Blog Posts

  • In The Balance

    People that know me will know that I throw myself into any task or goal and do everything that I can in order to make it succeed.

    I started a small but professional ecommerce agency, Meanbee, when I was in the second year of a Computer Science degree at the University of Bath.

    Approaching graduation I had a choice of applying to the plethora of graduate schemes that many of my colleagues at University were...

  • Beacon-assisted Commerce

    Just under a year ago, Apple quietly announced iBeacons at WWDC. While their potential uses are inviting, their uptake so far has been limited and tentative.

    Naturally, I’m mostly interested in their potential within commerce as they could be a tool to help bind the offline and online worlds.

    What is a beacon?

    A beacon is a dumb device costing in the region of $10 to $50. It uses Bluetooth Low Energy to...

  • April 2014 eCommerce Survey

    The Ecommerce Survey is now

    For the fourth year running Magento remains the most popular platform on the market. This survey sees an additional 35% added to Magento’s site count. Even with this growth it maintains a stable 26% of the marketshare due to the growth in other platforms and further software being added to the survey to improve coverage and accuracy.

    Over the last year,...

  • Responsive eCommerce Growth

    The responsive survey is now

    The trend towards responsive design in eCommerce over the last 18 months has been quite incredible to watch. Many web developers had already been practicing it but integrating it into ecommerce had proven a lot harder. Ecommerce sites are typically much larger with more complex navigation and user tasks, e.g. product filtering and the checkout process. While there are still plenty of...