Tuesday, July 15, 2003

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


6:12:34 PM    

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    

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    

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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