eBay Developer Program Newsletter Header
 June 20, 2007
top stories
2007 eBay Star Developer Awards
Winners were recognized at DevCon in Boston - Cheers!.
the winners >
eBay Widget developer contest
Enter your widget built using eBay Web Services for chance to win a PS3.
widget contest >
eBay Shopping Web Services launch
Read up on all the new product announcements from DevCon 2007.
announcements >
Developers: Thank you for a great time!
A huge thank you to our eBay developer community - you are the reason this year's eBay Developers Conference in Boston was our best yet. Speaker presentations have been posted on the DevCon website, and many of the photos , blog posts and video interviews of our developer community are featured on our Developer blog >
technical alerts & product news
API support stopping for retired USPS international shipping options
As of June 30, international services that are no longer supported by USPS will no longer show in eBay listings. Developers building applications using eBay Web Services should be aware that if a listing is made via the API that has old international USPS services, the old services will be dropped with a warning. For more details on the USPS rate change, please check out the eBay Shipping Center >
New developer codebase landing page
As of mid-June, we've got a new developer codebase landing page for open source projects based on eBay Web Services. These projects include Trading API code samples as well as SDKs and toolkits for Java, .NET , Perl, PHP and more. Check out our new developer codebase landing page >
developer community and the buzz
Video Interviews: Two of our 2007 eBay Star Developer Award winners
Joshua McNeese of SageFire dished out some sage advice last week: "Keep current on the developer website , any kind of changes to the API, read any kind of System Announcements , stay on the forums , and read the documentation over and over again." Laurel Kline from the eBay Developers Program sat down at eBay DevCon for an interview with a couple of our 2007 Star Developer Award winners -- JP, Ryan and Joshua from SageFire and Jeremy and David from AuctionAds -- to get their advice for other developers about developing on the eBay platform. view the SageFire video interview > then view the AuctionAds video interview >
the buzz from DevCon
In addition to all the blog posts and photos from attendees of DevCon, the press and industry bloggers had their own headlines from the event. Read the DevCon coverage BusinessWeek , CNET, InfoWorld, GigaOm, Mashable, and more. press coverage from DevCon >
New Shopping.com Partner Network Website
Shopping.com has launched a new Partner Network website to create a two-way forum for open communication with developers, partners and folks interested in the evolution and growth of product commerce. Developers can choose to implement their Shop Widgets or the Shopping.com XML API . developer.shopping.com >
eBay Developer Newsletter Developer Blog RSS Feed Link
product updates
Trading API version: 517/515i
Shopping API version: 517/515i
Shopping Web Services
JavaScript Developer Center
Bidding API
events

June 20-23: LinuxWorld Korea
June 25-27: SOAWorld Conference
July 23-27: OSCON
July 24-27: Dr. Dobbs Architecture
August 6-9: LinuxWorld
Sept 10-13: Storage Dev Con
Sept 13: Emerce e.day

eBay Developer Newsletter Colorbar Strip

The eBay Developers Program sent this email to you because your notification preferences indicated that you want to receive communications from us. To unsubscribe from further email communications from the eBay Developers Program, log-in to the Developer Zone web site at https://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/account/profile/, then scroll down to Newsletter Preferences and deselect the check box, then select Submit button in the bottom right section of the page.

Copyright (c) 2007, eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc. eBay is located at 2145 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125.