Laurence Toney was running Ebay's collectibles category in 2005 and tried to push through a plan to let fans of collectibles display their stuff free of charge on Ebay and then chat and post comments.
Faculty members at those schools have used Course Info to create fairly robust Web sites on which they upload content, manage discussion boards and chat rooms, post announcements and track what students view at the schools' Web sites, Pittinsky said.