It was announced this morning that eBay will be one of the first customers of Microsoft’s new Windows Azure platform appliance for cloud computing. The announcement was made at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) taking place this week in Washington D.C. According to the announcement,...

The following was just posted over on the eBay AdCommerce blog: In order to focus on the best selling and shopping experience, the specific AdCommerce program that allowed eBay sellers to purchase pay-per-click advertisements on search result pages linking to their eBay stores and listings will be r...

It has been 3 years since eBay Classifieds launched in the U.S. and to mark the occasion they’ve launched their own blog. Good stuff! Here are some fun stats listed from today’s blog entry… • Three years ago we had just a couple hundred thousand visitors. Today we have over 5...

In addition to covering some of the eBay DevCon sessions live on Twitter, I’ve also been capturing some interviews with folks here at the event. Here is the first of a few videos taken over the 48-hour event. Enjoy! Cheers, RBH (Apologies for the background noise on this one. We found a quiet ...

eBay announced the winners of the 2010 Star Developer Awards this morning. The awards recognize third-party developers who have driven innovative solutions that help streamline the selling process on eBay. 2010 award winners include: eCommSource™ by Cloud Conversion™, a complete customer relat...

The second annual Social Innovation Awards were held in New York City last night and eBay’s Green Team received the social innovator award for employee engagement. The event – which recognizes corporations and nonprofits for implementing groundbreaking business strategies and programs &...

Got my hands on some videos profiling PayPal customers. Wanted to share with folks here on Ink. Will add videos as I get more. Cheers, RBH PayPal Customer Stories ...

I was unable to make it down to SXSW this year which means I’m missing the keynote presentation by Twitter’s Evan Williams. However, according to a post just made on the Twitter blog, a new Twitter development – called “@anywhere” – is coming soon to a handful of leading web site...

From the @eBayCP folks: eBay Certified Provider Kyozou Helps Sellers Maximize Efficiency From the @eBayCP folks: eBay Certified P… ...

Met with folk in Trust & Safety today, then saw this article. Pretty timely to say the least. A very good read: Online Advertising Recall Met with folk in Trust & Safety today, t… ...