Skype is all about facilitating meaningful connections for free or at little cost. Now with Click & Call Advertising with Skype supported by Marchex, we are enabling advertisers to generate inbound calls from Skype customers – at no cost to our customers and at affordable rates for partic...

An hour or so ago, Fring reported on their blog that we had blocked their access to Skype. I want to make one thing absolutely clear: this is untrue. Fring was using Skype software in a way it wasn’t designed to be used – and in a way which is in breach of Skype’s API Terms of Use ...

Do you have a pen and paper handy? I’ll give you time to find them… OK, make sure the pen works. Now, click on the following media file to listen to a conversation between Randy Smythe of Buy.com & John Lawson of ColderICE.com. THE CONVERSATION Sure, they’re are some moments ...

An update to the eBay Announcement Board went up yesterday afternoon that I wanted to share with folks: Improvements to the process when you open an unpaid item claim manually * If a buyer doesn’t pay and you cancel the transaction, the buyer will no longer be able to pay for the item. * I...

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… ...

I am a notorious “pack-rat”. A fact that my wife finds little joy in. Maybe this is the promotion for her. eBay Classifieds marketplace, Kijiji, is currently running a promotion that enables people to “Take your Loved One to Clutter Court.” Simply submit a brief description a...

eBay has teamed up with RecycleBank, the country’s premier recycling and loyalty program, to reward consumers for recycling and reusing what already exists in the world today. RecycleBank rewards people for positive green actions (currently the recycling of trash and electronics) and seeks t...

All, I was also able to spend some time with Lynda Talgo, Senior Director of Resolutions at eBay, to discuss the eBay Buyer Protection news coming out of today’s Seller Release in more detail. What follows is a 3-part, face-to-face with Lynda in the lobby of the Community building at San Jose ...

I’ll update this post with any new information and links as they become available. On Tuesday, Jan. 12 shortly before 5 p.m., a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. According to The Red Cross, about 3 million people were affected by the quake — one-third of ...

eBay indicated in a press release earlier today that the number of items bought via eBay mobile apps were triple last year’s holiday volume and that eBay buyers and sellers are generating more than half a billion dollars of transactions via mobile in 2009. Nearly 6 million people have eBay on ...