The online exchange or marketplace brings buyers and sellers together in the most efficient way possible: getting what they're looking for, at a price acceptable to both, while the exchange takes care of the administration (think eBay).

oDesk, a next generation marketplace for contract developers, has recently seen a spike in requests for Facebook developers.

Scanning, retouching and organizing photos, negatives and slides can be a nightmare for any professional photographer...

Families with prize photographs can safeguard their memories by using a scanning service that "digitizes" old prints on the cheap.

ScanCafé ProZone for Professional Photographers

Bits of code called widgets open the door to viral marketing across social networks. Silicon Valley sees them as a Web revolution in the making.

WipBox announced a mobile version of its price comparison service that allows people to check current and average prices of items listed on eBay or Craigslist through SMS messaging.

Odysseas Tsatalos
Founder and CTO, ODesk

With school coming to an end, summer is officially here. For most parents this means that the kids will be home, full of energy and restless excitement. Many people will plan summer vacations and weekend getaways with the kids, and what better place to look for a deal than on eBay?

eBay has been buying furiously to move beyond its auction-house identity, and a new raft of services will spread its reach even further.

oDesk, Rent-A-Coder and Elance are just a few online market places serving small to mid-size companies.

Online services offer access to developers both in U.S. and abroad.

In this week's issue of Data Bytes, we look at sales related to the first few summer blockbusters, along with the movie memorabilia category as a whole, so you'll know what to expect for your movie memorabilia sales during the coming months.

One-on-One Off-shoring

In this week's issue of Data Bytes, we'll analyze listing promotions on eBay. While we can all assume that the total number of listings goes up after a free or discounted listing day, do the sales go up as well?

An auction-style marketplace brings incredible efficiency and transparency to the table, while also allowing buyers and sellers in the marketplace to reach optimal pricing for their products.

Not just an online employment service, oDesk is a virtual environment for contract workers and their employers with collaboration tools, a time clock, and monitoring features.

A wave of tech-enabled shops finally delivers on all the Web 2.0 hype.

Talent is hard to find, but many developers find work hard to come by locally. oDesk, an online marketplace for remote IT workers has connected the two camps to the tune of $10 million in billable hours.

The online service marketplace oDesk has just added the capability for buyers to spec fixed-price jobs.

oDesk, an online marketplace for remote IT workers, reaches $10 million in money spent for outsourcing through its service.

Silicon Valley based oDesk, which is a marketplace for developers and companies looking for outsourced developer help, seems to be sailing along nicely.

The online service marketplace oDesk (previous oDesk coverage) has just added the capability for buyers to spec fixed-price jobs.

This week we'll drill down a bit further to look at which categories host the most top buyers and sellers, and what it is those folks are buying and selling.

Terapeak recently added data from the U.K. Canada, Australia, France and Germany to its eBay research suite, and this column offers a sneak peek into some of the fascinating trends we're seeing internationally.

Terapeak, an industry leader for eBay research, is focused on answering the questions sellers ask every day. This weekly column for AuctionBytes, aptly named "Data Bytes," aims to accomplish this goal and more.

Much like the Web 2.0 movement, we are seeing a Lead Gen 2.0 that is more transparent than the lead generation of the past, ultimately giving buyers and sellers more control over their businesses and profits.