(Apologies for the background noise on this one. We found a quiet room to conduct the rest after this initial interview):

eBay announced the winners of the 2010 Star Developer Awards this morning. The awards recognize third-party developers who have driven innovative solutions that help streamline the selling process on eBay.

2010 award winners include:

eCommSource™ by Cloud Conversion™, a complete customer relationship management (CRM) solution that enables eBay sellers around the world to manage all customer service operations from a single salesforce.com Service Cloud account. Available on the salesforce.com AppExchange

·Early Adopter: Quantity Manager, an automatic listing management tool for eBay sellers, and Price Spectre, a dynamic pricing agent that monitors competitors’ prices and adjusts a subscriber’s listing price accordingly, by NullApps

·Most Innovative: Outright, an application that automates eBay sales and expense tracking for more efficient tax preparation, by Outright

·Rapid Evolution: Vendio Reviser, a bulk revision solution for updating large numbers of live listings, by Vendio

·Service to the Developer Community: David Kronenwetter (exdwh) of Experimenter’s Discount Warehouse

You can read the full press release HERE to see a full list of winners and runner-ups.

I’m down here in San Jose live-blogging the 2010 eBay Developers Conference. I plan on updating here on the blog as I find the time but for the most part I’ll be live-blogging via Twitter. You can follow that live HERE. You can see the full conversation coming out DevCon by searching #ebaydc10.

Cheers,
RBH

I’ll be live-blogging from next week’s eBay Developer’s Conference and trying to capture as much video footage to share with you as I can. I’m setting up a Twitter list that breaks down all the different folks that will be providing updates coming out of the conference.

I managed to get added to the agenda for the last session on the second day – I wonder if I’ll be able to serve beer to everyone who attends. Here is how it’s broken down on the eBay DevCon schedule:

BLOGGING FOR BRANDS: BARTENDING WITH INFORMATION
Thursday, June 10
1:30 – 2:20pm
eBay is, in essence, the first social network on the Web. Social media is in its DNA. Starting with the eBay Developer Blog back in 2004 and through today there are a variety of official company blogs that address key aspects of its business, community and technologies.

eBay Ink, the official corporate blog, is a unique social media forum that allows the company’s management and users to engage in candid conversations about the company’s business operations. Evolving from a traditional corporate blog into a “Life Stream,” eBay Ink acts as a one-stop repository of online conversation and dialogue about the entire company and its adjacencies. In this session, find out how eBay’s innovative use of Web 2.0 tools, such as blogs and Twitter, has given its external audience not only a voice but also a seat at the company’s management table.

In this session, eBay’s chief blogger, Richard Brewer-Hay, will provide a detailed case study behind the growth of social media innovation at the company. Including, but not limited to, the emergence of live-blogging via Twitter and eBay Ink. He will also address the development and implementation of social media guidelines and best practices.

You will learn:
* How eBay Ink gives users and outside influencers an authentic look at eBay’s internal operations
* The critical role that eBay employees play in posting content and responding to outside audiences across a number of blogging platforms
* How the eBay Ink Blog and Twitter feed provide transparency and remain externally credible to audiences

I’ll share the presentation here after the conference.

Cheers,
RBH

The 2010 eBay Developers Conference is just around the corner (June 8 – 10) and it’s looking like a great lineup of speakers and presentations…

* Renee J. James, Sr. VP and GM, Software and Services Group, Intel Corporation
* Amitabh Srivastava, Sr. VP, Server and Cloud Division, Microsoft
* Martyn Mallick, Sr. Director, Strategic Alliance, Research in Motion
* Gene Alvarez, Research VP, Gartner
* John Donahoe, President and CEO, eBay Inc.

For a full list of keynote presenters, CLICK HERE

To join in the conversation on Twitter, use the hashtag #ebaydc10 and follow @ebaydevcon for updates. Be sure to subscribe to the eBay Developers Program blog too!

eBay Dev Con 2010 Quick Links
For a full schedule CLICK HERE
For a full list of sessions CLICK HERE
For a full break down of registration deals, CLICK HERE
For hotel and travel information (including codes for discounted room rates), CLICK HERE

Who Should Attend?
* Savvy developers who want to create better, more profitable applications for eBay buyers and sellers
* Innovative entrepreneurs who want to learn how to use eBay to grow their businesses
* Anyone who’s interested in learning the future of eBay and e-commerce in general

Cheers!
RBH