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 April 25, 2007
top stories
Early May changes to eBay Feedback
Feedback changes will roll out across all remaining eBay sites the week of April 30th.
prepare your app >
eBay SDK for Perl is open sourced
Perl developers: download and join the open source project for the new Perl SDK.
download SDK >
And the CODiE goes to ...
eBay won a CODiE award for Corporate Achievement from the Software & Info Industry Association.
the experience >
Special Alumni rate @ eBay DevCon this year
Every year, our event survey results tell us you think eBay DevCon is both a great value and a great time. This year, we are offering alumni of our conference an additional incentive to return to the fun - our first ever alumni discount worth $245! Come back and join us again for eBay Developers Conference 2007, June 11-13 in Boston. register now>
technical alerts & product news
Update to May 14th USPS rate and service changes
As previously announced in late March, the eBay site and API behavior regarding Shipping Services will be changing in preparation for May 14th USPS changes, and API developers will be impacted. Developers of listing applications should be aware of new warning messages returned by the AddItem family of calls when using old services. API Documentation and Sandbox testing will be available this week. prepare your app and your customers >
Sign-up for San Dimas private beta
The website for Project San Dimas is live, the eBay rich Internet application for the desktop based on Adobe Apollo. Go sign-up for beta >
Early May Category changes
Eight categories -- Cameras & Photo, Clothing, Shoes & Accessories, Collectibles, Computers & Networking, Crafts, Home & Garden, Jewelry & Watches, Toys & Hobbies -- will have brand new category structure changes. check updates >
developer community
Get Ready for Boston: Founder of Intuit on the power of emergent strategy
How did the philosophy of personal empowerment morph from using computers to listening to communities? Take a look at this clip from our 2006 conference as Scott Cook, Founder of Intuit speaks about how individuals are tailoring open platform for purposes that companies could not have predicted. view the video clip > then register to join us at eBay DevCon 2007, June 11-13 in Boston! >
Web 2.0 Expo: How did it play for Peoria?
Delyn Simons blogs her photos and thoughts around Web 2.0 Expo last week in San Francisco: "This event officially answered any lingering questions I had about whether Web 2.0 has hit the mainstream yet. This crowd of aspirational entrepreneurs grew from expected 4,800 to estimated 11,000 by the end of the event. Step right up! Who wants to be the next Kevin Rose? Web 2.0 Expo re-cap and photos >
Developer Forums Thread of Every Other Week
Recently in the eBay Web Services forum, developer e-auctions-express was looking for ways to get at the item description for items that have been paid, but not yet shipped . amish.developersupport@ebay.com and slomike1 had recommendations that e-auctions-express found helpful: "thank (sic) for the informative reply. before i was using the status, now i am using the ShippedTime and PaidTime to get the transactions which was paid only and not yet shipped." view the thread >
the buzz
eBay's San Dimas in Wall Street Journal
"Online auctioneer eBay Inc. is working on a program based on Adobe's Apollo that will let users buy and sell items more efficiently ... It will also let users store several weeks of search results on their PC hard drives and quickly thumb through items for sale in one window without having to page back and forth in a Web browser." Robert A. Guth and Vauhini Vara from the Wall Street Journal recently wrote this article about the "collision course on the Web" between Adobe and Microsoft for rich Internet applications on the desktop. With San Dimas, the desktop application that just entered private beta, eBay has been building on Adobe's Apollo format since last summer. read article >
Max Mancini, Vendio, UnWired Buyer in Fast Company
"When [developers using eBay Web Services] grow their business, they also grow ours." Chuck Salter of Fast Company quoted eBay's Senior Director of Platform and Innovation, Max Mancini, in this "Disruptors Welcome" article. This article also featured a couple of our third-party developers in the May issue. read article >
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