Innovations day
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on March 15, 2006 in Developer Blog.
It’s 4am here in San Jose, but I thought I would get up and do some work so I can try and sleep on the flight home.
Yesterday we had an Innovations Day at eBay. The day was to show eBay employees what applications people are building using the various API’s from eBay, Skype and PayPal.
As well as me talking we had a number of partners from the eBay world showing off their products. I caught up with a few of them to tell them how they can add Skype in to their solutions and make them even better.
The Skype booth was extremely popular with a good number of people hanging around to watch me demo.
My demos included:
Skype toolbars for FireFox (dial numbers directly from a webpage)
SkypeWeb (show your presence on the web)
Pamela (digital assistant for Skype)
AVACON for Skype (streams video to your avatar, great for 4 people video conferencing)
WiSPA (make Skype calls from any phone, get SMS notifications of IMs to your mobile )
Gizmoz (show yourself as a 3d avatar)
(You’ll find them all in the extras gallery)
My bus arrives in the next few hours (ok 4) so I have pack my bags and be ready.







Comments
Correct me if I'm wrong but none of those appear to feature any sort of direct integration with eBay or Paypal.
I'm surprised at the number of developers who choose to fill in the gaps with solutions so close to the core Skype feature set. Where's the innovation?
relaxedguy | Wednesday, Mar 15
Hi
The purpose of the day was not to show ebay/paypal/Skype integrated products but to show off what developers have been doing with each of our respective APIs.
There are a few Skype/eBay products already, the API contest should help us get even more.
L
lestermadden | Friday, Mar 17