WabiSabi Labi aims to be more than an eBay for zero-days
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InfoWorld - WabiSabi Labi, a Swiss startup that caused a stir with the creation of an eBay-like marketplace for software vulnerabilities, 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.
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A growing number of artists have starting selling one-a-day creations online.
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Craigslist displays undeniable grassroots power.
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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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eBay could be a good model for  government-backed online communities,  says a think-tank.
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InfoWorld - EBay has big plans to provide more programming tools like new SDKs and APIs to its community of about 45,000 third-party developers.
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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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eBay could be a good model for  government-backed online communities,  says a UK think-tank.
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A sixteen-year-old British teen got a lot more than he was expecting with his latest Ebay purchase.
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KINSHASA, Congo -- On this day, the first sunny day in a while, Omer Waka decided to stake it all on bamboo wall calendars, a calculated gamble in a city of hustles.
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Meg Whitman, who has guided eBay for a decade, wants to retire. She's helping to pave the way for a smooth transition, reports say.
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After spending millions of dollars trying to establish itself in China, EBay plans to shut its main Chinese auction site and instead partner with a Beijing company.
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Blog: eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and initial investor Bob Kagle see eBay's potential fulfilled in global online trade and communities.
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Hardly an hour goes by without Thomas Serafin or one of his cyber-sleuths checking what eBay has to offer.
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Charities have long sold items owned by celebrities, but eBay and the Internet have pumped new life into this fund-raising technique.
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EBay has big plans to provide more programming tools to its large community of third-party developers.
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The label thinks about selling its downloads without restrictions.