Bookmarklets: The Littlest Next Big Thing
Article discusses a new generation of browsing tools lets you kill ads, change fonts, adjust backgrounds, and generally teach a web page who’s boss.
Content: Article | Author: Biz Stone | Source: Webreview.com | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, IT / Technology / E-Business
Globalism vs. Nationalism vs. E-business The World Debates
This article examines a wide range of regulatory challenges to the new cyber order, offering the following mini-articles:
EUROPE
Despite Unification, Local Laws Might Take the “E” out of “EU”
ASIA-PACIFIC
In China, Malaysia and Singapore, Freedom and Control Dance a Digital Minuet
UNITED STATES:
A Presidential Campaign Tests the E-business Influence of Silicon Valley and Big Labor
Content: Article | Authors: Doug Garr, Mark Landler, Martin Vander Weyer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International, IT / Technology / E-Business
Corporate Web Filtering Facts
Online Shopping Returns
Is cache worth the cold, hard cash?
Article provides an introduction to cache technology, a hot concept these days.
Content: Article | Author: Loraine Lawson | Source: TechRepublic | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
Global eCommerce Report
Building Companies, Building Communities: Entrepreneurs in the New Economy
This NCOE report presents the findings of 18 focus groups held with more than 250 entrepreneurs across the country. These entrepreneurs were asked to discuss two topics: what factors, other than their own business accumen, help them succeed, and what factors make a community entrepreneurial.
Content: Article | Source: National Commission on Entrepreneurship (NCOE) | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
The Necessity of Data Warehousing
An explanation of the origins of data warehousing and why it is a crucial technology that allows businesses to gain competitive advantage. Issues regarding technology selection and access to historical ‘legacy’ data are also discussed.
Content: Article | Author: M. Reed | Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
The Yin and Yang of Electronic Commerce
This note identifies the major corporate functions that engage in E-Commerce activities and the kinds of information flows that result from E-Commerce activities.
Content: Article | Author: D. Geller | Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
Electronic Commerce Resource Center (ECRC)
The Electric Commerce Resource Center (ECRC) offers a collection of news, research, and ecommerce information links in a standard Yahoo!-esque directory format. Aimed at audiences from experts and professionals to novices, the ECRC’s clearinghouse of information is organized into broad categories such Web development, government resources, and legal issues. Hot Information, a section on the right side of the screen, offers quick access to information … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: ECRC | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
Data Warehouse Market
Finding Your Way Around E-commerce
This document provides a good high-level E-Commerce Roadmap. The article uses an interesting three concentric circles graphic and walks through all of the key pieces from hardware to software to strategy. Very useful to the unitiated.
Content: Article | Author: D. Geller | Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
Online Retail Spending (Grocery & Travel Highlighted)
E-Tailers Failing at Customer Service
E-tailer Loyalty Findings
Clicks to Conversion Happen Quickly
Wanted: Loyal E-Shoppers
Article discusses results of a study on e-tailer loyalty with some interesting findings; of course, since it is from The Standard, there are some great metrics to take away (you can also find them summarized in the MBA depot Market Research section)
Content: Article | Author: David Lake | Source: The Standard | Subjects: Customer Related, IT / Technology / E-Business
The Political Economy of Open Source Software
Interesting investigation/analysis of the Open Source phenomenon. Quoting the author, “The problem of intellectual property rights is about creating incentives for innovators. … means of ‘protecting’ knowledge assure that economic rents are created and that some proportion of those rents can be appropriated by the innovator…Open Source software inverts this logic…Collaborative Open Source software projects such as Linux…have demonstrated…that a large, complex system … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Steven Weber | Source: University of California Berkeley | Subjects: Economics, IT / Technology / E-Business
Web Hosting Market (U.S.)
GW Forecast
The GW Forecast brings experts together online to forecast forthcoming breakthroughs and strategically plan for their impact. It can be thought of as a “virtual think-tank” that conducts its work electronically. The most useful section is the knowlege base, which consists of results by year or field (inc. energy, environment, materials, IT hardware, IT software, medicine), articles & briefings (in-depth analysis and summaries of each … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: George Washington University | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis