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Welovelocal.com Conquers Essential Web 2007

We had the opportunity to attend Library House’s Essential Web event yesterday which aimed to showcase the very best of European innovation from the web. Presentations varied from some Europe’s fastest growing sites such as Jaiku and WAYN through to new exciting new start ups like parkatmyhouse.com and Huddle.

Chaired by a remarkably quick witted Doug Richards, CEO of Library House (also of BBC’s Dragon’s Den Fame),the Essential Web proved to be a invigorating look at the range of web activity currently taking place across Europe.

We were fortunate enough to be also presenting. Within the competition section of the day we were chosen for the ‘Elevator Pitch’ segment where we were given an initial 60 seconds to tell everyone how great welovelocal.com is. Amazingly, despite my rushed presentation, we were voted into the final to close the event, where we went on to voted by the audience as the winning website!

In a room which was more or less a who’s who of the European web community, we were quite shocked, but pleased, by our victory. Thank you everyone who voted welovelocal!

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4 Responses to “Welovelocal.com Conquers Essential Web 2007”

Shakil K. says:
June 28th, 2007 at 3:02 pm

well well done guys, all the hard work is paying off and I for 1 love WeLoveLocal.

btw, any reason why news of this blog post was notified to me numerous time on my Blackbbok page - I mean once is enough, but 15 times is pushing it don’t you think.

Shak

Max says:
June 28th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

Hey Shak,

Thanks for the kind words.

With regards to your activity monitor - we’re looking into this now. We like to trump up our successes once in a while, but 15 times is a bit excessive!

I’ll see that it is sorted right away.

Best,

Max

Dan says:
June 28th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

I thought I’d stick a link in to Mike Butcher’s Flickr set of the event:

http://tinyurl.com/3cghtt

Max says:
June 28th, 2007 at 3:18 pm

Thanks Dan,

For those interested - here’s me looking like Frankenstein blown up to 50m on the London IMAX stage:

http://tinyurl.com/2vb7pu

and here’s a slightly friendly picture of me and Dan with Andy McLoughlin from Huddle

http://tinyurl.com/2uxffc