"Recently eBay hosted a Collectibles Summit, bringing together a cross section of approximately twenty editors, publishers, appraisers, etc. from the World of Collecting.
The objectives of the meeting were to share information, identify challenges and develop ways to work together. The one point reiterated several times throughout the summit was "eBay is committed to Collectibles". eBay feels that Collectibles is their keystone and are dedicated to keeping those roots strong, as they continue to create a marketplace for hard-to-find and vintage items. But first a little bit about the grounds...
The lobby is simple, but attractive with a display of Pez that is seen as the front doors are entered... Once we were into the actual office areas, it looked no different than any computer oriented company."
Obviously she didn't make it up to the eBay Design Labs
My friend Ajay Juneja from CMU has started his own blog on Speech Technology and Dialog Systems.
"This blog will contain news on current speech technology and other technologies of interest to me (mobile devices, web services, automotive technologies, telematics, and more), my take on them, as well as my own trials and tribulations with development of a dialogue manager we call Ariadne."
Welcome AJ! Unfortunately the weblog of another great speech UI developer, Casey Chesnut, the author of www.brains-n-brawn.com has drop off the web. Casey, I hope you just tripped over your power cable and will be rejoining us again soon. Until then we can charis the memories.
This is a really smart article - analyzing the current state of social networking.
There may be a new kind of Internet emerging--one more about connecting people to people than people to websites. The blog phenomenon, where blogs link to blogs, is another aspect of this same trend. Mark Pincus, an investor in Friendster and founder of Tribe.net, calls this the early phases of the "peopleweb"--a user-controlled network of identities and relationships that transcends any one site or company. How that web will take shape remains murky, but in the explosive growth of social networking we are surely seeing the future, using the Net to connect people with bonds of trust and friendship--and maybe sex.
My own viewpoint says there's money in dating/mating, money in jobs and classified listings and money connecting business connects together. The next question is: "what else?" (emphesis added - micah)
Ok, enough cheer-leading. I've said I think there our some amazing possibilities to connect the weblog world with eBay, but I'm gonna stop bugging the 3 people who read my site regularly and not talk about it again until I have something I can demo... or at least I'll try. :)
Those who write code earn the right to speak. Those who have users earn the right to be listened to.
