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While eBay was once seen solely as the world's garage sale, it is evolving into a general commerce marketplace, and that makes auction monitoring applications all the more useful. JBidwatcher, one of the best open source eBay utilities, has just released a major update. Let's take a look. JBidwatcher is the work of Morgan Schweers, who has overseen its development for close to eight years. It hasn't always been easy, though -- JBidwatcher 0.9 was released in 2003, but 1.0 didn't come until 2006. Since that time, only a few minor updates came down the pipe, usually to fix breakages when eBay changed its formatting or URI scheme.

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