ZDNet.co.uk wins Best Business Website award
The judges said that ZDNet.co.uk has "displayed a fantastic use of Web 2.0 and is… revolutionary, with a thinking behind the site that is streets ahead of its peers".
The awards, which were presented at London's Hyde Park Hilton on Wednesday night, are the highest-profile event for online media in the UK. Entries were 50 percent up on 2006.
ZDNet.co.uk's sister site silicon.com also came away with an award, for best business editorial team of the year. Other winners included Channel4oD, FT.com, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Guardian — which walked away with its usual array of gongs.
The judges voted for ZDNet.co.uk because of the work it has done to integrate community features with editorial, and the range of features that allow readers to blog about issues affecting them, find others interested in similar issues and create relationships and conversations on the site.
Editor and site director Matt Loney said: "This is tremendous news for everyone who worked on the project, from the developers, designers, HTML coders and project managers to the editorial team who now run it and, of course, for our members who use the site."