Here is today's AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup. For news of the eBay boycott, do a search on one of the news engines (news.google.com, for example); there are too many stories about the boycott to list them all here!

"Girl, 8, in hot water with eBay," By Beth Whitehouse, Newsday
http://www.nwherald.com/articles/2008/02/17/lifestyle/news/doc47b824664e446091412930.txt

"Amazon’s S3 Cloud Has a Dark Lining for Startups," By Brad Stone, New York Times, 2/15/08
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/amazons-s3-cloud-has-a-dark-lining-for-startups

"EBay's Decision to Take Away Sellers' Ability to Rate Buyers: With Libel Law Often Unenforceable Online, What Rules Can Be Used to Protect Reputation?" (Part One In a Two-Part Series of Columns), By JULIE HILDEN, Findlaw, 2/11/08
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20080211.html

"Bidding on candidates: eBay employees presidential contributions," posted by Courtney Farr on her Shoestring Theory blog, 2/15/08
http://shoestringtheory.com/2008/02/15/bidding-on-candidates-ebay-employees-presidential-contributions