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eBay gets a facelift with San Dimas


At Web 2.0 this week eBay has made its mark with the announcement of the limited beta of its new user interface: Project San Dimas. The interface has been in the works over the past year and is meant to simplify buying and selling items on eBay, allowing them to better compete with other companies like MarketWorks, Vendito, and Y Combinator.

Written as an Apollo deskop application; The program allows eBay users to watch multiple items on eBay easily, and work with that data by exporting stats to their desktop as an excel spreadsheet. When users are outbid on a particular item users are notified by a pop-up window, and users can do things like create item listings while offline, and take photos for their listings with their webcam that are automatically added to their listing.

The project was demoed at DEMO 07 in January. You can check out a video of San Dimas in action at that conference here.


[Via TechCrunch]

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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