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 January 17, 2007
top stories
Winners of our 6th birthday presents
Find out who won an iPodTM or an Xbox 360TM. Happy birthday, eBay API!
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French Developers Program website
Bonjour! We have a new site for 'le Programme eBay des développeurs'.
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eBay Express Shopping Cart APIs
Two new API calls to create and update the contents of shopping cart.
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technical alerts & product news
eCommerce Forum keynote: eBay priorities for 2007
Today, Bill Cobb, President of eBay North America, talked about the state of eBay.com and our 2007 priorities with a number of North American sellers who joined us in California. You can listen to the recorded webcast of the eCommerce Forum keynote or read the Announcement Board post for more detail. Keep your eye on the Developer blog and our Product Roadmap for updates on API impact of these 2007 priorities. priorities for 2007 >
Safeguarding Member IDs API update now live
As of mid-January, the API update supporting the Safeguarding Member IDs enhancement is now live in the API Production environment for US, CA, UK, AU and Motors. For all other international sites, this API update is expected to go live the week of January 22nd. As announced in mid-December, anonymized bidding information in certain listings is available for testing in the Sandbox environment along with API documentation . See Announcement Board update for further detail. read alert >
Reminder: REST GetSearchResults migration deadline was Jan 15th
As announced in November, the eBay Web Services REST GetSearchResults call no longer supports legacy XML formatted output as of January 15, 2007. The supported output format will be the unified schema GetSearchResultsResponseType. . full story >
developer community
eBay Developers Program @ CES and Macworld
Last week was buzzing with announcements from CES and Macworld . Our own Rob Cross and Laura Della Torre wrote in to give us the show floor experience -- from impressive iPhone demo to meeting with eBay Web Services API developers to staring at the world's largest LCD TV (in case you were wondering what 108" of screen looks like). read Rob's take on CES and Laura's take on Macworld >
Ning + PHP + REST = cool eBay photo mashup
Delyn Simons brings you another Cool Tool review, featuring Ning Photos for eBay sellers. This app was built by David Sklar, best-selling PHP author and software architect, using PHP and some of eBay's new REST calls that we launched in December. read David's thoughts > and Delyn's review >
Developer Forums Thread of Every Other Week
Recently in the .NET SDK forum, developers exoticincense and educationstuff have been exchanging strategies and helpful tips about shipping options and different behavior experienced in Sandbox vs. production. Finally in early January, a breakthrough for developer exoticincense: "I find that extremely annoying... But I hope if someone else has the same problem it will save them some time." view thread & post answers >
categories & item specifics
Mid-January Category changes
Three categories -- Consumer Electronics, Toys & Hobbies and eBay Motors -- have brand new category structure changes. check updates >
the buzz
Looking inside eBay's Innovation Machine
Edward Cone of Ziff-Davis' CIO Insight completed a case study, Inside eBay's Innovation Machine, including interviews with eBay technical leaders and developers building applications with our open platform. read CIO Insight article >
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API Version: 495/491i
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Jan 25 : Town Hall with Bill Cobb
Feb 14-15: LinuxWorld Summit

developer pulse

Top 5 Developer Forum threads
1) .NET SDK forum --> ReviseItemCall failure....ShippingService cannot be revised
2) Getting Started forum --> ASQ and GetMemberMessage
3) Tech Soup forum --> Getting Error On ReviseCheckoutStatus
4) Tech Soup forum --> ShippingServiceCodeType for all sites?
5) Getting Started forum --> Is Current Categories list available for download ?

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