eBay to host developer conference
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Blog: The online auction powerhouse to host third-party developers and show off Apollo-based desktop application.
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Blog: Microsoft PDC 2007 will not be as is major development platforms will getting into developers hands this fall, when the event was originally scheduled.
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Blog: Google hosting party at eBay Live for merchants who are opposed to eBay's ban on Google Checkout.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 12  /PRNewswire/ -- CMP Technology today released some of the vendors making significant announcements at The Enterprise 2.0 Conference. The event takes place June 18-21, 2007 at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel. Registration is now open at http://www.enterprise2conf.com/.
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By MAY WONG    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Online auctioneer eBay Inc...
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(InfoWorld) - EBayÂ is on a drive to put its brand everywhere people experience the Internet, and it wants outside Web developers to help get it there. The strategy is a new one for a company that has emphasized its robust e-commerce transaction system in opening itself up to heavy-selling affiliates, and currently gets about a quarter of its listings from big sellers using third-party tools to connect into eBay's backend. Now the online auction giant wants to reach more buyers where they live, and is hoping developers will take advantage of lighter and faster interfaces to carry its flag to the user. "We need to shift our attention to supporting the buying experience," said Max Mancini, senior director of platform and disruptive innovation at eBay, in an interview at the company's developer conference in Boston this week. The new APIs (application programming interfaces) don't require authentication to acquire information from eBay and display it within other applications or Web pages, removing a significant obstacle to casual use of eBay listings for their information or entertainment value. The so-called "shopping APIs" are also up to 16 times faster at returning search results, eBay says. The company also released a bidding API that developers can use to allow bidding from other applications and sites, and established support centers for developers working in JavaScript and Flash, popular for interactive, customer-facing sites and applications. In putting together a suite of tools that will help spread its presence into blogs, social networks and deeper into the Web 2.0 world, eBay is acknowledging what eBay Marketplaces President John Donahoe called "an explosion of easy to use starting points." In pushing the eBay experience closer to users -- and making it easier for third parties to get information from the marketplace without necessarily engaging in transactions -- is the company risking its relationship with buyers? Donahoe said he isn't worried about that. "It's the opposite of disintermediation, it allows them to engage directly with eBay on their own terms, and in the mode and device they want," he said. That emphasis on the buy-side can also be seen in the company's recent acquisition of StumbleUpon, which has developed a Web browsing tool that uses user preferences and community ratings to recommend content. "We thought it was a cool technology," said Donahoe in an interview, adding that it fit into eBay's goal of improving the search and find experience. "We want to find ways to have search be more entertaining." EBay's efforts to get more face-time with buyers also include a new connected desktop application code-named San Dimas that opened for beta testing this week. Built using the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) tool, the downloadable application stays with users even when they are offline and gives eBay a "constant presence on the desktop" according to Donahoe. San Dimas also provides a kind of innovation laboratory, he said, giving eBay a place where it can experiment with changing the buyer experience without disrupting the millions of users comfortable with the status quo. AIR lets eBay provide a buying experience through San Dimas that's not constrained by browser functionality, the aspect of the project that is most exciting to Alan Lewis, the manager of platform evangelism who was demoing the application in Boston. Other developers could similarly use eBay's Web services to build a desktop application with AIR, and eBay is working with Adobe to pull together a code library to ease the process. Developers can also look forward to tools, coming later this year, that will help them scale their eBay applications, Mancini said. And it's possible that Web developers will see a simpler package of tools aimed at all three of eBay's core pieces -- the auction market, Skype and PayPal -- in the second half of the year, another company source said. Meanwhile in Boston, the focus was as much on promoting entrepreneurship as it was on coding tools, and developers seemed to be in that mindset. One young attendee from Japan described his objective as prospecting for business opportunities in the interfaces that eBay has opened up, and he said he was taking advantage of the conference to find out how other businesses are making money from the leverage that eBay is offering. For its part, eBay seems focused on giving entrepreneurial coders the tools -- and seeing how deeply into the social networking fabric of Web 2.0 independent developers can weave the eBay logo.
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The official speakers list has been posted for this year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo happening in October at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.   Included in the list for this year's conference are talks like:   Optimizing Service Oriented Architectures with PHP  - Glen Campbell The Internet is an Ogre: Finding Art in the Software Architecture - Terry Chay Implementing Access Control with Zend Framework - Darby Felton Give Your Site A Boost With Memcached - Ben Ramsey PHP Diversity - PHP applications in a Heterogeneous IT Environment - Joe Stagner PHP::$unicode->i18n() - Andrei Zmievski   Check out the full speaker's list here and the main conference site for details on pricing, lodging and all other conference-related information.
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Online auctioneer eBay Inc. will plug a recently purchased China site into its global network on Friday, creating new opportunities for a nascent but fast-growing operation, its chief executive said.
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Macromedia made a play for eBay sellers Monday by debuting a custom version of its Contribute 3 Web content publishing application that&#39;s designed to speed the creation and upkeep of eBay Stores.
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Mike Potter is happy to announce that Adobe is officially a "Gold Sponsor" of the upcoming Zend/PHP Conference & Expo as well as a mention of his involvement at the conference.   I'm happy to announce that Adobe will be sponsoring the Zend / PHP Conference and Expo in San Jose in late October.  I have a speaking session there on Rich Internet Applications, and we'll have a booth where we'll be showing off integrating Adobe Flex with PHP, using open source tools such as AMFPHP or WebORB from the Midnight Coders.   He also reminds potential conference-goers that the Early Bird discount is still in effect (until September 15th - just two more days!) to get the dicsounted price. Head over and register today!
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Blog: EBay takes the top spot as web services provider although Microsoft continues to have developer loyalty.
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The latest rumor to sweep the world of high tech claims that Microsoft has its eyes on eBay for a possible buyout. Last week, a report in the New York Post said that Microsoft has engaged in preliminary talks with eBay about acquiring the online auction company and merging it with MSN.
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EBayÂ is on a drive to put its brand everywhere people experience the Internet, and it wants outside Web developers to help get it there.
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Future AdSense integration demonstrateded at London Developer Day.
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NetSuite, a provider ofÂ hosted applications for midsize businesses, will announce Thursday that it has beefed up the electronic commerce capabilities of its software suite and has teamed up with online auction giant eBay Inc. in order to attract larger electronic retail (e-tail) customers.
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It has been clear to investors for some time that eBay Inc. has been losing the luster that turned the online auctioneer into an e-commerce bellwether. Now, CEO Meg Whitman is finally acknowledging things have been off kilter and is hoping to set things right by raising fees on the online stores that had been diverting traffic from eBay's auctions.
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EBay has big plans to provide more programming tools to its large community of third-party developers.