Power Sellers Unite

elgato · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 17240 Location: Texas

For the past decade, eBay and Amazon have been considered two of the most dominant e-commerce companies, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the two are headed down entirely different paths.

At eBay’s developer conference kicking off Wednesday in San Francisco, more than 4,000 developers and merchants will receive a preview of X.commerce, the company’s new technology platform aimed at developers.

The non-consumer-focused platform will enable developers to use the tools to build applications for retailers that are looking to have a larger presence on social networks, online and mobile phones.

Also on stage will be some of eBay’s new partners, including Omniture, Adobe’s marketing and advertising unit, and Katie Mitic, the director of platform and mobile marketing at Facebook.

Mitic, who recently joined eBay’s board, is expected to announce a partnership between the social network and eBay.

http://allthingsd.com/20111011/ebay-set-to-outline-its-future-and-it-looks-nothing-like-amazon/

MIKEHATESEBAY · Joined: 18 Nov 2010 Posts: 160

My Crystal ball says ... eBay future, the Walmart / dollar store of the web !!!

cohibastore.com · Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 4908

what i read was we're going to ignore the core business and focus on retailers to dumb to have their own website, selling via social networking, another dead herring, and simplify selling for the Chinese to help them undermine US businesses. i am dumb founded how mys sale are so stable from month to month.