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eBay CEO Meg Whitman Blogs
The Toronto Star newspaper says Meg blogs. In referring to Jordan Banks, Managing Director o ...
Sunday October 29, 2006
Google Base, Where Are You?
I wondered why I still couldn't find Google Base listings last week. Then I got confirmation that I ...
Thursday October 26, 2006
AuctionBytes in Good Company
I noticed the San Francisco Chronicle's blog, the Tech Chronicles , links to AuctionBytes in its B ...
Wednesday October 25, 2006
Sellers from Jersey Must Wait for eBay Express
A reader in The Channel Islands said he can't get his listings to appear on eBay Express UK because ...
An eBay Seller's Dilemma: Too Many Shopping Tools
It used to be that in order to find something, I would go to a marketplace directly, like eBay or ...
Tuesday October 24, 2006
eBay 20 Cent Listing Day October 25
eBay is holding a 20-cent listing day promotion on October 25 for www.ebay.com and www.eba ...
Sunday October 22, 2006
eBay Live Auctions Down on Saturday
I received a letter from an irate eBay user after sending out the AuctionBytes-Update newslette ...
Friday October 20, 2006
eBay and Yahoo Like Classifieds Better than Auctio
eBay CEO Meg Whitman seemed more excited about the potential of classifieds than its auction busi ...
Thursday October 19, 2006
eBay Express Priority Shifts
An astute reader points out that in yesterday's conference call, Meg Whitman said eBay's priority ...
Wednesday October 18, 2006
PayPal Alums Generate Successful Startups
There's an article in today's New York Times about the slew of PayPal alums who have start ...
Tuesday October 17, 2006
eBay Live Photos and User Generated Content
Tom Shaughnessy, seen here , takes fabulous photos at eBay Live each year. Here are a few of ...
Monday October 16, 2006
eBay as Shopping Portal or Shopping Destination
In a recent interview with AuctionBytes, Randy Smythe (GlacierBayDVD) had mentioned eBay seemed to ...
Sunday October 15, 2006
eBay Uber Geek on Scoble-TV
At the eBay Developer's Conference in June, I interviewed Senior Director Eric Billingsley who he ...
Friday October 13, 2006
Classified Ads on eBay
As reported in today's AuctionBytes Newsflash ( LINK ), many people don't realize that eBay had ...
Ramifications of Online Auction Fraud
Headline reads, "Plane bombers raised funds on eBay," (AFP), The Australian, 10/13/06 ( Link ) ...
Thursday October 12, 2006
OT Online News Association Conference
I was at a conference of journalists and editors over the weekend. It was the first time I'd ...
Wednesday October 4, 2006
What's Wrong With eBay? It's Simple Economics
BuySafe founder Steve Woda has a really interesting post on his blog called "What's Wrong With eBay ...
eBay Powerseller Eforcity on Inc 500
Online seller and eBay PowerSeller Eforcity made it onto the Inc 500 list of the fastest growing ...
Tuesday October 3, 2006
Rocketboom versus AuctionBytes.TV
The Rocketboom video site charges $80,000 for a week of advertising. ( Link ) I haven't watche ...
Rapleaf Portable Reputation
I'm writing about Rapleaf and want to test out the display here. Anybody using it yet? What do you t ...
Monday October 2, 2006
Director of eBay Developer Program Steps Down
ebay After 5-plus years, Greg Isaacs, Director of eBay's developers program, is leaving the c ...
Sunday October 1, 2006
eBay SYI 3.0 and Town Hall Meeting
Bill Cobb discussed the bugs in the new Sell Your Item form during Friday's Town Hall Meeting eve ...