The News Guy's blog

In the works for the new year is antique auctions. Sometime in January we will be introducing antique auction listings to our site. They will be in the exact same format as the antique shows and you'll be able to search by area, map, get directions and see weather for the auction events. We feel that auctions, along with the antique shows and dealers, round out the buyer's experience. I will keep you posted!!

You may have already noticed but I just wanted to let our international visitors and travelers that we've started listing some of the larger international antique shows. We had already been listing Canadian antique shows as well as the US shows but we now will be able to map, give driving directions and provide weather information for most other international locations. Currently our new additions include a couple of shows in Japan and a few in the UK.

Last week I reported that I would be splitting my blog into 2 different areas, 1 for site news and 1 for antique news. Well the antique news area is up and running and a link is now located under the blogs menu above. Here is a direct link to the Antique News Guy blog . Also, if you are viewing the full blog entry you'll notice that the blogs (all blogs including member blogs) have a new look. We hope that you like the new look and the new Antique News Guy blog. I will try my best to keep the antique news fun and interesting.

Originally, it was set up so that I (the News Guy) would be reporting on Antique news, news that would interest our visitors. I feel that I have a pretty good feel for antique news and hope that you will agree. Anyway, I kinda got away from that and my blog became more of a "site news" blog. There is certainly a place for this type of news and, from the feedback that I've received, I feel that our visitors appreciate the heads up on new site developments. But to mix antique news with site news just muddles everything so we've decides to make 2 completely different blogs.  read more of this post »

We're working very hard with facebook to add some new functions that will let you to seamlessly integrate and share content and comments between our sites and your friends. Keep an eye open for some fun changes when this all happens.

We're also looking into a new program with Google that we think could revolutionize the way people work on the web. It's called Google Wave and one of developers even thinks that, in time, some of what is offered with "Wave" will replace email as we know it. WOW, hmmmm!

As you know, you can keep personal notes on blog posts, events and groups. We have now added the ability to keep notes on the antique dealers and the new eBay vendors. This seems like a no brainer on our part but we had to do some final testing and it's all good now and there are plenty of ways you can use the notes for the dealers. Just look for the "Notepad" tab at the top of the page content, or at the bottom, look for the link that says "add personal notes"
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Our new programs are off to a great start... Thanks! If you haven't already checked out our newest eBay sellers be sure to at the eBay listings categories page. There are some great sellers already listed with quite a range of antique items. And... don't forget to sign up for our new affiliate program to compete for prizes. It's easy and you don't even need a web site or blog, all you need is email and access to the internet. Start earning points!!!

As I mentioned previously in my post explaining TAG Points, in conjunction with the introduction of our eBay partnership we are rolling out our new affiliate/partners program. We're very happy with what we've come up with because it's simple to use and, most importantly, it is not just limited to people with web sites. You can take a look at how it works by visiting this page, from there you'll be able to see our current TAG points promotions. We hope you'll join and compete for the top prizes.

It took a while but our testing is over and our antique ebay listings are finally live!!! You can now check out the Antique eBay Sellers. We already have quite a few sellers listed and we want to thank all of the sellers that were kind enough to help us test our new partnership with ebay. Happy Bidding to all!!!

Hmm, don't you hate when you go to a web site and you see under construction or something like that? Well, you won't see any under construction signs but over the next couple of days you may see some strange things going on in the antique shows areas. The anomalies are very hard to detect but they're there while we implement a few more useful tools for our users. So pardon our slight messiness for just a couple of days... thanks!