eBay Developers Create Huge Software-As-A-Service Community
Mpire Corp. will launch in March a mobile search application to help sellers determine the correct day, time and price to sell their products on eBay Inc.
With a similar tool introduced in January from Mpire, the eBay community gained Mpulse, a resource to monitor up-to-the-minute listing trends for items from Apple Computer Inc. iPods to Microsoft Corp. Xboxes. About 10,000 users tap into the service. Now the provider of Web-based services will offer the application on mobile devices.
eBay has created the largest software as a service (SaaS) community by providing developers tools. The application programming interface (API) allows Mpire to send information to communication with eBay and Paypal platforms.
As of December 2005, for example, the eBay Developers Program had more than 25,000 members who created 1,900 live applications. Approximately 47 percent of eBay.com listings are through eBay Web Services. Nearly half are from third-party developer tools created by companies, such as Mpire, according to Greg Isaacs, eBay Developers Program director. During the fourth quarter in 2005, the eBay Platform handled more than 8 billion Web service requests, up from less than 1 billion for the entire year of 2002. The number of eBay Web Services transactions through APIs increased 84 percent annually, too. “You’d be hard pressed to find another company that serves-up that many API calls,” Isaacs said.
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