as many of you know weve been testing a new yahoo.com homepage since september. we chose a random fraction from our millions of users in four countries to play around with the new homepage and give us feedback on the new features. as expected weve gotten a wide range of reactions from our testers the good the bad and the ugly. weve heard every word and have made some changes......
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one of my favorite quotes in the world is by margaret mead .a she said never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world. indeed they are the only ones who ever have. last week nobel peace prize winner muhammad yunus came to help microplace celebrate our first anniversary.a one of the messages he really brought home is how special micro......
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click to embiggen in a recent webinar ebay revealed that top sellers on ebay.com are adjusting their prices on a daily basis in order to keep sales momentum giving an example of how four sellers of a sat nav reduced costs over the period of a month. in order to carry on attracting sales the sellers were forced to compete with price drops at times of less than a dollar. as soon as a competi.....
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as most of you know i was busy between both san jose campuses last thursday attending professor yunus speech and meeting million feedback achiever jack sheng . as a result i was unable to participate in the ebay top seller webinar that also took place on thursday. i managed to get the archived version of the presentation complete with qa that you can watch in its entirety here . ......
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a denbighshire mother is changing her name to pudsey bear to raise money for children in need. 37 year old ellen de bont had put her name up for sale on ebay saying that she would donate 80 of the money raised to charity. she made several suggestions of names she was willing to adopt including semidetached house piccadilly circus and scunthorpe travelodge paris hilton eat your h......
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pile of rubbish if you were thinking of updating turbo lister tonight please dont. numerous sellers are reporting a problem signing into their ebay accounts via turbo lister which leaves them unable to list anything at all. i normally avoid updating tl until it stops working if its not broken i dont try and fix it. but today id added some new categories to my sho......
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as of today the green shooting star above will only look familiar to a few individuals around the world it represents a feedback score of 500000. the sweating star as i like to call it on the right is familiar to only one person jack sheng as it represents a feedback score of 1000000 something he has achieved not once not twice but four times . i ......
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a lot can happen in 5 days. tuesday was as big as they come regardless of your political viewpoint and the groundswell of emotion seen around the world as a result of it is pretty incredible. i also came on the blog firmly planted a stake in the ground regarding ebay ink and then seemingly vanished for the rest of the week. meetings will do that to me but all for good reason.......
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today is an incredibly historic day for the american people. i for one have never been more excited to watch the news than i am right now. coverage begins at 4pm pt and will go well into the night. bloggers will be getting blisters and the poor fail whale over on twitter will have been sweating for the past 24 hours knowing what it has to keep up with tonight. i filled out my absentee ballot last ...
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here is what ive been reading from october 27th through october 31st. my blog utopia improve your customer service this holiday season october 31st topics none sellers gaming ebays new shipping and handling caps well you had to know this was coming. . . october 31st topics none my blog utopia a first look at the ebay adcommerce program 4......
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decisione senza precedenti da parte della dirigenza di ebay vietata la vendita di prodotti in avorio dallinizio del 2009. come a noto la vendita in oggetti del prezioso materiale a possibile solo se vi a allegato un documento che ne attesta lantichita cioa antecedente il 1900. nonostante queste normative la vendita illegale di oggetti in avorio a una piaga tuttal......
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yesterday we attended gaspedal s blogwell event at the san jose convention center to get some fresh insights on how big companies are already using social media. nick ayres from home depot summed up the crowds sentiment best when he said this conference pretty much shows me that were no longer asking if theres value in social media instead were asking what are the best prac......
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scot wingo just did a huge writeup aon ebays new indemand tool on his blog so i wont go into many details but this is an interesting new tool for power sellers with high dsrs 4.8 or above.a in a nutshell ebays indemand atool will tell you what product is indemand on the site but the supply is limited. again like many things ebay does it m......
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here is what ive been reading from october 20th through october 24th. home truths for ebay sellers dan wilson ebay expert social networking online community ecommerce stuff i love this article. there are some hilarious quotes in it. this is like all why i still love ebay the smackdown version a great read october 24th topics none the vintage list s......
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ebay.com has undoubtedly been a revolutionary website. it has provided a successful platform for sellers to offer their goods and sometimes services to a worldwide audience of potential buyers. as a result the company has allowed people to make substantial sums of money selling new or used goods. however an unintended consequence of the ebay phenomenon has been the exchange of illegal goods ......
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i attended my second ebay innovation demo expo earlier this week. the event allows employees to share their innovative ideas for the future of ebay and commerce by building prototype applications and showing them off to their peers and ebay executives. this was the 4th semiannual ebay innovation demo expo and it was great to see so many different ideas and passionate people come together. ....
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michael barrett the chief information security officer for paypal has a post over on the paypal blog in which he gives results of a new survey focused on online consumer safety. in his post he also unveils a new microsite aimed at providing tips and tricks for online safety. our survey shows that id theft is about twice as likely in canada the uk and the u.s. than in france germany an......
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real quickly you can get the results from ebayink blog by clicking on the title of this post or on this link . after the conference call i will have a more indepth posting highlights are third quarter revenue was 2.12 billion up 228 million from the same period in 2007. net income on a gaap basis was 492 million 0.38 per diluted share and non gaap n......
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...cial discipline and capitalizing on new opportunities for growth. read the full press release the q3 2008 corporate fact sheet and other related materials at the new ebay ink news site httpeba yinkblog.c omnews . to listen to the q3 2008 earnings call at 2pm pt this afternoon please click here . i will be liveblogging the earnings call for the second consecutive quarter on our twitte...
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... cover quarterly earnings calls press releases and global announcements moving forward. look for video integration and live blogging tools further down the line. for now please check out httpeba yinkblog.c omnews for the latest information. cheers rbh......
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heres the monday morning catch up news.. ebay has reduced its workforce by 10 globally in an effort to improve our operations and streghten our ability to continue investing in growth. additionally they have acquiried a us based payment business bill me later and a classified site in denmark. in other news there is a new ebay pulse page pesa last week relea......
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...to paypal president scott thompson. for more information regarding this news and to access additional presentations and documents related to all of todays announcements please visit httpeba yinkblog.c omnews . cheers rbh the following interview with scott thompson appeared on the ebay internal blog early this morning why is ebay inc. acquiring bill me later this acquisition helps ...
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...l be archived at the same address. for more information regarding this news and to access additional presentations and documents related to all of todays announcements please visit httpeba yinkblog.c omnews . rbh......
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this is literally yesterdays news but was worth a mention here.a from the ebay ink blog marc andreessen has joined ebays board of directors effective immediately. andreessen is most noted for cofounding opsware and netscape and served as aol s cto immediately following its acquisition of netscape. his current venture is ning a new consumer internet company found......
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ebay invited three sellers to join ceo john donahoe at the award ceremony. f l to r stacie sefton jennifer canty john donahoe and jack sheng as reported on ink earlier this month ebay was the first internet company to receive the national medal of technology and innovation when it was awarded the honor for 2007 in a ceremony at the white house yesterday morning. during th......
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