E-Commerce
| E-Commerce Stats | Doing Business Online | Other Search Strategies |
| Marketing Analyst Sites | Online Shopping | Tutorials/Guides |
| Open Sources |
E-Commerce Stats
NUA Internet Surveys
http://www.nua.ie/surveys
NUA, acting as an aggragator of internet surveys and reports, provides free information on
Internet demographics and trends.
http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/
Gives traffic measures for web sites, audience exposure, top banners, top web advertisers,
audience demographics.
http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/eli/eli.cgi
Research on Web business models, online consumer behavior, and policy issues in electronic commerce.
- The Economic and Social Impact of Electronic Commerce: Preliminary Findings and Research
Agenda
Also Search by Topic for Digital Economy
Also: REFERENCE HF 5548.32 W97
Report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development examines the impact e-commerce is expected to have on business and the economy. Includes "Growth of Electronic Commerce: Present and Potential," "Electronic Commerce Jobs and Skills," "The Impact of Electronic Commerce on Firms' Business Models, Sectoral Organization and Market Structure" and more.
- Bitpipe
http://www.bitpipe.com
Indexes the research of over 50 analyst groups and consulting firms. Also has white papers from about 200 hardware and software vendors and service providers. Provides abstracts free, full reports for a fee.
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CyberAtlas
http://cyberatlas.internet.com
Gives stats and web marketing information that it gathers from other web sites. Also has a glossary of computer and Internet-related terms.
- ebusinessforum.com
ebusinessforum.com provides analysis of new business models, best practice case studies to benchmark a company's digital strategy, briefings on the latest innovations in e-business worldwide, and country-by-country assessments to help determine e-business opportunities world-wide. The ebusiness areas covered include Thought Leadership, Research, Best Practices, Doing Business in (60 countries), and Latest Developments. To bring this information free of charge, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) works with corporate leaders in the digital economy. For additional information, go to: http://www.ebusinessforum.com/index.asp?layout=about_us
- Emarketer
http://www.emarketer.com
News about e-commerce. Searchable. Full reports usually for a fee.
- Forrester
Forrester is an independent research firm that analyzes the future of technology change and its impact on businesses, consumers, and society and analyzes such technology areas as new media, computing, software, networking, telecommunications, and the Internet. Access is provided to some reports in this database.
- Plunkett's Research Online
Contains a section on E-Commerce & Internet Business, which provides profiles 300 Internet firms; statistics and trends in e-commerce; web-based retailing; Internet portals; online data providers; business-to-business sites, mergers, acquisitions and finance; Internet access; Internet consulting and services firms; and Internet software developers.
- ClickZNetwork
http://www.clickz.com/
Information on doing business online. Numerous links and articles.
- Consumer Protection: E-Commerce and the Internet
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menu-internet.htm
Web site sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission
- Technology
Administration
- Understanding the Digital Economy
- U.S. Government Electronic Commerce Policy
Provides links to U.S. government e-commerce framework and policy.
- InterNIC
http://rs.internic.net/
Provides information regarding Internet domain name registration services. Contains the Accredited Registrar Directory, which provides a listing of ICANN-accredited domain name registrars that are currently taking domain name registrations.
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Wilson Web
Focused on web marketing and especially geared toward small business owners.
- BizRate.com
http://www.bizrate.com
Provides e-business ratings compiled from satisfaction surveys for over 1,700 stores.
- DealTime
http://www.dealtime.com
A shopping bot that finds the item you want at the price you want. Give it these two pieces of information and it will continue to search the web until it finds the item. Notification is by downloadable Desktop Notifier so the purchase can be made.
- mySimon
http://www.mysimon.com
A shop bot that queries numerous web sites. The site is divided into dozens of categories.
- NecX
http://www.necx.com
Links to thousands of computer products from 1,100 manufacturers. Also tells what competitors are charging for items.
- Outpost.com
http://www.outpost.com
Offers the TruePrice system which gives the complete price of items delivered to a shopper's door. Also gives a 30-day, money-back guarantee on all items.
- Managing the Digital Enterprise
http://ecommerce.ncsu.edu/topics/index.html
An Open Courseware Project That Uses the Internet to Foster a Global Understanding of E-Commerce.
- MERLOT
http://www.merlot.org
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education. With a continually growing collection of online learning materials, assignments and reviews, MERRLOT helps faculty enhance instruction. MerLOT is also a community of people who strive to enrich teaching and learning experiences.
- Open Source Yacht Design Initiative
http://www.mini-650.de/
Designing a Mini-650 as group a effort, using the Internet as the enabling technology to bind a group of interested individuals together, is what this site is all about. As far as I know, this project is one of the first to try to apply the open source development concept to an engineering discipline outside the software world. If you feel that there is merit in Open Source development and if you're interested in Mini-650 design, by all means do join our party.
- Open Source.Org
http://www.opensource.org/
Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program. They make make copies of approved open source licenses.
- News Forge
http://www.newsforge.com/
Their goal is to deliver to readers every relevant news article, commentary piece, product review and press release published about the open-source community and its projects, including GNU/Linux, BSD, free software, and related topics they can find.
- Sandeep's Peer to Peer Resources Page
http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep/p2p/
The focus is on analysis, interpretation and commentary. Includes student reports, as well as other links on p2p networking.
- Search the UW Libraries Online Catalog using
Library of Congress Subjects such as:
- Electronic Commerce
- Search by keywords (words appearing in the articles). Be creative and use several synonyms (e.g., ecommerce, electronic commerce or emarketing or internet marketing).
- Try using a web search engine such as Google, Alta Vista, NorthernLight, or Infoseek (business oriented) to
find emarketing information. Link to Search
Engine Guides for information on how to search and use search engines.
- Use Subject Directories such as Yahoo
or Argus Clearinghouse
- Try Yahoo e-Commerce
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Electronic_Commerce/
Tutorials/Guides
REFERENCE HF5548.32 B67 (print source in our reference collection on first
floor of library)
A definitive guide to technology and business terms.
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/e-business
Covers building, marketing and tracking e-business.
http:/ecommerce.internet.com
Links to hundreds of ecommerce-related web sites. Sponsored by IBM e-business
solutions.
REFERENCE HF 5548.32 .S97
Provides links to numerous articles about web marketing
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