Word: ebay
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They have a celebrity role model in Jay Leno, 52, who helps raise money for charities at widely publicized biker runs. Last year the comedian and talk-show host auctioned one of his motorcycles, adorned with numerous celebrity signatures, on eBay to raise money for the Twin Towers Fund after the terrorist attacks...
...postseason, the Rally Monkey and Thunder Stick, have found their places online. RallyMonkey.com includes a bio, t-shirts and notes concerning Rally Monkey etiquette. And to get your own Thunder Sticks -perhaps the kids need a little coaxing out of bed in the morning - a simple search on eBay will do it. Or you can wait for prices to lower after everyone gets really sick of them - like in 10 days...
Large merchants as well as individuals who sell via online auction giant eBay often refuse to ship goods to Indonesia, Romania and Ukraine. Buy.com has completely overhauled its overseas-shipping practices. Citing fraud, the discount e-tailer last year closed its export operations run from offices in Britain, Canada and Australia and instead built a more secure export system run through its shipping partner in Florida...
...world: zillions of little units--in this case neurons--do their own thing but together make up an entity of almost unfathomable complexity. Change the word neurons to "six-legged workers," and you'd have an ant colony. Change "ants" to "online buyers and sellers," and you'd have eBay. Change that to "stock traders," and you'd have NASDAQ...
...central feature of natural systems is self-organization: the interaction of parts shapes and propels the whole. The textbook example of the self-organizing business is eBay. Executives there have limited control over who sells what, but have become skilled at encouraging growth by giving their customers good tools for shopping, communication and payment...