Michael Arrington sums it up quite nicely, so here is the short version: Not much commentary is needed on this one. Here’s what happened: 1. eBay doesn’t allow merchants to use Google Checkout to settle eBay transactions. Google invited eBay online sellers attending eBay Live! in Boston this week to a party that they called [...]
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eBay San Dimas Sneak Peak
I managed to get the 2nd official Beta invite to eBay’s San Dimas Project, courtesy of Product Manager, Alan Lewis. San Dimas is a Desktop Application that can be used whilst offline in order to manage your eBay activity (track items, etc). San Dimas is downloadable, which means that all the graphics are stored locally [...]
Google & eBay Announce International Advertising Deal
This is a big surprise, in some ways, but due to the fact that Google is so efficient at monetizing international inventory (where the other’s are not), eBay has partnered with Google on this front. This is an interesting move, and may squash rumours of an impending Yahoo/eBay merger. I cannot see the logic in [...]
eBay Web Services for Affiliates
Presented solo by: Alan Lewis (eBay Technical Evangelist) “Web Services provide great opportunities for innovative affiliates to make money†•   What is the eBay Affiliate Program? The eBay Affiliate Program is a community of developers, webmasters and entrepreneurs who get paid to promote Ebay. Originally launched in the US in 2001, there are now programs [...]
Photo’s from eBay Developers Conference
Here are some nice photo’s from eBay Dev Con – sorry, didn’t have chance to tag or write everyone’s names in!
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