by voting here

Linkedin is the world’s biggest network and business hub and was started by the co-founder of Ebay and PayPal.

David who also acts as CTO for Adaro Group recently became involved with Drinksin taking on the role as CTO to take the team through funding and hitting the rest of the UK and US market.

“David’s out of the box mentality and ability to push boundaries in delivering technology solutions is providing us with an undeniable increase in operational strength and focus, he undoubtedly deserves to win this accolade.”

We’re very pleased to formally welcome David to the drinksin.com team, and wish him every success for this award.

Winners will be announced via a live WebEx on March 24th 2010.

Drinksin in the paper

Drinksin is featured in the news:

“An innovative Web application, enables clients (pub companies, independent outlets, partners and promoters) to provide up to date information in real time online as well as to mobile devices. User profiling and geo-location solutions then enable users to access location-aware and relevant pub and bar content.”

New Website – Preview

First draft of new site

The new site is coming on. This is a sneak preview of the current draft. Still very early stages but its coming on.