Behind the Scenes – Archives
PayPal Experiences Link Bug… and Blogs about it.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Scott Guilfoyle, PayPal’s senior vice president of platform services, is reporting a pretty significant but seemingly easily fixable bug on the PayPal blog this afternoon.
“Early this morning, we made a change to our site that caused some links to PayPal from Web sites such as eBay, merchant sites, blogs, forums, and others to be [...]
The Week that Was
Friday, November 7th, 2008
A lot can happen in 5 days. Tuesday was as big as they come (regardless of your political viewpoint) and the groundswell of emotion seen around the world as a result of it is pretty incredible.
I also came on the blog, firmly planted a stake in the ground regarding eBay Ink, and then seemingly [...]
Stand Up and Be Counted
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Today is an incredibly historic day for the American people. I for one have never been more excited to watch the news than I am right now. Coverage begins at 4pm PT and will go well into the night. Bloggers will be getting blisters and the poor fail whale over on Twitter will have been [...]
Skype Enables Voter Drive in Silicon Valley
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
I wanted to share a pretty cool little video that I saw over on the Skype blog this morning showing how one local campaign HQ is using Skype to “Get Out The Vote”:
I’m leaving in 15 minutes to cast my vote. Exciting times indeed!
Cheers,
RBH
Introducing Rich LaMagna - eBay Online Safety Advisor
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
I wanted to take a moment on Ink to introduce you to another member of the eBay team. Rich LaMagna is eBay’s Online Safety Advisor and I managed to spend a few minutes with him earlier this week to talk about what he hopes to accomplish here.
Rich has an interesting role for the [...]
Introducing eBay In Demand
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Another demo I received at the eBay Innovation Demo Expo last week was eBay In Demand. The difference between eBay In Demand and a number of the other demos I viewed is that this one is now live on the site - albeit in limited Beta.
eBay Innovation Demo Expo
Friday, October 24th, 2008
I attended my second eBay Innovation Demo Expo earlier this week. The event allows employees to share their innovative ideas for the future of eBay and commerce by building prototype applications and showing them off to their peers and eBay executives. This was the 4th semi-annual eBay Innovation Demo Expo and it was great [...]
eBay To Institute Global Ban on Ivory Sales
Monday, October 20th, 2008
One thing I have found fascinating over my first year here at eBay is the variety of topics covered in both email and in meetings. Beyond the typical marketing or PR planning meetings there are hundreds of different policies and rules in place regarding what can or cannot be sold in the marketplace. Each policy [...]
eBay Ink for the Next Few Days
Monday, October 6th, 2008
All,
Please be patient over the next few days with Ink’s news reporting and commentary. I became the proud father of a second beautiful, healthy daughter this past weekend.
There will still be stories and posts (as this morning proves evident) on a regular basis over the next two weeks while I spend some quality time [...]
Introducing eBay Ink News
Monday, October 6th, 2008
All,
To make sure that eBay Ink readers, analysts, media and bloggers have the information they need in quick fashion, I am pleased to launch eBay Ink News. The goal of the site is to include all press releases, presentations, powerpoints, videos, etc. related to company news as it happens.
Today, you’ll see that you can access [...]
