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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. What started as a web site to trade laser pointers and Beanie Babies (the Pez dispenser start is quite literally a legend), today enables transactions of approximately $100B per year. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces. based teachers.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. 1995 ; De Lange et al., Alex Poole. Site français.