Actually most of the Analyst Day Presentation is fluff that purposely hides some of the nuggets on eBay’s strategy for addressing its myriad of problems challenges. As always, Rob Hoff (who, btw, is the only blogger that actually writes about eBay :) ) has a good summary of the key issue cutting through all the marketing speak.

* Most interesting of all, eBay CEO Meg Whitman suggested that eBay’s reputation system, PayPal’s wallet, and Skype’s ability to let people have a constant online presence each could be decoupled from their respective services and offered as components of entirely new kinds of services. Meg didn’t specifically mentions offering them up to software developers, but said they could become the building blocks for a more customized Web.

So yes, eBay is now trying to stay ahead of the innovation curve by attempting to “micro-chunk” web services and not just content. Not so revolutionary from some perspective but defintely important for all the startups in the space.

In the end, its comforting to know that all the issues/ideas/projects do end up being bubbled up to senior executives . . . hopefully through the right business owners and not just another strategy thought piece ( ala the infamous McKinsey dossier)