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Taiwo Amoo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Business and Quantitative Methods
Department of Economics|
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
E-mail: tamoo@snet.net

Hershey H. Friedman, Ph.D.
Professor of Business and Marketing
Department of Economics
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
E-mail: x.friedman@att.net
Website: http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/economics/infobmf.htm

Electronic Commerce is becoming a very popular course in many colleges. This is not surprising given that within a few years it is expected that sales over the Web will be several trillion dollars. Moreover, the Web has dramatically changed the way business is conducted today. One of the interesting problems in teaching the Electronic Commerce course is in deciding which department should offer the course. Most schools are offering the course in either a computer department or a marketing department; some schools are offering it as a joint computer/marketing course. Regardless of where the course is taught, it is important to supplement the course with germane websites that can enhance the course. This paper attempts to provide the websites that can be used to enrich not only a course in Electronic Commerce, but can also enhance introductory courses in business, computers, and/or marketing. These sites are also helpful to businesspeople who want to learn more about e-commerce.

||GENERAL REFERENCE SITES ||  ||SHOPPING BOTS||  ||BEST AND BUSIEST WEBSITES||  ||ARTICLES, PAPERS, AND RESOURCES|| ||PUBLICATIONS ||  || INTERNET STATISTICS||   ||INTERNET PRIVACY||   ||DOMAIN INFORMATION||   ||E-PAYMENTS||   ||MARKETING AND SELLING ON WEB||  || AUCTION SITES FOR CONSUMERS||    ||AUCTION SITES FOR BUSINESS||   ||AUCTION SEARCH ENGINES||  || BUSINESS PLANS||   ||ASSOCIATIONS||

Many of the terms used in e-commerce may be unfamiliar to students. The following sites can be used as a reference desk.

Ecommerce Webopedia -- Use this site to look up e-commerce terms.
http://e-comm.webopedia.com/

Collection of glossaries from eComInfoCenter (click on eCOM HELP!--Teminology--Glossaries)
http://www.ecominfocenter.com/

Internet Glossary from CommerceNet
http://www.commerce.net/resources/glossary.html

10 Questions on eCommerce (CNET)
http://builder.cnet.com/Business/Ecommerce20/

Electronic Commerce: A Beginner’s Guide (from About.com)
http://ecommerce.about.com/smallbusiness/ecommerce/library/weekly/aa030600a.htm

A Beginner’s Guide to B2B Electronic Commerce
http://ecommerce.about.com/smallbusiness/ecommerce/library/weekly/aa021600a.htm

eCommerce Tutorial from Webmonkey
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/e-business/tutorials/tutorial3.html

eCommerce Tutorial from eSlipstream
http://www.eslipstream.com/

eCommerce Guidebook --Also contains a tutorial
http://www.online%2Dcommerce.com/

Larry Press’ page of eCommerce Programs at Universities
http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/temp/ecommercedocs/university.htm

ISWorld Net’s Electronic Commerce Course page
http://www.isworld.org/isworld/ecourse/

The following are some important comparison shopping sites. Examination of shopping Bots is a good way of illustrating why products that are sold like commodities will drop in price.

MySimon
http://www.mysimon.com/

Dealtime
http://dealtime.com

Epinions--Get information before buying something
http://epinions.com

BotSpot--The site for all Bots
http://www.botspot.com/

Bizrate.com--Compare price and quality at thousands of customer-rated e-retailers
http://www.bizrate.com/

These sites are helpful in demonstrating some of the popular sites. In fact, one assignment teachers might want to give a class is to examine a popular website and write a short paper discussing what makes the site so successful. Two important sites for evaluating electronic commerce sites are the above-mentioned Bizrate.com (http://eval.bizrate.com) and Gomez.com (http://www.gomez.com).

Tenagra Awards for Internet Marketing Excellence
http://awards.tenagra.com/

1000 Best and Busiest Sites from eConsultant
http://www.econsultant.com/

Top 25 Web Properties
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/traffic_patterns

World Hottest Web Lists--You can find hottest auction sites, bookseller sites, etc.
http://www.worldhot.com

Top 50 US Web and Digital Media Properties
http://us.mediametrix.com/dat/thetop.jsp

25 Best Electronic Commerce Sites (from Time Digital)
http://www.time.com/time/digital/reports/ecommerce/25best.html

Gomez.com--A major provider of e-commerce customer satisfaction measurement.
http://www.gomez.com

These collections of links and papers are of great value to individuals interested in doing research on electronic commerce.

Telecom Information Resources on the Internet--More than 8,000 links (from Prof. Jeffrey MacKie-Mason)
http://china.si.umich.edu/telecom/telecom-info.html

Roger Clarke’s Electronic Commerce Pages--Australian professor’s site
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/

Dr. Randall S. Hansen's Websites for Online Marketing
http://www.stetson.edu/~rhansen/netmkt.html

Institute for Commerce’s eLibrary (Carnegie Mellon University)
http://www.ecom.cmu.edu/resources/elibrary.shtml

Institute for Commerce’s eLibrary Technology Links
http://www.ecom.cmu.edu/resources/elibrary/ectlinks.shtml

Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (University of Texas)
http://cism.bus.utexas.edu/

The Information Economy (Hal R. Varian at Berkeley)
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/

Electronic Commerce and Electronic Markets (from Brint.com)
http://www.brint.com/Elecomm.htm

eLab--Research center at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University.
http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/

Electronic Commerce Knowledge Center
http://www.commerce.org/

Small Business Advancement National Center--The University of Central Arkansas’ superb resource center
http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/index.html

eCommerce-Guide from Internet.com
http://ecommerce.internet.com/

eCommerce Information Center
http://www.ecominfocenter.com/

Wired News Collection on E-Biz
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,,00.html

ZdNet eCommerce
http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/

Osworth's Internet Marketing Index
http://www.internetmarketingindex.com/

Students will find the following publications helpful in their research.

Advertising Age
http://adage.com/

Be On the Net
http://www.beonthenet.com/

Business Week Online -- Small Business
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/index.html

Business Wire
http://www.businesswire.com/

ChannelSeven.com--Information source for Internet marketing
http://www.channelseven.com/

CIO.com
http://www.cio.com/

The Click
http://www.m2k.com/theclick/

Computerworld
http://www.computerworld.com/

Computer News Daily (from New York Times syndicate)
http://www.computernewsdaily.com/

CNET News--E-Business
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007.html

Daily Geek
http://www.dailygeek.com/

Darwin Magazine--New magazine about business and technology
http://www.darwinmag.com/

eBusiness Newsletter (from Ireland)
http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/ebusiness/news-newsletter.asp

The eCommerce Advisor
http://www.sotkin.com/

eCommerce @lert
http://www.elementkjournals.com/eca/

eCommerce News from Internet.com
http://ecommerce.internet.com/ec-news/

Ecommerce Research Forum--Working papers and other scholarly research on Electronic Commerce (MIT)
http://ecommerce.mit.edu/forum/

Ecommerce Times--Excellent daily newsletter for entrepreneurs and companies doing business on the Internet.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/

eCommerce Weekly--weekly newsletter to help businesses succeed online.
http://www.eweekly.com/

eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/

eNews from eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/enews/welcome.html

e-newsletters (from Internet.com)--Huge list of e-mail newsletters
http://e-newsletters.internet.com/

Entrepreneur.com -- Entrepreneur Magazine
http://www.entrepreneurmag.com/

Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/

Geek.com
http://www.geek.com/techupdate/geeknews.htm

Inc.com
http://www.inc.com/

Inter@ctive Week Online
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/

Internet Day
http://www.internetday.com/

InternetNews.com
http://www.internetnews.com/

Internet World Online
http://www.internetworldnews.com/

Intranet Digest
http://www.intranetdigest.com/

Media Central
http://www.mediacentral.com/

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/news/default.asp

Nando Media
http://www.nandomedia.com/

NetBusiness (from CMP net)
http://www.techweb.com/netbiz

NewsLinx
http://www.newslinx.com/

Tech News World
http://www.technewsworld.com/

Anyone who is interested in learning about the Internet and electronic commerce should be familiar with the major e-commerce research companies. One interesting assignment to give students is to study a dot-com failure and describe what the firm did wrong. A few of the sites described below deal with dot-com failures.

MediaMetrix--Major Internet research company
http://www.mediametrix.com

Jupiter -- Worldwide authority on electronic commerce
http://www.jup.com/home.jsp

Jupiter Media Metrix -- Formed from merger of Jupiter and Media Metrix
http://www.jmm.com/home.jsp

Nielsen/NetRatings--Internet research including Top 10 Web Properties and average Web usage
http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/

CyberAtlas --Guide to online facts
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/

Forrester
http://www.forrester.com/Home/0,3257,1,FF.html

Forrester Power Rankings--Ratings of electronic commerce Websites
http://www.forrester.com/ER/PowerRankings/0,2141,0,FF.html

List-Universe.com --Resource network for e-mail list owners
http://www.list-universe.com

ComScore
http://www.comscore.com

eBusiness Stats (MIT)
http://ecommerce.mit.edu/cgi-bin/stats/catagorybrowser.cgi

Internet Advertising Bureau -- Advertising revenues
http://www.iab.net/

Advertising Age Netresults -- Weekly report on Web traffic and advertising
http://adage.com/dataplace/netresults/

InternetStats--Help in finding statistics about the Internet (also Top 10 Websites)
http://www.internetstats.com/

eMarketer--A major provider of Internet statistics
http://www.emarketer.com/

The Internet Economy Indicators
http://www.internetindicators.com/

ActivMedia--Some Internet statistics
http://www.activmedia.com/

Alexa Research
http://www.alexaresearch.com

Gartner
http://www3.gartner.com/Init

Federal Electronic Commerce Program Office
http://ec.fed.gov/

GVU’s WWW User Surveys
http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/user_surveys/

NUA--Check out their internet surveys
http://www.nua.ie/

NUA--How Many Online?
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/index.html

Internet Traffic Report
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

Webmergers.com--Buy a dot-com, sell a dot-com, research on dot-coms
http://www.webmergers.com

Upside Today--Dot-com graveyard
http://www.upside.com/graveyard/

Why They Failed--Dot-com failures
http://www.whytheyfailed.com/usa.cgi

Fuc*edCompany.com
http://www.fuckedcompany.com/

Keynote Business 40 Internet Performance Index
http://www.keynote.com/measures/business/business40.html

IDC--Insights on the future of the Internet
http://www.idcresearch.com/

ClickZ Network
http://www.clickz.com/

W3C--WWW Consortium
http://www.w3.org/

Privacy is a big issue in electronic commerce and the following sites might be helpful to professors interested in discussing this topic.

PrivaGate.com--Internet Privacy Gateway provides links to numerous sites dealing with Internet privacy, trust, and e-Commerce assurance
http://privagate.com/

VeriSign --Internet trust services
http://www.verisign.com/

TRUSTe--Major privacy seal on the Internet
http://www.truste.org

eCommerce Law Links from eLibrary
http://www.ecom.cmu.edu/resources/elibrary/ecllinks.shtml

PrivacyX.com
https://www.privacyx.com/

The following sites provide information on domain name registration.

ICANN--The Internet corporation for assigned names and numbers
http://www.icann.org/

InterNIC--Information regarding Internet domain name registration
http://www.internic.net/

Register.com--Register a domain name
http://www.register.com

Unclaimed Domains
http://unclaimeddomains.com/

Domain Notes--Domain resources
http://www.channelseven.com/

US Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/

One of the big issues in electronic commerce deals with electronic payments. In particular, how are firms selling items for small amounts, say for less than $1, on the Internet. Another major concern is security.

ePaynews.com--ePayments resource center
http://www.epaynews.com/

ePayment Links from eLibrary--Vast collection of useful links
http://www.ecom.cmu.edu/resources/elibrary/epaylinks.shtml

Links Relative to Smart Cards and Electronic Payment Systems
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/crypto/card.html

Digital Currencies--from Telecom Information Resources on the Internet
http://china.si.umich.edu/telecom/net-commerce-digital-money.html

PayPal--Send and receive payments online safely
http://www.paypal.com/

eCash Technologies
http://www.digicash.com

Microsoft Passport
http://www.passport.com/

Virtual Wallet from Visa
http://www.visa.com/nt/sec/no_shock/virt_wallet_L.html

Smart Card Resource Center
http://www.smart-card.com/

EntryPoint eWallet
http://www.entrypoint.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?id=OvnkGyrFwE96Ovnk&camp=jump:ew:000000&site=ew&page=download:index_ewallet

Web ATM
http://www.webatm.com/

Cybercash
http://www.cybercash.com/

Summary of E-Commerce and digital signature legislation
http://www.mbc.com/ecommerce.html

Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) from MasterCard
http://www.mastercard.com/shoponline/set/set.html

Introduction to Cryptography--Includes discussion of digital certificates and digital signatures
http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro

Some important sites for learning about selling on the Web.

Sell it on the Web
http://sellitontheweb.com/

E-Commerce 101 -- How to set up a Web store
http://sellitontheweb.com/ezine/webstore101.shtml

Storefront Hosting From Yahoo
http://store.yahoo.com

Storefront Hosting from Merchandizer
http://www.merchandizer.com

Bigstep.com -- Build your business on the Web
http://www.bigstep.com/

About.com --Web Marketing
http://sbinformation.about.com/smallbusiness/sbinformation/msub51.htm

Onvia.com--Small business exchange for buying and selling services
http://www.onvia.com/

Wilson Web Marketing Information Center--Links to thousands of articles on effective Web marketing
http://wilsonweb.com/webmarket/

The following is a very small sample of consumer websites. English auctions are descending price auctions; with Dutch auctions, bidding starts at a high price and keeps dropping until someone accepts the price.

Ebay
http://www.ebay.com/

Yahoo Auctions
http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Ubid
http://www.ubid.com/

Egghead.com
http://www.egghead.com

Klik-Klok Productions--Interesting site since it is one of a few sites that uses an online Dutch Auction
http://www.klik-klok.com

Some important sites for learning about B2B auction sites.

Bocat--Guide to the best B2B sites
http://www.bocat.com/

800mph--Links to numerous auction sites
http://800mph.com/links.html

Freemarkets.com--Major B2B auction site
http://freemarkets.com/

COVISINT --Trading exchange supported by major automobile manufacturers
http://us.covisint.com

Dovebid--A leader in B2B capital asset auctions
http://dovebid.com/

Tradeout--Leading online marketplace for buying and selling excess inventory and idle assets
http://www.tradeout.com/

Buyers.gov--U.S. Government site created for electronic procurement from business
http://www.buyers.gov/

Bidline.com--Publishes government bids from all over the world
http://www.bidline.com/govcon.html

Search multiple auction sites simultaneously using the following websites.

It is important to know how to write a business plan if one desires to start a new business.

SBA--Information on writing a business plan.
http://www.sba.gov/starting/indexbusplans.html

Bplans.com--Business plans
http://www.bplans.com/

The following are some important associations that might be of interest to those in electronic commerce.

CommerceNet --Premier industry association for Internet Commerce
http://www.commerce.net/

Direct Marketing Association
http://www.the-dma.org/

RosettaNet
http://www.rosettanet.org/