Tag: eBay Live

PayPal have just announced a a two day conference in November – PayPal Innovate 2009. Running over two days it’s to be held in San Jose on the 3rd-4th November and is the first ever developer conference focused on the PayPal open payments platform. Early bird booking is $299, with the regular price of $499 [...]

eBay Live! was for years the one time of year that buyers, sellers, third party service providers came together with eBay themselves in a part sales, part educational and part social gathering. Traditionally it was a time for the eBay luvvies to show how much eBay meant to them, but at the last event in [...]

eBay was the most searched-for retailer name during February, according to Internet Retailer. More than three times as many people looked for “ebay” as for the next most popular company, “walmart”. eBay Ink’s Richard Brewer-Hay talks to the FT about Twitter. What can eBay do to close its Amazon gap concludes that it should “revert [...]

vzaar have just published a video of their trip to eBay Live! and it’s brought back some fond memories. Not only is Chicago a beautiful city with an amazing array of statues and sculptures (and it has a beach!), but ebay Live! was a fantastic event. Sure there wasn’t the normal love affair with eBay [...]

photo credit: aussiegall If there was a theme to this year’s eBay Live, it was “talk to us”. “We want your feedback.” “We could have done a better job of communication; we’ll try harder in the future.” “We crave information about what people think.” (John Donahoe, Brian Burke and Jamie Ianonne respectively) By the time [...]

eBay missed the mark with their “eBay heroes” theme at eBay Live! this year. The usually highly collectable pins were not the hot commodities of previous years. In fact on more than one occasion pinks who would normally be mobbed by eager pin collectors were walking around trying to unload their unwanted badges on uninterested [...]

• Live tweets from the eBay Live! keynote. Reporter Dan Wilson is at the scene. • Trying to count empty seats… there is a whole unoccupied block. Possibly thousands of bumless seats. But there are donuts and coffee. • John Donohoe takes the stage. Bit starchy. eBay Live attendees sold $1.3bn last year. Collective feedback [...]

In this morning’s keynote speech from eBay Live, Lorrie Norrington promised that a new way for buyers to withdraw feedback left for sellers would be introduced by the end of this year. The announcement was exceedingly short on details of exactly how the new mechanism might work and the timing of its introduction: I rather [...]

Adam Trachtenberg, eBay’s Director of Product Management for Platform & Services, gave an overview this morning of where eBay is going in the new few months. Though this was aimed primarily at developers, it provides some great news, and some not so great news, for sellers as to what we can expect for the rest [...]

The keynote at the end of day two of DevCon had three industry leaders providing very different, if parallel, visions of the future. Mike Shaver, Mozilla’s chief evangelist, talked about love: how the web loves us, and we love it right back, illustrated with photographs of his exceptionally cute baby daughter. Mozilla’s own practice of [...]