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"  I met the woman in my bedroom on the Internet. She&amp;#039;s doing my stuff -- my windows, actually, washing them for the $50 she bid on domystuff.com. Yes, it&amp;#039;s another Web site promising to make me happier by facilitating connections. But this one -- equal parts eBay, Craigslist, and India rolled into an auction house for outsourcing personal services -- has real life-simplifying potential. I post a task (&amp;quot;Paint my bathroom!,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Drive me to LAX!&amp;quot;), and an army of registered assistants bid against one another for the right to do it. Escrow accounts and a feedback system keep everyone honest. It&amp;#039;s a great idea, and with millions of users, the site could bring market efficiency to common chores, allowing me to decide task by task whether my time is more valuable than my money -- while pushing service prices down. Alas, it&amp;#039;s not there yet. Launched in March by 24-year-old Darren Berkovitz with three friends and $100,000, the site lacks the critical mass of buyers and sellers necessary for the auctions to function properly. (My recent posts soliciting an oil change and a wake-up call received no bids.) But unlike the latest round of half-baked Net scams that do no one but their founders much good, I wantdomystuff.com to succeed, and to make me the benevolent leader of my own army of specialists.  This story is part of our second annual register of emerging ideas, trends, discoveries, products, people, and obscene gestures you should know about before everyone else does. &amp;amp;lt;&amp;amp;lt; Read Previous * [Back to Esquire 100] * Read Next &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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