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A pitbull with lipstick on is still a pitbull: why eBay will never be Amazon

I read in the FT today that eBay's CEO is once again steering eBay towards the fixed price items.

My wife can testify this got me angry. Real angry. As in, taking this personal. See, I used to be an eBay executive (community manager for eBay.be).

From my experience then, I know that nothing upsets sellers more than changing the rules every year. And in my book, this must be the sixth time in ten years that the focus of the company went from auctions to fixed price items and back again.

Trying to explain Touchatag and why you'd use RFID

Touchatag was one of the more blue chip start-ups presenting at the tenth betagroup session. Not surprising as they are an Alcatel Lucent venture.

Google Pagerank 2 - out of the sewers

Hi there,

It seems the past efforts to get this website indexed are starting to pay off.

Today I spotted IntroNiche has Pagerank 2. 
Not a bad result for a website which has only been live for a month now.
We're not playing the Victoria & Albert Hall yet. But we're not hiding in the sewers either.

 Some things must have helped:

1) Regularily updating this very blog as a placeholder for IntroNiche.com -
    probably better than an "under construction" page. Content rules.

Blast from the past: retrieve your old email adresses from Outlook

With this little tool from the email adress manager.
It's called "Bells & Whistles for Outlook". Pretty neat name.
Anyway, it's harvesting time again....

Grassroots email friends&family campaign for launch

How many people have I written emails to in Gmail?
The answer is 434.
Not a bad way to start a grassroots campaign. Here is how to:

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