[franze]

this certainly means one thing: you can make any stupid term a brand, i mean "brands4friends" come on....

[dotcoma]

and ebay would buy close to anything, if it's hyped well enough...

[zackattack]

some examples please.

[bcn]

Skype (and to a lesser extent meetup and stumbleupon) are pretty good examples, no? However, Most of the acquisitions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_eBay have made some sense IMO.

[zackattack]

hardly a pattern of behavior or the basis for such a characterization. also although it is no longer under ebay's management i suspect that skype has the possibility to become an incredibly awesome company.

[zackattack]

may sound cooler if you're in Deutschland or another european country.

[franze]

no, it doesn't