I was at the Hay Festival over the weekend and I noticed that during a lecture by Howard Davies, Director of the LSE, that he used Wikipedia as one of his sources.
Now we all know that Wikipedia is a great source of knowledge, but I was surprised that such a prominent academic would use a [...]

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What is a Domain?
Each website on the world wide web has an address know as URL or Universal Resource Locator e.g. http://www.trevorginn.com.  This is the address which is typed into a web browser to access a particular website.  A URL consists of two parts.  The first, http://www. determines this is a webpage which must [...]

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Excel is very much the battle axe of the information age. White shirted warriors slog it out across the battle field of cells and pivot tables.
Anyway I am getting overexcited.  Here is a formula for calculating eBay fees for products greater than
Listing fee
=IF(D3<0.99, 0.1, IF(D3<4.99,0.15,IF(D3<14.99,0.25,IF(D3<29.99,0.5, IF(D3<99.99,1.30)))))/E3
Where D3 is the eBay starting or fixed [...]

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Two new marketplaces have come to my attention, one of which might even have legs.
 
Wigix is a new marketplace which aims to work like a stock market matching buyers and sellers.  As a seller you state a price you are willing to sell at and this is displayed to buyers who are looking for that [...]

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