Univ. of Haifa, GSB, January - February 2001 Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli	Timetable and Readings	Conceptual Table	Top of Syllabus
		Discussion Board	References

Concepts

Technological determinism ? Bandwidth, "Media Richness" "Digital divide" "The Internet Paradox"	Disintermediation, Reintermediation "To be Amazonned" Price Differentiation, SCM	Connectionless, Stateless Systems "Stickiness" Scalability	Auctions: Vickrey, English, First Price, Dutch, Yankee, Winner's curse
"Network externalities", "positive feedback", micropayments, bundling, seignorage	Symmetric vs. A-Symmetric encryption: Secret or Private/Public keys	Synchronic vs. A-Synchronic Communication	Ethernet TCP/IP EDI
SSI, PHP, ASP Frames, Imagemaps, GIF animation	Copyright, Trademark, Patent Shareware, public domain Steganography Intellectual property	Compiled vs.Interpreted programming Peer-to-peer (P2P), Client vs. Server processing	Interactivity, Hypertext, Packet-Switching
VAN, Internet, Intranet, Extranet Firewall, Proxy, VPN	SGML, HTML, XML CGI, "Shopping carts"	RSA, SSL, SET, PGP "hard problem" P3P	Pull, push, stream, flash, VoIP, avatars
Agents: Brokering, Filtering, Recommending, Negotiating "Bots"	Java, Javascript, Active-X Cookies	Sandbox vs. "trust" security models "Thin" clients	WAP Bluetooth
Netiquette, Web Style and Norms, Spam "Denial of Service", "Nuke"	Privacy and Ethics: Whois, Finger, Traceroute	E-Lancing, Virtual Organizations Telecommuting	Hits, visits, "reach", "eyeballs", "Viral Marketing", CRM, Mass Customization (Zero-) Latency
See also: E-Commerce Glossary HotWired's Encyclopedia of the New Economy	WhatIs.Com E-company's online (www.ecompany.com) glossary	TechWeb Encyclopedia	PC Web-O-Pedia Gartner's Glossary The Economist's glossary and internet guide Rafaeli and Raban's Hebrew Glossary

Univ. of Haifa, GSB, January - February 2001 Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli	Timetable and Readings	Conceptual Table	Top of Syllabus
		Discussion Board	References

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