| Date |
Topics |
Readings and
Resources
תורוקמו האירק
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Dec. 14 |
Introduction, HTML basics, E-Commerce Frameworks and Models (I),
Packet Switching, Traceroute, Ping
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Top 100 Web Sites
CISCO's
Internet usage Facts and Stats
Global Internet Stats by Language
But...
The virtual science of high-tech forecasting, New York Times, 19 Dec. 1999
Ratings That Know What You're Looking at, and When
, New York Times, June 7, 2000
We Have Liftoff The Economist February 2001 review of B2C E-Commerce
The Internet, UntetheredThe Economist, October, 2001 report on wireless business
Here
is the HTML assignment.
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14 December |
Frameworks and Models (II): Negroponte, Coase, Moore, Metcalfe, Gartner's "Hype Cycle"
|
 Frameworks
class notes PPT
"Rules"
class notes PPT
Searching on the Web CN PPT
See Cybergeography Info Maps too
File formats and compression CN PPT
Compression examples: Balloon and beach ball
Shapiro and Varian's Information Rules summary. See the book's full site
Downes and Mui's Unleashing
the Killer App Guided Tours: Key Concepts & Read the Book: the 12 Principles.
Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers
"The New Wealth of Nations"
, May 2000.
Gartner's Hype Cycle
Warriors of the Net, Ericsson Radio Systems' animation of IP, LAN, firewalls, servers, Ping, packets, proxies, etc.
Quality, "purity", and accessibility issues in designing HTML, or here.
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21 December |
Technologies: routing, ethernet, TCP/IP, ftp, EDI, telnet, ICQ |
Kevin Kelly's (1997)
New Rules for the New Economy Wired and hotwired.
Frameworks 2
CN PPT
Metatags
CN PPT
File formats and compression CN PPT
HTACCESS
Rose et al.'s
Current Technological Impediments to Business-to-consumer electronic commerce, June 1999.
Business 2.0, June 2000 :
Crash and Learn, A Field Manual for Ebusiness Survival
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28 December |
Cryptography, Security
Payment Mechanisms and Digital Money RSA, SET, SSL, PGP
 Group topic due |
Digital Cash and the Future of Money
Orlin Grabbe's Internet Payment Schemes
The Mathematical Ideas Behind Digital Cash, or
here
EPayNews Statistics for Electronic Transactions, at epaynews.com
Singh's Cipher Challenge
Dollartracer
Encryption CN
PPT
Digital Payment systems CN PPT
Electronic
payment systems CN PPT
Using PGP
Financial Times (FT) television coverage of security threats
The math primitives:
factoring, discrete logarithms
Gleick's "The End of Cash"
Panel
Passes Bill to Halt Limits on Encryption
RSA Laboratories' celebrated FAQ 4.0about security
Verisign's "Building an E-Commerce Trust Infrastructure
SSL Server Certificates and Online Payment Services "
http://www.crypto.com/
Peter
Gutmann's Encryption and
Security tutorial, and especially the part on electronic
payments
Paper Gains The Economist on the history of paper currency
The Virtual Threat The Economist May 2000 review of online finance
|
4 January |
New market mechanisms, auctions
Javascript, Cookies
HTML assignment due |
PGP's international site
PGP's US site, with links to McAffee
Howard Rosenbaum's excellent tutorial PPT CN for UNIX command line use of pgp
Agorics: intro to auctions
Different types of auctions
Dutch auction: Try it out
US govt. FTC Guide for Buyers and Sellers
Carnahan's Economics of Priceline
Gottleib's eBay or the highway
Javascript
CN PPT
Bookmarklets
Javascript examples,
Koch's tutorial
, Thau's tutorial
Showoff time!
, Cheat sheet
Netscape's Validation scripts
JavaScript Mall,
Builder's tutorials,
InfoHiway scripts
The Javascript/JScript standard,
WsAbstract tutorials,
WebTeacher tutorials
ScriptSearch.com,
Scripts.com,
Peachpit
Example1,Ex2,
Ex3,Ex4,
Ex5,Ex6,
Ex7
Cookies CN
PPT
The Cookie Controversy
A cookie example
(on your machine)
CookieCentral's Cookie demos
Meta Tags ppt class notes
Salon's treatment of the "Lonesome Internet Blues" (Internet Paradox and Stanford/Nie studies).
Auctions CN PPT
Cookies
Favorites demo
Bill Helling's Web Site
Sensitivity to Privacy Concerns, in First Monday
MSNBC's Invasion of Privacy coverage and interactive tools
|
11 January |
Intranets, Knowledge Management
Access logs
Privacy |
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, EPIC's tools
Privacy international
Class
Notes on Access LogsCN PPT
Reach
for the Hits S. Rosenberg, Salon Magazine
InformationWeek's Tapping the
Pipeline |
18 January |
CGI
Javascript assignment due |
Continued discussion of logs (article and video)
Quality and HTML validation
Gif Wizard
CGI intro
CN PPT
Cgi forms
example
Perl Environment
program,
ASP version, and see explanation
Same
program, from a form
ASP examples:
Hello world,
Greeting, session and time,
environment vars,
and a database example
See ASP 101
Remotely
hosted Mailto example
Guide to
SSI
UofM
hosted CGI services
Evan Schwartz, Digital Darwinism:
THE POWER OF DYNAMIC PRICING
XML
CN PPT
Grocery list simple display by xml example,
Grocery 2 xml example,
Product list xml in tables example,
Product list 2 xml sorting example,
Portfolio financial data display and sorting xml example,
Language xml example
Deitel's Chess example
Microsoft's Elaborate Auction data and reporting example
|
25 January |
Individual level issues
Java
|
Kraut et. al.'s American Psychologist Internet Paradox
A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being? Sept. 1998,
and Paradox Revisited, the July 2001 retraction.
Rheingold's response
Scott Rosenberg's Salon response
Java
intro CN PPT
Java examples Clocks, banners, 3d, stocks, calculators, abacus
Sun's JDK 1.1
Demos
Try a remote
java clock |
25 January |
Online communities, cyberplaces, groups, social level issues
VRML and DHTML
CGI assignment due |
JCMC's Special Issue on E-Commerce esp. Lohse and Spiller's How the user interface influences traffic and sales
Online Community-building Concepts experiences and proverbs from the Well, by Gail Williams
The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online By Howard Rheingold
Falling Through the Net:
Defining the Digital Divide a report, census data and charts by the US Dept. of Commerce (July 1999).
Falling through the Net 2000, fourth part of Digital Divide study
Wooley's "ThinkofIt" and The Future of Web Conferencing
DHTML
intro CN PPT
DHTML examples:
positioning ,
flip (filters),
width,
slide,
Dynamic positioning,
transitions,
Deitel's sort,
and advanced sort .
CSS complete tutorial
Little Boxes CSS examples
VRML intro CN
PPT
Conferencing, Groups & Communities CN
PPT
The Case for Online Communities The McKinsey Quarterly, 2002 Number 1 (Jan. 2002) , Web exclusive
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Thursday
1 February |
Group presentations
Technion, Winter 2001 projects
Summer 2000 voting procedure
Summer 2000 Group presentations
|
John Perry Barlow
Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net
Eric S. Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar
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1 February |
Group presentations
Please click here for Technion, Winter 2001 projects
Please click here for votes on the Winter 2001 projects
Summing up: Success Stories(?), New markets, Redux
Java assignment due
Summer 2000 voting procedure
Summer 2000 Group presentations
|
Innovators/Innovations in
Downes' and Mui's Killer Apps.
Patent Protection for E-Commerce Business Models
and
Internet
Business
Model Patents
J. Askew, LLP
Rethinking the Portal conceptDenise Caruso
E-Business: What's The Model?
The Truth about Internet Business Models J.F. Rayport
Business
Models for Electronic Markets, P. Timmers
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1 February |
Please click here for Technion, Winter 2001 projects
Please click here for votes on the Winter 2001 projects
Final Examination
Example Exam items
Vote due
Summer 2000 voting procedure
Summer 2000 Group presentations
1999 Voting
Procedure |
See here for Summer 2001 Michigan projects
Please click here for the Summer 2000 group presentations and voting mechanism
Summer 2000 voting procedure
Summer 2000 Group presentations
Following are the 1999 group presentation sites:
See Dolev and Duvdevan projects Here, and see, in the following, Univ. of Michigan projects:
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Haifa GSB, January 2002 
VERED Discussion Board
