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I had the pleasure this week of attending the annual AOP Awards for Online Publishing at the Hilton Park Lane at the invitation of our clients CMP, publishers of Property Week, for the design of whose online magazine we were shortlisted for the Design and Usability Award. Regrettably we were trounced by the Murdoch millions: to coin a phrase, it was The Sun Wot Won It. And very usable it evidently is.

Sour grapes aside, the event displayed an industry that is confident and dynamic and by and large the winners were impressive, including: Channel 40D for the Launch Award; silicon.com for Business Editorial Team; FT.com for Consumer Editorial Team; The Sun Online not only for Design and Usability but also for Use of Video (yeah, right); the Guardian's Islamophonic for Podcast; Trinity Mirror's Gazette Communities for Online Community; Channel 4's Lost Experience for Cross-Media Project. The Telegraph Group, much derided in the course of the evening by 800 drunken competitors for entering everything but never winning, confounded all at the death by scooping the premier prize - Online Publisher (Consumer) - in recognition of their determined commitment over the past year.