It has been almost a year since Jack Sheng (Eforcity) was the first to be awarded the silver “Shooting Star” for a million feedback. It had also been a year since I was able to sit down and chat with him but I was fortunate enough to spend some time with him at last week’s Shop.or...

As announced on Ink at the beginning of the month, the eBay Motors / GM “Click & Buy” Promotion ends today as scheduled. According to the two companies, there are no plans to move forward with a national promotion. The promotion included more than 1.5 million visits and generated ...

The problems we had earlier have now been solved, and things are returning to normal. From all of us at Skype – sorry for the interruption to your conversations today. Problems fixed - returning to normal ...

As some of you may have noticed, we’re having some system problems which mean that calls to landlines and mobiles, SMSs and incoming calls to Skype online numbers may not work as expected. You may also have trouble signing in to Skype, both in the software and on the website. If you’re s...

One of the sessions at Shop.org 2009 that I thought it probably best I attend, was the “Twitter and Social Media All-Stars” panel that ran on the first day of the conference. The panel was moderated by Denise Zimmerman, President & CSO of NetPlus Marketing and had three social med...

From the PayPal Blog: Hi, I’m Judy Chang. On Saturday, Tropical Storm Ketsana struck the Philippines, delivering a month’s worth of rain in just twelve hours. The images seen across the media have been harrowing: A sofa hangs from electric wires. A school bus is toppled on its side. Muddy river...

Brian O’Shaughnessy is Skype’s Head of Global Communications. Coined by the author Malcom Gladwell, ‘tipping points’ have been defined as ‘the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.’ This momentum for change reached epic heights in the United...

We had a great webinar with developers last Thursday outlining the Selling Manager Applications developer opportunity ...

All, Just a quick reminder that Jason Miner hosts another edition of PayPal Radio tomorrow at 5pm ET / 2pm PT. Checking out the PayPal blog post today, it looks like he has a pretty good schedule lined up… - Tod Cohen, eBay VP of Government Relations will discuss eCommerce Policy - Monroe Labo...

Admittedly, last week marked my first Shop.org conference and I was pleasantly surprised at the number of attendees. At first I thought the expo itself seemed relatively quiet but that’s because the majority of attendees were sitting in on the regular sessions available throughout the day. Gr...