The campaigns around the elections for governor in California are getting more aggressive the closer we get to the date. Radio commercials are just calling the other parties on their plans or no plans, and banner campaigns are getting more ugly in their message. I just ran into the banner below, where Meg Whitman is […]
Infographic: iPad exports from US
For the last couple of weeks I have been working on a story around the iPad exports through sales on eBay.com. With the story picked up by The New York Times and Gizmodo. I sent the following post to my buddies of The Next Web as a guest post. In the past i’ve done some […]
iPad Search Explosion on eBay
After having played with the iPad myself, after I got one as a present from my wife, I’m totally hooked. What an awesome machine. It appears there are more people around the world who want to play with the newest gadget toy, as Edible Apple is reporting. Read more on Techmeme here. People from around […]
eBay Classifieds re-launched
The other day, when I arrived with my bicycle at work, I saw there was a sign added to the eBay logo. The US Classifieds site re-launched. I stopped, grabbed my camera, and took some cool shots of the sign. As you can see, the weather was beautiful, but there was still dew on the […]
That Ugly Christmas Sweater Makes You look Sexy…
“That Ugly Christmas Sweater makes you look Sexy…” With Christmas coming up closer, you might find yourself without that Ugly Christmas Sweater you need to wear to the Ugly Christmas Sweater party your friends are organizing. And although you hate the theme of the party, who would like to wear an Ugly Christmas Sweater anyway, […]
Canon 5200mm F14 SLR DSLR lens
Sometimes, you come across those rare items on eBay, items you just have to share with more people. Today I was forwarded the following Canon lens for sale: Canon 5200mm F14 SLR DSLR Lens World’s MOST powerful Telephoto Prime Lens Can you imagine going to take some wild life pictures with this puppy on your […]
Google Wave Invite for Sale
Last week, when Google started to send out 100.000 invites for the new service Google Wave, a lot of high profile bloggers, technology journalists or techies were disappointed they did not got one. Robert Scoble got one, probably the Wall Street Journal got one to make a few friends with the old economy newspapers, but […]
eBay’s Lawn Chairs not Gone
There has been some conflicting reports regarding the eBay Lawn chairs. Apparently the San Jose Mercury News has reported that Meg was responsible for getting rid of the lounge chairs. Job One was to become the company’s grown-up. She replaced the lawn chairs with corporate cubicles. Then the VentureCountyStar reports that this same sentence has […]
Ghostbusters Ecto-1
Ever wanted to know what it would feel like to drive the Ghostbusters Ecto-1? Remember the siren the car had? It should be pretty funny for any Halloween party to gear up in a brown overall, with the Proton Packs on your back. One of the Ecto-1’s from Universal Studio’s is auctioned off on eBay. […]
eBay DevCon 2009
4 presentations in 2 weeks I recently posted on my presentation on the Jane & Robot developers session last week, which was awesome. Today I had the fourth presentation in a more public setting in two weeks. Two weeks ago I was sitting on a panel on the special In-House SEO day on SMX Advanced, […]