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 , eBay will incorporate the Windows Azure platform appliance into two of its data centers. The goal being to further optimize its platform and achieve... 

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 retired for eBay.com and eBay.ca as of August 4, 2010. The service will …  Read More →

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 million. What a birthday party! • We started out with just a few thousand ads back in 2007, now we have nearly 1 million. Keep them coming! •... 

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 room to conduct the rest after this initial interview ):  Read More →

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 relationship management (CRM) solution that enables eBay sellers around the world to manage all customer service operations from a single salesforce.com... 

eBay introduced eBay Fashion today, a new enhanced shopping experience for clothing, shoes and accessories on eBay . I sat down with eBay Pop Culture expert, Karen Bard, to talk a little more about today’s news… New functionality and navigation enables shoppers to browse and explore more than 19 million average daily listings. Some of the enhanced features include: * NEW Browsing Capabilities: One click and you’re shopping. Shoppers... 

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 – is organized by JustMeans , an organization that bridges the worlds of social media and corporate responsibility, and the Financial Times…  Read More →

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 and the team has received over 1,200 pieces of individual feedback. For example: “I LOVE the side... 

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 sites including the eBay Marketplace . Something I believe @Ev is talking about right now…  Read More →

From the @eBayCP folks: eBay Certified Provider Kyozou Helps Sellers Maximize Efficiency  Read More →

As you know I was lucky enough to attend the Bloom Energy launch event yesterday at eBay Inc. in-person. In addition to covering the event on Twitter , I managed to capture some of the proceedings with my Flipcam. I’ll update this page with additional clips as I upload them to our YouTube channel. Cheers, RBH  Read More →

This morning, eBay hosted the unveiling of a new, state-of-the-art technology at its PayPal campus in San Jose. It’s called the Bloom Energy Server (or “Bloom Box”), and some are saying it will revolutionize the world. Developed by Bloom Energy Corporation , the Bloom Energy Server is an SUV-sized box that corporations install outside their buildings to generate their own electricity from almost any fuel source. Bloom Energy... 

The eBay Android app is now available for free at the Android Market and can be downloaded by searching “eBay” from the Android Market on your handset. In addition to traditional type search, the eBay application – like most Android apps – comes enabled with speech-to-text voice search. Simply tap the microphone button near the search bar and say what you’re searching for. The app will then automatically search... 

As I first reported here on Ink back in September , designer Narciso Rodriguez and eBay are introducing the Narciso Rodriguez for eBay Collection , available for purchase starting February 15 at 9:00AM PST (to make sure people are aware of the launch date… there’s even a countdown clock right there on the site ). The eight-piece limited-edition collection is made from imported Italian fabrics, and bears Rodriguez’s signature streamlined... 

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 working at eBay. What I got was an incredibly refreshing, candid  Read More →