I’m Reading…It has been quite a long time since I posted here about eBay. I still use the site regularly (I typically still list at least a few things every month), and while I may tweet about things from time to time, I rarely feel the need for a full blog post. On January 21st, Ikai [...]
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No, that’s not a typo. I have seen the future. And in the future, a burgeoning virtual goods economy that has been building over the past few years will lead to the next great financial bubble and crash. Far-fetched? Read on. In some ways, virtual goods are almost as old as role-playing games. Experience and [...]
Filed under: E-Commerce, Economics, Silicon Valley, Video Games | Tagged: bubbles, virtual goods, world of warcraft, zynga | 6 Comments »
It’s been quite a while since my last eBay-related post, and nine months since my high traffic post, A Eulogy for eBay Express. However, this past week Keith Rabois wrote a fairly inflammatory article for TechCrunch that I thought was worth discussing. Keith is currently an executive at Slide, and was formerly a founder at [...]
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It’s still fascinating to me how many insights I gain from the traffic to my own personal blog. Today, I checked my stats briefly and noticed something really strange: my post about eBay Express, A Eulogy for eBay Express, had jumped with a vengence to the number one post on the blog. My overall traffic [...]
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Interesting milestone this week. My very first patent granted. USPTO: Patent #7,490,056 Filed: November, 2004 Granted: February 10, 2009 Ironically, I wouldn’t have known about it except for a promotion catalog I got in the mail today with a list of plaques I could buy to commemorate this patent from some souvenir company in Florida. [...]
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My brother dropped his iPhone in the Pacific Ocean. An original, $399 iPhone. Needless to say, saltwater does not do good things to an iPhone. It doesn’t boot anymore. No recourse with Apple or AT&T. He had to get a new phone. As a result, I ended up with my own variant of Pierre Omidyar’s [...]
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Paypal quietly launched it’s PayPal Micropayments service level this week, and it’s definitely a step in the right direction. It’s a service that has been in testing and research for quite some time, but it’s nice to see it finally launched publicly. Here is the new PayPal Micropayments site, which explains the terms. For those [...]
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I’ve continued to shy away from posts about eBay and eBay Express in the past year. Somehow, it feels inappropriate to comment too deeply about my former company. But tomorrow (April 24th) is a special day for eBay Express, and I thought it would be wrong not to acknowledge it. Happy Birthday, eBay Express! On [...]
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So, this blog post is about an experiment I did selling on Amazon this weekend. Of course, it’s not the experiment I wanted to run, but that’s part of the story. You see, I wanted to run an experiment using Amazon’s new For-Sale By Amazon and EasySell products, which Randy Smythe has been blogging about. [...]
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Caught this on my Google News Alert today from PRLog: Motif, Inc., a leading global knowledge-based BPO services provider announced today that Karl Wiley has joined the company as President of U.S. operations. Mr. Wiley will be responsible for all of Motif’s U.S. based operations, including corporate strategy, sales & marketing, key account management and [...]
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John likes his Kindle. I love to read. I feel like I should be more excited about it, but I’m not. I think the problem is that I’m emotionally attached to my library. I surround myself with my books. They remind me of what I’ve read, and even in some cases, who I was when [...]
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eBay has started rolling out Best Match in earnest on the core eBay.com site, and boy is it getting noticed. First, here is the original post on eBay that announced the test of Best Match as the default sort in five major categories, dated January 16th. Just a few days ago, really. I caught this [...]
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This is a surprising piece from the New York Times: For years, eBay ruled the e-commerce roost. Each holiday season, more visitors spent more time and looked at more pages on eBay.com than on any of its rivals, including Amazon.com. It made sense; eBay is a wide open forum for every kind of seller and [...]
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I’ve been pretty good about not commenting too much on eBay-related topics in the press over the past year. Since I left eBay in May 2007, I’ve tried to be careful here on this blog with regards to eBay. It’s hard sometimes, when you read a column online that is wildly off base, to not [...]
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Just a quick update here. It turns out that the woman who originally posted to Craigslist looking for tips on how to land a man making $500K+ per year actually responded. I found the article on Best of Craigslist. Since that post continues to be one of the favorites on this blog, I decided to [...]
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