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Huddle.net: lastminute.com development guru joins online collaboration
provider Huddle.net
(M2 PressWIRE Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
RDATE:03042008
London -- Jonathan Howell, former Director, Software Development at
lastminute.com (part of Sabre Holdings) has joined Huddle.net as Chief
Technical Officer (CTO). Jonathan is tasked with leading the
development of Huddle.net, an application that combines online
collaboration, project management and document sharing using social
networking principles. He will also be responsible for opening up its
API to the global development community.
At lastminute.com Jonathan led one of the largest IT projects within
Sabre Holdings. He was responsible for converging hotel inventory
systems globally, delivering a single technology platform that met the
requirements of all Sabre businesses (Sabre Travel Network,
Travelocity, lastminute.com, Zuji and others).
Prior to that he ran all online software development for the
lastminute.com sites across Europe. Jonathan has built and led teams
ranging from 15 to 100 people, distributed across the US, UK, Europe,
India and Argentina.
"It's fantastic having Jonathan on board. He has got an amazing track
record of building great web applications and providing the technology
that underpins one of the leading global brands. His breadth of
experience and Agile expertise is exactly what Huddle needs now to
succeed," said Alastair Mitchell, co-founder and CEO, Huddle.net.
Alastair continued: "At the same time, Jonathan's vision for Huddle
will help open it up to developers across the globe, make it an even
better, feature-rich product and help us lead the drive of Web 2.0
technologies into the Enterprise."
"Huddle's offer came out of the blue, but its pitch as a Facebook
meets Sharepoint' certainly got my attention," said Jonathan Howell,
CTO, Huddle.net. "We have a great team here, full of enthusiasm,
dedication and truly open to our users' suggestions. My next task is to
launch Huddle's API to other developers, helping them to create new
apps on top of our platform and integrate Huddle into other services.
This will create really exciting opportunities for everyone."
About Huddle.net
Huddle.net combines online collaboration, project management and
document sharing using social networking principles. It offers an easy,
secure and low-cost online service for everyone from individuals
through SMEs and enterprise to government. Huddle is also free for
charities. With Huddle you can instantly create a network of
collaborative team workspaces, each time bringing together the right
team for the right project.
Established in November, 2006, Huddle.net is based in London, UK. Its
customers include John Lewis, Boots, Edelman and UNICEF and a number of
government organisations and charities. Huddle.net is backed by Eden
Ventures Partners.
Huddle has been chosen as one of top 20 UK Web 2.0 companies by Web
Mission 2008 sponsored by UK Trade & Investment department and one of
100 top UK start-ups by Startups.co.uk in 2008.
CONTACT: Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson, Head of Marketing Communications,
Huddle
Tel: +44 (0)8709 772 212
Tel: +44 (0)7760 467 191
e-mail: zuzanna@huddle.net
WWW: http://www.huddle.net
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