Taking My Shirt Off for Software, Oprah on Twitter, Punked on Website Gigs?

Today I recieved a t-shirt from my sponsor!  Find out why I’m taking it off
Oprah stepped into Twitter today.  Thoughts from Twitter folks
Is your client driving you insane on a website project?
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What the Heck is Ebay?

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Ebay has been around nearly as long as the internet. 
It started out in California as one man’s idea to sell things. 

• April Fools Day
• TechCrunch Roundup
• My ponytail is a joke
• The Internet did not come to a standstill due to the Confickr virus

“The viewers at AskAdria.com are  intelligent, smart, talented and have a lot going for them…Make sure you focus on your own success, surround yourself with positive people and write down your goals.”  –Adria

 How to fix virus problems permenantly.  Microsoft should offer a scaled down version of Windows.  I think it should be somwhere between the functionality of Windows 2000 and Windows XP and Microsoft could sell a license with unlimited updates for $1.  This would be much more effective than offering a $250,000 bounty for the maker of the Conficker virus.

Learn about

• Ebay for your business – “teaser products” for exposure
• Selling and Buying batches and “lots” of items
• Craigslist is good for heavy stuff, Ebay is good for light stuff
• How to figure out what’s a good deal on Ebay
• One of the most powerful ways to search on ebay is “completed items”
• How to make your items more appealing with accessories
• Active warranties on elecronics add value
• Pictures are worth $1,000,000 on Ebay
• Types of bidding – Auction, Fixed, Dutch
• Things you cannot sell on Ebay
• How to buy from repubtable sellers
• Win auctions by sniping
• Negotiate with sellers
• When you should sell on Ebay vs Craigslist
• How to list your item in a way that builds buyer confidence
• What you can’t sell on Ebay
• Things I won on Ebay
• I confess about the summer I spent a lot of bucks on Ebay
• Why do people bid outrageous amounts on Ebay?

In the Chat

• I’m getting an iPhone this month!  Skype is going to be offered on the iPhone so I’m going to take the plunge :)
• ChrisNJ says to get a Palm Pre
• I get scared by a weird noise
• I view the interesting solution, the Pomagrante cell phone
• “What are your future business plans?”  My public speaking website is almost done, Live online workshops
• It’s to my advantage to be aware of technology trends
• I started using Firefox in 2004 and still have the 1.0 New York Times launch poster

Why I will be choosing the iPhone over the Android and Palm Pre

• My choice is not based on price
• Reach within the market in terms of saturation
• Keyboard options
• GPS
• “It doesn’t matter if you’re at a really good party if you’re the only one there”
• iTunes had a very compelling story on why I should ditch Winamp
• Product maturity
• The ratio of 100 people in a room with with mobile devices in 6 months will look like this – 60 will have iPhones
  3 will have an Android compatible device
  9 will have a Windows Mobile device
  8 will have a Smartphone with Symbian
  ( 20 forgot to mention Blackberries in the video)

Resources

JBidwatcher – Snipe, bid, and watch your auctions on eBay for free with JBidwatcher.