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BANKS AND companies wanting to dispose of their used car fleets faster and more efficiently now have a new backyard to showcase their wares—a backyard that can be accessed in a matter of seconds via the digital world.

eBay Philippines, which operates the largest e-commerce marketplace in the country, recently upped the ante once more when it launched eBay Motors, providing Filipino car dealers a new avenue for buying and selling used cars.

Muralikrishnan B, eBay Philippines country manager, told the Inquirer that eBay Motors is a high velocity transaction platform where banks and companies can liquidate their used vehicles inventory.

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Beauty shopping is a sure-bet stress buster from a long day’s work, or a week full of grueling activities. Beauty products somehow appease us, making us look good, feel good, and somehow just give us a reason to get excited for another day’s worth of primping and prettifying. Beauty shopping is usually equated with raiding cosmetic counters or health and beauty stores, where you get to see the products up-close, get recommendations from your friendly sales assistants, road-test the products yourself, and see what makeup fits your skin tone, or what perfume pleases your olfactory senses, before making that purchase. Nowadays, shopping is not confined within the malls or boutiques anymore. You can shop for your beauty goods while sitting at your desk surfing the internet!

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With hopes of becoming the country’s one-stop shop for shopping, search, and networking activities, 88DB.com, erstwhile a local classifieds site, has recently implemented a major overhaul of its portal by integrating 28 new categories that users can browse through.

Travel, Business Services, Beauty and Wellness, Pets, and Weddings are just among the categories that the new site will carry. “All of us are always seeking to connect,” said Racquel Cagurangan, general manager of 88DB Philippines, “whether through someone who can give us information we need, a product that can help us, or a service that can make our lives better. We are also looking for people who may need our services or products that we in turn offer. It is this dynamic continuous interaction that makes 88DB different – while other sites do have categories, ours build on that to become engaging communities.”

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1985 – Symbolics.com is registered, with Bbn.com and Think.com making up the first three dotcoms.

1986 – Xerox snapped up theirs in January, following by IBM in March and Boeing in September. At this stage, the concept of using the internet for commercial purposes was still unheard of.

1987 – Apple, just as it was launching its groundbreaking SE computer, registered Apple.com in February – again, without much of a clue of its future potential. The 100th dotcom to be registered, Nynexst.com, is added to the list on 30 November.

1988 – Robert Morris, a student at Cornell University writes the first notable computer “worm”, supposedly to gauge the size of the internet at that time (some 60,000 computers, as it turned out). He’s convicted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; today he’s an associate professor at MIT.

1989 – The World becomes the first company to offer dial-up internet access to the American public. In March, Compuserve – an alternative dialup service – makes its first links to the internet, allowing the receipt and transmission of email messages. Still no web, though

1990 – The first search engine, Archie, is written by Alan Emtage, a computer science student at the university of Montreal, enabling users to locate material on public computers. On Christmas Day Tim Berners-Lee compiles the first webpage at the unmemorable URL nxoc01.cern.ch.

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Connect with your customers – fast and easy!

88DB.com creates more opportunities for you to get that sale – fast and easy. We have recently added a new feature that will allow your customers a quicker and faster way to reach you. With 88DB.com’s on-site SMS facility, your customers can now send their inquiries to your mobile phone free of charge.

This service is currently available to paid advertisements so upgrade your account to one now. Realize the potential for more profit as 88DB.com’s on-site SMS facility will allow you to cater to your customers’ needs right away.

To send a message, a customer just has to click on the “Send SMS” button on the upper right corner of your ad profile page and then fill in the inquiry form. You will receive the inquiry instantly and without any added cost. Just make sure that you supply the team at 88DB.com your updated contact information.

A big CHANGE has just happened in 88DB.com! In line with our commitment to a quality customer service, we have just launched a new and improved website that offers the following:

Colorful images. Every category page has its own color code for better organization, accessibility and visual appeal. More photos are added to make your browsing experience extra fun.

Handy tips. Quick tips and trivia are provided per category. Learn more about arts, beauty, health, sports, travel or in any field of your interest.

Advanced searches. Life is made easy with advanced search functions that will help you find what you are looking for in just one click.

New learning. Lifestyle trends now come handy. Keep yourself updated with the latest gadgets, car models, architectural designs and more.

Great videos. Relevant videos are made available in all categories. Watch selected music videos, car races, DIY projects and other recorded events all in one site.

Exciting announcements. An announcement board is placed in all categories. Hear news, promos and important schedules of all types.

See the difference. Visit www.88DB.com.ph today!

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From Peter Pezaris -  Multiply Founder & CEO

Multiply Marketplace – We now have a centralized place to browse through the thousands of virtual stores being operated by your fellow Filipinos here on Multiply. Look for the “Shop” link now in the top part of our site to see the different categories of products being offered by Multiply’s community of online sellers. We created this directory as an effective way for sellers to promote their shops and connect with the people who actually want to buy, while keeping it all separate from those who don’t. If you’d like to add your own shop to the directory, look for the link located beneath the Marketplace.

http://multiply.com/marketplace

Friendster recently launched a new feature which allows anyone to place their ads in their network. Called “Do It Yourself Ads“, users can now do targeted online advertising on the massive base of Friendster. Based on the latest count, they have more than 48M registered Filipino users. What’s great about this is that you can actually do effective targeted advertising since you can specify the geography, age, gender, and even locality of your campaign. This gives you more bang for your buck since you’ll really be able to zero in on your prospects more efficiently. Full blog post.

More times than I care to count I’ve missed out on an item on Craigslist because I saw the posting too late. A couple of months ago, someone in my area posted a brand new riding mower for $300—new mowers are at least $1000. I found the post a day late and, needless to say, I was kicking myself.

This incident and others inspired the new utility CLHelper. CLHelper makes it easy to monitor Craigslist for new posts. You simply select the Craigslist category, the location, the search terms you’re looking for, and how often to search. CLHelper checks Craigslist at the pre-determined interval and notifies you via a popup or an e-mail that a new post matching your search terms has appeared. Click the link in the e-mail or the popup and you are taken directly to the posting on Craigslist in your default browser.

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40-year-old Elizabeth Thrasher is the first person arrested under new Missouri “cyberbullying” laws, following the posting of pictures, the email address, and cell phone number of a 17-year-old girl on Craigslist, where she claimed she was looking for a sexual rendezvous. The girl — as you’d expect — received numerous lewd come-ons. After she called the cops, Thrasher also received something: A trip to jail. Thrasher was freed on $10,000 bond but is now preliminarily barred from having a computer or internet access in her home pending her trial. Thrasher’s motives are unclear, but the girl in question is allegedly the daughter of her ex-husband’s new girlfriend, so a revenge plot is a bit obvious here. The girlfriend and Thrasher had allegedly been arguing for some time, thus the escalation and retaliation. Full Story