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The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us

by Tim Sullivan · 6 Jun 2016 · 252pp · 73,131 words

automobiles. (One of the founding legends of eBay, unfortunately apocryphal, is that Omidyar created AuctionWeb to help his then girlfriend find trading partners for her Pez dispenser collection.) At the time of writing, eBay Motors has listings for hundreds of Porsches, including several with registered bids above $100,000. Dozens of Chinese

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: “authentic” and “genuine” are near-ubiquitous descriptors among purveyors of Tiffany jewelry on eBay and in the descriptions of plenty of other items (baseball cards, Pez dispensers, antiquities) where one might have concerns of honest representation (calling yvonne9903!). Why bother to make claims of honesty, love, or authenticity if they’ll be

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that stocked only a limited supply of cornflakes, eBay wouldn’t get many visitors if the only items for bid were a couple of old Pez dispensers. Nor would anyone bother to post their surplus Beanie Babies if they didn’t expect it to be seen by a reasonable volume of potential

Frommer's Irreverent Guide to San Francisco

by Matthew Richard Poole · 17 Mar 2006 · 255pp · 90,456 words

Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia, not far from the airport. Remember those little candies spit from the mouths of plastic cartoon characters? Since the first Pez dispenser hit the shelves in 1952, hundreds, if not thousands, of models have been issued, and the museum’s collection is exhaustive. Moving right along to

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p. 94. See Map 7 on p. 94. Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia (p. 109) BURLINGAME One of the world’s most exhaustive collections of Pez dispensers.... Tel 650/347-2301. www.burlingamepezmuseum. com. 214 California Dr., Burlingame. Tues–Sat 10am–6pm. Free admission. Cable Car Museum (p. 106) RUSSIAN HILL San

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011

-commerce, online affinity groups, and reputation management. Restoring the Shadow of the Future In 1995, Pierre Omidyar created eBay so that his wife could trade Pez dispensers— a form of packaging for candy now valued by collectors. The Omidyars are billionaires now—from creating an electronic marketplace, not from trading

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Pez dispensers. In 2000, eBay users transacted more than $5 billion in gross merchandise sales. By 2002, eBay had more than 42 million registered users and was

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Law (Chapter 2). eBay is a “group-forming network” that self-organizes around shared obsessions; all the collectors of Turkish railway tickets, Dickens first editions, Pez dispensers, velvet paintings, and Ming vases find each other at their appropriate auctions and form their own communities. Surprisingly, eBay reported in 1997 that only 27

Science...For Her!

by Megan Amram · 4 Nov 2014

up with, I’d really appreciate you passing along this cover letter. Maybe you have a cute brother? A single gardener who speaks English? A PEZ dispenser in the shape of a human that I can wiggle so that it looks like a boyfriend? Lady tip: there’s not that much of

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a difference between a rare PEZ dispenser and a boyfriend! They’re both handsome, worth a lot of money, and spit PEZ at you! FIG. 6.7 Girlfriend Cover Letter To Whom

Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World

by Bruce Schneier · 1 Jan 2000 · 470pp · 144,455 words

from a rebel alliance whose cash balance was high enough to afford new uniforms, and the universe is saved for a new series of themed PEZ dispensers. Roll credits. It’s not much different to attack a company’s computers via the Internet. Step 1 is to identify the target and gather

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom · 4 Oct 2006 · 218pp · 44,364 words

price shot through the roof. But then along came Pierre Omidyar, a computer programmer whose fiancee couldn't find anyplace to buy her favorite collectible, Pez dispensers. Like Shawn Fanning, the creator of Napster, Omidyar took matters into his own hands, never realizing the massive force he was about to unleash. The

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. It never took control of inventory and never served as an intermediary. After all, there was really no need to have a moneyback guarantee for Pez dispensers. In true catalyst fashion, Omidyar created a network based on trust. From the get-go, eBay declared, "We believe people are basically good. We believe

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and allowed anyone to sell any item as long as it was legal, the site quickly became home to a huge number of listings—from Pez dispensers to laptop computers to rare antiques. Users began flocking to the site, and eBay became the market leader. Trust wasn't just a promotional scheme

The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere

by Kevin Carey · 3 Mar 2015 · 319pp · 90,965 words

and software are developed by Apple, Intel, Apache, Samsung, and Microsoft. The telecommunications networks are maintained by Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T. Pez makes the Pez dispensers, Pixar makes the cute cartoons, Penguin Random House publishes the books, and the nation’s aunts make the cat videos. You sit in the middle

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Pell Grant Program, 56 Penguin Random House, 146 Pennsylvania, University of, 23, 24, 31 Wharton Business School, 155 Pennsylvania State University, 53 People magazine, 57 Pez dispensers, 146 Phaedrus (Socrates), 20, 98 PhDs, 7, 55, 117, 141, 193, 237, 250, 254 adjunct faculty replacing, 252 college rankings based on number of scholars

Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)

by Adam Fisher · 9 Jul 2018 · 611pp · 188,732 words

these things,” blah blah blah blah, “and buy and sell them.” It wasn’t quite a myth—I mean I’m sure there was a Pez dispenser or two in there. Pierre Omidyar: That was part of the inspiration, but frankly it was a small part of it for me… The birth

How to Retire the Cheapskate Way

by Jeff Yeager · 1 Jan 2013 · 212pp · 70,224 words

comic books, metal signs, and other vintage advertising memorabilia for everything from Tabasco sauce to Pepto-Bismol; and an entire box filled with nothing but PEZ dispensers. The other thing Marv realized as he stood in the barn one evening staring at boxes still stacked all the way up as high as

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more things than they probably realize, and a lot of things they’d be better-off getting rid of.” With Marv and his army of PEZ dispensers as your inspiration, it pays in more ways than one to undertake a thorough decluttering exercise prior to retiring. Experts in decluttering and home organization

The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit

by Marina Krakovsky · 14 Sep 2015 · 270pp · 79,180 words

services like AuctionDrop and iSoldIt; people trying to make a buck through eBay’s virtual garage sale didn’t list their old Beatles albums and Pez dispensers on eBay themselves but paid these intermediaries a commission of as much as 45 percent to do it for them. Now that eBay has been

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could sell just about anything to anyone directly. In eBay’s early days, when most sales were through auctions, the prototypical eBay item was a Pez dispenser that one collector might sell to another. Very quickly, though, the site evolved into a place where more and more sales would go through professional