tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34/tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.25186- 2009-11-05T20:03:15Z Comments for eBay desktop hits 1 million users (http://www.insideria.com/2008/07/ebay-desktop-hits-1-million-us.html) Movable Type 4.21-en tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.25186 2008-07-20T14:29:26Z 2008-07-24T17:03:27Z eBay desktop hits 1 million users Late this week it was announced that eBay desktop reached 1 million downloads. Mike Potter from Adobe wrote a great summary of the achievement and it's significanceon his blog. Ryan Stewart also has a great post up, including an interivew with Alan Lewis, the application's project manager from eBay. RJ Owen Late this week it was announced that eBay desktop reached 1 million downloads. Mike Potter from Adobe wrote a great summary of the achievement and it's significanceon his blog. Ryan Stewart also has a great post up, including an interivew with Alan Lewis, the application's project manager from eBay.

eBay desktop has a funny history. Mike Potter was on a bus with Alan Lewis from eBay and the two got talking about the potential for a desktop-based eBay client. Mike referred Alan to Anthony Franco at EffectiveUI, and shortly thereafter EffectiveUI's A-Team (featuring Sean Christmann as Mr. T) partnered with eBay to make it happen. One million downloads later, it looks like we got it right.

What a great testament to the success of AIR and the power of user experience. eBay invested a lot of time, effort and money in user testing and getting user feedback, and as a result it continues to be one of the most successful applications I've ever been a part of. Congrats to eBay for investing in their users!

]]> tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.25186-comment:2019219 Comment from Stephen Sartain on 2008-07-24 Stephen Sartain http://www.clicksmatrix.com Do you have a link to that?

]]> 2008-07-24T16:39:41Z tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.25186-comment:2019220 Comment from RJ Owen on 2008-07-24 RJ Owen http://www.insideria.com Wow - I can't believe I didn't put one in the post. Here you go:

http://desktop.ebay.com

]]> 2008-07-24T16:53:08Z tag:www.insideria.com,2008://34.25186-comment:2115440 Comment from Kip Downs on 2009-09-24 Kip Downs What's really weird is that an eBay application was suspiciously installed on my desktop. I didn't ask for it. I didn't want it. Howw does it get there?

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