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We take privacy and security seriously at Gravit-e and we know our customers do too.   With this in mind, we've been keeping a close eye on the General Data Protection Regulations that will enter UK law in May 2017.   We're already working on making sure that all our internal processes are GDPR ready. We are also updating our eCommerce platform with new tools that will make it easier for our customers to fulfil GDPR requests from their customers.   As part of our preparations, we've already written to all of our customers with advice and guidance on how they can approach GDPR.   If your website provider hasn't done this yet, we think they are leaving it late to start preparations. Under GDPR the definition of "personal data" has been considerably widened, as have the responsibilities of "data processors" - which will include your website provider.   The clock is ticking.

Vacancy: Web Developer We are looking for a web developer to join our dynamic and exciting team. Personal Skills All our developers are customer facing - you will need to be confident, courteous, and customer focused. We speak to customers every day - you will need excellent communication skills and a high standard of written English. Technical Skills This is a technical role. We are looking for candidates who are able to understand complex problems and work from detailed specifications to create functional, robust, software. We have an in-house CMS/platform and training will be provided. Essential Technical Skills HTML CSS JQuery PHP MySQL Desirable Skills Technical Skills Apache Linux Administration Hybrid App Development iOS or Android App Development Portfolio and Experience Past experience in an agency or freelance environment will be of benefit.  We have a long standing commitment to working with graduates and we would be very keen to meet any graduates who can show a portfolio of freelance work or sites/applications they have developed to further their professional development. Salary and Benefits We are offering a salary of £18,000 to £25,000 depending upon experience. Your package will also include private health insurance, pension plan, and 20 days paid holiday. How to Apply If you think you're the person that we're looking for and would like to meet us, please email your CV as an attachment with a covering note to jobs@gravit-e.co.uk

At Gravit-e, we believe that great eCommerce solutions begin with partnerships. We treat all our customers as our partners in business, working together to build successful integrated eCommerce solutions that deliver great return on investment. We couldn’t do it without them. We also believe in building partnerships with businesses who have skills and services that complement our own, ensuring that our customers always have access to the people and the tools they need to thrive. Unlike others, we don’t want to be a “jack of all trades” but masters of none. We want to do what we do brilliantly, brilliantly, and then have the right partners in place to offer our customers the widest possible range of services delivered with all the passion and commitment that we pride ourselves on. Introducing partners to our customers is something we take extremely seriously. It’s our reputation on the line as well as theirs, so when we select our partners we do it with the utmost care. We’re therefore very proud to announce the first of our Premier Partners – J Squared Marketing. J Squared offer a range of creative services and are experts in branding, media planning and buying, social media management, design, and PPC. Most importantly to us, J Squared share our passion for ensuring that clients achieve a return on investment whenever they invest their time and energy in a new project. We’ve already completed projects working with J Squared ranging from building mobile and web applications to consulting together on the technology and marketing requirements of one of South Wale’s hottest new technology start-ups. We’ve also got some irons in the fire ourselves, with joint product launches planned through 2017 and beyond. We’re extremely excited to be entering this next phase of our evolution and look forward to introducing J Squared and their services to all of our customers in the very near future. What is a Gravit-e “Premier Partner”? Gravit-e Premier Partners work closely with Gravit-e to provide customised, combined services to shared clients. Projects are co-owned, so you’re never stuck in between the “marketing guys” and the “web guys” or the “SEO guys” and the “server guys”. Whilst your project may be delivered by specialists from more than one company, what you experience is a seamless project delivery by a single combined team. If you think you have what it takes to work with us as Premier Partner, with access to our technology stack and expert services for your clients, please contact us. We’d love to meet you.

Twitter are reportedly working on plans for a paid tier, offering a better version of Tweetdeck and other premium features. This news jumped out at me as I'd spent some time yesterday at The Open University discussing monetization of social platforms and one of the options I had suggested for Twitter, which continues to lose a lot of money, was to simply charge every user $1/year. Less than 24 hours later, Twitter are talking about charging users - albeit only "power users" and "brands". Twitter are in an interesting position. They are leaking money like there's no tomorrow but when it comes to "power users" they have the biggest power users there are - most notably right now Donald Trump, tweeting as both @realdonaldtrump and @POTUS. With its huge user base, plug in to news organisations and government, and easy access... is Twitter closing in on being the first Internet "utility service"? - Chris Lynch Charging every single user is almost certainly a non-starter - the user base would almost certainly revolt, probably starting with a hashtag, and could lose the support of some important influencers. However, targeting power users could certainly work. Many brands and businesses are already paying for tools like Hootsuite and Buffer to improve their usage of Twitter. Any application working Twitter is working via Twitter's own API so, whilst Twitter would be unwise to poison its own app eco-system, there's nothing happening in Twitter-App Land that Twitter are incapable of doing themselves. Our Prediction: The paid-for tier of Twitter is coming, users won't like it, brands will use it, and at least one Twitter-based app will be an inevitable casualty.