Thomas Ho's favorite Electronic Commerce WWW resources

Company lists

• Interesting Business Sites on the Web (I strongly recommend this!)
• What's New in Commercial Sites on the Web
• Computer and Communication Companies
• Commercial Sites on the Web
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Commercial Services
• from EINet Galaxy: Corporations (Company, Organization and Consultants)
• from The CyberWeb
• from Entrepreneurs on the Web
• from CIX
• Commercial WWW Servers (from EIT)
• from PLANET EARTH
• from Virtual Advertising
• from Yanoff (courtesy of John December)
  • Business
  • Consumer information
• BizWeb
• Hi-Tech Commerce
• Vendors Online (from Stanford's SLAC)
• Samples of Electronic Commerce on the Internet
• Remote file ftp.netcom.com/pub/css/www/commerce.html
• PC MAGAZINE -- Favorite Web Sites
• The Mother-of-all BBS
  • Companies
  • Electronic Storefronts

Electronic "storefronts"

• Apollo Advertising (UK)
• Branch Mall
• (RealTech) Business Directory
• CareerMosaic
• Chronicle for Higher Education job ads
• CityScape Shopping Arcade (UK)
• The Commerce Center
• Coolware
• CTSNET Marketplace
• CyberDEALS
• CyberMall
• CyberSight
• CyberStore (gopher)
• Downtown Anywhere
• Electric Press, Inc.
• The Electronic Newsstand
• Global Commerce Link (Business Link)
• The Global City
• GEMS - Product & Service Showcase
• GNN Directory
  • GNN Advertiser Index
  • GNN Marketplace
• The Human Factor's Open Market
• MecklerWeb Demonstration
  • MecklerWeb by Christopher Locke (Internet World, June 1994)
• Interactive Employment Network
• INTERNET AD EMPORIUM
• Internet Curio Shoppe
• Internet Direct's Online Shopping/Business Server
• Internet Distribution Services
• Internet Shopkeeper
• Internet Shopping Network
• The Internet StoreFront
• Kaleidospace
• ClarkNet LightHouse
• Mainsail Mall
• MarketPlace.com
• Matrix Marketplace
• Nando.Net
• NetMarket
• THE NEW YORK WEB
• OneWorld Information Services
• The PICnet E-Mall
• Oslonett Marketplace (Norway)
• STUFF.com
• TAG Online Mall
• Ultimate Education Store (from Scholastic Inc.)
• The (Blacksburg Electronic) Village Mall
• Virtual Advertising adfx (tm)
• Shops on The World
• WWA network
• Real Estate World Wide Web Services
  • FOR SALE BY OWNER MAGAZINE
  • Global Real Estate Guide
  • HomeBuyer's Fair
  • World Real Estate Listing Service
  • Housing in Boulder (from University of Colorado)

Industry groups (keep a sharp eye on what's going on in these industries!)

• Direct Marketing World
• InfoPro List (network of information professionals)
• alt.business.multi-level FAQ ((multi-level marketing, also known as network marketing)
• Health Care and the NII
  • HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS DISCOVER ADVANTAGES OF THE INTERNET
• The Mining Channel

Corporate presence

• Mechanisms for developing corporate presence
  • Internet Shopkeeper
  • VSERV(sm) from MCSNet
• Amdahl Corporation
• Apple Computer
• Regional Bell holding companies
  • MFJ Task Force
  • Bell Atlantic
    • Bell Atlantic WWW server
    • Bell Atlantic Gopher
    • Bell Atlantic email list
  • Pacific Bell
  • US WEST
  • Net Presence by Phil Agre (pagre@weber.ucsd.edu)
• BioData, Inc.
• Burlington Coat Factory
• Cisco Systems Inc.
• CompuServe
• Digital Equipment Corporation
  • Digital's World-Wide Web Server: A Case Study
  • Digital and the Internet
  • Digitial and Internet Communications, Background
  • Digital Introduces Internet Ordering And Information Services, Press Release
  • How Digital Uses the Internet
• Diskovery Educational Systems
• elroNet
• LM Ericsson
• Flag International Motor Inns (Australia)
• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM
  • information on networking
• INFOMART - Dallas, Texas
• InterCon Systems Corporation
• IXI Limited
  • Postscript
  • IXI SPONSORS FIRST WORLD WIDE WEB CONFERENCE IN GENEVA
• Maxwell Labs
• O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
• Microsoft Corporation
• MILLIPORE Corporation
• NEXOR (UK)
• Novell Inc.
• PC MAGAZINE
• PRO-IMAGE
• Scholastic Inc.
• Silicon Graphics
• Sun Microsystems
• WilTel
• WIRED Magazine
• Xerox
• Japanese Corporate Sites and R&D Laboratories
  • KDD (Japan)
  • Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (Japan)
  • Toyo Engineering Corporation (Japan)

Individual outlets

• Computer Express!
• Daiichi International Book Service (Stanford Publications International)
• DELORME MAPPING
• Document Center
• Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation
• ImageMaker's Gifts for Dog Lovers
• Mammoth Records
• Moon Publications
• UCI Bookstore
• Online BookStore (OBS)
• InfoVid Outlet: The Educational & How-To Video Warehouse
• Mighty Dog Designs 1994 Spring Catalog
• COLORBURST STUDIOS
• PizzaNet Services / Pizza Hut Inc.

Electronic publishers

• ARL's Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists
  • Samples of Electronic Publishing
  • Alternative Formats for Net Publishing
• Global Network Navigator
  • Currency exchange rates (from GNN)
  • Personal Finance Center (from GNN)
• HotWIRED
• The Lynx (UK)
• cybercafe (UK)
• VIBE MAGAZINE
• News on the Internet, part 2 (from Sam Sternberg)
  • DowVision (announcement only)
  • Chronicle of Higher Education
  • ClariNet Communications
  • BBC (UK)
  • Public Radio News (Australia)
  • Science and Engineering Television Network
  • Commercial News Services on the World Wide Web
    • Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune
    • Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
    • The News & Observer (North Carolina newspaper)
    • Palo Alto Weekly
    • Pilot Online
    • San Francisco Examiner
    • DIGITAL DARK HORSE - NEWSPAPERS (portion of George Gilder's book, Telecosm)
• AMERICAN CYBERCASTING
• Ziff-Davis Publishing
• InfoWorld (requires free membership in Internet Shopping Network )
• The Electronic Newsstand(tm)
• LEXIS/NEXIS
• The Learned InfoNet (UK)
• (Encyclopedia) Britannica Online
• CAJUN : CD-ROM Acrobat Journals Using Networks
• Talks & papers
  • The Internet for Everyone -- Chapter 18
  • Commercial Publishing On The Internet by Thomas E. Stone
  • Slaves of a New Machine: Exploring the For-Free / For-Pay Conundrum by Laura Fillmore
  • Flying Solo: The Risks and Rewards of Going It Alone Online by Rosalind Resnick
  • Electronic Publishing
• Position papers
  • National Writers Union

Financial & professional services

• Internet's Electronic Link to Managing Money
  • Bank of Ireland
  • Securities and Investments
  • Personal Investment and Tax Information
  • NETworth By GALT Technologies
  • Homebuyer's Fair Obtain a Mortgage
  • Myers Equity Express
  • QuoteCom
  • Security APL Quote Server
  • Personal finance on Chebucto FreeNet
• Global Leasing Services Inc.
• Intergroup Holdings International S.A.
• THE ONLINE AD AGENCY
• Bernard Hodes Advertising
• The Company Corporation
• Law Firms
• Jobs category from "The CyberWeb"
  • On-line Job Services
  • Employment Opportunities and Resume Postings (from EInet Galaxy)
  • E-SPAN, Inc.
  • Premier Staff Ltd.
• PreCom Strategic Planning

Emerging services (a hint of what's to come!)

• Framework for NII SERVICES
• Entertainment
  • The Complete TV Guide
  • from Yanoff (courtesy of John December)
  • KMPS 94.1 FM & 1300 AM, Seattle, Washington is the first Country music station on the World Wide Web.
  • Welcome to the Metaverse (Adam Curry)
  • Le WebLouvre
  • Hypertext front-end to the rec.arts.movies (Cardiff UK)
  • The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Literature
  • WAXWEB MOSAIC-MOO
  • The eyesore data base
• Tourism
  • TALLAHASSEE, Florida
• Sports
  • The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Sport
  • Recreation (from The Whole Internet Catalog)
  • The Running Page
• Education
  • from CIX
  • Foreign language instruction
  • Mathematics For Computer Generated Spoken Documents
• Transportation
  • Southern California Traffic Report
  • Bay Area Transit Information
  • Blacksburg (Electronic Village) Transit
  • Transportation schedules
• The Internet Fax Server
• comp.newprod archives (comp.newprod is the Usenet newsgroup for new product announcements)
  • WWW version
  • Gopher version

Co-operative efforts and consortia

• The World Wide Web Organization
• Federal NII Application Projects on Electronic Commerce
• National Initiative for Product Data Exchange
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (from HPCC Info Infra Tech Applications Projects
• NIST GUIDE - AUTOMATED ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING PROGRAM
• CommerceNet
  • An Industrial Park on the Internet (from GNN)
  • 04/10/94 San Jose Mercury News on CommerceNet
  • 04/08/94 Wall Street Journal on CommerceNet
  • CommerceNet The First Large-Scale Market Trial of Electronic Commerce on the Internet by Jay M. Tenenbaum
  • The Information Revolution: Introduction (from Business Week's Special 1994 Bonus Issue on The Information Revolution)
  • CommerceNet Working Groups
• Smart Valley, Inc.
• Financial Services Technology Consortium
• Global Recycling Network Inc.
• PartNet
• European Community Programmes related to the Information Market (Index)

Directories and clearinghouses ("yellow pages")

• The Global On-Line Directory Services
• Internet Business Directory
• Technology Board of Trade
• THE INTER-ACTIVE YELLOW PAGES(tm) AND NETWORK AUCTION
• The Internet Mall
• Internet Business Pages
• Business in Cyberspace: Commercial Ventures on the Matrix (from The WELL)
• SPRY NetAccess
• Businesses on the Internet (gopher from InterNIC's Directory of Directories)
• Commercial Services
• On-line jobs resources
• Virtual Contractor
• professional desktop publishing, graphic arts, prepress, and printing
• Publishers' Catalogues
• HyperMedia Zines on the Net
• Consortia
  • CommerceNet Directories
• Geographical
  • Cal ifornia Yellow Pages

Innovative solutions to ordering

• Westex Automotive Corporation

Innovative solutions to gaining visibility

• Sandra Milazzo, Tupperware consultant

Journals, newsletters, & books for information-based industry

• INTERNET/MARKETING MAGAZINES
• The COOK Report on Internet -> NREN (Summary of first 15 issues)
• FYI Newsletter
• Information Law Alert
• Interactive Publishing Alert
• Wentworth Publishing Company (Internet Business Advantage)
• Internet Business Journal
• The Internet Letter--Premiere Issue
• The InterNet.Mkt.Ltr
• Matrix News
• VTLS EXPRESS
• Federal Communications Law Journal
• The Villanova Information Law Chronicle
• The NII Oracle
• Unofficial Internet Book List by Kevin Savetz
  • The INTERNET BUSINESS Book
  • The Internet for Everyone: A Guide for Users and Providers

Conferences & training for information-based industry

• The Council on Competitiveness and the Clinton Administration's Information Infrastructure Task Force invite you to participate in a conference focusing on the applications being developed to run on the national information infrastructure.
• Making Money on the Internet
  • Conference Information
  • Conference Proceedings
• Commerce Information Services Symposium August 23 & 24, 1994 Boulder, Colorado
• Joint Conference on the Information Superhighway and You 10 September 1994 Marriott Hotel, Santa Clara, California, US
• Financial Services Transformed: Successfully Competing in the Era of the Information Superhighway 12-14 October 1994 Washington, D.C., USA
• HICSS minitrack on INTERNET AND THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
• Internet Business Conference (Hong Kong)
• ELECTRONIC COMMERCE & DISTANCE COORDINATION (Erasmus University Institute for Decision and Information Systems)
• First WWW Conference
• The Second International WWW Conference Fall '94
• Proceedings: Technological Strategies for Protecting Intellectual Property in the Networked Multimedia Environment (Coalition for Networked Information , Interactive Multimedia Association , John F. Kennedy School of Government , Science, Technology & Public Policy Program , Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• ZD Exposition and Conference Company
• Global Messaging '94
• Marketing on the Internet Seminar
• The Jupiter Communications Online Developers Conference

Internet mailing lists

• Internet/Technology Marketing List (list archives)
• www-buyinfo
  • www-buyinfo mail archive by date

Jumpstations

• BusinessWeb
• Web of Wonder

User groups for information-based industry

• Internet Business Users Group

Government services

• Government Agency WWW Servers
• Networked Government Resources
• Government Service Delivery: Reengineering Through Information Technology
• Making Government Work (US Congress OTA)
• GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND THE INTERNET
• Government Databases from Internet Multicasting Service
• Americans Communicating Electronically
• FedWorld (beta version)
• Department of Commerce Information Services (doing "business" with the US government
  • Economic Conversion Information Exchange Gopher
• U.S. Department of Justice Agency Procurement Requests
• Social Security Administration
• FinanceNet
  • The Financenet Gopher
• US House of Representatives
  • U.S. Rep. Sam Coppersmith
    • Use and Users of a Congressman's Network Information Services
• US Senate documents
  • Office of Senator Edward Kennedy
• National Trade Data Bank on Internet
• California government
• California Electronic Government Information
• State of North Carolina
• The Ohio Online Export Directory
• State of South Dakota
• State of Texas Services via World Wide Web
• Cambridge, Massachusetts
• City of San Carlos (doing "business" with your city government)
• Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project
• Australia
  • Tasmanian State Service

Community networking

• Welcome to The Civic Network
• The Center for Civic Networking (via gopher)
• WWW Guide to Community Networking
• Apple Conference on Building Community Computing Networks
  • May 1994 Ties That Bind conference on community networks
• Blacksburg Electronic Village

Related technology

• World Wide Web Research
  • Mosaic Technology Update (dated August 1994, from NCSA)
  • Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML)
• CommerceNet's Summary of Relevant Standards
• John December's Internet applications list on Individual Communication
• CATaloguing and Retrieval of Information Over Networks Applications(CATRIONA)
  • Z39.50 Resources
  • Z39.50
  • Z39.50 (from VTLS)
    • VTLS Z39.50 Client Now Interfaces with NCSA Mosaic for MS Windows (TM)
  • WAIS Network Publishing using Z3950
  • Using Z39.50 in an Application for the Government
• CMU NetBill Project
  Internet Billing Service

• RSA's FAQ About Today's Cryptography
• Cryptography, PGP, and Your Privacy
• Security Listing (from e-Commerce Inc.)
  • PGP Related Pages from Cypherpunk
  • Two Updates Make for Digital Signatures in Email
  • list of companies that accept orders via PGP
• Achieving Electronic Privacy by David Chaum, david@digicash.nl
• Carl Malamud --Public Use of Public Key Technology
• Computer Security
• Network security

• Shen: A Security Scheme for the World Wide Web
• AT&T Bell Labs Chrg_HTTP Demo
• Mosaic Security Issues
• DoD/NSA Mosaic program deployment of the Message Security Protocol
  • DoD/NSA Mosaic program deployment of the Message Security Protocol in support of the Defense Messaging System Proof of Concept pilot of secure organizational messaging.
• IETF RFC 1508 (Generic Security Service Application Program Interface)
• WWW-security (from Rutgers) mail list hyper-archive

• Using the Web to Provide Private Information by bjorn n. freeman-benson
• Access Authorization in WWW

• IETF Electronic Data Interchange Working Group (EDI)
• CommerceNet Electronic Data Interchange Working Group
• Commercial Electronic Data Interchange (European Community)

• Mosaic from Spyglass
• AIR Mosaic (Commercial Version of NCSA's Mosaic)
  • AIR Mosaic Online Ordering Demonstration Announcement
• A+Texture (from Amdahl)
• SCO Global Access

• Integration of Internet Information Resources Working Group (IIIR)
  • A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service (draft-ietf-iiir-vision-02.txt)
• Uniform Resource Identifiers Working Group (URI)

Regulation, law, and policy

• John December's Internet applications list on policy
• State reports
  • New York
    • Chapter 9. Encouraging Commercial and Public Use
• The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy submitted this report to the U.S. Congress in December 1992 The report addresses six specific issues:
  • effective mechanisms for providing operating funds for the maintenance and use of the Network, including user fees, industry support, and continued Federal investment;
  • the future operation and evolution of the Network;
  • how commercial information service providers could be charged for access to the Network, and how Network users could be charged for such commercial information services;
  • the technological feasibility of allowing commercial information service providers to use the Network and other federally funded research networks;
  • how to protect copyrights of material distributed over the Network; and
  • appropriate policies to ensure the security of resources available on the Network and to protect the privacy of users of networks.
• US IITF Intellectual Property Working Group Draft Report
  • WWW
  • gopher
• Proceedings: Technological Strategies for Protecting Intellectual Property in the Networked Multimedia Environment
• Intellectual Property Issues (Association of Research Libraries)
• Europe and the global information society - Bangemann report
  • Protection of intellectual property rights
  • Electronic protection (encryption), legal protection and security
• Chicago-Kent College of Law
• Legal Information Institute (Cornell University)
• Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy
  • Villanova Law School Legal Automation Papers
• Lewis Rose's FTP archive containing articles of interest to the advertising and marketing community The site houses articles about the legal aspects of marketing products, with particular emphasis on infomercials, home shopping, and direct response tv. Other articles discuss 900 Number regulations, contest laws, business opportunity laws, and additional aspects of promotion law.
• The Legal Risks of Setting Up Shop In Cyberspace by Edward A. Cavazos
• Tort Liability, the First Amendment, Equal Access and Commercialization of Electronic Networks by Henry H. Perritt, Jr.
• The Integration of Banking and Telecommunications: The Need for Regulatory Reform by Kalpak S. Gude (FCLJ Vol 46, No 3)
• EFF on "digital money"
• INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW PROJECT (Norway)

Miscellaneous

• How to put your data on the web
  • Etiquette for information providers
  • from The CyberWeb
  • The World Wide Web- tools for aspiring web weavers
  • Canada Open Government Developers Kit
  • The EIT Webmaster's Starter Kit
  • Advanced Publishing in the Web (Abstract)
• How to set up protected CERN server
• NCSA httpd Access Configuration
• Mosaic User Authentication Tutorial
• Demographics & anecdotal evidence
  • Internet Demographic Survey
  • Results From the First World Wide Web User Survey
  • Growth of the World Wide Web
  • The Internet Polling Center (September 1994): Commerce and the Internet
  • Quote from a business on the Internet
  • Cyber Sales -- From: rdegel@CTS.COM
• MIT/CERN Press release 7 July 1994
• Internet Mercantile Protocols archive from Bellcore (WARNING: this is very large, i.e. over 1 MB)
  • Internet Mercantile Protocols BOF 27th IETF Plenary, Amsterdam Wednesday, 14 July 1993
  • Simple Network Payment Protocol
  • NetCash
• Speeches by Dr. Pekka Tarjanne, ITU Secretary-General
  • World Telecommunications Conference - London, 2 December 1992 - An Address to the Financial Times: The Role of the International Telecommunications Union in the Global Information Economy
  • The Networked Economy Conference - Paris, 5 March 1992 - Session: Regulating the Future
• Cryptorebel/Cypherpunk
• CyberZine --- Commercial Archives
• Entrepreneurs on the Web
• Com-Priv archives

Thomas I. M. Ho (tho@iscs.nus.sg)

9 September 1994

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