The UK's Best Time Out Just Got Better

The UK's Best Time Out Just Got Better

LONDON, December 30/PRNewswire/ -- The most powerful search tool for UK events has now been launched online so anyone can find a time out to suit their tastes. woZZon (http://www.wozzon.com) offers less time searching for what's on in your area and more time enjoying it. While Google makes it easy to find the biggest events in the area, information overload often means the best ones are the hardest to find.

Now film, theatre, gigs, exhibitions, comedy, clubs, classical music, family events and more can be found in one place. There are over 50,000 events listed at any time. In January for instance, you can enjoy some live music at The Old Success Inn at Land's End, or take the kids on a cultural trip to the Bonhoga Gallery in the Shetland Islands. Alternatively, readers in your area will find all sorts going on closer to home if they search for events on the site.

woZZon is the most comprehensive events listings service in the UK. Whereas most search engines use computer programs to guess the best search results, woZZon collects data from over 20,000 venues which is collated by a team of editors, to provide relevant and reliable results. This leads to tens of millions of individual events listed in a year. Search results can also be viewed on an interactive map to show their location close to you. Added to that, anyone can contribute their own venues, events, comments and reviews.

The service is currently in public beta, ahead of a full launch early in 2009. woZZon can be used online or on a mobile. It's free for anyone to search and contribute content and will remain free when launched. In the development pipeline for the next few months, the site will roll out additional features including an advanced mobile version for phones with GPS. Everyone in the UK will be able to ask their phone "what's on?" and the results will be matched to their precise location.

woZZon's Product Manager, Ingeborg Albert, added that, "woZZon does not try to do a hundred different things, we just want to provide a listings service which is faster, more relevant and more comprehensive than any other." What's more, the woZZon team are making a call for all promoters, venue owners, performers and anyone attending events to add their own content. Now even the most unusual events can be promoted for free, and the fans and critics have somewhere to voice their views.

Note to Editors:

- For more about the site, visit http://www.wozzon.com

- Example searches: Land's End (http://www.wozzon.com/controller.web?method=search&dateCriteria=5&oldLocation=sennen&when=31%2F12%2F2008&till=31%2F12%2F2008&brandCategoryId=0&categoryId=0&subCategoryId=0&locationProvided=1&sortType=1&townId=13473&dayIncrement=0&pageId=0&pageSize=10&searc ) to the Shetland Islands (http://www.wozzon.com/controller.web?showAllCategories=No&method=search&dateCriteria=5&when=18%2F12%2F2008&till=18%2F12%2F2008&brandCategoryId=0&oldLocation=shetland&locationProvided=1&viewType=Map&venueId=0&titleId=0&dayIncrement=0&latitude=59.99973&longi )

Images available on request:

- woZZon logo and screenshots

- Concept designs for the GPS version of woZZon for the Apple iPhone

Source: woZZon.com

For further information: woZZon contact: Ben Bland, PR Manager, Mob: +44(0)7780-701-833, Tel: +44(0)20-7079-4881, Email: ben.bland@wozzon.com

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Profile: International Entertainment