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Digital jobs (four of them)

Esta noche hice todo lo que tenia que hacer [Digital]

We’re getting busier by the day at Net Media Planet. So busy, in fact, that we are currently recruiting for four new positions.

So, hopefully you’re looking for a job in digital media. Hopefully you’re bright and passionate and you know a lot (or a bit) about Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and you’d like to find out a bit more.

The Times has said that we’re the 16th fastest-growing private technology firm in the UK. We’ve won a truck load of awards in the search industry and digital publishing and we generated something like £80 million in revenue for a long list of clients last year.

So, if you’d like to work with us this is what you could be:

MUSIC: 200603-200803 Listening History Graph

1. PPC Analyst:

What you’ll do:

We are looking for someone to join the team and take on the role of PPC Analyst, reporting directly to the Head of Search. You’ll manage campaigns for A-brand clients such as Dell, Adobe, McAfee and Singapore Airlines – becoming an expert in what Jason Calacanis has called the most important industry of the twenty first century.

What you’ll need:

A 2:1 degree in maths, statistics or another quantitative subject along with top analytical skills.

Read the full job spec here.

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Google logo render - Mark Knol

2. Account Manager

What you’ll do:

You’ll report to the Operations Director and you’ll manage big client relationships with anyone from Apple to Microsoft. You’ll identify new business opportunities, prepare proposals and participate in pitches.

What you’ll need:

A couple of years experience working in a client facing role – preferably within the search industry. You’ll be analytical, with a great knowledge of PPC and you’ll have a deep-set interest in online marketing.

Read the full job spec here.

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Opera logo with CSS across browsers

3. Frontend developer

What you’ll do:

You’ll work with the Publishing and Projects team and you’ll be responsible for making sure that all of our top websites look good, work across all browsers and load up in super-quick time. You’ll have loads of scope to grow and you’ll have a lot of freedom – and what’s more you’ll be working with big clients.

What you’ll need:

You’ll need to have excellent CSS, HTML, Javascript, AJAX (JQuery) as standard. You’ll need to have experience working with big websites and you’ll be working with Facebook, Wordpress and APIs – so experience there is beneficial too.

Read the full job spec here.

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Side on: the Sony Vaio X Series

4. Business Development Exec

What you’ll do:

You’ll work with the business  development manager searching for new business right across the affiliate industry and beyond. You’ll manage relationships with affiliate networks and merchants so the company can make the best of any emerging opportunity.

What you’ll need:

A couple of years in a sales-based role and/or previous experience in digital media.

Read the full job spec here.

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If you would like to apply for any of these roles – just send a CV over to peter at netmediaplanet . [com] and I’ll pass it on.

Image Credits:

Top – AlexCano

Analyst – Rev Xanatos

Account Manager – Mark Knol

Frontend Developer – Dave DeSantos

Business Development Exec – PC SiteUK


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By Peter Moore
June 17, 2010

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Twitter art, Irkafirka and tweet #3125

Pencil Stripes from Flickr

Art, an octopus and social media

Strange things happen in social media. Last night was stranger than normal.

Yesterday morning I was using Twitter to complain about doing Excel spreadsheets at work. I felt, I said, like #afishoutofwater – or, I then wrote, exercising a Spanish idiom, ‘Como un pulpo en un garaje.’ – which translates into English as ‘Like an octopus in the garage.’

Pulpo tweet

Less than 12 hours later a website called Irkafirka published this:

@petermoore artwork on irkafirka

Oddly, I first saw the illustration moments after getting home from El Camino Spanish bar in King’s Cross. And waking up this morning I imagined that I’d probably had a little too much sangria – but, after checking, it’s quite real.

It all stems from an idea that Irkafirka’s founders have had to illustrate a random selection of tweets then publish them as quickly as possible. On their website, they write:

The Rules:

1. Irkafirka is as fresh as possible. We aim to post illustrations within 24 hours of the tweet that inspired them.

2. We are not aquainted with our chosen tweeters. Tweets are chosen by a random process of dipping in and out of the massive data deluge that Twitter has become.

3. Suggestions are warmly welcomed but almost certainly ignored. Which isn’t to say that we don’t have a price. You want a commission, you’ve got to pony up. Call it becoming a patron of the arts.

4. We aim to post illustrations daily, but we have jobs, family and cinema tickets, all of which have to take priority from time to time.

5. If we stop enjoying it, we’ll stop.

6. We can break any of the rules except 5.

There are more illustrations on their website. I think it’s a wonderful idea that will work brilliantly over time – just so long as they can keep it going.

I’m after a copy of my tweet #3125 to hang on the wall, and when I asked if I could buy the artwork they responded with:

Irkafirka Tweet

Nothing more for me to say to irkafirka then, but THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND I BLOODY LOVE IT.

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image credit: freekvandenbergh on Flickr

Irkafirka are @chrisbell @Pockless on Twitter

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By Peter Moore
May 26, 2010

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The Internet: five years ago

The Passage of Time

2005: social media?

About five years after its launch, last Sunday evening, You Tube announced that they are now receiving two billion hits per day. On their official blog they wrote:

Five years ago, after months of late nights, testing and preparation, YouTube’s founders launched the first beta version of YouTube.com in May, with a simple mission: give anyone a place to easily upload their videos and share them with the world. Whether you were an aspiring filmmaker, a politician, a proud parent, or someone who just wanted to connect with something bigger, YouTube became the place where you could broadcast yourself. [Link to full post]

Not only is the two billion milestone noteworthy, but the fact that the site is five years old is also well worth noting.

There’s a good argument that 2005 was the pivotal year in the shaping of the Internet as we know it. You Tube was founded, Mark Zuckerberg opened Facebook up to schools across America, and Yahoo acquired two year-old Del.icio.us and one year-old Flickr.

For the sake of nostalgia, here is what some of these websites looked like back then, five years ago.

  • You Tube

Billed rather simply as a digital photo repository back in 2005 – their logo has hardly changed a bit in the last five years. The homepage design obviously owes quite a bit to Google’s, who, in any case, bought the site in November 2006 for $1.65 billion.

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  • Google

In 2005 Google was already looking fairly grown up and confident. Very few changes were made to this minimalist homepage design until just a few weeks ago.

You’ll spot here that back then Google were busy promoting Froogle, their price comparison service which was later rebranded as Google Product Search.

Google 17 May 2005

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  • Blogger

In May 2005, blogger was already six years old. Therefore it predates Web 2.0 and is one of a few notable survivors of the Dot Com Crash in 2000. It had been acquired by Google in 2003 and by the time of this screenshot it was by far the most popular blogging software available.

In May 2005 they launched Blogger Mobile, which allowed people to blog by text message –making them, by my reckoning, just about two years too early.

Blogger May 2005

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  • Wordpress

Wordpress would supplant Blogger in popularity over the next few years. It’s interesting to note, however, their reasons for encouraging people to use their software. ‘You can stop sending mass emails to everyone’, ‘You can archive your thoughts’ and ‘Why the heck not?’

Indeed.

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  • Facebook

Facebook has retained this familiar feel from the start, but its evolution has been a little more complex than most.

Back in 2005 there were two Facebooks, one for people in college and one for people in high school. All the dots would be joined up over the next year as it began the march that would see it become the most popular site in America.

Facebook November 2005

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  • The BBC

Back in 2005 I had never written a blog, had never used Facebook and only seen a handful of You Tube videos, but I was already mildly addicted to the Internet. And from a sunny Madrid and a fitful Internet connection, the BBC’s official site was where I spent most of my time.

BBC Homepage May 2005

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  • The Guardian

And 2005 was a time before guardian.co.uk existed. Back then it was known as the Guardian Unlimited – a website that promised such things as ‘All the headlines from today’s first edition.’

From that I suppose you can summise that the website was still being considered as some kind of digital reflection of the newspaper – and not really a strong publication in its own right.

The Guardian May 2005

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  • Flickr

Flickr now hosts more than four billion images and is the most popular image sharing site on the web. Back in 2005 PC World were offering them some kind words:

‘Cutting edge real-time photo sharing’, they said. They were right.

Flickr June 2005

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  • And in 2006 … Twitter

Twitter didn’t exist in 2005 and it wouldn’t appear properly until more than a year or so later. Therefore it’s just tagged on to the end of this post. It’s a good demonstation of  just what can be done in four years with a scruffily designed website, a clever idea and a willingness to stick with your logo through thick and thin.

Twitter November 2006

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Top image credit: TonVC on Flickr

Screen shots pulled out of the Way Back Machine

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By Peter Moore
May 18, 2010

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