2007 eBay Star Developer Awards - Cheers!

Just got out of the 2007 Star Developer Awards ceremony at lunch here at the eBay Developers Conference - this year, we went with a Boston-theme and had Norm Peterson and Cliff Claven present the awards. Here they are with our winner for Most Innovative Buyer Application, AuctionAds.

And the winners of the 2007 Star Developer Award are ...

• Most Innovative Application—Buyer  = AuctionAds, presented to Jeremy Schoemaker

-- For promoting efficiency using innovative caching techniques, allowing this affiliate developer to serve up 30 million impressions a month with only 200,000 API calls – an impressive volume of traffic per API call.

• Most Innovative Application—Seller or Merchant  = SageFire's YES! (Year End Summary), presented to JP O’Brien, Joshua McNeese and Ryan Wheaton 

-- For fulfilling a specified eBay seller community need of annual transactional history for tax and profitability analysis needs.

• Service to the Community = presented to Michael Berger of MyProSeller (community handle: slomike1)

-- Active and helpful PHP developer in Developer Forums answers newbie and veteran questions, which have resulted in numerous updates and improvements to API Documentation and platform notifications for the benefit of the entire eBay developer community.

• Best User Experience Design = Mpire’s Shopwave, presented to Greg Harrison and Gary Kamikawa

-- For development of new Flash-based online shopping visualization application. “If you don’t know exactly how to describe what you’re looking for, Mpire’s new image previews may be worth the thousand words you can’t find.” – TechCrunch

• PayPal Best User Experience Design = E-junkie’s FatFreeCart, presented to Robin Kohli

-- For the implementation of PayPal Website Payments Pro with the only cart which works inside the merchant's website (not in a pop-up) without having to install anything

• PayPal Service to the Community  = presented to Robin Kohli of E-junkie (community handle: E-junkie)  -- For his outstanding contributions and participation in PayPal's Developer Community

Congratulations to all of our 2007 Star Developer Award winners!

- Delyn