Month: September 2009
Redbeacon wins TechCrunch50
Held every year in San Fransisco, the TechCrunch50 Conference showcases the best and brightest startups. We wrote about the 2007 winner, Mint, which this week announced that it has been acquired by Intuit for $170 million. The experts panel this year included tech and investor rockstars including Kevin Rose, Robert Scoble, Marissa Mayer, Yossi Vardi…
Opera 10 module 9 error solved
Image via Wikipedia We love us some Opera. We’ve been advocating the Opera 10 web browser since the first alpha version was released last December. We even wrote about it in March. We’ve been faithfully using it through the beta releases and release candidates. The final version was recently released and it’s stellar. Today, we…
Auction Video Podcast Episode 4 – Benefit Auction Lifetime Experiences
Brendan Lillis talks with Aaron Traffas from AuctioneerTech about Benefit Auction Lifetime Experiences. Recorded at the 60th International Auctioneers Conference and Show in Overland Park, Kansas, on 18 July 2009. www.benefitauctionpackages.com
LiveAuctioneers releases BlackBerry application
In July, Internet bidding provider LiveAuctioneers announced the release of an iPhone application that allows its users to view auction inventories as well as to participate in auctions by placing pre-auction Internet bids. Yesterday, LiveAuctioneers announced the release of an application for BlackBerry devices that has similar functionality but, unlike the iPhone application, is free…
Don’t penalize Internet buyers
Our friend John Schultz wrote a great blog post this morning about the importance of ensuring that registration requirements were similar for Internet bidders and live bidders. He describes the effect of restricting Internet bidders as follows. Auction companies need to apply the same set of registration terms to both online and onsite bidders. In…