Video: eBay pitches widgets, social commerce to developers
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Blog: At eBay Developers Conference in Boston, company executives talk about their strategy for building a "commerce operating system."
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Hoping to not simply be the site notorious as an "eBay for 0days," Swiss-based WabiSabi Labi plans to offer an intrusion-detection system and will open up its auction site to a wider range of intellectual property, according to a company executive interviewed at this week's Hack In The Box conference.
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Like other Internet companies, EBay acknowledges it needs to adapt to a new world in which millions of people publish blogs and contribute to Web sites with text, photos and videos.
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In a candid discussion of his classified ads site and its business model, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said Tuesday he has considered open-sourcing some Craiglist technology, frowns upon banner ads, and believes the site's impact on newspaper ad sales is exaggerated.Speaking at the WebGuild Web 2.0 Conference &amp; Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. Tuesday morning, Newmark detailed how the site began as a simple events list in 1995 and evolved into a real company in 1999. Now, the site has grown to one that experienced 9 billion hits per month prior to the recent holiday season. Craigslist is run on Suse Linux, Apache, and MySQL, Newmark said.Pondering Craigslist's open-source plans, Newmark said the company has considered open-sourcing some of its caching technology but said staffing issues have prevented this from happening; the company has 25 employees.Asked the benefit of such a contribution, Newmark cited benevolence. "I don't know [the specific benefits], but it feels in the right neighborly spirit," he said.Craigslist, he said, has been successful because it has built a culture of trust working with people. The company makes money by charging for job postings in 11 cities and for apartment listings in one city. But the company has declined to do banner ads, said Newmark. He added he already makes enough money."Banner ads are often kind of dumb, and they slow the site down. I'm not interested," he said.Newmark recognized that the site has affected newspaper classified advertising, but he stressed that the impact has been greatly exaggerated. "I figure the biggest problems newspapers have these days have to do with fact-checking," said Newmark.Craigslist is growing, he said. "We are helping out lots of people, probably in the tens of millions. We need to be prepared for that growth," Newmark said. The company must improve its software and get new servers, he said.Newmark's own role has evolved from being the founder writing code to doing customer service, he said. "I haven't written code since the end of 1999. It makes me sad," said Newmark.Also at the conference, Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia.com, which is community site supporting development of wikis, cited the company's open source search efforts with its Wikia Search project. The project currently is in an alpha stage of development.
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Macromedia announced a customized version of its Contribute 3 software for eBay Store sellers. Contribute 3 for eBay will allow sellers to create and customize an eBay Store without requiring technical knowledge.
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eBay and Google have teamed up to offer "click-to-call" functionality into auction listings and ads, enabling consumers to initiate a voice call directly to a merchant or advertiser through Skype or Google Talk.
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Spammers get T-shirt bazaar MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe has hinted the Murdoch-owned social network will bring in eBay to provide it with ecommerce features.â¦
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A special version of Macromedia&#39;s Contribute Web publishing desktop application is designed to automate and simplify the creation and modification of EBay Stores.
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The group responsible for enticing game developers to build their 3D assets in a new way so they can later port them to cell phones is taking the next step this week toward the development of a single, cross-platform API geared toward the creation of rich graphical applications, for displays so small that "rich" would seem impossible.
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John Donahoe tries to make eBay easier to use for its shoppers and sellers â and more attractive to investors.
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Vendors who sell their goods on eBay are scratching their heads after the company unveiled a new fee structure in effort to boost listings and maintain its share of the online auction market it helped start a decade ago.
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By MAY WONG    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Online auctioneer eBay Inc...
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The incoming C.E.O. of eBay says he is planning a new search engine to show users the best offers from the best sellers with low prices, fast shipping and high quality.
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EBay has created an experimental application, EBay Desktop, which gives users a next-generation animated interface to inspect items for sale, place bids and track their purchases. And it's slick!
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Blog: A site for people who want to sell old electronic gear online but don't want to become eBay Power Sellers.
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EBay released a beta program for a desktop application that makes shopping on the auction Web site easier.
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