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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Both of these websites can be used to sell possessions on-line, but the important question is which one is better to use for the seller of goods? The reason most people sell items on the Internet is because it is often easier than selling something to a consignment store and there are more opportunities [...]
Tags: craigslist, ebaY
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
YouTube was founded by three former PayPal employees who realized the need for a decent service that made the process of uploading, watching and sharing videos hassle-free. The story goes is they were at a party and video-taped a clip they wanted to share with their friends but didn’t know how to share it. [...]
Tags: YouTube
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Social networking used to be much more difficult than it is today. Before the Internet people used to rely on face-to-face interactions and building a social network strictly based upon who they knew and further who their friends knew. When the Internet came about that changed everything and it became much easier to [...]
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
I’m not going to lie, I have never heard about this “Second Life” website until we were supposed to blog about it, so here goes. Upon entering the website there are cartoon characters everywhere, portraying it as a make believe world where you can be whoever you want. It sort of looks bizare and like [...]
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
The set up of Kiva reminds me of child sponsorship in that a donor is matched up with someone who is in need. Organizations such as Compassion International and World Vision have set up child sponsorship programs so that you can communicate through letters and see progress on how the child is doing. Similar, Kiva offers [...]
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Pierre Omidayar is, as some of the previous class blogs have stated, the founder of eBay and is an internet entrepreneur. He possesses some entrepreneurial characteristics that can be applied to our lives as students and future entrepreneurs. He says in one interview, “I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing [...]
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
For the most part I think Facebook is a very helpful application that allows you to keep in contact with friends from high school, college, and other people you meet along life’s journey. However I do believe this site is leading to a continual downfall in personal communication. To me Facebook is very impersonal and [...]
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