Entered by Gio Wiederhold, updated 10 , 16 Jan 2003.
Mutual discussion; understanding what's going on; analysis; business trade-offs, making predictions, but not telling what the future will bring.
Student participation: reading, arguing, writing of Web pages for an Internet Website.
Select your topic as early as possible. Topic discussion will be driven by interests. Areas: Retail Commerce (B2C), B2B, G2C, Education, Healthcare, ...
Have something sketched out by Midterm time.
Reach me by email, often on travel. Appointments via Marianne <siroker@db>.
Wide variety of backgrounds, expertise, goals. All names should be on the classlist, please check it. Soon there should be also some pictures.
If any participants are not on the classlist, let to: gio@cs.stanford.edu know soon.
1. Role of the Internet. Selection by Price and quality
2. Fungible items: books, CDs, new cars maybe, not used cars. May depend on settings, as 2x4 lumber. Think of examples for your topics.
3. XML versus HTML - (we'll have much more on that)
HTML - focus on presentation, i.e., see the tags for paragraph, italics:
<P>CS73Nclass: <I>Business on the Internet</I>; Stanford Seminar, 2003. </P>
XML - focus in being able to process information, i.e.,
<CITATION><AUTHOR> CS73Nclass</Author> <BOOK>Business on the Internet</BOOK> <PUBLISHER>Stanford Seminar</PUBLISHER><DATE>2003</DATE></CITATION>
XML tags require standards: who sets them? The United Nations? Interest groups, professional associations?
Did I miss something? Send me email.
Final: a web page report that could be actionable information for someone who wants to do business on the Internet:
1. A specific business plan
2. A general analysis, but not so broad that it has no depth
3. An exposition of current or expected technology, laws, social changes, ... that will affect such businesses
All of the grade depends on it, so think about now, give me a draft at midterm time.
We'll discuss proposals in class; on Thursdays.