Amazing!

Ronan reveals his new line up. He unearthed a rich seam of talent at the integrated communications agency 'oceanseventy' and at first sight he has found some real rough diamonds!

Spotted this brilliant web comic recently on xkcd.com.

Important lessons.. especially for web developers who have to deal with the crazed mass that is the internet.

My gran used to tell me i was too big for my boots, and in a similar style, oceanseventy is getting bigger.  Thats why we're looking for an experienced web designer to come join us on a permanent basis.

If you've got these mad skills then give us a shout.

At least 2-3 years web design experience.
Expert skills in Illustrator/Photoshop.
Keen interest in current web UI and design trends.
Be able to take a project from brief to a living website through handcoded tableless, cross-browser, semantic XHTML/CSS

Extra skills which may be to your advantage...
Flash development - knowledge of Actionscript and animation.
Knowledge of Javascript and the opportunities for UI enhancement it provides.
Video production using Adobe Premier or Final Cut Pro.

Send a CV and list of URLs or portfolio to digital (at) ocean70 (dot) com or use our application form. Salary commensurate with experience.

We're currently doing some Christmas work in the office and it's got me thinking about the fact that I always wanted a speak and spell and never got one. Surely every kid deserves a present that can spell out CAT in a quality Stephen Hawking voice. The gift that keeps on giving!

 What have you wanted for Christmas but never got?

Well our friends over at the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB: www.iabuk.net) have been crunching those numbers again, online advertising now has a 15% share of the market with spend topping £1.3bn in the first six months of 2007. Impressive and means that online has overtaken the direct mail sector, which has a market share of 11.8%. The question is as the fastest-growing advertising medium has the internet propped up the UK advertising economy?

Here’s some other pretty impressive online advertising industry figures:

• 41.3% year-on-year growth
• £918m was spent in the first 6 months of ‘07
• Total UK advertising market grew by 3.1% in the first 6 months of ’07 to £9.1bn
• Although without online UK media expenditure would have fallen by £147m or 1.9%.
• Total spend for ’07 predicted to reach £2.75bn

IAB chief executive Guy Phillipson commented, "The online market is developing at an astounding rate and once again we see exceptional growth and a significant increase in market share. We're seeing women and the over 50s spending far more time online, which makes the internet a very attractive medium to a broader set of advertisers."

Source: commissioned by the IAB in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers and the World Advertising Research Centre.