Classic ScobleShow

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.

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

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

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, 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

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

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 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

Here we continue our Photowalk around Half Moon Bay with a 600mm monster lens where we take photos of people looking at tide pools, stunt bikers jumping over rocks, and more surfers. All while meeting some of the 25 people who showed up for the Photowalk. Next Photowalk, by the way, is on Sunday, April 29th, at the Half Moon Bay airport where we’ll be shooting some of 2,000 “dream machines.” You’re welcome to come along. Meet at the front gate of dream machines at 9 a.m., or call Scoble at 425-205-1921 to join in.

Tags: Photowalk, Half Moon Bay

Ely Greenfield, Flex architect, David Wadhwani, vice president of Flex Product Line, and Mike Chambers, senior product manager, developer relations, walk to the whiteboard and give us a look at Adobe Flash’s architecture and give further details about what is being open sourced.

Tags: Ely Greenfield, Flex, David Wadhwani, whiteboard, Adobe

Ely Greenfield, Flex architect, David Wadhwani, vice president of Flex Product Line, sit down with me for a little announcement: Adobe is taking Flex open source. Here Ely and David explain what moving Flex to Open Source means for developers.

Tags: Ely Greenfield, David Wadhwani, Adobe, Flex

In this first part of the eighth Photowalking show I’ve done with Thomas Hawk 25 photo geeks met one March morning to shoot with a massive 600mm F4.0 lens. Thomas Hawk showed off some prints he made with his new Epson R2400 printer. Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati, showed off his gear and skills and lots more happened in Half Moon Bay. If you’re interested in photography, you’ll probably enjoy this show a lot.

Tags: Photowalking, Thomas Hawk, Epson, Dave Sifry, Technorati, photography

Krishna Vedati, CEO, and Srinivas Mandyam, CTO of Plusmo, show me how their mobile portal lets you get a variety of services delivered right to your phone.

Tags: Krishna Vedati, Srinivas Mandyam, Plusmo