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Adam Trachtenberg is the Director of the LinkedIn Developer Network, where he oversees developer relations and marketing for the LinkedIn Platform. Before LinkedIn, Adam worked at eBay in platform product management and marketing. Even earlier, he co-founded Student.Com and TVGrid.com. Adam is the author of PHP Cookbook and Upgrading to PHP 5. He lives in San Francisco.

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Wanted: One Kick Ass eBay Evangelist

May 23rd, 2005 • Related • Filed Under

I am on the look out for a top notch evangelist for my team at eBay. If that’s you, or someone you know, contact me.

The eBay Developers Program enables third party programmers to write applications that use the eBay platform. We have an amazing set of web services (over 100 API calls) and want everyone to use them. Not only do we expose almost all of eBay, we do it big time, serving up billions of API calls every month.

Your job would be getting the word out to new communities, getting them excited about the possibilities, and helping them build all sorts of cool applications. In my opinion our platform is particularly interesting because eBay is so dynamic — people are always listing, bidding, and buying. Our web service is more than just search results, and it’s read/write, not read-only.

The official job description has all the details. (That’s job “5731” if the link breaks.) Also, apologies in advance to my fellow Mac and Linux users, our brain-dead job site only works under Windows IE. (It also works under Firefox on Windows, but that doesn’t extend to Firefox Mac or Linux. However, you may be able to spoof your user-agent string.) Please don’t read anything into this and apply it to my attitude towards developers.

There Are 3 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by Jan on 23 May 2005:

    Says cookies are disabled, but are not.

  2. Comment by Adam Trachtenberg on 23 May 2005:

    Like I said, it’s brain-dead. I have no idea why it gives that bogus message. It’s an outsourced application, so I don’t have any control over it. When I applied, I had to use my girlfriend’s Windows ME machine.

  3. Comment by Joe W. on 24 May 2005:

    Even in IE/WinXP, it gives the same error message.