Last night Helen & I had the pleasure of attending “Unlimited Drinks London“, one of the foremost social events for mobile professionals in the UK, organised by the tirelessly enthusiastic Ewan of SMSTextNews. We met plenty of interesting people, from tech bloggers such as James Whatley and David Stone, to the guys from travel journal startup Mapness, and had chats about everything from the future of LG’s phones to whether Twitter or Jaiku was better. For those of you who missed it, there should be some photos and video of the event coming later today.

Those of you who we met there and are checking this blog out for the first time - hello, it was nice meeting you, and we hope you stay - do also check out us on Twitter, Flickr and YouTube. Finally, we also held a little prize draw for everyone who dropped their business card off at the event, and our congratulations go to Claire Jones and Stephen Wadeley who both won brand new LG KF600s to take home with them, and we hope they have a lot of fun with them!

The design of the London Olympic stadium has been revealed. It will be an 80,000 seat stadium of which 55,000 of those seats will be demountable making way for a 25,000 seat athletic stadium when the games have finished. This seems to be the focus of the design - creating a spectacular stadium for the event but very much taking into account the purpose of the stadium after the main event has finished.

A fairly revolutionary approach to stadium building, and a refreshing move away from the tendency with stadium building for each one to out do the next in terms of size and pomposity.

The overall design of stadium captures this idea of ‘legacy’ that the games organisers have been so keen to talk up in there never ending quest for ’sustainability.’ They’ve taken the softly softly approach with the design - the stadium will be shrouded in an unexciting sounding ‘fabric curtain’ and so far the pictures of the stadium have been bathed in a warm pink glow.

There’s obviously an agenda of doing it differently and opposing the kind of stadium design seen in the Beijing Olympic stadium with its astounding steel ‘birds nest’ structure. The problem is that whilst this is all very admirable the London stadium is a bit unremarkable. Which would you rather have as a legacy - a 25,000 seat open air athletic stadium or an 80,000 seat architectural behemoth?

The question is whether the promise of sustainability, and the insistence that the design reflects this, will really be enough to make it a truly great stadium?