Abstract: A method and a computer system for carrying out the method are disclosed including instructions that, when executed, operate an online marketplace facilitating auctions between buyers and sellers in which buyers and sellers remotely communicate with each other in real-time across a server computer in communication with a plurality of client devices. The method includes: initiating a real-time auction of a subject that is at least one of an item and a service; sending real-time display during the auction including a real-time image representing the subject of the auction to multiple client devices during the auction; determining a high real-time bidder from bids sent in real-time from the multiple client devices; and sending video in real-time representing the seller and the high bidder in the form of a screen area showing both the seller and the high bidder.

Abstract: A method for presenting business data using a computer system. Business data, which need not be part of a single data structure in any format, of at least one enterprise is associated with a business model. The business model has at least one indicator pertinent to performance of a business and at least one category identifying an aspect of the business to which the indicator may be pertinent. For each pair of indicator and category in the business model, there may exist a parameter, which is derivable from the business data and not necessarily pre-existing in such business data. Pursuant to a query that defines one or more indicator-category pairs, the business data is used to derive values of one or more parameters corresponding to the one or more indicator-category pairs in the query.