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An open book on Taobao.com 淘寶

Posted by Aliuser on Jul 19, 2008 in C2C marketplace

Users can expect more selling and buying tools from Taobao.com following the China-based company open up its API development platform to the public. Owned by Alibaba group, Taobao revealed the plan with Alisoft, the group’s software development arm.

Taobao Open Platform 淘宝开放平台

Titled “Taobao Open Platform (TOP)” , the C2C platform will allow third-party developers to build application interface of their own. Taobao encourages them to focus on 12 different business applications. These include:

sellers marketing platform (卖方营销平台)
visual presentations inventory and management (视觉产品储空间和系统)
items management (宝贝管理)
product inventory management (存货管理)
CRM, analytics tools (数据分析和CRM服务)
mobile applications (移动应用及新媒体终端应用 )
buyers’ browsing tools (买方浏览工)
overseas market (海外市场)
logistic services (物流管理平台)
financial and loan services (金融贷款服务)
auction and pricing system (卖方拍卖及报价系统 )

Facebook and Yahoo made the same move earlier to speed up their market shares and development by capitalizing external parties’ creativity and productivity.