Kaboodle and eBay will launch on Monday, at eBay Live 2006, a new collectibles web site, powered by Kaboodle. Essentially eBay users will have the opportunity to leverage Kaboodle features to promote their collection, interact with the community through comments, etc. You will hear more about this new site from the eBay side as their marketing machine kicks in to promote it.
Mike Arrington got a preview of the new site from Kaboodle Manish Chandra and eBay’s GM of Collectibles Laurence Toney, and just blogged about it on TechCrunch.
I will also mention the site during my panel at the eBay Developers Conference, as an example of how social tools can be used by eBay, over and above the blogs and wikis they have already announced.
Congrats to Manish and the Kaboodle team for developing this key relationship, since collectibles is one of the most active category for eBay. And this is one of the first “Web 1.0 partners with Web 2.0” relationship.
Additional coverage of the news:
- Elinor Mills, CNET: eBay, Kaboodle collaborate on collecting
- The TechMeme thread is here.
- Gary Price’s comments are here. He points to issues of ambiguity with tags being used on collectibles that will be worked upon.
- Pete Cashmore’s comments are here.
Tags: kaboodle, ebay, mycollectibles
Disclosure: Kaboodle is one of my investments.