No sooner has the revamped Jitty young person's web site been relaunched than it wins a major national award! Children and Young People Now (www.cypnow.co.uk) has given The Jitty the 'Best interactive media created by young people, for young people' award in their Positive Images Awards.

This is well-deserved recognition for all the hard work put in to the site by Jitty members, so well done. You can visit the new Jitty site at www.thejitty.com.

Our Web site for the RNIB College has been given the RNIB's prestigious 'See It Right' status for meeting rigorous accessibility standards. This standard seeks to ensure that web sites are fully usable by visually impaired internet users.

Cuttlefish, through our Pineapster music community, has supported the Summer Sundae Fringe Festival since its start in 2006. This year's festival is bigger than ever and now covers a whole two weeks of activities around Leicester. We've also used it as a test-bed for our new cSocial community building system. Visit www.summersundaefringe.com to see what cSocial can be configured to do.

Our new site for Coalville's Changing is the latest in a series of new sites we have produced for Northwest Leicestershire District Council. Other include Footprints and a consultation site for their Local Development Framework.

We were very pleased to hear that the Charnwood Borough council website has been assessed in the 2009 SOCITM Better Connected survey as being one of only 13 Shire District Councils in England to have a website with "Excellent Content".

We moved CBC over to a new version of our Content Management System last year and it's great to see that the hard work, both within the council and at Cuttlefish, has paid off Well done all.

We have launched two new websites this week. The site for Procraft Design Ltd (www.procraftdesign.co.uk) is a CMS site with Flash elements. Graphic design was by our regular collaborator Jason Marriot Design.

The new Spark Children's Festival site (www.sparkfestival.co.uk) contains a full programme for the Arts Council funded annual festival, with on-line ticket purchasing.

Cuttlefish Digital Arts has launched 'Stench' a new online community aimed at digital artists and experimental performers. The website makes use of our 'cSocial' community building system and has full social network integration. Go to stench.org.uk.

Our new site for Andy Reed MP is amongst the first to make full use of the latest version of our 'sPortals' content management system. Andy is a keen user of so-called 'Web 2.0' tools and his new site integrates content from his Flickr, YouTube and Twitter pages, as well as providing him with full blogging facilities. Visit his new site at andyreedmp.org.uk

We have launched a new content managed website for insurance brokers Blythin and Brown. See their new site at blythinandbrown.co.uk.

2008 was an important year for Cuttlefish. We moved to a new office, we decided to end our "Calico" joint venture and focus on purely Cuttlefish Multimedia Ltd, and we welcomed on board some great new clients whilst maintaining our ongoing relationships with others.

Naturally it's hard to predict what the future will hold, but we think the coming year will be even more significant for us. There is the economic situation of course, which will put even more pressure on us to continue to deliver great value web sites. And then there are some very interesting technologies that we think will be big in 2009.

The first of these is the "location-based Internet". This will enable custom content to be delivered to a mobile (and desktop) Internet device based on it's geographic location. We think that this is very exciting and has the potential to revolutionise how we all use the Internet. We already have significant mapping expertise and have recently moved in to Apple iPhone development so are looking forward to the opportunities that this will bring.

Then there is "cloud computing". We expect this "on demand" approach to web hosting and web application delivery to become increasingly important and intend to release cloud-hosted versions of our Content Management Systems in 2009.

If you want to know more about these technologies and our other plans for 2009 then please get in touch.