A lot of news is coming out around the EBay Live trade show. Here's a few things I took away of interest:
1. EBay is working on a new homepage. The prototype looks like a much more web2.0 experience, and I think they're on the right track with this one. Hopefully they'll be incorporating some of their new community focus into it. I'd really love to see eBay wiki more involved. You can check out their new prototype here: http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200706111436382.html
2. Since Facebook announced developer tools, eBay and some other third party software providers are already beginning to make apps for it. They are fairly simple listing displays and searches thus far. I'll cover them in more detail when I find one that's actually interesting. Expect this to be an area of rapid growth, though.
3. Paypal announced some interesting new tool to assess the riskiness of dealing with payments. Not too much info provided yet, but it might have a large impact on how payments are dealt with by sellers.
4. EBay and google are still battling it out (see my previous post). Rumor has it that EBay shut off their entire adwords campain today, boycotting google ads. Tests around 12 noon eastern time showed this to be the case. I've also heard that EBay has ended talks with Google on adding Google Checkout to EBay's E-commerce platform, ProStores. Unfortunately, I think this is a battle that EBay is going to lose. EBay depends way too much on Google for traffic. More importantly, it's EBay's sellers who ultimately feel the impact.
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