Donahoe may kill the Kijijijijijijijiji brand (fingers crossed), BillMeLater and a little joke for my seller readers…

There are two articles out today, both from WSJ/DJ that had some interesting snippets - plus a little bonus contest/joke to get you through the end of the week.

Donahoe Update - (or what is ‘buy-bye’ in Swahili?)

In the first

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Free Shipping Episode II - An A/B Paid-search test..

Free shipping is a hot topic with eBay sellers these days (more to come on the topic) and I thought you maybe interested in some results that our COO, David Spitz, is reporting on over at sister blog - SearchMarketing.com.

Tying this back to the eBay world - eBay is one of the largest buyers of paid-search advertising.

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How Amazon develops ‘products’/offerings…

Over on sister-blog, Amazon Strategies, we just posted an article that details how Amazon releases new offerings and then we give a list of the offerings of interest to retailers like Prime, Merchants@ and where they are in that framework.

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eBay vs. Amazon in the Twitterverse

I was doing some research into Twitter-apps and found a neat one that lets you trend mentions of various topics over time and even compare two.  It was interesting to see Amazon mentioned nearly 2x over eBay on twitter.

Has eBay lost it’s place in the heart of America?  Is Amazon being discussed because of their web services and there’s a geek-skew to Twitter?  Is this app just plain wrong?

I don’t know, but thought I’d share.  Here’s the graph that should update in real time if you want to keep checking in:

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eBay vs. Amazon in the Twitterverse

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E-commerce Battle Royale - 2 big days in the eBay vs. Amazon ongoing battle.

Today, 4/22, at 5pm, eBay announces their Q1 results.

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