Oh there a couple classic quotes in here. Be sure to read the entire article and the links. Hilarious.

Toward the end of our interview, while we're talking about Google, Whitman says: "It's very hard to do more than a couple things very well," a variation on the snickering in Silicon Valley that Google's helter-skelter product development isn't serving it well. I point out that eBay is also trying now to do many things at once: auctions, fixed-price sales, classified ads on a global basis, Shopping.com, PayPal, Skype, and so on. She counters that eBay may be busy, but it isn't diluting each business by shoehorning it into an eBay template.

"Brands stand for something," she says, which is why eBay hasn't eliminated the Skype or PayPal names. Of course, if eBay is becoming merely a collection of brands, it will most resemble Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, an e-commerce conglomerate that is an also-ran in several categories.

Meg Whitman's joke at eBay used to be that the eBay community of users runs itself so well that "a monkey could drive this train." Not anymore. As of presstime, the only train-driving monkeys at eBay appear to be these adorable Curious George engineer plush toys going for $14.99.

Hilarious. sleazebay has soo many irons in the fire they are bound to grab the red hot end of one of them. Why does ebay always come up with these "Two legs better" type answers?

The ebay brand name stands for something alright.

Bhwa-hahahaha, if a monkey could run ebay and Meg cannot, maybe she should just step off and save a painfully humiliating fall from grace. (or should I say," We have had enough, please! Let Bonzo try"...)

-- Edited by anonymous at 16:33, 2006-10-04