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Drinksin and The Dealmap, two leading local websites have partnered up in the UK to bring people even closer to the best pub and bar deals in their neighborhood and beyond.

Drinksin, the location-based pub and bar community, connects people to pubs and bars they’ll love via their mobile.

Publicly launched today, The Dealmap is the most comprehensive source for consumers to find and share local deals on the Web.  In conjunction with the launch of its service, The Dealmap has created publicly available APIs that Drinksin will use to add unique local deal content to its sites.

Drinksin is focused around technology, in particular the latest in mobile location based services and personalised customisation. Drinksin’s tools learn what you like and provide personalised recommendations for pubs, bars and events to visit based on location

Using Drinksin, people can explore new places, grab money saving deals and discover the hottest events happening right now just round the corner from where you’re stood.

Owning over 120 domains and with a number of new technology services being made available this year, Drinksin will connect people to drinking establishments of interest wherever they are located in the world via the Internet or mobile device.

Drinksin’s city-based web sites such as Drinksinlondon.com and Drinksinreading.com are currently available in 18 UK cities, and 1 European city, Zagreb.

  • Drinksin London achieving 120,000 views a month.
  • Other domains achieving between 50,000 average a month.
  • 120 Drinksin domains owned.
  • Drinksin as a brand achieving 650,000 per month.

Drinksin is a privately funded start up based in London and co-founded by Laurence Williams, Mark Wallis, and Jaime Keenan. David Murray-Hundley, LinkedIn Business Leader of the Year 2010, serves as Chief Executive Officer. In this role, David is responsible for driving Drinkin’s product and monetisation road map, acquiring funding and expansion of partner and customer networks.

For more visit www.drinksin.com.

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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.

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