eBay…Members Only Jackets, Atari Games and GM cars?

General Motors launched its new eBay initiative today. General Motors is now selling cars and trucks on the auction website in an attempt to regain some of it’s lost market share. The bidding process for this works a little differently than a typical eBay bid, vehicles will not be auctioned to the highest bidder but rather listed at a “buy it now” price equal to the supplier price. Shoppers also can submit a lower offer that the dealer can accept or reject. Right now this venture involves 90% of G.M’s dealerships in California but the company is hoping this will expand nationally as soon as September.

If G.M’s endeavor succeeds it could change the way American’s buy cars. In the past 10 years, more than three million vehicles have moved on eBay Motors, which records 12 million unique visitors every month. G.M. hopes eBay, which claims 84 million active users worldwide, will help it “reach potential buyers who might not otherwise visit a G.M. dealership.”

G.M. is the first automaker to sell new vehicles on eBay, to learn more visit the dedicated portal, gm.ebay.com

Twittad

Much like google adsense, your tweets can now bring in the bucks! It works a little differently, rather then having google sponsored links your Twitter account is actually sponsored by the advertiser for the period of time you allow.To do this is simple:

1 ) Post your Twitter Account for advertisers to sponsor
2 ) Select duration and price
3 ) Wait for sponsorship
4 ) Accept or deny the offer
5 ) The ad will then be posted to your profile using Twitter API
6 ) 1 Tweet promo is sent
7 ) Final Tweet is sent at end of duration
8 ) $$$

To find out more check it out here.

ESPN Imposes Social Networking Limitations

ESPN issued 12 guidelines to it’s employees about social networking this week. These guidelines state that on-air talent, reporters and writers are prohibited from having sports-related blogs or websites…essentially competing sports related content. But it does note that they will soon deploy modules to simultaneously link employee tweets, etc to various ESPN websites. For more click here.