June, 2008 – Archive
And so ends eBay DevCon08…
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
As the sun sets on this year’s eBay Developer’s Conference I need to splash some water on my face and get ready for eBay Live! staff orientation this evening.
I found the last couple of days incredibly informative and invigorating to be honest. Each conversation uncovered another layer of possibility for eBay users. For example, [...]
“Social Media Veteran”…
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
… Stop laughing.
In February, I was introduced in Fortune Small Business as a “social media veteran”, which brought chuckles to pretty much everyone I know, myself included. Sure, I have spent the majority of my career at companies specializing in social media but I can think of maybe two people that could claim the title [...]
Star Developer Awards announced
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Check out the eBay Developer Blog for the winners of this year’s Star Developer Awards.
Full list of winners are HERE.
The Star Developer Awards are presented annually to recognize the talent and dedication of members of the eBay Developers Program who have shown the most innovative use of the eBay and PayPal platforms and made [...]
3rd Party App Development now open on eBay’s Selling Manager
Monday, June 16th, 2008
To kick-off this year’s eBay DevCon, eBay announced that it has opened up Selling Manager (an online tool for managing and tracking listings on eBay) to third party application development. The goal in providing developers access to eBay’s community of professional sellers is to create more opportunities to proliferate selling tools and to give sellers [...]
My kind of town (for a week)…
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Arrived safely in Chicago late this afternoon and went straight to the conference center for registration and staff orientation for eBay DevCon 2008.
I’m now sitting in the ballroom watching Max Mancini run-through his keynote presentation for tomorrow. The schedule is pretty packed for me over the next 7 days (eBay Live! kicking off here on [...]
eBay Responds to ACCC Draft Notice
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Earlier this week, the Australian Competition and Consumer commission (ACCC) issued a draft notice that proposed to revoke eBay’s Safer Payments Initiative in Australia.
“The ACCC acknowledges that having PayPal as the only payment provider has the potential to deliver some benefits to users, such as increased buyer protection insurance in certain circumstances. However, the ACCC [...]
PESA / ECMTA Community Roundtable - Product Sourcing in Difficult Times
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
I won’t be able to attend this one unfortunately, but you can reserve your seat for tomorrow’s webinar at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/412801620
OVERVIEW:
Worldwide Brands are the What to Sell and Where to Get it Experts! Join us for this webinar to learn about how you can beat the recession with eCommerce using the best techniques in product [...]
eBay Mobile
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Lots of news coming out of the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference today. TechCrunch’s Erik Schonfeld teased a lot of new apps for the iPhone complete with a brief interview by Michael Arrington of eBay’s very own Alan Lewis speculating on the reasons behind Alan’s attendance - attendee or presenter?
Alan was indeed attending as a presenter. [...]
Oodles of Opportunities
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Wal-Mart quietly launched its own Classified Listings service at the end of last month partnering with Oodle to deliver the service. With the recent headline-grabbing news for online classifieds with both eBay’s Kijiji and Craigslist, I was surprised that this only raised a few eyebrows online. Although, it does confirm what we talked about on [...]
Blog Search
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
All,
I’ve received a few comments and emails regarding the search functionality of Ink. As some of you know, we use WordPress as the platform for eBay Ink and the search tool within WordPress is set up to search Post Title and Post Body. It’s my understanding that the search in its current configuration just [...]
