An excerpt from an email I sent to eBay staff this morning:
“…
I decided to put this together…
http://www.BestOfeBayBlogs.com
This website is a compilation of blog posts by eBay employees on industry, technology and competitive trends. These are the ‘best of the best’ posts taken from each of the contributor’s individual blogs.
…”
Please take a look, and I […]
Arturo Zacarias, the PM on my team in charge of RSS for eBay, held a workshop today to answer questions about eBay RSS feeds (and some general RSS technology)…
If you’re interested in RSS or eBay’s syndication of RSS feeds, take a look…
It didn’t get much hype, but on Friday Google released some code geared towards Google Talk developers…
The first question that came to mind when reading about this was, “How will this affect Skype?” Before I attempt to answer that question, let me review what Skype offers to developers and what Google just released for […]
It appears Google is preparing to buy 5% of AOL for $1B…
Adam and Ro have both addressed the ethical consideration of the deal — which require that Google give AOL content special placement on their search results page as well as support in enhancing the page rank of AOL content.
But, there are a few other […]
In my Web 4.0.1 post (please take these titles for what they’re worth…my disdain for trying to “version” the Web), I discussed “distributed data driven applications and services” as an emerging trend on the Internet. In retrospect, it appears I got tied up in that awful techno-speak that this industry has been propagating for […]
A Google employee just did what I’ve been thinking about doing for eBay…he created a blog that aggregates the posts from all Google employee personal blogs. Some work related stuff, some personal stuff…it’s all there…
Maybe this will motivate me to do something similar…
Update: As noted in one of the comments below, the site […]
From Yahoo! news:
“Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are setting aside their bitter animosity to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience.
Sun Microsystems Inc. also is joining the $7.5 million project at the University of California, Berkeley. The Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems, or […]
Hate to steal all my content for my Product Management section from one person, but Ken Norton just happens to have a lot of great thoughts on Product Management…
Ken’s written down some of his thoughts on hiring exceptional Product Managers…
For those of you who prefer the Cliffs Notes, here’s the six-point takeaway:
1. Hire all the […]
John Battelle (author of The Search and John Battelle’s Searchblog) spoke at eBay yesterday, and I had the privilege of getting to speak with him (along with a couple other eBay folks) for about 15 minutes before the presentation.
While the entire presentation was great, the Q&A at the end was especially insightful. Alan […]
From the JASDI (Just Another Structured Data Initiative) file, here comes Structured Blogging…
In the vein of Google Base, Microsoft Fremont, and Yahoo! Answers, a number of companies focused on blogging are working on ways structure blog data for syndication and better search. The effort is being led by PubSub Concepts (a niche web search […]