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July 2000 Let's Get...Vertical? 600 business-to-business exchanges have sprouted over the past year and a half and nobody is more excited than venture capitalists. Cash Makes a Comeback After years of struggling to find a sustainable marketing strategy, digital cash vendors are experiencing success with special-case Web merchants. Earthenware Ed Wilson explains how nonprofit Earthwatch solicited more volunteers and generated an international community by redesigning its website. Rate the Startup: WebOS This is the third 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. This time you can read about WebOS, a Columbia, Maryland-based company that sells Hyperoffice, a suite of programs that mimics Microsoft’s Office package of word processing and data management programs. Rate its chances for success. A Closer Look: Everyone Hates the Cable Guy Some IT players, like Lou Rosenfeld's friendly cable provider MediaOne, overlook customers and services in favor of technology. MediaOne may have broadband, but its site doesn't show the way. The Rising Cost of Waiting The Internet makes globalization easier, cheaper and faster. But you'd better act before your local competitors around the world do, or your costs will explode. Window Seat Website personalization software helps American Airlines give its customers a more tailored view of the airline. High Wireless Act European cell phone users already can take a piece of the wireless Web with them. Now the technology is poised to hit the United States. Integrate Your Channels A mall developer equips retailers with ways to merge their online and brick-and-mortar channels. Brick Slayers Online startups are stealing the established players' business. Seven executives and pundits from different industries share their survival strategies. Destructive Behavior To kick its e-business initiatives into high gear, GE told its unit chiefs to save their businesses by figuring out how to kill them. Politics as Usual The Net's founders imagined that it would create an informed, involved citizenry. FreedomChannel is trying to deliver on that promise with its 50/50 Awards winning Internet site. Channel surfing Time drags as you wait for your customer service rep to get back to you. But SBM's intranet does order tracking, inventory management and shipping on your time, and that's real-time.This small company's intranet proved worthy of a 50/50 Award. Gorilla in Our Midst The information revolution has produced an army of untethered workers and freelancers. Red Gorilla's Web-based service gives each one a virtual accounting department that goes wherever they do. This startup Internet site won a 50/50 Award. Power Move Energy, whether it's gas, oil or electricity, is just another commodity. HoustonStreet Exchange and Enermetrix.com -- both 50/50 Awards winners with B2B intranets -- have figured out how to sell it on the Web. Buddy for the Long Haul Winning a 50/50 Award for its B2C Internet site, PNV Inc.'s portal helps lonely truckers get news, weather, mail and, most importantly, a community. Web Business 50/50 Awards: The Winners Our judges reviewed hundreds of applicants and, for this fourth annual competition, found 50 intranet and 50 Internet sites that inspired them to keep clicking. Trial by Fire A veteran business consultant jumps into the rocky e-commerce landscape armed with the title of CTO. Computer Recycling Is a Triple Win Save the planet from toxic waste, help connect students to the Internet, and earn a tax break by donating or recycling your old CPUs and monitors. Get WebBusiness Insights We'll let you know when WebBusiness is updated. |
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WebBusiness Online - July 2000
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