Comments on: WP at eBay

By: ROn

ROn — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:55:59 +0000

I agree about ebay’s blog being kind of boring.

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:09:07 +0000

@George,

I can only imagine, but eBay is pretty large and I assume they have many divisions that they barely even talk to each other about those kinds of things

By: George

George — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:39:13 +0000

http://www.ebaypartnernetworkblog.com
That’s wordpress, too, but it seems that they decided to use the mod_rewrite on that one

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:31:54 +0000

George,

I ran a header status on their site and it seems to be running linux.

#1 Server Response: http://desktop.ebay.com/blog/
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:31:20 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.1
X-Pingback: http://desktop.ebay.com/blog/xmlrpc.php
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

By: George

George — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:45:00 +0000

@ Ryan
Could it be that Windows IIS (eBays OS of choice) doesn’t do mod_rewrite? I’m not an expert, but I thought that was a reason?

By: Mike Law

Mike Law — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:50:58 +0000

WordPress is (almost) everywhere…

By: DavidTan

DavidTan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:52:14 +0000

More will be following for sure.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:44:30 +0000

Just as a quick note to Jon the blog has that ranking with Alexa because all sub domains get ranked along with the main domain, so 23 is the alexa rank of eBay as well. It may not ALWAYS be the case but for the most part, and when experimenting with the Amazon API’s for Alexa, I find this holds true.

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:14:59 +0000

Ah, thanks for the update Matt, I appreciate it

I’m always trying to keep an eye out for WordPress, always showing the love.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:28:35 +0000

Sorry Jonathan, there’s a bug in WP right now that is publishing the visual version of the post and not the HTML version.

By: azrin

azrin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:01:48 +0000

I thought they were selling stuff about WordPress on EBAY!

azrin @ http://www.azrin.cn

By: drixie

drixie — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:13:37 +0000

its about time they did.

By: Jon - Ninja Blog Setup

Jon - Ninja Blog Setup — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:41:49 +0000

Must be nice to start a new blog and have an Alexa rating of 23 on day one!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:21:25 +0000

What’s with these big companies that don’t bother to sort their permalinks out?

Why use:
http://desktop.ebay.com/blog/?page_id=2

When it could be:
http://desktop.ebay.com/blog/about/

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:31:13 +0000

With all the possibilites wordpress can do, eBay’s blog seems a little boring. Ir rocks that they use wordpress but a little imagination would go far.

By: Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:31:54 +0000

Awwww no link love for the submitter!