eBay Plants “Garden” & Opens It Up To All. Meet the team behind it…
February 9th, 2010 admin

eBay has launched a new initiative to help “sow the seeds of innovation” with community input on new products and features before they go live on the site. The “Garden by eBay” is a new area on eBay.com that allows community members to try out new products and features and give the team working on the initiative feedback on suggested improvements and changes. The experimental space was designed to encourage eBay users to contribute to the growth of initial concepts to fully “grown,” ready-to-launch products and features. “We really wanted to give…
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You can see my initial coverage of the “Garden by eBay” by clicking HERE . Given the opportunity to spend some time with the entire team behind the eBay Garden project, I thought it would be great to capture some candid conversations about their time together, the project they’ve been working on, and what it means for them to be...
I wanted to provide an update to what has been happening with The Garden by eBay since I first talked about it last month. You can see my initial video interviews and posts about it HERE and HERE . First of all, the response in the first few weeks has been pretty impressive. Over 8,000 individuals have logged into The Garden over the past month...
I’ve covered the Innovation Demo Expo here at eBay for a couple of years now and yesterday’s event was the best one yet. The internal event is designed to encourage eBay employees to come up with new and innovative ideas that would benefit eBay buyers and sellers. There have been a few apps and technologies that came out of this event...
In what can only be described as remarkable, the eBay community has surpassed the $200 million mark for cumulative funds raised with eBay Giving Works since 2003. This represents year-over-year double digit growth. How it works : eBay Giving Works enables eBay users to support their favorite causes whenever they buy and sell. Today the program...
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 HQ. Again, like the video conversation with Dinesh...
I wanted to share a couple of videos that ran today on CNBC . The first features eBay CEO, John Donahoe, discussing eBay’s take on Black Friday activity in the marketplace and PayPal ’s role in that. He also talks about m-commerce, and the early successes of the eBay Mobile application … The second features PayPal president,...
Hi everyone! Just a quick note to tell y’all about the eBay/PayPal Bay Area GIVE Team’s 2008 Holiday Charity Auction.
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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. * If you open an unpaid item case, it will be closed automatically...
Photo: Sean Gallup / Getty Images eBay’s decade has been an amazing one. At the end of the the ’90s, online commerce was a minor feature on the retail landscape and eBay was still a relatively fledgling dot-com niche player. Fast forward ten years to the end of another decade and eBay has grown into a worldwide corporation with hundreds...
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