Tag: ebay
eBay picks out Top 10 collectables that'll make you rich (possibly)
Antiques are where the money is. At least, that’s what you’d think watching the Antiques Roadshow, where people whose ancestors picked up trinkets for a song find out they’re now worth tens of thousands. How to ensure you do the same thing for the benefit of your descendants?
Buy the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Grail on eBay
No matter how many bleeding-edge zeitgeist-hugging startup ideas I come up with, nobody’s prepared to throw several million quid at me to make them a Google-sized success. If only there was some elixir of webbyness that I could drink to improve my chances of becoming a Web 2.0 millionaire… And lo! There is! Someone’s selling the ‘Web 2.0 Grail’ on eBay, which should be just the thing…
eBay clamps down on UK iPhone auctions
It’s iPhone launch day here in the UK, although scandalously, we’re having to wait until 6.02pm this evening to get our hands on Apple’s handset, whereas German consumers could buy theirs this morning. Grr. Anyway, as you’d expect, eBay is roaring with iPhone-related auctions…
Rustle up some cash, hit eBay, and snag yourself the Austin van that inspired a Wallace & Gromit film
Nick Park, the Wallace and Gromit creator, isn’t just a dab hand with the animation clay, as he’s just shown off his ultra-generous side by selling the van which inspired the car in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit on eBay, for charity.
He’s supporting the Wallace & Gromit Children’s Foundation which helps children’s hospitals and hospices within…
eBay launches social-networking site, eBay Neighborhoods, about two years too late
eBay aren’t making any money from Skype these days, so have obviously had a few long nights sitting at the drawing board, thinking of new ways to conjure cash out of thin air. And what have they come up? Yet another social networking site. Zzzzzzzz…
eBay Neighborhoods features around 600 online communities, for people passionate about buying and selling specific products on the auction site. There’s message boards, product reviews, photos and social mapping…
eBay overpaid for Skype (says Skype founder as he's flying his personal jet)
eBay may have acquired Skype in October of 2005, but it’s taken several years for stories to emerge that the $4.3 billion in stock and cash they paid for the VoIP company may’ve been a little too high.
And you’ll never guess who admitted to it – Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype. That’s it, Niklas, gloat two years later, once you’ve banked all the cash, atta boy. Apparently eBay feel they haven’t earned quite…
eBay protects their Skype-ownage and removes JAJAH VoIP widgets from listings
It looks like eBay has finally cottoned on and realised that because they now own the VoIP service Skype, allowing sellers to link to a rival VoIP provider in their auctions, JAJAH, probably isn’t the smartest thing they can do if they want to make money from their acquisition…
David Tennant-autographed Dalek up for grabs on eBay
It’s not often the opportunity to own a one-off David Tennant autographed Dalek comes up, and it’s even rarer when it’s containing recorded speech from Nick Briggs (who does the Dalek voices in Doctor Who, durr), and it’s even more rare when it’s been featured on the Friday Night with Jonathan Ross TV show.
The Dalek’s recorded speech was made especially for the show, and all proceeds go to charedee, specifically…
Why the iLike Facebook application is worth $287 million
Still think Facebook applications are just novelty widgets with no intrinsic value? Think again. A developer has just sold on eBay his Logbook application (pictured), which lets people catalogue their music, films and books and make money from Amazon sales.
The winning bid was £2,550, which doesn’t sound like much until you have a look at the application’s page on Facebook, and see it’s only got seven active users. That’s $364 per user, in other words.
Opinion: Why it's now COOL to be a GEEK
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
This is possibly the most important techno story I’ve seen all week, it’s officially ok to be geeky. A new list of the UK’s most coolest brands has been released and the top 10 contains SEVEN firms related to gadgets, gaming and the internet. So if that’s not a reason to embrace your virtual friends and give thanks I don’t know what is.
The iPod was only pipped into second place in the CoolBrands 2007 by James Bond’s favourite car, the Aston Martin, and you could argue there’s something geeky about being a fan of that motor. No longer is it nerdy to be geeky – because both are different…
