UK Web Mission 2009 kicks off
29th March 2009, 05:42 pm by Charlie Osmond
The Web Mission 09 kicked off last night with a party hosted by GPBullhound and TechCrunch. It was a good opportunity to meet some of the other firms on the trip. And also an opportunity to meet the local UK Trade and Investments team (UKTI) in San Francisco.
One of the firms that came last year, Huddle, is here again and I caught up with Alastair Mitchell the CEO last night. For him, the highlight of last years WebMission 2008 was a meeting with Linkedin. The meeting led directly to Huddle becoming one of only nine partners to launch on the Linkedin Application Network.
Huddle is a team collaboration and project management application. It’s a great way to coordinate a remote team, track progress on a project and share ideas and files. Email sucks when it comes to managing a group and sharing ideas. Huddle is a simple platform for collaboratig on projects and Alastiar is hoping it will see off email usage for these sorts of tasks.
It’s a UK web start-up that’s really gaining some traction and clearly one of the success stories of WebMission. I especially like it because the use of the web as a driver of collaboration and working with Social Media tools to bring people together is also exactly what we at FreshNetworks care about.
Off now to our second event, brunch hosted by Susan Best.
Read all of Charlie’s WebMission 09 blog posts here.
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