Trajectories of Individual WWW Usage: Implications for Electronic Commerce

Lay Internet Usage - An Empirical Study with Implications for Electronic Commerce and Public Policy

Network Externalities and the Provision of Composite IT Goods Supporting the E-Commerce Infrastructure

Theoretical research on networks and technology standards suggests that network externalities, the additional value of a product or service resulting from an existing installed base, have strategic implications. This paper uses the WWW software market to empirically test the network externalities hypothesis in a market of composite goods. Among the findings is that vendors who provide both comp...

Real-Time Geographic Visualization of World Wide Web Traffic

The rapid growth of the World Wide Web (WWW) is well documented, with WWW sites now advertised in magazines, newspapers, and television commercials. Given current use of the WWW for scientific and educational information sharing and its emerging use for electronic commerce, studying access patterns is an important first step in understanding network implications and in designing future generati...

Retailing on the WWW: The Use of Electronic Product Catalogs

6 Focus Theme Focus Theme Focus Theme Focus Theme Focus Theme There are an ever-increasing number of methods for consumers to shop for products. From in-store shopping, to mail order catalogues, to phone orders, to television channels devoted solely to product sales, shopping avenues continue to progress to new and different frontiers. One of the newest means of retail (also one of the most pro...

On Shopping Incognito

The increasing popularity and importance of electronic com mercemakes very apparent the issue of privacyand anonymity for electronic consumers Technologies are already in exis tence that o er some degree of electronic privacy e g elec tronic digital cash However the mere fact that electronic commerce is conducted over existing network infrastructure such as the global Internet runs counter to t...