eBay Developer Newsletter


October 11, 2006



	top stories



	New eBay Buyer Tools page Nabit, Filmloop and Phone Alerts are among the tools featured take a peek >



	Infopia wins Appy award Winning app is a "business mashup" using Salesforce and eBay APIs the winning tool >



	Restricted Use of Private Feedback As of Oct 26, AddItem will return an error when listing with private feedback read story >



	technical alerts & new features

Reminder: Transaction ID Expansion
Changes are currently scheduled to go live to production the week of October 16th (API version 483). Check the Production System Announcement for recent updates on this issue. read story >

Reminder: Removal of AddMemberMessage Call
As previously announced, AddMemberMessage was deprecated beginning week of October 2nd (API version 481). read story >



	developer community

Changes at eBay Developers Program
Adam and Rob are excited about the future of our growing developer community and the eBay platform. Also, many developers bid a fond farewell to Greg Isaacs after more than five years of service and vision at eBay. read story >

eBay Certified Providers @ eBay University
Terapeak, Worldwide Brands, As Was and KeepMore with their video invitation for eBay members to join them in upcoming classes being offered in New York, October 12-15, and Los Angeles, October 20-21 - take a look. read story >

Developer Forums Thread of Every Other Week
Recently in the Tech Soup forum, PHP5 developer kishan1980 was looking for assistance with the PHP Accelerator Toolkit from our open source codebase. Fellow PHP developer thomas_kludt, who ran into similar issues, responded with suggestions. read the thread >

Join us at Adobe MAX October 23-26 in Las Vegas
Work with Flash, Flex or Coldfusion? Register to come see us! more detail >



	categories & item specifics

Item Condition Change for Health & Beauty Categories
As of mid-October, eBay will be removing Item Condition from Health & Beauty categories in accordance with our policy of not allowing used cosmetic products to be sold . view list >

Update: Early October changes to Categories
These previously announced category changes went live to site on October 10th. read story >

product updates

API Version: 481/477i

eBay Express UK

Java SDK 479 pt. release

.NET SDK 479 pt. Release

events

Oct 12-14: ApacheCon US
Oct 17-19: DC PHP Conference
Oct 17: Certified Provider Fair
Oct 23-26: Adobe MAX Conference
Nov 7: SDForum Java SIG

developer pulse

Top 5 Developer blog posts
1) Early October Category Updates (live to site on October 10th)
2) Redesigned Documentation Center on Website
3) Updated Tech Support Alert: Transaction ID Expansion (live to site week of October 16th)
4) Shopping.com API behind Shop Widgets
5) Reminder: AddMemberMessage API changes (live to site week of October 2nd)

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