E‐commerce resources on the web
| Published date | 01 March 2000 |
| Date | 01 March 2000 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/eb040765 |
| Pages | 57-60 |
| Author | Paul Pedley |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management |
E-commerce
resources on the web
by Paul Pedley, Economist Intelligence
Unit
No matter where you look there seem to be
news stories, journal
articles,
and television
and radio programmes about e-commerce.
Indeed, this has now moved on from
e-commerce to e-business and more recently
to m-commerce.
There are a lot of websites covering
e-business /
e-commerce
and I have tried to
trawl through these sites and pick out some of
the best that are available.
Portals
About.com - electronic commerce
(http://ecommerce.about.com/
smallbusiness/ecommerce/)
About.com's sites are each devoted to a single
topic and an expert guide oversees them. This
means that the About.com guide to electronic
commerce has content that is highly targeted,
containing feature articles, news and discussions
on e-commerce.
CIO Electronic Commerce Research Center
(http://www.cio.com/forums/ec)
The publishers of
CIO
magazine produce this site.
It covers a wide range of topics relating to e-
commerce including b2b, retail, electronic data
interchange, e-banking, government regulations,
legal and security issues and case studies. The site
also has a number of other resources such as
discussion forums, and links to the full-text of
articles from CIO magazine.
ebusinessforum.com
(http://www.ebusinessforum.com)
ebusinessforum.com is a new website from the
Economist Intelligence Unit, which provides
insight and analysis to help senior executives build
successful strategies for the global digital
economy. The strength of the site is its global
coverage. It has produced a set of e-business-
readiness rankings that act as a guide to the
relative preparedness of the world's main markets
for the e-business era. Within the "Research" area
of the site, there are several hundred links to useful
websites for e-business information covering
statistics, market research, consultancies, portals,
news,
trade
journals,
IT companies, legal issues,
and country / region specific material.
Martin White's e-commerce links
(http://www.intranetfocus.com/E-business/
E-commerce_links/e-commerce_Iinks.html)
There is a set of e-commerce links on Martin
White's website covering reports & surveys,
organisations, current awareness, portal sites,
magazines, and IT companies. Many of the sources
give a good strategic overview of
e-commerce, whilst other listed sites are useful for
current news and activities.
Wilson Internet Services
(http://www.wilsoninternet.com)
This portal of e-commerce resources by the pub-
lishers of "Web Commerce Today" consists of
links to news headlines, free e-commerce articles,
an e-commerce forum plus a number of subscrip-
tions based resources.
Statistics
Cyberatlas
(http://cyberatlas.internet.com)
This site, owned by internet.com, is the web
marketer's guide to online facts to help people
understand their business environment and make
more informed decisions. The statistics are split up
into headings such as the big picture,
demographics, geography and traffic patterns.
eStats (eMarketer)
(http://www.emarketer.com/estats/
welcome.html)
The eMarketer site provides statistics, news and
information. The statistics area of
the
site is
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