Monday, April 30, 2007

Gumiyo Is In The Amazon Spotlight (again)

As you all know, we built our entire production and development environments on Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services. We love them. Honestly. It was one of the best business decisions we’ve made at Gumiyo. And guess what? They love us too. Yep… we are the in the customer spotlight.

Just in case they move us out of the spotlight before you get to read more… read more

And just so you know, if you have any questions about our use of any of the amazon web services, please ask - we would be happy to let you know.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Protecting Our Sellers from Spammers

Gumiyo now has a component designed to warn a seller when a spammer is engaging them in order to phish their email address or private information. Here’s how it works:

  1. We monitor every incoming communication from a buyer for suspicious activity. Next to every comment, the seller sees a country flag and a safety-level indicator. If you hover your mouse over the flag, and you will get the city and region of the prospective buyer.
  2. We monitor the content of every posted communication for patterns used by spammers. When we detect a spammer we then:

Thursday, April 19, 2007

The Easiest Way To Get Free AdWords Campaigns

You’ve heard the old saying about the early bird getting the worm. Well in this story the worm equals free advertising. Yep, old fashioned, no-catch, no-risk, no strings attached free advertising. We believe in the first-come, first-served approach to users community. You help us get our service off the ground by giving us feedback on our features and we give you some cool tools to help you get results from your classified ads.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

More Love

Here is a list of more people who are discovering the heady goodness that is GUMIYO!

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

2 More Reasons Gumiyo is Building Up Some Steam

Rick Mathieson of Branding Unbound posted a nice review of us today on his blog. He thinks we are a ‘mobile era eBay’. We are trying Rick - but it is getting easier every day with friends like you.

Friday, April 06, 2007

They Love Us… They Really, Really Love Us!—Google, O’reilly Radar, and other reviews

Nothing makes us happier then hearing other excited users and reviewers! Here are just a few of many:

Friday, April 06, 2007

Gumiyo: A Killer Startup

Well, the folks at killerstartups.com seem to think so! In fact, they just gave us an idea for a new feature to make our mobile user experience just a little bit better. Stay tuned…