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BUILDER.COM: Web Business
Articles and fetures on business topics from CNET's BUILDER.COM.
Connecting Online: Articles
A collection of articles covering Internet strategy, online commerce, branding, trends, and more. This is the supporting web site for Sherman and Avila's book, Connecting Online: Creating a Successful Image on the Internet.
GII: The Standard for Internet Commerce
A paper outlining the best practices that businesses should adopt in order to be successful with their ecommerce and online presence initiatives.
The Industry Standard 
The web site for The Industry Standard magazine has article reprints, industry statistics, and many other resources.
The New York Times: E-Commerce Special Section
A special section examining the state of electronic commerce, from both buyers' and sellers' perspectives, in September 1999.
Real Web Builders in the Real World
From BUILDER.COM comes this set of a dozen interviews with real world web developers.
Underdeveloped Archive
An archive of the New York Times Online column, Underdeveloped. The series dates from 1997 and is "by and about Web developers, written for Web users, to explain why the Web is the way it is and why developers and users are equally upset about it."
Webpedia
News, tools, features, and more. Part of the MyDesktop Network of sites.
World Internet Alliance Home Page
Home page for a coalition that provides information about issues of Internet governance, and hopes to bring the various Internet "stakeholders" into an environment where they can make decisions together.
ARTICLES
Amazon Makes Land Grab for E-Commerce
Amazon.com will allow anyone - from individuals to major retailers - to sell goods on their site, for $9.99 a month and a commission. (9/29/1999 at The Industry Standard)
AOL, Andreesen Part Ways
Marc Andreesen, Netscape co-founder, is leaving his CTO job at AOL. (9/10/1999 at Wired News)
Blue Mountain Arts Discovers Capitalism
The online greeting cards giant has become the 12th-most visited website while avoiding outside investment and media attention. (9/3/1999 at The Industry Standard)
Digital Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest
Digital Darwinism author Evan Schwartz says there are seven steps to making sure your company survives and thrives in the Internet era. (10/18/1999 at Clip)
Domain Name Dunces
Network Solutions, Inc's screw-up with regards to free email leads to doubts that it can be trusted to handle important things - like managing the domain name registry. (9/21/1999 at Salon.com)
E-business Strategy Boom
E-commerce is where the money is at; and there's plenty of money to go around, for both established IT firms and the new web upstarts. (9/22/1999 at Upside)
EBay Demands Silence at Auctions
EBay will no longer allow other sites to look through EBay auctions and publish prices of goods for sale there. (9/30/1999 at The Industry Standard)
The First-Mover Myth
Suggests that being first out of the gate doesn't guarantee victory on the Internet, and provides examples of those who were first, but still failed. (9/17/1999 at The Industry Standard)
ICANN Names First Vice President
ICANN has named Louis Touton as its first vice president and general counsel. (10/20/1999 at InternetNews.com)
The Incredible Shrinking Nasdaq
Newspapers and pundits disagree on the cause of the NASDAQ crash: most cite earnings warnings from Gateway and Altera; others blame unemployment or the election controversy. But very few analysts are calling this a "buying opportunity." (12/1/2000 at The Industry Standard)
The Internet 500: Deep Well
A list of the top 500 Internet firms - large companies deriving significant revenue from online operations. (11/15/1999 at ZDNet)
Internet Strategy Becomes a Must at the Top
More and more CEO candidates for offline companies are being asked to have Internet experience. (10/20/1999 at The New York Times)
Law, Language and the Net
The US Internet Council's recently-released State of the Internet 2000 Report collects information from a number of other studies into a readable, comprehensive look at where the Net is, and how governments should help foster continued growth. (10/2/2000 at NUA Internet Surveys)
Media Cheer Travel Site Merger
News media reporting on the merger of Travelocity and Preview Travel missed the real story: brick and mortar businesses are merging with Net businesses rather than starting their own Net enterprises. (10/5/1999 at The Industry Standard)
The Myth of Scalability
There are two kinds of scalability for Net businesses: technical, and market. Can your hardware and software scale to handle much larger customer bases? And can your business plan evolve into new, unrelated markets? (1/3/2000 at The Industry Standard)
NetSol to Keep Domain Data
Network Solutions, Inc., the US Department of Commerce, and ICANN have come to an agreement regarding access to NSI's database of domain name holders, and terms for further opening-up of domain name registration. (9/28/1999 at Wired News)
Online Malls Dig Out From Under Amazon Avalanche
In reaction to Amazon.com's plan to offer merchants space in its online store, established web "malls" are cutting prices and beefing up services. (10/4/1999 at ECommerce Times)
Power to the People
The next revolution in commerce may come from combining the power of thousands of sellers, or of millions of buyers, into unions that will wield greater influence than the corporations that try to control the flow of money. (9/24/1999 at The Industry Standard)
Proposed Amendments to ICANN Bylaws
Proposed changes to ICANN bylaws, including provisions for "ordinary" Net users to influence the domain name system overseer through At-Large membership. (10/8/1999 at ICANN)
Registrar Offers Free Personal Domains
A recently-accredited domain name registrar, idirections.com Inc., plans to offer users free domains in exchange for advertising. (9/24/1999 at InternetNews.com)
Search Engine Spying
Links to places where you'll find out what users are searching for on the major search engines - including Ask Jeeves, Excite, and Lycos. (10/12/1999 at about.com)
Selective Disclosure
On the one hand, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants financial deals to be made more open to the public via the Net; on the other hand, they're afraid the public isn't financially educated enough to participate intelligently. (10/25/1999 at The Industry Standard)
Startup Builds Haven for Freelancers
A look at guru.com, a website whose owners want it to function as a support network, community, and networking place for self-employed professionals. (10/10/1999 at ZDNet)
Tearing Up the Rules at latimes.com
How latimes.com took a chance and redesigned its site to look nothing like a newspaper. (10/26/1999 at Online Journalism Review)
Tech Hypocrisy Running Rampant
America Online stops lobbying for open access after acquiring a cable TV giant; DoubleClick pretends it doesn't invade user web users' privacy; and Microsoft is lobbying for laws that insulate software makers from liability for defective software. (2/14/2000 at Mercury Center)
The E-Volution of Big Business
A series of articles from Fortune on the collision between established businesses and electronic businesses. How the old businesses are fighting to join the online boom, and how the electronic businesses continue playing by different rules. (10/19/1999 at Fortune)
Top Execs of Internet Age Gather for Two-Hour Discussion on Web's Future
At the "Summit in Silicon Valley," executives from AOL, Cisco, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, and other companies gathered and answered questions ranging from concern about the AOL/TW merger to the longevity of current industry giants. (2/28/2000 at SF Gate)
The Tortoise and the Hare: An Open Letter to Toys "R" Us
An essay that uses the case of Toys "R" Us and Benchmark Capital to illustrate a point: the Web is no longer about ecommerce; it's about ebusiness - allowing the Web to permeate your entire business. (9/15/1999 at Futurize Now)
Yahoo Trounces Earnings Estimates
Yahoo gained more advertisers, more revenue, more profit, more registered users, and more respect in the third quarter of 1999. (10/6/1999 at News.com)
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