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Infopia’s SaaS eCommerce Platform for Growing eTailers

Brad Baldwin — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:00:03 +0000

Applying the right technology solutions to enhance business growth is something Bjorn Espenes, CEO at Infopia, is passionate about. As a growth company itself, Infopia delivers a SaaS (software as a service) eCommerce platform for businesses that need to manage the common operational challenges that growth creates. Things like inventory management and merchandising, order management, and shipping and fulfillment all work together in a seamless online system.

Infopia is the “next step” for many of the savviest online sellers looking to grow their business. Titanium and Platinum PowerSellers on eBay, not to mention multi-million dollar merchants who primarily sell on their Web sites, have dramatically improved revenues with Infopia.

Espenes sits down with Brad Baldwin from Rocky Mountain Voices to share the Infopia story and highlight the business problems Infopia solves. Espense shows why he was recognized as one of the Top 40 Executives Under 40 and a member of vSpring Capital’s v100 Entrepreneurs.

Tags: Bjorn Espenes, SaaS, Ebay, ecommerce, infopia, inventory, online sellers, powerseller

Classic Scoble : eBay Demo Expo: Prototype eBay tagcloud gets emotional

Robert Scoble — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:02:00 +0000

What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane.
And for more context, check out his blog, from one year ago today!

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 Neel Sundaresan, distinguished research scientist, eBay Research Labs, shows me Emosi Sosial, which is like a tag cloud, but shows me very quickly whether a seller is highly regarded or not in the areas most important to the interested buyer.

Other posts from a year ago:
eBay Demo Expo: Second Life prototype
eBay Demo Expo: Prototype eBay Toolbar
The details behind eBay’s Demo Expo, internal innovation competition
eBay Demo Expo: EXCLUSIVE: New eBay Web 2.0 To Go Widget now shipping

Tags: eBay, Demo Expo, Disruptive Innovations, Neel Sundaresan, tag cloud

The Reboot: Sonic Unleashed

Rio Pesino — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:37:50 +0000

In this episode of The Reboot, Sonic the Hedgehog fans went nuts after several screenshots and a video trailer of the blue-haired hero’s latest adventure, Sonic Unleashed, were leaked online. SEGA Europe later confirmed that the game will come out this year. In other gaming news, Sony and Harmonix were hit with lawsuits this week and a Super Famicom console signed by Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto fetches thousands of dollars on Ebay.

Tags: The Reboot, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Unleashed, SEGA, gaming news, Harmonix, Shigeru Miyamoto

Cyrstal Clear Calls with ClearOne

Brad Baldwin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:42:46 +0000

ClearOne, a Salt Lake City-based company, holds a majority of the global market share in the professional audio conferencing systems category. It should come as no surprise that their conference phone products for the desktop and individuals wouldn’t include significant technology enhancements that set them apart from the “el’cheapo” models you see on eBay. With full-duplexing, noise canceling, noise reduction, high-quality microphones and industrial design to enhance a voice, ClearOne products pack the best in audio technology.

Brad Baldwin learns about ClearOne from Kurt Olsen during the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Olsen shows off the Chat 50, which lets the mobile executive place calls via her cellphone or plug into a laptop via USB for Skype or softphone use.

Tags: audio, Cellphone, CES, ClearOne, conference call, Skype, softphone, bloghaus

Beneath great user experiences

Robert Scoble — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:27:34 +0000

Anthony Franco, President of EffectiveUI, shows me some of the Web apps that his company has created for eBay and gives us the story behind the user experience.

Tags: Anthony Franco, EffectiveUI, eBay

Creating great UIs for clients

Robert Scoble — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:14:36 +0000

I sit down with Anthony Franco, President of EffectiveUI and talk about the design process. EffectiveUI creates software for a ton of big companies including eBay, Microsoft, and others.

Tags: Anthony Franco, EffectiveUI, eBay, Microsoft

CIO Digest Preview: An Interview with eBay CISO, Dave Cullinane

editor — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:00:04 +0000

CIO Digest Editor in Chief Patrick Spencer discusses infrastructure security at eBay with eBay Chief Information Security Officer Dave Cullinane. For more information, visit www.symantec.com/ciodigest.

Tags: CIO Digest, Patrick Spencer, eBay, Dave Cullinane

The People’s Media Company: Social Media with Associated Content

John Ince — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:00:26 +0000

Luke Beatty, President of Associated Content talks with John Ince about how anyone can publish text, images, audio or video content and get either free distribution or share ad revenues with Associated Content. Beatty describes AC as an eBay for content or Associated Press in a social media context in which anyone can post product reviews, travelogues, tutorials, interviews or anything that a potential audience might find of value and then profit from exposure or share in the ad revenue generated by AC.

Tags: Luke Beatty

And how much power do all these computer servers require?

Margot Gerritsen — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:49:11 +0000

It wasn’t that long ago that newspaper headlines began calling our attention to claims that large computer server systems like those used by companies like Amazon.com, Google, Yahoo, and EBay (to name but a few) were consuming more than 10 percent of all electricity in the U.S. It sounds pretty bad — can it possibly be accurate? Not exactly, at least according to Dr. Jon Koomey, scientist at Lawrence-Berkeley labs. The actual number is closer to 1.5 percent, but that’s still quite dramatic! What may still be surprising is that a very large part of this energy is not used for running the actual computers, but for all the infrastructure around them, especially the equipment required for cooling. No wonder that computer manufacturers are working frantically on the design of new processors that supply more computing bang for the proverbial power buck.

Tags: Jon Koomey, Lawrence-Berkeley labs

Monetizing Mobile Content, Part 2

John Ince — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:30:36 +0000

Indy Gill, CEO of Unwirednation.com, an Austin-based startup, explains how their voice publishing platform enables mobile content producers to monetize their content through their ad insertions. Gill explains how the platform builds upon a successful partnership with eBay that enabled voice-based interaction with bidders on eBay to notify them when auction is about to close. That platform has several hundred thousand users and has generated more than five million calls to mobile devices.

Tags: Indy Gill, voice publishing, eBay

Drop Ship Product Sourcing with Doba

Brad Baldwin — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:07:09 +0000

Doba offers a Web-based product sourcing platform connecting eCommerce retailers with wholesale suppliers who drop ship products. Retailers can see inventory and integrate a complete photo and product description database into their own web sites or even eBay.

Jeremy Hanks, cofounder and CEO of Doba, sits down with Brad Baldwin and introduces the Doba service. Hanks describes a subscription vs. margin percentage business model. Hanks is the co-author of eBay Inventory the Smart Way and Drop Shipping For Dummies. Doba was recognized with the AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Companies in the Enabler category.

Tags: Doba, Jeremy Hanks, Brad Baldwin, AlwaysOn, Enabler

Freshtopia.net - Cooking for Karina

Oscar Grimm — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:44:00 +0000

We recently heard of an interesting food challenge that we just couldn’t pass up. The blog, Gluten Free by the Bay, created a blogging festival to collect recipes for a friend in need. Karina, a.k.a. The Gluten Free Goddess, recently found she has a bevy of allergies in addition to gluten. The Cooking for Karina blogfest challenged food bloggers to put together a recipe avoiding not just your run-of-the-mill food allergens, but also less common allergens such as lemon, avocado, papaya, kidney beans, soy beans, and pineapple to name just a few.

What we came up with is a bright, satisfying rendition of a classic comfort dish, pasta Alfredo. Our version uses marinated, julienned zucchini in lieu of conventional pasta, and the perhaps surprising combination of cashews and pine nuts to create a rich, delicious sauce.

Vegan Alfredo with Marinated Spagini:
serves 2

Fresh Alfredo Sauce:
1C cashews, soaked
1/2C water
1/4C pine nuts, soaked
3T olive oil
2T sweet onion, chopped
2t agave syrup
1t nutritional yeast
small clove garlic
1/4t sea salt
1/4t freshly grated nutmeg
fresh ground pepper to taste
1 pinch fresh lemon thyme, for garnish

Blend all ingredients in your regular or high-speed blender until smooth and creamy, adding additional water as necessary. Serve over thinly shaved zucchini “pasta” and garnish with additional nutmeg and herbs!

Marinated Spagini:
1C green zucchini, julienned
1C yellow zucchini, julienned
1t olive oil
1t fresh lemon thyme, de-stemmed and chopped
dash sea salt

Julianne your zucchini, combine in bowl with remaining ingredients. Allow to marinate 15 minutes before serving.

Plate your marinated spagini, give it a generous dose of Alfredo sauce, and garnish with fresh lemon thyme and a pinch of additional ground nutmeg. Enjoy!

Tags: Gluten Free by the Bay, Karina, The Gluten Free Goddess, Cooking for Karina, Vegan Alfredo

Liveworld Builds And Moderates Social Media Networks For Marketers

Jennifer Jones — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:00:21 +0000

Ebay, Intuit, Campbell Soup and Mini Cooper all are using social media to help drive their marketing. Peter Friedman, CEO of LIVEWORLD tells Marketing Voices how mapping communities to brands and moderating the conversations these brands are having are driving connections marketers never before believed could happen. Friedman tells Jennifer Jones all about LIVEWORLD’s best practices using social media.

Tags: social media, Peter Friedman, LIVEWORLD, Marketing Voices

Anu Shukla on Entrepreneurship

Kamla Bhatt — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:53:46 +0000

Anu Shukla is a serial entrepreneur who is currently busy with MyOfferPal, her third start-up, now in stealth mode (it recently received VC funding).

At the recent TiECon, Anu introduced and moderated the session with Meg Whitman, head of eBay. I caught up with Anu afterward to talk about entrepreneurship, a subject that she’s passionate about.

Her first company, Rubric Soft was acquired for $366 million in 2002, after which she went on to start RubiconSoft, an On-Demand marketing services company.

Anu sits on the Board of Directors of FWE&E (Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives) and the Advisory Board for the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.

Tags: Anu Shukla, entrepreneur, MyOfferPal, TiECon, Meg Whitman, Rubric Soft, RubiconSoft, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives, Leavey School of Business

Freshtopia.net - The Norse Have Invaded Our Kitchen

Oscar Grimm — Fri, 25 May 2007 21:59:07 +0000

Our kitchen got a surprise mini-makeover featuring Ikea furnishings courtesy of the show Dream Home with the wonderful Lisa Quinn! It’s now supra-organized and has some nice new accoutrements we’re perhaps a little too stoked about….
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Tags: Dream Home, Lisa Quinn

Rohit Agarwal on his New Book on Innovation

Kiruba Shankar — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:15:26 +0000

Rohit Agarwal is the founder and CEO of techTribe Networks, a software company that enables current and future professionals to connect with others to enhance their careers.

Rohit recently co-authored a book along with Patricia Brown, titled, How Innovators Connect.

“How Innovators Connect” is an attempt to showcase innovation through the experiences of more than 40 successful innovators in Silicon Valley and India. Innovation is a process that demands connectivity, and cannot be performed in a vacuum. Based on numerous conversations, the authors discovered that each of the successful innovators shared connectivity traits. Although they all had different approaches, there were common sets of principles. The book explores the core principles of connectivity that form a framework for innovation, and contains learning from:

Jawad Ansari (Miven Ventures), Jan Baan (Baan, Cordys), Eric Billingsley (eBay), Marc Benioff (Salesforce.com), Drew Clark (IBM), Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande (Sycamore), Tom Erickson (Systinet), Stuart Evans (Cambridge University), Ashish Gupta (Junglee), Umang Gupta (Keynote, Gupta Corp.), Mark Hanny (IBM), Dan Harden (FrogDesign, Whipsaw), Mark Hoffman (CommerceOne, Sybase), James Hong (HOTorNOT), Bradley Horowitz (Yahoo), Subrah Iyer (WebEx), Kiran Karnik (NASSCOM), Guy Kawasaki (Apple), Emmett B. Keefe III (iRise), Jerry Kennelly (Riverbed), Joe Kraus (Excite, JotSpot), Audrey MacLean (NET), Phaneesh Murthy (iGate), Ram Mynampati (Satyam), Mark Lewis (EMC), M.R. Rangaswami (Sand Hill Group), Rajeev Samant (Sula Wines), Manoj Saxena (Webify, Exterprise), Ram Shriram (Google), Ashmeet Sidana (Foundation Capital), Vishal Sikka (SAP), David Skok (Silverstream), Louis Teto (Taleo), and many more.

For Rohit, the book is not a commercial effort, but part of his passion for spreading the message of innovation in India.

Tags: Rohit Agarwal, techTribe, Patricia Brown, How Innovators Connect, Silicon Valley, India

eBay Demo Expo: Prototype eBay tagcloud gets emotional

Robert Scoble — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:02:33 +0000

Tags: eBay, Demo Expo, Disruptive Innovations, Neel Sundaresan, tag cloud

eBay Demo Expo: Second Life prototype

Robert Scoble — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:02:27 +0000

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

eBay Demo Expo: Prototype eBay Toolbar

Robert Scoble — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:02:22 +0000

Here, Harshal Deo, senior manager, Trust and Safety, eBay, shows me his idea: a new toolbar that — if it were built — would help eBay’s users buy and sell products. This is the first time that eBay has shown off prototypes at this early a stage so that internal and external developers can see the potential for building innovative tools and features on the eBay platform.

Tags: eBay, Demo Expo, Disruptive Innovations, Harshal Deo

The details behind eBay’s Demo Expo, internal innovation competition

Robert Scoble — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:02:11 +0000

I was one of the few outsiders to visit eBay and witness an internal “Demo Expo.” Here, Max Mancini, senior director of eBay’s Platform Innovation Team, gives me the details behind the Demo Expo. The 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.

Tags: eBay, Demo Expo, Max Mancini

eBay Demo Expo: EXCLUSIVE: New eBay Web 2.0 To Go Widget now shipping

Robert Scoble — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:01:55 +0000

Here you see Stephen Chang, manager of Buyer Engagement at eBay, showing me a new eBay widget called eBay To Go. But unlike the other products we see here this one actually is shipping today! You’re getting the first look at it. I’ll also be auctioning off some items on my blog over at scobleizer.com. This widget will let bloggers and other people on the Internet add things they’ve discovered on eBay to their Web sites. That way, your readers will be able to see what items are interesting to you right on your blog or Website. It’s really cool and Stephen shows me how it’s done.

Tags: eBay, Demo Expo, Disruptive Innovations, Stephen Chang, eBay To Go

Seshan Rammohan on TiECon 2007: The New Face of Entrepreneurship

Kamla Bhatt — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:18:32 +0000

If there is one networking event where people of the Indus or South Asian region congregate to network and connect, it is the The Indus Entrepreneur’s annual event: TiECon. Over the years, TiECon has evolved to become an important networking event for technologists, investors and entrepreneurs from around the world. About 4,000 people are expected to attend this year’s TiECon event in Santa Clara, Calif., next month.

Seshan Rammohan is executive director of TiE’s Silicon Valley chapter. Here, he talks about the focus of the conference, the speakers and the advantages of attending. This year’s theme is “The New Face of Entrepreneurship.” Some of the speakers include Meg Whitman of eBay; Mark Benioff of Salesforce.com; Tim O’Riley of o’Riley Media; Robert Ingram of GlaxoKline and Matt Cohler of Facebook, among others.

Tags: TiECon, Santa Clara, Seshan Rammohan, Silicon Valley, Meg Whitman, Mark Benioff, Tim O’Riley, Robert Ingram, Matt Cohler

1st of the Month? Make a GREEN Move!

Ryanne Hodson — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:13:03 +0000

Seeing a lot of furniture and used junk on the sidewalk? Must be moving day in your neighborhood! With a little extra pre-planning and the right resources, you can make moving a green experience. Go through your closet, your desk, your entire apartment — decide what you absolutely need and recycle the rest! Recycling can take the form of reselling on Craigslist or eBay. Donations to Goodwill and Salvation Army are perfect examples of re-use. Find electronics and battery recycling centers near you through Earth911.org.

We’ve moved three times in the last three years and have become experts at selling all our stuff online. If we find that we need a certain item again after we’ve moved (like a desk or some chairs) we cruise Craigslist for cheap or free deals. When we move again and can’t fit them in our car, we put them back into the cycle and sell or give away!

Tags: Craigslist, eBay, Goodwill, Salvation Army, Earth911.org

Chris Larsen, on The Reality Suspension Phase of Launching a Web 2.0 Startup

John Ince — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:47:02 +0000

Chris Larsen gives a personal narrative discussing the perfect storm of Web 2.0 developments that lead to building an eBay like exchange for money, with the backing of the key movers behind eBay. This is the fourth of a four part series.

Tags: Chris Larsen, Web 2.0, eBay

Prosper.com’s Chris Larsen on Peer-to-Peer Lending

John Ince — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:51:54 +0000

Think eBay for money. That’s pretty much what Chris Larsen, CEO of Prosper.com has developed in the peer-to-peer lending network that is building a community of lenders and borrowers while trying to take a slice of the $1 trillion consumer lending market. This is the first in a four part series.

Tags: Chris Larsen, Prosper.com