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eBay Settles With Its Patent Troll

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments · eBay

eBay Settles With Its Patent Troll
The parties are not disclosing the terms, but eBay says it is acquiring the patents in question, plus a license to another search-related patent portfolio not involved in the lawsuit. At one point, a federal jury had ordered eBay to pay MercExchange $25 million in damages.
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At the eBay Developers Conference

June 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off · eBay

Tim O’Reilly is on stage giving his great talk about technology paradigm shifts and emerging “new platforms” such as eBay and Google.
I’m not sure if I will be able to post photos from my mobile device, but I’ll give it a crack here in a sec.

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Heading to New Orleans

June 21st, 2004 · No Comments · McManus World Tour, eBay

I’ll be moblogging from New Orleans this week (I’m on the plane at the moment). Tomorrow is a rehearsal/prep day; the developer’s conference starts Wednesday, and eBay Live starts Thursday night.
I was up until 1AM last night resolving (sorta) the battles with Visual Studio I posted about yesterday. My final solution was to install Windows [...]

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eBay and RSS on InternetNews.com

June 7th, 2004 · Comments Off · eBay

InternetNews.com ran a story today on eBay’s use of RSS that I originally wrote about the other day. (The reporter said he was an “avid reader” of my weblog — thanks for the coverage Ryan!)

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Three Weeks Until eBay Live!

June 2nd, 2004 · No Comments · eBay

eBay Live is on June 24-26 and the eBay/PayPal Developer Conference is June 23-24. We’ve been planning this for months but it’s just now starting to kick into high gear. I gave an aggressively virtual walk-through of my introductory eBay SDK talk yesterday which went well (although “aggressively virtual” in this case means I didn’t [...]

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“eBay Basics” C# Example

May 7th, 2004 · 6 Comments · .NET, Web/Tech, eBay

For the (numerous) user group talks I’ve been doing in the past few months, I’ve spent most of my time with one demo that shows three common eBay API calls — GeteBayOfficialTime (the “hello world” of eBay programming), AddItem, and GetSearchResults. Several people have asked me to make this demo available, so here you go:
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eBay Luvs Visual Basic Developers

April 27th, 2004 · No Comments · .NET, Web/Tech, eBay

Had a great time speaking in Redmond last night to the VB .NET user group on the Microsoft campus. Mister Robert Green, VB .NET evangelist extrordinaire, reminded me that my article on building an eBay search app using VB .NET is featured this week on the Visual Basic Developer Center. Cool!
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VSLive, Windows Mobile 2003 for the i700, Vacation

March 26th, 2004 · 2 Comments · .NET, Web/Tech, eBay

Had a great couple of days in the eBay Developers Program booth at VSLive this week. Most common comment we heard: “I didn’t even know eBay had a developer program.” (We’ll fix that.) My team is there today, so if you’re at the show, stop by the booth and say hi.
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Quickbooks and eBay Integration

March 11th, 2004 · No Comments · Web/Tech, eBay

Quickbooks released a sample application for sellers to make it easy to import information about their eBay transactions into QuickBooks.

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Interview in App Dev Trends

February 18th, 2004 · No Comments · Work, eBay

An interview we did with Application Development Trends magazine on the eBay Developers Program ran today.

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