I just noticed that the eBay desktop beta recently launched on February 24th. The desktop program features a drastically improved interface for both surfing and purchasing.
I especially like two features. Search results stay to the left after clicking on a product to allow faster navigation. Also, the Bid/Buy page allows updating your bids all on one screen. It's definnitely worth checking out.
What's most interesting to me is that the entire interface could be replicated using web 2.0 technologies like AJAX. For a great example of a real website that fuctions this smoothly already, check out my favorite website, mint.com. It's a personal finance manager that fully leverages cutting edge web capabilities to create a stellar user interface.
I can only imagine the benefits to eBay sellers if the main eBay site was this easy to navigate. I'm hoping that this is truely the future of eBay.
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This is based on Adobe AIR, which is an alternative to AJAX. You're right, it's pretty cool and usable. Since Adobe AIR is still pretty new, it sometimes seems a little laggy, but the extra eye-candy makes it worthwhile.
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