MySpace, EBay discuss cross-linking deal to allow sales on MySpace Profiles

[mandy]

The $900 million deal between Google and MySpace may be delayed due to the social networking giant's reported talks with eBay, in which MySpace members would be allowed to buy and sell from each other by posting items on their profiles. Also, eBay's online-commerce technology and PayPal payment system would be available to them, according to reports. This could conflict with Google's own online selling system...

The deal would bring MySpace's younger audience to eBay while offering the networking site a new source of revenue, the Journal said...

full article: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/GskY...Deal.xhtml

[sneakymagenta]

The shark takes the fifth until more details are available.

[BellisimaJ.]

They can't include people under 18 if they are talking about legal. And, that means verification of ids, etc., IMO. This could be a big mess. :blinkie:

Sneaky, the siggy is just so damn funny!

[chiquita]

what happened to "my world".

[Kristijntje]

A related article:

Chris DeWolfe, founder and chief executive of MySpace, has set out plans to exploit the huge popularity of the social networking site, which attracts more than 69m users every month and has been credited with launching the career of singers such as Lily Allen.

DeWolfe, who sold the business to News Corporation in 2005 for $580m (£290m), raised the prospect of teaming up with the likes of eBay to offer its users an online retail service.

"We will at some point offer user generated e-commerce transactions," he said. "So if you're on your site and you have a line of T-shirts you have designed and you want to sell them to your friends, we want to be able to provide you with the tools you need to do that.

"So we could partner certainly with someone like eBay to do that. We haven't decided yet but it would be probably a good bet that someone like eBay could be a good partner."...

full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jh...ace118.xml