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In today's episode Arion, Rebecca and Olly look into the founding of the massive multinational e-commerce company eBay. On the day it went live it was named AuctionWeb, and was just one project among many being built by its creator, Pierre Omidyar. In fact, a significant part of the site was dedicated to information about Ebola, which happened to be a pet interest of Omidyar. In this episode, The Retrospectors put to bed the myth that eBay was short for “EbolaBay”; list all the things that you cannot sell on the site; and reveal Olly's first ever eBay purchase… Further Reading: ‘The Small-Scale Story Behind eBay's Big Bucks' (Time magazine, 2015): https://time.com/4013672/ebay-founded-story/ ‘25 years on since the birth of eBay, a true giant of modern computing' (The National, 2020): https://www.thenational.scot/news/18693304.25-years-since-birth-ebay-true-giant-modern-computing/ ‘eBay - How It Started' (Company Man; 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkEorxAxFXo This episode first premiered in 2023, for members of

No início da era das pontocom, um nerd da tecnologia do Vale do Silício, em uma vingança pessoal, lança o primeiro site de e-commerce do mundo. Lancheiras vintage? Guitarras de segunda mão? Autógrafos de celebridades de segundo escalão? Você acha tudo isso na AuctionWeb, e em pouco tempo o site cresce rapidamente. Mas o fundador Pierre Omidyar não está preparado para os desafios de infraestrutura que vêm com a transformação de seu projeto de estimação em uma empresa real. As quedas de energia e as interrupções do site logo acontecem, aumentando a ira dos clientes. E sem uma maneira de fechar transações on-line, a AuctionWeb pode estar condenada antes de decolar.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Le 3 septembre 1995, l'Américain Pierre Omidyar crée le site d'enchères en ligne eBay, à San José en Californie. Durant deux ans, le site s'appelle AuctionWeb.

Zu Beginn der Dotcom-Ära hat ein Techie im Silicon Valley eine gute Idee – und startet die erste E-Commerce-Website der Welt, mit ganz einfachen Mitteln. Gebrauchte Lunchboxes, Fußballtrikots mit Autogrammen, gebrauchte Kinderwägen? All das lässt sich auf AuctionWeb ersteigern und die Site geht bald durch die Decke.Allerdings ist sie vom Gründer Pierre Omidyar selbstgebastelt. Und als sie schon eBay heißt und Millionen Nutzerinnen und Nutzer sich dort tummeln, stoßen Technik und Infrastruktur bald an ihre Grenzen. Als die neue Geschäftsführerin die Sache wieder in den Griff bekommt, zieht schon das nächste Problem herauf: Es fehlt eine schnelle und einfache Zahlungsabwicklung.Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

If you know your eBay history, you know it started out as AuctionWeb, with every item listed at auction. Nowadays, 80% of eBay listings are fixed price. Who bothers running auctions anymore? But savvy sellers know that auctions are the secret sauce for eBay sales! In this episode of I Love to Be Selling, you'll find out why — and learn how you, too, can harness the power of the auction format to drive traffic and boost profits. Tune in to discover all the benefits of listing certain items at auction. You'll also get access to I Love to Be Selling's valuable guide The Secret Sauce to eBay Sales. Its moneymaking pro tips and proven strategies will make this guide quickly pay for itself many times over. Just go to https://ilovetobeselling.com/webinars-and-workshops/secret-sauce-for-ebay-sales/, then add some auction action to spice up your listing mix. I'm Kathy, and I love to be selling!

En los albores de la era de las puntocom, un fanático de la tecnología de Silicon Valley en una venganza personal lanza el primer sitio de comercio electrónico del mundo. ¿Loncheras antiguas? ¿Guitarras de segunda mano? ¿Autógrafos de celebridades de segunda? Todo encuentra un hogar en AuctionWeb, y en poco tiempo el crecimiento del sitio se dispara.Pero el fundador Pierre Omidyar no está preparado para los desafíos de infraestructura que conlleva convertir su proyecto favorito en una empresa real. Los apagones y las interrupciones del sitio pronto siguen, lo que aumenta la ira de los clientes. Y sin una forma de cerrar transacciones en línea, AuctionWeb podría estar condenado antes de que despegue.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

في فجر عصر الانترنت، يطرح أحد مهوسي التكنولوجيا في وادي السليكون أول موقع للتجارة الإلكترونية بالعالم، كجزء من خطة الثأر الشخصي خاصته. صناديق غداء أثرية؟ آلات جيتار مستعملة؟ توقيعات المشاهير من الدرجة الثانية؟ كل ذلك وأكثر يجد مكانًا على موقع AuctionWeb، وفي وقت قصير جدًا، ينمو الموقع بسرعة الضوء. ولكن المؤسس بيير أوميديار غير مستعد لمواجهة تحديات البنية التحتية التي تأتي مع تحويل مشروعه الصغير إلى شركة حقيقية. وقريبًا تتابع فترات توقف الموقع عن العمل، مما يثير غضب العملاء. وبدون وسيلة للمعاملات المالية عبر الانترنت، يبدو وكأن مصير شركة AuctionWeb هو الهلاك قبل حتى أن تشق طريقها. بودكاست حروب الأعمال، برنامج نروي لكم فيه قصص الصراعات التي تجري بين الشركات الأكثر شهرة في عالم المال والأعمال للفوز بالصدارة وكسب ولاء الجمهور. ابق على تواصل مستمرّ مع الجزيرة بودكاست ولا تنس تفعيل زرّ الاشتراك الموجود في تطبيقك لتصلك حلقاتنا اليومية. إنستغرام | https://aj.audio/instagram تويتر | https://aj.audio/twitter فيسبوك | https://aj.audio/FB

Sean Aylmer speaks to Tim MacKinnon, Managing Director & VP for eBay Australia & NZ. As far as websites go, eBay would be one of the elder statesmen of the internet. Founded in 1995 as AuctionWeb, it turned into eBay in 1997, and the name became synonymous with the buying and selling of goods online. eBay survived the dotcom bubble in the early 2000s, and the Global Financial Crisis, and alongside Amazon, has cemented its place as one of the main global e-commerce players. It's now worth approximately US$40-billion. Sean spoke to Tim MacKinnon about eBay in Australia, how the company has fared during the pandemic, and the future of both e-commerce and bricks-and-mortar retail in Australia.Find out more: https://fearandgreed.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

General Magic Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us to innovate (and sometimes cope with) the future! Today's episode is on a little-known company called General Magic who certainly had a substantial impact on the modern, mobile age of computing. Imagine if you had some of the best and brightest people in the world. And imagine if they were inspired by a revolutionary idea. The Mac changed the way people thought about computers when it was released in 1984. And very quickly thereafter they had left Apple. What happened to them? They got depressed and many moved on. The Personal Computer Revolution was upon us. And people who have changed the world can be hard to inspire. Especially at A big company like what Apple was becoming, where they can easily lose the ability to innovate. Mark Pratt had an idea. The mobile device was going to be the next big thing. The next wave. I mean, Steve Jobs has talked about mobile computing all the way back in 83. And it had been researched at PARC before that and philosophically the computer science research community had actually conceptualized ubiquitous computing. But Pratt knew they couldn't build something at Apple. So in 1990 John Sculley, then CEO at Apple, worked with Pratt and they got The Apple board of directors to invest in the idea, which they built a company for, called General Magic. He kept his ideas in a book called Pocket Crystal. Two of the most important members of the original Mac team, Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld were inspired by the vision and joined on as well. Now legends, everyone wanted to work with them. It was an immediate draw for the best and brightest in the world. Megan Smith, Dan Winkler, amy Lindbergh, Joanna Hoffman, Scott Canaster, Darin Adler, Kevin Lynch, big names in software. They were ready to change the world. Again. They would build a small computer into a phone. A computer... in your pocket. It would be described as a telephone, a fax, and a computer. They went to Fry's. A lot. USB didn't exist yet. So they made it. ARPANET was a known quantity but The Internet hadn't been born yet. Still, a pocket computer with the notes from your refrigerator, files from your computer, contacts , schedules, calculators. They had a vision. They wanted expressive icons, so they invented emoticons. And animated them. There was no data network to connect computers on phones with. So they reached out to AT&T and Go figure, they signed on. Sony, Phillips, Motorola, Mitsubishi gave them 6 million each. And they created an alliance of partners. Frank Canova built a device he showed off as “Angler” at COMDEX in 1992. Mobile devices were on the way. By 1993, the Apple Board of Directors was pressuring Sculley for the next Mac-type of visionary idea. So the Newton was announced in 1994, with the General Magic team feeling betrayed by Sculley. And General Magic got shoved out of the nest of stealth mode. After a great announcement they got a lot of press. They went public without having a product. The devices were trying to do a lot. Maybe too much. The devices were slow. Some aspects of the devices worked, for other aspects, They faked demos. The web showed up and They didn't embrace it. In fact, Dean Omijar with Auctionweb was on the team. He thought the web was way cooler than the mobile device but the name needed work so it became eBay. The team didn't embrace management or working together. They weren't finishing projects. They were scope creeping the projects. The delays started. Some of the team had missed delays for the Mac and that worked. But other devices shipped. After 4 years, they shipped the Sony Magic Link in 1994. The devices were $800. People weren't ready to be connected all the time. The network was buggy. They sold less than 3k. The stock tumbled and by 95 the Internet miss was huge. They were right. The future was in mobile computing. They needed the markets to be patient. They weren't. They had inspired a revolution in computing and it slipped through their fingers. AT&T killed the devices, Marc was ousted as CEO, and after massive losses, they laid off nearly a quarter of the team and ultimately filed chapter 11. They weren't the only ones. Sculley has invested so much into the Newton that he got sacked from Apple. But the vision and the press. They inspired a wave of technology. Rising like a Phoenix from the postPC, ubiquitous ashes CDMA would slowly come down in cost over the next decade and evolve connectivity through 3g and the upcoming 5g revolution. And out of their innovations came the Simon Personal Communicator by BellSouth and manufactured as the IBM Simon by Mitsubishi. The Palm, Symbian, and Pocket PC, or Windows CE would come out shortly thereafter and rise in popularity over the next few years. Tony Farrell repeated the excersize when helping invent the iPod as well and Steve Jobs even mentioned he had considered some of the tech from Magic Hat. He would later found Nest. And Andy Rubin, one of the creators of Android, also come from General Magic. Next time you read about the fact that Samsung and Apple combined control 98% of the mobile market or that Android overtook Windows for market share by double digits you can thank General Magic for at least part of the education that shaped those. The alumni include the head of speech recognition from Google, VPs from Google, Samsung, Apple, Blacberry, ebay, the CTOs of Twitter, LinkedIn, Adobe, and the United States. Alumni also include the lead engineers of the Safari browser and AI at Apple, cofounders of webtv, leaders from Pinterest, creator of dreamweaver. And now there's a documentary about their journey called appropriately, General Magic. Their work and vision inspired the mobility industry. They touch nearly every aspect of mobile devices today and we owe them for bringing us forward into one of the most transparent and connected eras of humanity. Next time you see a racist slur recorded from a cell phone, next time a political gaffe goes viral, next time the black community finally shows proof of the police shootings they've complained about for decades, next time political dissenters show proof of mass killings, next time abuse at the hands of sports coaches is caught and next time all the other horrible injustices of humanity are forced upon us, thank them. Just as I owe you my thanks. I am sooooo lucky you chose to listen to this episode of the history of computing podcast. Thank you so much for joining me. Have a great day!

Can you guess the name of these Brands only by the story? Consegue adivinhar o nome dessas marcar apenas pela história? [NÃO CONTINUE LENDO SE QUISER TENTAR ADIVINHAR] 1) A trip to Milan gave an idea for a young marketer who was working for a coffee bean roaster in Seattle. The idea was for upscale coffee shops like they have in Italy. When the young marketer came back to the USA, his boss had no interest in owning coffee shops but he agreed to give money for this endeavor. And the boss even sold him his brand name. Do you wanna know the name? It's the most famous coffee shop in the world, Starbucks. ----- 2) In 1995, a computer programmer started a website to sell his personal things. AuctionWeb was the name of the website and it was really just a personal project. But, when the amount of users started growing, he had to start charging people fees. He actually hired his first employee to take care of all the payment checks. Do you know the name of the website? It's now called Ebay

At the dawn of the dotcom era, a Silicon Valley tech geek on a personal vendetta rolls out the world’s first e-commerce site. Vintage lunchboxes? Second-hand guitars? B-list celebrity autographs? It all finds a home on AuctionWeb, and before long the site’s growth is skyrocketing.But founder Pierre Omidyar isn’t prepared for the infrastructure challenges that come with turning his pet project into a real company. Brownouts and site outages soon follow, raising the ire of customers. And without a way to close transactions online, AuctionWeb might be doomed before it takes off.Support this show by supporting our sponsors!

A company's name is one of (if not the) biggest early decisions a company founder will make -- and they often get it wrong. Google was first called BackRub, Best Buy was Sound of Music, eBay was AuctionWeb, and Policygenius was KnowItOwl. In this episode, Policygenius's founder walks us through the rigorous process she went through to scrap a confusing name and create one that led to success.

...or, to be more strictly accurate, this episode covers the founding of AuctionWeb, the site that would become eBay. How Pierre Omidyar founded a company that brought auctions to the web and revolutionized what classified ads and ecommerce could be. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  why isn't everything easy  I mean why The next episoide will be out dec 24 , or maybe 25th, fuck australia  that should  FUCK         ello  the reason why I have not released  a new episode is that my computer is badly infected and could not do so.  I had a wake up call and decided to quite shity job and go travelling,  head towards  my brother in Australia,   I have recorded three I think quite good episodes but can not download.  I will try to find a computer on my travels and release them then, if I can not in a months time will arrive in oz and will release all three then    1995     List of Pixar films       Rank Title (click to view) Studio Gross / Theaters Opening / Theaters Date 1 Toy Story 3 BV $415,004,880 4,028 $110,307,189 4,028 6/18/10 2 Finding Nemo BV $339,714,978 3,425 $70,251,710 3,374 5/30/03 3 Up BV $293,004,164 3,886 $68,108,790 3,766 5/29/09 4 Monsters University BV $267,788,620 4,004 $82,429,469 4,004 6/21/13 5 The Incredibles BV $261,441,092 3,933 $70,467,623 3,933 11/5/04 6 Monsters, Inc. BV $255,873,250 3,649 $62,577,067 3,237 11/2/01 7 Toy Story 2 BV $245,852,179 3,257 $300,163 1 11/19/99 8 Cars BV $244,082,982 3,988 $60,119,509 3,985 6/9/06 9 Brave BV $237,283,207 4,164 $66,323,594 4,164 6/22/12 10 WALL-E BV $223,808,164 3,992 $63,087,526 3,992 6/27/08 11 Ratatouille BV $206,445,654 3,940 $47,027,395 3,940 6/29/07 12 Toy Story BV $191,796,233 2,574 $29,140,617 2,457 11/22/95 13 Cars 2 BV $191,452,396 4,115 $66,135,507 4,115 6/24/11 14 A Bug's Life BV $162,798,565 2,773 $291,121 1 11/20/98   EBAY AuctionWeb was founded in San Jose, California, on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar (born on June 21, 1967) as part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus.[7] One of the first items sold on AuctionWeb was a broken laser pointerfor $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to ask if he understood that the laser pointer was broken. In his responding email, the buyer explained: "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers."[8] The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager in 1997 to interest the media, which were not interested in the company's previous explanation about wanting to create a "perfect market".[9] This was revealed in Adam Cohen's 2002 book, The Perfect Store,[7] and confirmed by eBay.[9]   Reportedly, eBay was simply a side hobby for Omidyar until his internet service provider informed him he would need to upgrade to a business account due to the high volume of traffic to his website. The resulting price increase (from $30/month to $250) forced him to start charging those who used eBay, and was not met with any animosity. In fact it resulted in the hiring of Chris Agarpao as eBay's first employee to handle the number of cheques coming in for fees.   FLASH   The Shockwave player was originally developed for the Netscape browser by Macromedia Director team members Harry Chesley, John Newlin,Sarah Allen, and Ken Day, influenced by a previous plug-in that Macromedia had created for Microsoft's Blackbird. Version 1.0 of Shockwave was released independent of Director 4 and its development schedule has since coincided with the release of Director since version 5[citation needed]. Its versioning also has since been tied to Director's and thus there were no Shockwave 2-4 releases. Shockwave 1The Shockwave plug-in for Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released in 1995, along with the standalone Afterburner utility to compress Director files for Shockwave playback. The first large-scale multimedia site to use Shockwave was Intel's 25th Anniversary of the Microprocessor.   ERIC   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFsW6vvBwHk   BALLONS   On February 21, 1995, Fossett landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, after taking off from South Korea, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.     Fastest speed achieved in a hot air balloon: 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), breaking his own previous record of 166 miles per hour (270 km/h) Fastest Around the World in a hot air balloon (13.5 days) Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Hot Air Balloon (20,482.26 miles (32,963.00 km) 24-Hour Balloon Distance: 3,186.80 miles (5,128.66 km) on July 1   Of the two brothers, it was Joseph who first contemplated building machines as early as 1777 when he observed laundry drying over a fire incidentally form pockets that billowed upwards.[3] Joseph made his first definitive experiments in November 1782 while living in the city of Avignon.  Joseph, the 12th child, possessed a typical inventor's temperament—a maverick and dreamer, and impractical in terms of business and personal affairs. Étienne had a much more even and businesslike temperament. As the 15th child, and particularly troublesome to his elder siblings, he was sent to Paris to train as an architect. H   14 minute video about ballons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jPDAU4l-o     Tullamore air    On 10 May 1785, the town was seriously damaged when the crash of a hot air balloon resulted in a fire that burned down as many as 130 homes, giving the town the distinction of being the location of the world's first known aviation disaster.[10] To this day, the town shield depicts a phoenix rising from the ashes. The event is yearly commemorated by the Phoenix festival which celebrates Tullamore's resurrection from the ashes following the accident.