eBay Launches MyWorld

Hoping to exploit the social scene like everybody else, eBay launches MyWorld, where you get publishing space to tell the community what makes you … you. Its probably not a bad idea, whenever you click someones username it will go to their myworld page, so it will be like an about me page, and they’ve got millions of users already, why wouldn’t you want to get them hanging around eBay longer and longer? And its already ready to go, I just went to http://myworld.ebay.com/myusername and a page is already there, it has my feedback, the latest feedback submitted about me and a box with my latest listings, if any. Pretty good first attempt and will go hand in hand with the blogs and wiki they added earlier this year.

Found via Mashable

Posted by Jimmy Daniels Posted in: Social Networks, Web 2.0, eBay No Comments » September 2006

Digg User Profile Geekforlife Goes for $822

How much is a top 75 user on digg worth? According to this auction, $822. I had posted about this auction earlier, Top 100 Digg Profile for Sale on eBay and just realized I hadn’t followed up to see how much it went for, so here you go. The profile looks like it is still valid on digg, and it still has 103 friends, even though some users had been calling for people to drop this profile as a friend in the original digg post.

For Auction one Digg.com user profile, currently rated 75th out of about 445,000 registered users. You can check it out here http://digg.com/users/Geekforlife/profile

Everything about this profile is editable except the username, I will give you the password for the account along with a new gmail account that you will need for password verification.

Please pay with PAYPAL within 48 hours after auction ends. Failure will result in negative feedback.

Posted by Jimmy Daniels Posted in: Blogging, Digg, Social Networks, eBay No Comments » August 2006

Top 100 Digg Profile for Sale on eBay

Here’s another for the I told you department, a top 100 profile from Digg is now up for bid on eBay. The profile for sale is the Digg username GeekForLife. The user has submitted 748 Digg stories, 39 of which have made it to the Digg home page. The current bid is for $325.

Wonder how Jason will feel when the user that wins asks if he can get paid? Or, will the person buying it take advantage of the status that account has in getting stories dugg? Or, will Kevin Rose do the right thing and reset all it’s stats? I vote for number 3, but, as everything on the internet, we shall see.

A side story, someone on Digg guessed the password, apparently they had set the password as digg, duh huh. It looks like they are returning going by what was said in the comments.

This will happen more, but I would say most should take place behind doors, so the accounts keep their value.

Found this through TechCrunch. Some in the comments say that user is building up the bids himself with accounts created this month. If you can’t trust someone who is selling a digg user account, who can you trust?

Posted by Jimmy Daniels Posted in: Digg, Paid Blogging, Social Networks, eBay 1 Comment » July 2006