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Google and the Problem of Fraud
I just wrapped up an interview with Jeff Grass, CEO of BuySafe, for a feature interview on Auctio ...
Monday February 27, 2006
Google Tackles eBay, PayPal
If you've been wanting to see how Google Base could work with ecommerce listings, you can now see ...
Friday February 24, 2006
Overstock - Gradient News
Overstock sued Gradient Analytics Inc. last summer, and the Globe and Mail newspaper reports toda ...
Analysis of Community Participation
Yahoo person's observation on "community," quite interesting: http://www.elatable.com/blog/?p ...
Tuesday February 21, 2006
Coming soon: New ABTV feature
AuctionBytes.TV is the lastest project that keeps us busy - but also engaged and interested. Today ...
Thursday February 16, 2006
OT TechWatch: WikiCalc
In the Department of Cool Technology, Dan Bricklin is alpha testing WikiCalc ( link ). There's a li ...
Wednesday February 15, 2006
Google Payment News
ChannelAdvisor's Scot Wingo blogged interesting news about GBuy ( link ). ...
Businessweek Writer (Almost) Ripped off on eBay
Businessweek writer Rob Hof posted on his blog on February 6th that he had purchased a CD from Gl ...
Monday February 13, 2006
OT Harvard Announces New Online Video Library
News from Information Today about a video archive featuring hundreds of speeches given by prominent ...
Sunday February 12, 2006
High Tech goes Dr. Suess
Funniest blog entry of the month by USA Today Kevin Maney: "Apparently Dr. Suess is now naming tech ...
Blizzard of 06
It started snowing in Natick, Massachusetts, sometime after midnight, and it's still coming down ...
Thursday February 9, 2006
Craigslist sued: discriminatory housing listings
In a case that parallels the Tiffany lawsuit against eBay for allowing sales of counterfeit goods o ...
Wednesday February 8, 2006
AuctionBytes on CNN Anderson Cooper
I was interviewed for a segment that's set to air tonight on CNN at 10pm EST on Anders ...
Tuesday February 7, 2006
Fraud: What's an auction site to do?
I've given this a lot of thought over the years, and member verification seems like a really goo ...
eBay CEO in Denial over Fraud
eBay CEO Meg Whitman gave a press conference today in Brussels and commented on the Tiffany laws ...
Sunday February 5, 2006
eBay: Do What I Say, Not What I Do
eBay has shut down auctions for sellers who say they accept BidPay and cash ( link ). As read ...