http://www.ideaexchange.com

Ideas Now Selling Online A new type of e-commerce is attempting to take root on the Internet by selling ideas and information instead of books,cars or other tangibles. For example, one company called IdeaExchange.com is reportedly the first marketplace for what's been coined intellectual commerce, or i-commerce.

Rob Brazell, CEO of IdeaExchange, says an idea economy is emerging where Net users realize their ideas can be bought and sold for potential wealth. "Consumers now have access to an unprecedented online service that recognizes everyone has ideas and those ideas have value," Brazell says.

For example, on IdeaExchange.com, ideas can be sold one at a time at a relatively high price, multiple times at a modest cost, or given away for free. Brief descriptions of ideas are visible on the site for browsers, and to post an idea costs only $2 a month plus a slight commission on each sale. The site also caters to those who want to buy as well as request ideas.

-- Ben Koot (ben@travelcompass.net), October 06, 2000

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-- Ben Koot (ben@travelcompass.net), October 06, 2000.