Just a little Cooqy

Moments ago, eBay finally contacted me after a week of waiting with information that has hopefully resolved the service disruption with the errant “No Items Listed” message reported by Cooqy’s widgets.
The issue was related to Cooqy’s API credentials that get passed to eBay’s data services.  It seems that I didn’t go about generating a security […]

Cooqy has been experiencing a service outage that began a few days ago. The outage causes all of Cooqy’s widgets to display a “No items listed” message, even when sellers have items in inventory.
The initial cause of the outage was the expiration of security keys required to communicate with eBay’s data services.  These security keys […]

Since the Master’s golf tournament just finished, I thought it would be nice to feature a golf-themed seller who is using Cooqy’s widgets on their website.
Here is a screenshot of myclubguru, an eBay store that specializes in golf equipment:

The Seller Storefront widget is placed into its own web page so visitors can access all their […]

This next featured eBay seller is one of my personal favorites. I have played piano since the age of 5 and remember my grandma’s sheet music from the early 1900’s, all tattered and torn but with amazing artwork on the covers. The 1920’s were the Golden Age of the piano, so it makes […]

I’m always finding people using Cooqy’s widgets in ways I never would have imagined. Take TCBid, which is a website I found that is actually aggregating multiple eBay sellers onto a single website for local auctions in the Twin Cities area. Their website consists entirely of a page full of Cooqy […]

Cooqy’s seller widgets provide extensive customization that enables sellers to integrate the widgets into their web page designs. This is unlike eBay’s To Go widgets and the widgets from other providers, who usually provide single designs or only a few customization options. Cooqy’s unique Widget Wizard makes it easy to create custom widgets […]

Various 3rd-party reports are stating that the sellers’ boycott of eBay last week resulted in about 13% fewer listings. Cooqy’s numbers supports eBay’s claim that the boycott had little or no material impact for the week.
A high percentage of Cooqy’s traffic comes from widgets embedded on eBay item listings. Although a 10-15% drop […]

My new widget mashup tool called Qrowd has entered private beta. Send an e-mail to sales@qrowd.com if you are interested in a test drive, but be aware that some Q&A (as in Questions and Answers) is involved, to help elicit feedback about the system.
In conjunction with the rollout, I’ve written a post describing my […]

I recently received a heads up that Cooqy’s widgets weren’t redirecting to eBay listings from MySpace.  After some investigating, I dicovered that MySpace now converts all HTML links in profiles to a “www.mpslinks.com” URL, that serves to filter all outbound links from MySpace profiles.  Apparently this was changed by MySpace earlier this year, but because […]

You can read about the ongoing development of my new venture Qrowd here.
Cooqy continues to chug along nicely, with no major hiccups or issues. As always, I’d like to say “Thank you!” to everyone who is using Cooqy for shopping and selling on eBay!