Comments on: eBay’s foray into social commerce http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/06/ebays-foray-into-social-commerce/ Exploring How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 0ctavia http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/06/ebays-foray-into-social-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-2545 0ctavia Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:45:56 +0000 http://204.15.36.163:8080/blog/index.php/2007/03/06/ebays-foray-into-social-commerce/#comment-2545 Unfortunately with the current hacking attacks on eBay I fear this will only provide another avenue through which to defraud inexperienced eBay users :( Unfortunately with the current hacking attacks on eBay I fear this will only provide another avenue through which to defraud inexperienced eBay users :(

]]> By: Thomas Purves http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/06/ebays-foray-into-social-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-2463 Thomas Purves Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:02:51 +0000 http://204.15.36.163:8080/blog/index.php/2007/03/06/ebays-foray-into-social-commerce/#comment-2463 This is interesting as eBay is really a company about Reputation (or rather Trust) online. It's not just the network effects that makes eBay so powerful but crucially it is the Trust infrastructure that allows complete strangers to transact across the Internet on such large-scale as eBay. It is interesting that eBay is looking at importing relationship information to strengthen their model... while lots of others are hoping eBay would open up and *export* their member ratings for building trust in many/any other social type of social applications... This is interesting as eBay is really a company about Reputation (or rather Trust) online. It’s not just the network effects that makes eBay so powerful but crucially it is the Trust infrastructure that allows complete strangers to transact across the Internet on such large-scale as eBay.

It is interesting that eBay is looking at importing relationship information to strengthen their model… while lots of others are hoping eBay would open up and *export* their member ratings for building trust in many/any other social type of social applications…

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