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June 6, 2012, 10:07 a.m.
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LINK: www.guardian.co.uk  ➚   |   Posted by: Joshua Benton   |   June 6, 2012

In a video for The Guardian, eBay’s Olivier Ropars highlights three that’ll impact mobile selling: predictive technology (better suggestion of what you’ll want to buy, with minimal user input), new input forms (something to supplant/supplement keyword search, like photo-based search), and better mobile payment systems.

The connection between all three: reducing typing on phones.

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