Archive for April 24th, 2006
LifeHacker: Mixing your work with your home life can be tricky, but I’m giving it a good shot. I recently moved into a new home and as I regularly work from home, I claimed one of our three bedrooms as my office – or what I like to call “Keith’s Fortress of Solitude.â€? I spent [...]
I’m in the market for a new hosting company. My dedicated server is bogging down and I’m tired of the lack of customer support at my current host. Any recommendations?
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at About.com
Keira Knightley’s 2006 Oscar Dress on eBay
Bid in Oxfam’s Exclusive Auction for the East Africa Food Crisis Keira Knightley was the star of the red carpet at the Oscars in a deep-claret taffeta silk gown designed by Vera Wang. She has now very generously offered this custom made dress to Oxfam to auction, with all proceeds going to support Oxfam’s life-saving [...]
e-commerce: There’s a popular saying that goes “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” This applies to business, war and cheesy reality TV show contestants. It now applies to eBay. A Wall Street Journal article today revealed the auction behemoth is getting more and more nervous over Google’s foray into the e-commerce sphere. How [...]
Will PS3 Retailers Scalp On eBay?
PS3news: Remember the stories about how hard it was to find an Xbox 360 in the early days? Oddly enough, Microsoft’s next-gen console couldn’t be found in local stores, and yet there were excesses on eBay, selling for much more than the retail price. How could such a thing happen? Easy. Some devious retailers were [...]
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Million Dollar Goal.
Bloomberg: Shares of eBay, the world’s largest auctioneer, fell Thursday the most in more than a year after the company gave a disappointing outlook for 2006, signaling that growth may be slowing. Profit may be 7 cents less than Wall Street expectations, eBay said Wednesday after U.S. markets closed. Annual sales may rise to $5.9 [...]
Paul Graham: I recently got an email from a potential startup founder who worried about competitors copying his idea. Was it worth starting a startup when competitors could easily copy him? The answer in such cases is almost always yes. Startups worry far too much about people copying them. First of all, it will take [...]
SFGate: EBay has little hope of capturing a bigger share of the Chinese online auction market despite bankrolling a major expansion there, according to the company’s chief Chinese rival. Jack Ma, chief executive of Alibaba.com, China’s leading Internet marketplace, said that early mistakes by eBay have made it difficult for the company to gain traction [...]
