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Quote:For many eBay users, the online marketplace is a place to find a bargain or offload items they no longer need. But for thousands of people, eBay has become a way of life.

Those people include some 25,000 software developers that have built businesses around providing better tools for eBay sellers and buyers.

These application developers essentially constitute a partner channel that came about by accident. Shortly after eBay came on the scene with its auction site, developers wanting a piece of the action started popping up.

At first they were nothing more than scraggly pockets of weeds in the vast and varied field of application development, but today they are an intricate ecosystem that continues to grow...