Word: beene
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But the evidence suggests that eBay represents a return to that earlier one-on-one sociability--and maybe even improves on it, since the Net collapses the traditional divisions of geography and class. Wherever you plant your modem, the fabled new economy arrives--even in the boonies, as Patricia Hoyt...
And fun, of course, is at the heart of the matter. Surely the Internet could be put to darker purposes. We may not live at the end of history, but we live in a country, and increasingly a world, where the large preoccupations of earlier generations have been resolved. We...
Certainly, off-line merchants did their best to get rid of us. We've been going to the same malls with the same stores for a generation now, sipping Orange Juliuses as we wade past the Limited on the way to the food court. If you were cool, if you...
All of this may persuade you that old-fashioned commerce is as dead as disco. Unless, of course, you've been to a mall lately, where the parking lot is packed and you can spend a vacation day in line to pay for a shirt. Malls still offer plenty of...
But last Christmas, eToys proved you could sell Barbies and Brio trains on the Web, doing $20 million in sales and capturing more than 50% of the online toy biz. So this year off-line players had no choice but to go cyber and--surprise, surprise--they've been up...