Behind the Scenes – Archives
Notes from the Road: Day 2 (or “I talk too much”)
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
I talk too much. That much is evident after another day on the road. Anyone that has met me knows this already but you know it’s bad when I actually notice it too.
I started the day at 8:30 this morning, moving from the internal communications group, where I spent the majority of my day [...]
Notes from the Road: Ich bin ein Berliner…
Monday, August 25th, 2008
… Well, for a few days at least. I arrived in Berlin late last night and have just finished my first day here at the German offices of eBay.
Today was a day of meeting and greeting with different folks; putting names to faces, etc. I plan on presenting the eBay Ink overview again tomorrow [...]
Notes from the road: Richmond office - Day 1
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Whenever I travel to England on business I always love the first day of arrival. When I come back for personal reasons, I usually have my family with me so I find myself annoyingly (to my wife; not to me) repeating myself; “oh, I haven’t had this in years…” or “this is where Daddy went [...]
Comment Preview now live
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Starting today, those of you who take the time and energy to get involved in the conversation here on Ink are now able to preview your comments before making them live to the world.
In a nut shell, when you have completed drafting your comment in the text box at the foot of a comment [...]
eBay Motors Driving Social Media
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I managed to spend some time this afternoon with Danny Chang, Manager of Buyer Strategy for eBay Motors. We had actually connected via Twitter when I first set up the eBayInkBlog Twitter feed. Check out and “follow” the eBay Motors Twitter feed here: http://twitter.com/ebaymotors.
Danny wanted to talk about ways in which Motors could use social [...]
Presentation Alternative
Friday, July 18th, 2008
All,
Last time I used a presentation tool on Ink it slowed a few reader’s computers down. I think we may have found an alternative to avoid that problem but wanted to run it by you first.
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Please let me know in the comments if this one is posing problems for you or not. Really want [...]
eBay Desktop Turns 1 Million; Steve Jobs likes “Meat and Potatoes” eBay iPhone App
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Earlier this week, the eBay Desktop application was downloaded for the 1,000,000th time… not bad for staying fairly under the radar since it was first launched back in February. According to Alan Lewis over on the eBay Desktop Blog, this is more than double what was expected at this point of the year. Congratulations to [...]
UPDATED: eBay Wins Tiffany Court Case
Monday, July 14th, 2008
It appears that the court has rejected Tiffany’s lawsuit against eBay. Tiffany had argued in the lawsuit that eBay should be held liable for trademark infringement on the basis that significant volumes of silver jewelry merchandise that Tiffany contends are counterfeit have been made available for sale on eBay’s website. As a matter [...]
Stranded
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
The Points of Light eStore has been closed due to irregularities discovered in the fulfillment of travel packages. As a result, fulfillment of travel originating after July 15, 2008 was suspended. The store was run by an independent contractor.
In discussions with internal sources, I learned that the management of Points of Light Institute, a nonprofit [...]
No Phishing Allowed
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
eBay, PayPal and Google have partnered together to ensure that Google’s Gmail (https://mail.google.com) service will automatically detect PayPal and eBay phishing e-mails and prevent them from reaching your Gmail inbox.
“We’re very excited that Google has taken this step and is working with us to help protect your online safety,” said Michael Barrett, the chief information [...]
