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May 2000 Slow Train Coming Costly and complex, EDI has hardly been on the fast track for growth, but the Internet and SML promise to broaden its reach. What Women Want When women go online, they use the Web differently than men. What do women want from the Web? A new Internet survey tells all. OS Wars Revisited While Microsoft and IBM fought primarily for the desktop in the early 1990s, the OS war of the early 2000s will be fought for control of the server. Rate the Startup This is the first installment of Rate the Startup, a monthly interactive examination of promising (and less-than-promising) dotcom startups. It's your turn to judge a new e-business and pit your instinct against two experts. First in the elevator: Portera. Break It Up The era of making things yourself is over. The Web is going to create dramatic new efficiencies for manufacturers and their supply chain partners. A Closer Look: Critical Reviews of Corporate Websites Website critic Lou Rosenfeld is shopping for a baby present, but the website he's using is making his task tougher than it should be. In "Toys 'R' Rushed: A Cautionary Tale" Lou takes on www.toysrus.com. Take a Bite Out of Cybercrime As more and more of world's population gets wired, cybercrime is only going to get worse. The best defense, according to the Global Internet Project, an international group of Internet executives is a unified international approach to cybercrime. Better Buying Online When you spend $10 billion annually on materials and services, anything that gets you better prices looks appealing. Procurement software can help you find bargains--but it's still in its infancy. Charging Ahead B2B batteries light up a new market. The End of the Hit Parade Trying to figure out whether your website needs a redesign? Stop measuring hits and start measuring customer experience. Command Performance iWant's marketplace lets consumers dictate their needs online and gives sellers direct access to potential customers. Q&A with Dan Cunningham, Chief Chokolada of Dan's Chocolates For the head honcho at www.dans.com, freshest is best and a scalable system means everything. Stand and Deliver Last Mother's Day, flowers sites let their customers down. This Mother's Day, web florists seek forgiveness. Crossing Over: A series of articles about how old companies join the new economy Part Three of the series: Evaluating on online strategy. E-strategists from Forrester, Agency.com, Digitas and the Rice University Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship tackle the dilemma of selling fabric online. Crossing Over: A series of articles about how old companies join the new economy Part Two of the series: Executing an online strategy. A tough sell online -- a fabric store tests the waters of e-commerce. By the Numbers A recent benchmarking study shows that while sophisticated measures of online sales and customer behavior are available, most companies aren't using them. Millions of Hits Served Web caching products can improve performance and reduce costs--but only if you know how to use them. One Online Bookstores Takes a Different Path In the mid 90s, two booksellers set up shop online. Just a few years later, their business models couldn't be more different. On the Edge In this excerpt from Shaping the Adaptive Organization, the author argues that sucessful companies hang out on the edge of chaos. ASP & Ye Shall Receive Everyone is talking about ASPs, and some companies are actually using them. Read two examples of how large companies are putting this new business model into play. Get WebBusiness Insights We'll let you know when WebBusiness is updated. |
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WebBusiness Online - May 2000
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