eBay recently launched Reviews and Guides and as usual, the eBay community jumped at the opportunity to contribute. I hate to see companies re-create the wheel, so I hope that eBay integrates Epinions into its Reviews, but with the amount of traffic that eBay gets and it’s extremely active community, I have a feeling that this might not be that necessary.
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The eBay Reviews Beta looks like its already packed with helpful review information, but I think it would make sense to integrate Epinions… At least at some point. I also hope that eBay is planning to offer the reviews in their web service API, much like Amazon does, to allow developers to utilize that rich content.
[...] Oct 2005
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Posted by nikiscevak under Uncategorized
Brian Smith of Comparison Engines has news of eBay’s reviews beta. As well as product reviews they are letting us [...]
[...] eBay launched Reviews and Guides without Epinions being invited to the party, but this was most likely just because eBay had the project in the hopper well before the [...]