eBay Opens the Neighborhoods
admin Popularity: 14% [?] October 10th, 2007
eBay just announced (see announcement) that it has opened the eBay Neighborhoods. From what I can tell this is eBay’s latest attempt to break into the social networking or bookmarking market area. It looks to be a combination of MyBlogLog, MySpace, and every other social networking site, while including links to their guides and listings. This sounds a little familiar. They keep trying these things that might bring more traffic to the site and enhance the users experience, can’t blame them for that. What I do see is a trend of adding features that are basically copied taken from other areas of the Internet.
Only eBay in his blog post, EBAY Launches Neighborhoods, mentions “It’ll be interesting to see if this initiative gets any traction”, well it will be interesting ok, but more likely, it will be much to do about nothing. I have watched as eBay added guides (uhmm amazon), blogs (uhmm google), bio (not confused with the aboutMe), guestbook, and added all this to “my world”, which includes all these goodies. With all that, I have to stop and mention the highly touted eBay Express, which seemed doomed from the start. At the height of our selling, over 5,000 items listed and 500 closing selling a day, we never once sold an item from eBay Express and I didn’t know of anyone else who did either?
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