Word: ebay
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...kept a key prop. I've got it locked away in a closet in my office. I don't usually keep things from movies, but that thing could be valuable one day. I could sell it on eBay...
...YouTube had a combined 32 million unique visitors in December; Yahoo! had 39 million. And Yahoo!'s e-mail remains tops with 250 million users worldwide. The company is either first or second in 17 Web categories, from e-mail to photos. It also landed a deal with eBay to sell ads on the company's domestic site and engineered a partnership to sell ad space for 215 newspapers...
...this year, Bacon put the game to use by launching a website, Sixdegrees.org which accepts donations for stars' favorite charities. "Instead of seeing what a celebrity's favorite handbag is, you can see what they really care about," he says. Sixdegrees will also auction off stars' Sundance freebies on eBay. Never have Parker Posey's Ugg boots been put to such good...
...biggest draw, without a doubt, is its human factor, and WoW's fans have quickly shaped Azeroth into a second Earth. Players hunt for gold, and epic items, then put them up for sale on eBay, thus turning a hobby into a livelihood. They have cyber-sex, date, and get married. They hang out with old friends who may live hundreds of miles away...
Computers are certainly doing some of the work. Companies like eBay, GM and Motorola have all used software from Massachusetts firm Idiom Technologies to help power their efforts in localization, as language targeting is sometimes called. Still, it often takes a real brain to differentiate terms in context: the word trunk can refer to a suitcase, a car hatch or an elephant's snout, for example...