The eBay Developers' Conference kicked off this morning with a big breakfast meeting in the ballroom followed by keynote addresses by eBay's John Donahoe, Kevin Lynch of Adobe, reps from PayPal and Skype and more.
One of the coolest things I saw was a demo of eBay's new interface called "San Dimas," which is based on the Adobe AIR technology. It's eBay with a very cool new look and feel, and the ability to flip photos in a listing, see charts of bidders' bids, get alerts, and in general look at eBay in a whole new way. [The pic above is a snapshot of one of the slides they presented about the San Dimas interface].
Product manager Alan Lewis described it as having a "rich, warm, feeling."
Many factoids were dropped as to where eBay, PayPal and Skype are today and how they've grown:
- eBay is now up to 233 million users
- 588 million listings in Q1 07
- GMV og $14.28 billion in Q1 '07
They've added "adjacent platforms" StubHub, Kijiji, ProStores, and Rent.com
- PayPal now has 13 million accounts
- It processed $11 billion in total payments
- About 40% of PayPal volume is OFF-eBay!
Skype
- 196 million users
- adding 250,000 users a day
- Over 9.2 billion call minutes in Q1 '07.
Julia and I are having a blast at the Developer's Conference in Boston, keep reading her blog for a great perspective on what's going on!
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