Grasping at Straws Department: eBay says Hey Let's Generate Revenues from Blogs!

[mandy]

Ebay wants to create new software tools that will allow the online auction company to cash in on the rapid growth of blogging, a senior executive told the Financial Times.

The online auction company's plans reflect a wider push by many of the world's largest companies to find ways of tapping into potential revenues from blogs...

"Our approach would be to develop new tools that we can turn over to bloggers, so they can define the natural shape of the market place on their own, that is how Ebay originally developed," Doug McCallum, UK managing director of Ebay, said in an interview...

full article: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13701730/

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Grasping at Straws

A perfect description of eBay's current business plan.