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An evening where three people presented their ideas for a new technology offering and answered questions from an expert panel. The audience had a chance to ask further questions before the winner was chosen by a show of hands.

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Committee member Tim Lambertstock welcomes the audience to the What's Hot? evening and introduces

 
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the panel of four experts

 
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The first contestant, Alex Blok,

 
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described his gonumber.com service, targetted initially at small restaurants and small takeaways who don't have the resources to run their own websites

 
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gonumber presents information about the businesses in a consistent way,

 
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giving, directions, contact details, maps, menus, opening hours and more

 
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Ros Abramsky presents her idea for a device

 
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to keep everyone in touch on group tours

 
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and to deliver information about the sites being visited

 
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Tim Lambertstock introduces the third contestant, David Langer

 
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GroupsSpaces.com, currently in beta, provides free, advertising funded collaborative websites to local communities, clubs and colleges.

 
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Panellist Jeff Barr, Senior Manager of Web Services Evangelism with Amazon, gives his summary

 
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Eileen Modral, who manages the Oxford Investment Opportunity Network (OION), was another of our panellists

 
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Adrian Walmsley, branch webmaster, sums up his view of near term technology trends

 
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Panellist Dr Jan Hruska, co-founder and Director of Sophos comments on the entries

 
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Our host for the evening, Tim Lambertstock, announces that the winner, by a short margin is ...

 
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David Langer for GroupSpaces.com

 

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