Magento announced today, about an hour before Apples keynote announcing the iCloud (strategic?), that eBay completed the acquisition of the Magento e-commerce business. Previously eBay had taken what was described as a “minority” stake – just a mere 49% of the business. It’s a really interesting acquisition, that’s stimulating great debate online and in this blog post I’ve looked at the good, the bad and the ugly of this news. Continue reading →
The largest ever Magento related conference – Magento Imagine is taking place in Los Angeles between the 7th and 9th February. Discussion, learning, networking, inspiration are all on the agenda for this 3 day conference. I’ve pulled together all the slide decks, video clips and other resources that attendees have been posting via twitter, facebook and the forums. Continue reading →
Anyone using Magento has had the occasional head scratching moment! From the Community Edition through to Enterprise, like any software solution, there are bugs to be squashed. As Magento is growing in its various editions the performance is improving, a passionate fanbase is emerging and the number of issues continues to decrease. Continue reading →
There must be hundreds, if not thousands of blog posts regarding Magento. The quality varies greatly from expert insights from developers implementing Magento in Enterprise environments right through to first time developers giving awful hosting advice.
In this quick blog post the select groupof links below make up what I consider to be 5 of the best Magento resources online.
Mobile commerce is the next big thing. It’s been said for the last two years by many analysts, but at long last the e-commerce guru’s at Magento have finally produced a solution that could turn all of this speculation into a reality.
It’s almost one year ago to the day that I updated the great-save.com domain to point at our new Magento Community Edition (CE) powered website. In those 12 months I’ve become very passionate about this ecommerce solution and learnt a huge amount about the key strengths of the open source platform.
A great week for browser releases, a major mobile OS announcement, some Magento SEO tweaks and a whole host of Fireworks tutorials await…
I’m on the look out for an individual or company that’s experienced with the relatively new e-commerce platform Magento. Our current e-commerce solution has done extremely well, but it’s time to move to a more substantial e-commerce solution. If you can help, email me – info [@] simonlilly.co.uk
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