Commerce



General Sites
Digital Cash, Network Payment, & Online Banking
Pricing Information Goods
Internet Commerce Protocols & Standards
Commercial Sites
Marketing & Advertising

General Sites

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
A book by Hal Varian and Carl Shapiro about the economics forces at work in the "New Economy".
eCommerce Info Center
Lots of links to ecommerce materials on the Internet.
Magazine articles about ecommerce
A part of MagPortal.
USC Digital Commerce Center
Part of EC^2, a business incubator and media research center associated with USC.
United States Government Electronic Commerce Policy
US policy framework for ecommerce.
eCFO
eCFO is intended to help senior finance executives get a handle on ecommerce and new technology.
United States Government Electronic Commerce Portal
Portal for government sites.
Internet Economy Indicators
The Internet Economy Indicators are such measures, designed to quantify the sales volume and employment in various groups of Internet-related products and services.
IMP: The Magazine on Information Impacts
Published by SAIC.
Debunking ... Internet Buzzwords
Nice columns by Jakob Nielsen, from his excellent USEIT site.
The Legal and Policy Framework for Global Electronic Commerce
A progress report on the magaziner report two years out. Held at UC Berkeley, March 5-6, 1999.
OECD Electronic Commerce
Lots of studies of electronic commerce experience, potential, and promise.
Internet.com's Electronic Commerce Guide
Sponsored by IBM Software.
IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce
Very interesting research.
Information Economies Project
Very interesting research; part of IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce.
ZDNet E-Business
Ziff-Davis Net
NetBusiness
From CMPnet.
IBM e-business
From IBM.
The Emerging Digital Economy
Report from the US Department of Commerce.
Competence Network
Resources on electronic commerce.
CYBER Review Newsletter
Weekly newsletter covering business strategy and management of Internet commerce evolution.
Center for Research in Electronic Commerce
At University of Texas, Austin.
A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce
The Magaziner report. (7/97) The December 1996 draft.
In Search of the Perfect Market
A survey (9/97) of Electronic Commerce from The Economist magazine.
Corporate Knowledge Management
Many links to knowledge management resources.
Information Strategy Online
Magazine from The Economist, oriented towards Europe.
Governments and electronic commerce
From Computerworld.
Institute for Media and Communications Management
At the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.
NetAcademy on Business Media
Provides a global knowledge medium for researchers in the field of EC to exchange ideas, conduct collaborative research, and serve as a digital library for that domain.
Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce
The goal of this publication is to inform executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, government employees and other key players on principal developments and trends in the rapidly evolving electronic commerce area all over the World.
Electronic Banking: Experiences Reported by Banks in Implementing On-line Banking
General Accounting Office report on the development of on-line banking, which allows customers to access account information, transfer funds or apply for loans via computer.
Banking Headlines
From NewsNow.
Online Banking Headlines
From NewsNow.
Inventory of EU and other Electronic Commerce Initiatives
An inventory of the initiatives from 1996 workshop in Brussels, outlining their objectives and fields of activity. Part of Electronic Commerce activities in Esprit
Australian perspective on Ecommerce
From Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Solicitors. See also their other publications.
Online Commerce and Models for the Future
Collection of links related to digital commerce.
Jupter Communications
Jupiter Communications is a market research company providing comprehensive strategic analysis of the consumer interactive industry through conferences, research reports, newsletters and executive briefings.
Transaction.net
List of links to various electronic commerce sites.
CyberSource
A company offering backoffice electronic commerce support.
SEMPER
European R&D project on secure electronic commerce over open networks. It is executed by an interdisciplinary consortium, combining experts from social sciences, finance, retail, publishing, IT and telecommunications.
The Business of the Internet
A paper by Rawn Shah that gives an introduction to the Internet oriented towards business users who are contemplating connecting to the Internet. (4/94)
Creating an Efficient Market on the World Wide Web
A paper about PriceWeb, a way to search for low prices on the Internet. (1996)
Arnold Kling
Materials on business and the Internet.
SIRENE Topics and Projects
SIRENE is a loosely collaborating group of researchers from different organizations.
Internet Business Center
An information source for companies doing business on the Internet, sponsored by The Internet Group.
Frontiers of Electronic Commerce
Description of book by Ravi Kalakota and Andrew Whinston
Information Innovation Homepage
Devoted to finance, management, and the Web.
Fisher Center for Information Technology Management at UC Berkeley
Information on electronic commerce, information relevant to CIOs.
Stanford Computer Industry Project (SCIP)
The Stanford Computer Industry Project is an inter-disciplinary research program dedicated to exploring the business, political, and technological dynamics of the world-wide computer and information technology industries.
JunkBusters
Tells you how to eliminate junk mail, phone calls, email, etc.
Electronic Commerce Resource Guide
Discover the events, people, organizations, publications and other resources that exist to support EDI users. See especially their list of list of resources.
Rowland's Guide to EDI in DC
About EDI, especially in government-related activities.
Electronic Commerce and the Internet
Publications and journals from Harvard Business School. (10/96)
Killen and Associates
Links to online banking resources from Killen & Associates, Inc. consultants and producers of the Killen Report.
Association Francaise pour le Commerce et les Echanges Electroniques
French Association for the development of the Electronic Commerce.
 

Digital Cash, Network Payment, and Online Banking

Online Payments Systems

Cybercash
Checkfree
Cybank
Digicash
eCoin.net
First Virtual
GC Tech/GlobeID
IBM Electronic Commerce
Millicent
Mondex
Netbill Project
NetMarket
USC's NetCash
NetCheque
Sandia's E-Cash System
Security First Network Bank, FSB
Visa

Electronic Money in the United Staes
A report for the European Commission. (9/96)
Financial Issues Working Group
The FIWG is part of the Electronic Commerce actions of the European Commission (DGIII) and the G8-10 Pilot Project (Global Market Place for the SME's). Its overall purpose is to stimulate the development and deployment of innovative payment systems and transaction mechanisms within the European Union.
NetCard
The NetCard project aims to provide solutions by the development of new protocols and a smartcard based mechanism to manage the necessary functions of authentication, delegation, authorisation, accounting and revocation.
Open Trading Protocol
"The OTP standards enable a consistent framework for multiple forms of electronic commerce, ensuring an easy-to-use and consistent consumer purchasing experience regardless of the payment instrument or software and hardware product used."
A selected bibliography on electronic purses
Maintained by Leo Van Hove.
Java wallet
From Computerworld.
Digital Money Online
A review of some existing technologies, from Intertrader Ltd.
CAFE project.
Conditional Access for Europe project to develop a secure electronic payment system and other applications which protects the privacy of the user.
Banking.com
Material devoted to the banking industry.
Verifone Internet Commerce Division
Point of sale software for Internet transactions.
SET (Secure Electronic Transmission)
What is SET? (from VISA)
Outreach Communications
Provides secure transactions processing for micropayments (CyberCents) and Internet commerce (Mall Manager).
Electronic Payment Schemes
By Dr Phillip M. Hallam-Baker, with related links. (12/95)
Joint Electronic Payment Initiative (JEPI)
White paper (4/97)from the W3 Consortium.
Digital Signatures and Digital IDs
A primer from Verisign, Inc.
Network payment mechanisms and digital cash
A collection by Michael Peirce.
Payment mechanisms designed for the Internet
Links to existing payment schemes that were designed for, or are in use on, the Internet. By Michael Peirce
EFF's Digital Money
An archive of articles, organizations, and other links (10/96) from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Clickshare
A system to track movements and settle charges for digital transactions.
Paiements Electroniques
A survey of electronic payment mechanisms (written in French.)
Smart Cards, Credit cards, Payment Systems
A list of related sites.
Prepaid Smart Card Techniques
A 1994 paper by David Chaum.
The Money Page
A Net Guide to Banking and Finance.
Perils and Pitfalls of Practical CyberCommerce
A paper outlining the first year of First Virtual. (10/94)
Payment Systems on the Internet
(in Italian) A set of links to various payment systems.
Showdown over E-cash
An article by Howard Anderson on the impact of electronic cash. (1/96) from Upside Magazine.
E-Money Mini-FAQ
A list of questions and answers relating to why and how electronic cash works.
Electronic Money
Maintained by Roy Davies.
Financial Services Technology Consortium
A group of financial services providers that is working on interbank technical projects.
InterPay: Managing Multiple Payment Mechanisms in Digital Libraries
A paper by S. Cousins, et. al. at Stanford (in PostScript). (3/95)
Transaction Net
Profiles payment systems that are relevant to the internet.

Pricing Information Goods

Papers by Hal R. Varian
See papers on "Pricing Information Goods", "Pricing Electronic Journals", etc.
Applying Game Theory to Automatic Negotiation
Nice paper by Ken Binmore and Nir Vulkan on how to use game theory in this context. (4/97)
Java Repository
A market for exchanging Java objects. Its origins are described in The Java Repository---an Electronic Intermediary for Java Resources

Internet Commerce Protocols and Standards

Electronic Commerce Data Base
Links to lots of transactions processing information.
IESERV Electronic Commerce
Various protocols.
Millicent
By S. Glassman, M. Manasse, et al. A research paper from DEC describing a plan for commercial transactions on the Web for amounts as small as .001. (6/95) See also The Millicent Page.
Negotiation and Collaboration in Electronic Commerce
This project, conducted by Professor Arie Segev and Carrie Beam, seeks to address the issues of theory and implementation for negotiation processes within the context of electronic commerce.
Premenos
Providing "one-stop shopping" for information about protocols and standards for Internet commerce.
BookBlvd.com
Interesting shopbot for books.
QuickForms
Allows automated drafting of customized contracts.
Secure Electronic Transactions(SET) .
A technical specification for securing credit card payments over open networks such as the Internet. SET was jointly developed by VISA and MasterCard with participation from several other companies including Micosoft, GTE, IBM and Verisign.
Internet Engineering Task Force Mailing list for Payment Mechanisms
The complete archive to a discussion list (ended 5/97) to help design standards for Internet payment mechanisms. Here is a copy of the IPAY charter.
Anonymous Credit Cards
Along with its followup article Collusion with Anonymous Credit Cards. (1994)
Stefan Brands
A list of publications by Stefan Brands on the DBLP Bibliography Server.
Endorsements, Licensing, and Insurance for Distributed System Services
A paper by Charlie Lai, Gennady Medvinsky, and B. Clifford Neuman of the Information Sciences Institute. (1994)
Surety Technologies
A company that provides electronic notarizing/timestamping services.
e-TimeStamp
Offers timestamping/notarizing services. See story from New York Times on digital timestamps.

Interesting commercial sites

Onsale Interactive Marketplace
Online auctions, where prices and availability vary instantly in response to your actions.
Surplus Auction
Auctions surplus computer and electronic equipment. See also Surplus Direct.
InterWorld Corporation
InterWorld provides enterprise-class software for companies engaged in business to business and business to consumer electronic commerce.
Open Market, Inc.
A group that provides a number of commercial services and enterprise applications for the Internet and electronic commerce.
CommerceNet
An industry consortium.

Marketing & Advertising

Activ Media's Marketer Help Desk
Providing statistics on the success of WWW commerce and marketing.
Marketing and International Business LInks
Large collection of links.
Web Marketing Info Center
At the Web Marketing Information Center you'll find links to more than 300 on-line articles about effective Web marketing and to on-line resources for business.
Banner Ad Placement STudy
Where to put your banners. (5/97)
Pawluck Pages
High tech marketing and advertising.
Advertising on the Web
An academic research site established by Christian Barker and Peter Groenne based on their masters work at the Copenhagen Business School.
BA268: Marketing In a Digital Age
This course offers the opportunity to understand the major changes that information technology is causing in the discipline of marketing.
Webvertising
Links from Computerworld.
Internet Marketing Discussion List
This list was shut down in 1996. Taking up the discussion is The Online Advertising Discussion List.
Hermes Project
Research on commercial uses of the World Wide Web.
Project 2000
Research program on marketing in computer-mediated environments
Georgia Tech Web Users Surveys
Survey of Web users.
1997 Internet Service Provider Marketplace Analysis.
1995-96 Internet Service Provider Marketplace Analysis, An Executive Summary
Provided by The Maloff Company.  
MouseTracks
Presenting and offering commentary on marketing and marketing resources on the Internet.
Cybersight Services Information
Cybersight helps users and companies develop marketing strategies for high tech online multimedia products and services.
 
SEE ALSO
Security, Privacy and Encryption
US Government Resources
Policy and Law

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