Walt Mossberg – For iPad and Mobile Devices, a “Port” out of the Norm
We already know that the famously cute story of eBay’s origin–founder Pierre Omidyar launched the site to help his fiancee trade the PEZ dispensers she collected–was a lie cooked up by a PR operative. We also know that the company’s vaunted “reputation system”–the foundation of what has long been perceived as a radically new kind of self-organizing and self-policing commercial community–has been crumbling.
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