MySpace has hinted at a potential partnership with eBay, in a bid to
offer e-commerce services to its millions of users. In an article in
the Telegraph newspaper, MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe is quoted as
saying:

“If you’re on your site and you have a line of T-shirts
you have designed and you want to sell them to your friends, we want to
be able to provide you with the tools you need to do that.”

DeWolfe then goes onto suggest that eBay would make the perfect
partner: “We haven’t decided yet, but it would be probably a good bet…”.

However, as The Register notes,
any deal between the two companies would involve eBay having to share a
big chunk of its MySpace-driven revenue with the News Corp-owned social
networking site. But despite this concession, a MySpace partnership
would represent a huge shot in the arm for eBays pending battle with
Google. Forcing MySpace’s gigantic userbase to use eBay-owned PayPal as
their means of exchanging money, rather the new kid on the block in
Google Chekout, would further extend eBay’s dominance of e-commerce.
Right now, eBay users are forced to use PayPal rather than Checkout,
and partnering with MySpace extends that monopolistic strategy.

Of course, Google has a war chest so large that with regards to any
of its products — including Checkout — it can afford to be in it for
the long term.

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