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Winners of the Spider Awards announced

Friday, November 02 12:17:38

The youngest ever eircom Spider Award winner was announced last night at the prestigious annual internet awards which took place in the National Convention Centre, Dublin.

Twenty year old James Whelton was awarded the eircom Spider Internet Hero Award just two years after winning an eircom Junior Spider Award. The webpreneur and developer was presented with the award for his contribution to digital innovation through co-founding CoderDojo. The movement which started in Cork and which has gone global, provides free and open learning to young people in programming technology.

James won the 2010 Best Web Design Award at the eircom Junior Spiders for his Leaving Cert Countdown Timer before setting up a computer club in his school and then teaming up with angel investor and XING co-founder, Bill Liao to co-create CoderDojo.

Bank of Ireland scooped three eircom Spider awards including best overall campaign (for the Dragon's Den campaign) and Best Financial Services award. They also won the eircom Spider Grand Prix Award for the "All About Business - Dragon's Den campaign".

A total of seventeen awards, for categories such as business to social media, sports and digital start-up were awarded to Ireland's most innovative websites.

Among the award winners were Journal.ie for its Mobile App, Trazoo.ie won the Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Award, Miinto.ie won the Retail Excellence award and The National Lottery (m.lottery.ie) won the best User Experience award.

The winner of the inaugural eircom Spider Business' Choice Award, as voted by the public, was MenuPages.ie.

The eircom Spider Digital Start Up Award went to Cleverbug.com, the website which personalises, prints and delivers birthday cards using Facebook photos.

Carolan Lennon, Chief Commercial Officer, eircom and Chair of the Spider Awards Judging Panel said, "Congratulations to all the winners in what was a hugely successful year for the awards. This year the introduction of the eircom Spider Business' Choice Award and the Digital Start Up Award was a key part of our continued development and our desire to recognise the role of SMEs to the digital economy. The opportunity to showcase the role of SMEs to the digital economy is more important than ever and we are delighted to be a playing a part in this."