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Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Other blog posts with ideas and reflections on eBay

Again, props to FeedsterThis search proved much more interesting than this one. Know any other eBay bloggers out there?  Let me know.


6:12:34 PM    

AuctionBytes on eBay Live

eBay Live Wrap-up: AuctionBytes Reports on Second eBay Convention

If you're at all interested in the online auction market you need to read AuctionBytes regularly.


5:18:00 PM    

OSCON: Bill of Rights for Web Services Panel with Amazon & eBay

Panelists: Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Jeff Barr, Amazon.com, Jeffrey McManus, eBay

Panel Summary

Interesting Exchange:

Audience: Are you guys a marketplace or a content provider? If you decide that the content is valuable then you could end up screwing the developers who are building services around it.

Ebay: I think it's possible to be both.


5:07:16 PM    

Case Study on eBay's Backend

I'm really loving the fact that Feedster lets me subscribe to search's as RSS feeds.

I saw this nuggest by Kevin Hooke on  Javablogs:

eBay's J2EE backend processing 400million transactions per day

Sun have a great Case Study document on their site about how eBay have migrated their system from a huge monolithic ISAPI DLL (3.3 million lines of C++ code), to a well structured J2EE EJB application.

About 75% of their daily traffic is now being handled by the J2EE backend, running on IBM WebSphere.


4:52:20 PM    

Why Ebay Works

Meg Whitman:

 "We make our money one dollar at a time, literally $1.72 per listing, and a final value fee if the listed item sells."

"our users are on track to trade $21 billion worth of merchandise. "

"what eBay does is create efficient markets where there were quite inefficient markets before. We’re the major player in the two inefficient parts of the overall [product life cycle] bell curve. "

If you want more details and don't my slogging through powerpoint check out the latest corporate presentation.


4:45:45 PM    


Ernie the Attorney: "the need to shop is greater than the quest for information"
4:35:33 PM    


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