eBay Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire Magento Inc. It was also announced that Magento will join X.Commerce, eBay’s newly created integrated open source platform group.

As some of you know, I’ve been down for the count most of this week with the flu. Ugh. Like most men, I am a complete wuss when I get just the slightest case of the sniffles. Anyway, I dragged myself out of bed today and came down to eBay HQ… being away from here…

eBay has announced an agreement to use open source content management system (CMS), Joomla, to launch a community portal as part of eBay’s internal analytics platform. Known as “community analytics,” the initiative will be accessible by all eBay employees (16,400), and will incorporate social aspects of active collaboration, including content creation, sharing and open discussion….

eBay turned its Selling Manager service (previously known as Project ECHO) into a beta platform open to embedded third party tools back in April of this year. Today, eBay announced that the Selling Manager Applications platform is now out of Beta and for the first time, sellers of all sizes, can access tools embedded within…