techcrunch.com — "eBay is now letting users embed information about any listing or group of listings directly into a website. Their hope is to encourage bloggers and social network users who discuss famous listings to embed the information right into the page. The service will be available at togo.ebay.com this morning."
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moojjApr 30, 2007
It's a good idea but it just feels as though the marketing department had control over these widgets. The demonstration on the TechCrunch website is so overcrowded. Most people wouldn't care about most of the information displayed, unless they were bidding on the auction. And if they were bidding on the auction why wouldn't they just just load up the ebay website to keep track? And seriously, who would use the search feature?The test blog offers some interesting examples of the widget though. Visit <a class="user" href="http://ebaytogo.blogspot.com/">http://ebaytogo.blogspot.com/</a> and scroll down to the second blog entry. I can see that being useful.
kefsMay 1, 2007
which one? url?
daveisferaMay 1, 2007
That definitely is a horrible idea. I mean why would the marketing department ever be involved in designing ads?
zeeroMay 1, 2007
lol that "scrollbar" looking thing that constantly moves to tell u how much time is left, i actually switched back to digg to give it more time to "load" because on first glance i thought it was loading something....... looks like bad graphic design.
munkyxtcMay 1, 2007
@kefsThe article is long gone...I bet if you search google with the number terminaltor mentioned you'll find what you are looking for.Digg silenced the HD DVD thread but it's all over the web...Now back onto the topic -- I wish ebay would stop building stupid add-ons for their website; work on refining the core of the site rather than bells and whistles; all of these things are used by 1% of the users; but end up costing everyone in the end when the up their fees constantly.
gwashMay 2, 2007
need to hook this up with the affiliate program and it'd be pretty decent