Archive for the ‘ebaY’ Category
Monday, February 4th, 2008
Our generation has seen alot of changes. Doing shopping on the internet has been a huge change. During the holidays and certainly at anytime, more people do shopping on the internet than going to the stores. Ebay has allowed internet users to be able to buy items not only in stores but also items that [...]
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Ebay is almost dangerously simple for members to use. The personalized accounts make browsing and bidding easier than driving to WalMart. Once logged in, your searches are tracked and remembered which leads to targeted marketing emails, just for You! In fact, 2 minutes ago I received an email from eBay, titled, “KaylaLucille, check out our [...]
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Could Ebay be the best scam of this century? It is a place to sell junk, if that’s what we’re going to call it. The more ebay sellers get away with selling ridiculous items, the more creative such items get. Ebay basically started as an online flea market. While it still serves that primary purpose, the crazy side of Ebay has now [...]
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Whenever you want to buy, whether it’s large or small, cheap or expensive, everyday or just weird, the chances are you can find it on eBay. It’s the largest auction site in the world, and when it comes to the variety of what’s on sale, size is vital. People who’ve got [...]
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
A few summers ago, a friend and I were scouring a local yard sale for sweet deals. Well not really, it was more of a way to pass our boredom. On what seemed like our 1000th searched box, we finally came across something interesting. It was an Atari 2600 game system with [...]
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
With the advent of Ebay’s shift in corporate leadership last week, changes seemed inevitable for the ailing internet giant. In a press conference, new CEO John Donahue noted that Ebay would be shifting its focus away from traditional auctions to fixed prices sales composing 40% of the money generated in the marketplace. In addition, [...]
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Ebay was startee by a 28 year old Pierre Omidyar during a long holiday weekend. I guess the rumored story is that it was started to enable Pierre’s fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers but I don’t think there is much validity to it. It was officially launched on September 4th 1995. As [...]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/
Provides daily updates on new tech ventures, and where they are receiving funding from. There’s still a lot of money to be made in Web 2.0 and this site shows you where the funds are being invested. The AlarmClock team does a great job keeping tabs on international developments. While Facebook, Youtube, Ebay and Google [...]
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
One of the strategic angles we may want to look at in this course is how to tap into the flow an existing group of users to meet needs that are not currently being met by, say, popular Web 2.0 sites. Not all Internet startups need to be stand-alone applications. In fact, to [...]
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
As we examine the auctioneer monster that is Ebay, it’s important to consider what else the company is doing to stay competitive in the marketplace. As Google has set the standard by acquiring literally hundreds of internet startups, Ebay has followed suit and made some allies of their own. Consider Paypal, Skype and most recently [...]
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