eBay Demo Expo: Second Life prototype

21:00 | Robert Scoble | Apr 30th, 2007 9:02am |

I was one of the few outsiders to visit eBay and witness an internal “Demo Expo.” The Demo Expo was a way for employees to come up with a new technology or feature and show it off to eBay’s employees and executives. I picked my favorite four teams, and this is one of them. Thanks to eBay’s Disruptive Innovations team, which is the one that put together the Demo Expo and invited me along. The only rule was that these projects had to use eBay’s standard publicly-available APIs.

Here Bernard Huang and Erhan Erdem show me a new Second Life billboard. Well, it looks like a billboard but it really is an interactive board where you can perform searches and bids on eBay items. Keep in mind that this is a prototype and not a shipping product. This is only a small of example of what could be done on eBay in Second Life.

Tags: eBay, Demo Expo, Disruptive Innovations, Bernard Huang, Erhan Erdem, Second Life

This entry was posted on Monday, April 30th, 2007 at 9:02 am and is filed under PodTech, Enterprise 2.0, ScobleShow. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Post to your WordPress.com blog »