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….

It was announced this morning that eBay will be one of the first customers of Microsoft’s new Windows Azure platform appliance for cloud computing. The announcement was made at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) taking place this week in Washington D.C.

According to the announcement, eBay will incorporate the Windows Azure platform appliance into two of its data centers. The goal being to further optimize its platform and achieve greater strategic agility and datacenter efficiency. The agreement comes on the heels of a a successful pilot deployment by eBay of Microsoft’s public Windows Azure platform – eBay’s page for iPad listings (http://ipad.ebay.com) is hosted on the public Windows Azure platform.

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For those of you who may have missed it, Skype’s COO Scott Durchslag wrote a pretty thorough blog post breaking down the strategic partnership between Nokia and Skype announced earlier this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. “Together, we’re going to develop and deliver a great mobile Skype experience that meets the needs…

I missed this one while I was out of the office last week…eBay partnered with ChoDienTu.vn , a Vietnamese online marketplace. As I understand it, ChoDienTu.vn will evolve into an eBay co-branded site where individuals and businesses in Vietnam can participate in local trade as well as international trade via eBay’s global websites. The new…

I was having lunch with members of the PR team on Thursday and the subject of a new partnership with Buy.com came up. I was told I’d have information by the weekend so I could draft a post for Ink. Two hours after lunch, Randy Smythe of My Blog Utopia contacted me asking if there…