Our mission is to become one of the leaders in online fashion publications.

We offer daily, original and unique fashion segments, visuals and viral.

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So how do we navigate our way around this smorgasbord of culture? How to decide where to go, who to read about, which opinion stands out, the event that we’ll be talking about for months. We almost need a cultural compass. Hang on….

This was our lightbulb moment, and we liked it so much that we’ve been developing Culture Compass. As well as being our up-dated and refreshed online arts and culture magazine ( formerly Open Magazine ) it’s a new application for  internet and mobile devices allowing users to fully engage and inter-act with the cultural landscape. And, here’s the good bit, to help create it. For more information on our new app and how to get involved, click here.

And for those of you who know us as Open Magazine, our ethos hasn’t changed. We’re still all about bringing you a blend of the high arts and popular culture, with no judgement on whether it’s ‘ the right thing’ to like. Soaps, Reality TV and pop all rub along with performance art, classical music and literature here.

Blokely is an independent men’s lifestyle platform, only available online (known as “pure play”). Evolving from a low-key blogging site focusing on grooming and style stories, we are now a site, which, we read recently, has ‘begun to challenge the mainstays of the men’s consumer market.’ Pretty good for the new gents on the block.

Our regular contributors include Xfm’s Dave Berry, Bath and England rugby player Olly Barkley, comedian Josh Howie, ex-England cricketer Ryan Sidebottom and actress Kelly-Anne Lyons. But, we’re not stopping – there’s more in the pipeline.

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When we started out in November of 2008 we wanted to create an internet home for our love letters to cinema. Be it looking back to films we loved as kids, classic movies we’ve just caught up with or looking forward to the latest blockbusters and indie masterpieces, at HeyUGuys , if it’s thrown against the silver screen we’re interested.

Based in London, UK we want to bring you the most interesting film news and reviews, keep an active eye on the latest developments behind the scenes and celebrate the freshest new voices in cinema.

We are dedicated to providing the best coverage from the world’s biggest film festivals, be on the red carpet for all the London premieres as well as covering the many cinematic events around the world. For interviews with the biggest names in the business, exclusive competitions or comprehensive coverage from set visits in the US and the UK, we want you to join us at HeyUGuys.co.uk.

There are great things happening in the world of film right now, and we’re in a privileged position to discuss, debate, argue with you about the things you care about most. The films will never stop coming and we’ll never stop watching.

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West London Living is updated daily by experienced journalists; a local, independent team who is passionate about the area and its community. We take a hands-on approach to local events (we are currently the exclusive online media partner for First Wednesdays, the new arts initiative for west London). Feedback on West London Living includes Richard Branson, who said ‘It’s nice to see West London on the map’.

Twitter @WL_Living

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Your free style, grooming and luxury living mentor brings you daily updates on the most current happenings. We’ve got the finest clothing, indepth reviews on grooming products and brilliant advice on luxury lifestyle and living.

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It was set up by Josh Burt, who has been a journalist for over ten years, and has written for men’s magazines (FHM, Shortlist, Zoo Weekly), women’s magazines (Cosmopolitan, New Woman, More!), tabloids (The Sun, The Mirror), broadsheets (The Times), websites (The Sun Online, FHM Online), you name it. He’s even written a book! It has been featured in The Times, who described it as “an irrepressible canter through popular culture.

The site is also responsible for the monthly stand up comedy night Interestment Presents… Get Up Stand Up which is proving rather popular.

Twitter: @Interestment

Founded in 2000, The Good Web Guide,  with its careful attention to detail and thorough manual vetting process, is a trusted source of information for its well established readership. It continues to live up to being ‘The Orient Express of web navigation’.

Whether you’re looking for a luxury villa in Croatia, a present for an aged aunt or just after a laugh, thegoodwebguide.co.uk has something for everyone.

Twitter @thegoodwebguide

The site features reviews of recent shows, previews of upcoming programmes and TV related news – and all this in addition to a fine and a well-regarded podcast featuring, in the words of the Guardian, ‘rude men shouting about the brilliance of Traffic Cops’.

We think that was a recommendation.

Set up three years ago with a healthy backlog of content, we post frequently and prolifically, always engaging with the mood of the TV nation and talking straight about whatever’s been on the box. Watch With Mothers watches TV – from reality flotsam to quality documentaries – so you don’t have to.

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News is updated daily to bring you the best new cinema, DVD and Blu-ray news. If you like you can look through feeds of all the news, or split it into different subjects (e.g. celebrity news, DVD news or cinema news)

Reviews are split into areas for cinema and DVD/Blu-ray reviews. Get all the best new releases, as well as a database of older releases

Features/Interviews and for those looking for further reading, there’s a constant stream of features and content tied into new cinema and home entertainment releases

Extras: This area is for anything that doesn’t easily fit elsewhere, such as competitions, videos, site news, special events and announcements

Forum: While every news story, review and feature includes room for users to comment, the site also has a dedicated forum for people to discuss the latest in film and home entertainment

Member Muses: Here you can sign up for a Movie Muser account, which will allow you to create and maintain your own film blog, which will be freely available for anyone around the world to read

Price Comparisons:  Every DVD and Blu-ray review is linked to a page offering up to the minute prices from the top online home entertainment stores. There is also be a dedicated page offering links to price comparisons for the top upcoming and new release discs, as well as some great bargains. You can also search for comparisons on 10,000s of DVDs and Blu-rays, with prices provided from all the top online stores.

Movie/Talent Pages: As soon as the first story about a film, director or actor goes onto the site, it get its own page, meaning you can easily see everything Movie Muser has ever written about, say, Brad Pitt or Terminator: Salvation. Just put what you’re looking for into the search box and see what we;ve had to say.

Newsletters: Movie Muser sends out two weekly newsletters. One announces the top new news, reviews and other great content on the site, while the other is for those looking for good deals on DVDs and Blu-rays. To sign up, just register with the site and you can choose to receive them.

RSS Feeds: If you want to keep up with the latest Movie Muser content as it goes onto the site, sign up to our RSS feeds, and you’ll become one of the first to know what new reviews, news, features and competitions we’ve added to the site.

Twitter: @ MovieMuser

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Running in Heels offers intelligent news and commentary on culture, politics, society, fashion and everything in between.

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The Magazine
This is about a community of people who want the best offbeat insight into London and want to see that reflected in what they read. People accept nothing less. We’re special. We’re unique. Our mission is to bring the best to the people. Originally printed on a photocopier in Muswell Hill, The Other Side has blossomed from an eight page black and white magazine into a full colour magazine. Created, run and put together bi-monthly by a group of Londoners working within the publishing and Web 2.0 industry, The Other Side Magazine is ready to take on the big guns.
The Other Side is made up of young Londoners frustrated with what we are handed on a daily basis. The Lite, Metro and Paper are offering nothing of any value to commuters…and don’t get us started on the new ES. We turn the norm on its head and offer up witty, insightful comment on our city. Be it music, film, art, fashion, politics or food. If its on the mind of Londoners then we’ll cover it. We’ve got an award winning travel writer, a film star, RA graduates and the backing of social networking platform Webjam.com.

Online
We don’tt believe that print is dead. Not yet anyway. Who doesn’t love sitting down and reading a tasty magazine? However we are accounting for the direction in which print is going and have created a website to match those thoughts.
The site is run on a social network platform, taking your average website and adding endless possibility to it.
Our blogs, forums and bulletins are monitored through activity feeds throughout the site for easy navigation. We have an abundance of writers who contribute on a regular basis.
There is also a thriving community of members contributing to the content.
Channels
What sets us apart from other sites is the potential for readers to create their own ‘Other Side’ network. A place where they can start writing blogs, adding photos or just communicating with other readers. Anything written on their Other Side network appears on a feed on our homepage.
We are currently setting up pages for shops, bars and festivals that they can use to promote themselves. By keeping a blog and running a forum it can set a store apart from one with a standard website. It’s key to interact with their customers and we know that we can help.

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The site is regularly updated with industry news, fragrance articles and interviews with members of the fragrance industry. Basenotes also boasts a lively discussion forum, where fragrance aficionados can discuss all aspects of the fragrance world

Since Basenotes’ launch in August 2000, we have grown to become the largest fragrance information resource on the internet, and has been featured in Elle, The Evening Standard, The Times, The Guardian, Men’s Health, FHM, FHM Collections, The Irish Independent, MSNBC.com and trade magazines, Perfumer and Flavorist, Beauty Fashion and Cosmetics Magazine.

Top 3 most influential beauty blog – Konector
Winner 2009, 2008 & 2007 Best Fragrance Web Editorial at the Canadian Fragrance Awards
Winner 2008 Best website feature on fragrance, UK Jasmine Awards
Men’s Vogue Top 50 Recommended website: “An excellent resource for scent novices and experts alike.”

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LocalFoodAdvisor.com was founded by Allan and Maggie Ure in 2008 and has been recommended recently in both The Independent and Woman and Home. Before becoming Managing Director, Allan was a senior executive with Reed Elsevier PLC one of the world’s largest online publishers.

Beauty and the Dirt.com is the most popular, independent, female lifestyle site in the UK featuring the best in beauty, fashion and entertainment. Mimi is your glamorous host and gives you the inside scoop on everything you need to know.

Here at BATD HQ we make sure we try, test and sometimes just bin make-up skincare and hair care so that by the time we get to write about it we know exactly if it does what it says on the tin.

It’s our duty to keep you up to date on all the gossip and style secrets of your favourite celebrities all under one roof.

Sprinkled with the right amount of red carpet, glamorous spa trips, fabulous parties and film premiere footage, make Mimi your new BFF!

Beautyandthedirt.com is 10 years young. Krista Madden is the founder and editor of the site, with a background of 20 years in the fashion and beauty industry.

Twitter: @BeautyandDirt

Harden’s Guides, run by brothers Richard and Peter Harden, is a publishing firm based just off the Strand in London.

Fifteen years ago, Richard and Peter launched their first and best-selling guide, Harden’s London Restaurants – now the longest-established pocket guide to London restaurants. In 1998 a companion volume was launched: Harden’s UK Restaurants. The opinions expressed in both guides are based on what is now the largest annual survey of restaurant-goers in the UK (over 8,000 people took part for the 2006 edition, contributing over 90,000 reports).

In addition the brothers have visited practically every restaurant listed in the London guide, and many of those listed in the UK volume. Their personal visits are always conducted anonymously, and at the firm’s expense.

Meet Richard & Peter

Richard (48) graduated from Christ’s College Cambridge with a degree in Economics and Law. An interest in food manifested itself in membership of the Cheese Appreciation Society and being Dinner Secretary of the college boat club. On leaving university, he qualified as a Barrister, before embarking on a career in the City, working initially at Baring Brothers and then at Samuel Montagu (now part of HSBC). In 1991, he founded Harden’s Guides with his brother Peter.

Peter (41) graduated with a degree in Natural Sciences and Law from Trinity College Cambridge. “Hoover” Harden’s legendary appetite was fuelled by rowing for the Goldie (the university second crew) and his position as food and drink secretary for his college ball. He too first went into finance, working as a junk bond analyst for the Saudi International Bank in New York, before returning to London to launch Harden’s Guides.

How the business began

The idea for Harden’s Guides came at the beginning of the 1990s, when Peter was working in New York and Richard in Dusseldorf. Both cities had handy, opinionated, pocket restaurant guides of a type which simply didn’t exist in London. The time seemed right to launch such a guide. The restaurant scene was just beginning to stir and, with great difficulty, a hundred people were persuaded to take part in the first London-wide survey. For nine months before publication of the first edition of Harden’s London Restaurants, Richard and Peter ate their way around the capital: between them the brothers consumed 600 meals out in a six-month period.

Fifteen years later, and the number of participants has increased eighty-fold. Yes, that’s 80 times more than Harden’s first guide with over 8,000 people casting their votes for the latest editions!

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About Tipped
Tipped is an online community for people to share tips on all the great, and not so great, places in their local area.

Get Tips  – We’ve got everything covered, from the greasy spoons to the Michelin-starred restaurants, the old boozers to the cool bars. Find the best shops and boutiques, art galleries, spas, gyms, hotels and more. Quickly search by any keyword and/or location. Or browse by category, tag or both using our clever filter system. And you can easily access Tipped on your mobile. This is just the beginning, we’re adding new categories and listings all the time.

Give Tips - Tipped is people like you and me writing reviews about local places. You don’t need to be a critic or writer, honest and insightful work best at Tipped. If you happen to have a way with words then by all means be colourful and entertaining. The more you tip and the more other readers vote your tips Useful, the more your presence and influence on the site will grow. So start Tipping now and tell us what’s hot! Your Tipped points are always found in My Profile.

Share Tips – Tipped is best when shared with friends, family, co-workers or others in the community. Quickly and easily add your friends by importing your existing contacts or search our member directory. Create lists of your personal collections for easy reference. Share your collections and your tips with your friends.

Tipped was started by Joel Brazil in January 2007. Prior to Tipped, Joel worked at Microsoft for 11 years in a variety of marketing and product management roles and most recently as Head of Mobile for MSN UK.

Upbeat and eclectic, Londonist is created by an incredibly talented and diverse team of contributors who share a passion for the city with our readers. We’re a bunch of London obsessives who live the city and share our best discoveries.

Think London, Londoner, Londonist.

Foodari has in excess of 1300 recipes saved by its members which are used by casual visitors and members alike to gain inspiration of what to cook. Foodari continues to build new functionality to address the needs of its community, recent additions include The Food Web and Foodari Bookshop and there is a lot more coming soon!