Friday, January 25, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Catch Up – Key Concepts Ch. 1
What is E-commerce?
Business activities conducted using electronic data transmissions over the internet and the World Wide Web.
Second Wave E-commerce:
After a major downturn that occurred from the years 2000-2003, electronic commerce began to show signs of new life in which companies were experiencing mass sales growth and even profits through electronic mediums.
E-Business Defined:
The transformation of key business processes through the use of internet technologies. (Another term for Electronic Commerce)
Categories of Electronic Commerce:
B2C – Consumer shopping on the web – Dell Computers
B2B – Transactions conducted between businesses on the web – Wal Mart
C2C – Individuals who buy and sell amongst themselves on the web – Ebay
B2G – Business transactions with government agencies – paying taxes, filing reports
Some Uses for Electronic Commerce:
EFT’s – Electronic Fund Transfers over private communication networks
EDI’s – Electronic Data Interchange transmits computer-readable data in a standard format
Disintermediation – gets rid of the middle man or unnecessary intermediaries. This is very helpful for all categories of E Commerce.
First Wave – Predominantly a US phenomenon with web pages primarily in English on commerce sites.
Second Wave – offers an international scope with sellers doing business in multiple countries and in multiple languages.
Advantages to Electronic Commerce:
- Can increase profits due to lower operating margins
- Advertising reaches a global market
- Can reach customers in geographically scattered regions
- Increases selling and buying opportunities
- Offers wider range of choice for buyers
- Available all the time
- Instant access to detailed information regarding sales or purchases
- Internet can be used as a medium to deliver digital products
- LOWERS COST
Disadvantages to Electronic Commerce:
- Some business process may not be compatible with electronic commerce processes (perishable food, custom jewelery, etc.)
- Compatibility between traditional processes and internet processes creates major difficulty
- Calculation of ROI very difficult for businesses looking to commit to new technologies
- Issues with technology and software that produce cultural and legal obstacles for business conducting electronic business.
Economic Forces Facing Electronic Commerce:
- Transaction Costs: total of all costs that a buyer and seller incur as they gather information and negotiate a purchase-sale transaction
- Markets and Hierarchies: market negotiated transactions
- Reducing Transaction Costs: improving flow of information and increasing coordination of actions
- Network Economic Structures: companies coordinate their strategies, resources, and skill sets by forming long-term, stable relationships with others based on shared purposes.
- Network Effects: as more people begin to use such networks, the value of the network increases to the individual.
International Nature of Electronic Commerce:
- Trust Issues on the Web: businesses on the web must establish trust relationships with customers in order for customers to feel secure when purchasing.
- Language Issues: to do business on a global level, businesses must incorporate multiple languages in their web pages.
- Culture Issues: an important element of business trust as the business must know how a potential customer will act in different cultural situations.
- Culture and Government: some countries’ governments put strict controls on what may or may not be communicated over the web
- Infrastructure Issues: dealing with inadequacies of infrastructures throughout the world.
Business activities conducted using electronic data transmissions over the internet and the World Wide Web.
Second Wave E-commerce:
After a major downturn that occurred from the years 2000-2003, electronic commerce began to show signs of new life in which companies were experiencing mass sales growth and even profits through electronic mediums.
E-Business Defined:
The transformation of key business processes through the use of internet technologies. (Another term for Electronic Commerce)
Categories of Electronic Commerce:
B2C – Consumer shopping on the web – Dell Computers
B2B – Transactions conducted between businesses on the web – Wal Mart
C2C – Individuals who buy and sell amongst themselves on the web – Ebay
B2G – Business transactions with government agencies – paying taxes, filing reports
Some Uses for Electronic Commerce:
EFT’s – Electronic Fund Transfers over private communication networks
EDI’s – Electronic Data Interchange transmits computer-readable data in a standard format
Disintermediation – gets rid of the middle man or unnecessary intermediaries. This is very helpful for all categories of E Commerce.
First Wave – Predominantly a US phenomenon with web pages primarily in English on commerce sites.
Second Wave – offers an international scope with sellers doing business in multiple countries and in multiple languages.
Advantages to Electronic Commerce:
- Can increase profits due to lower operating margins
- Advertising reaches a global market
- Can reach customers in geographically scattered regions
- Increases selling and buying opportunities
- Offers wider range of choice for buyers
- Available all the time
- Instant access to detailed information regarding sales or purchases
- Internet can be used as a medium to deliver digital products
- LOWERS COST
Disadvantages to Electronic Commerce:
- Some business process may not be compatible with electronic commerce processes (perishable food, custom jewelery, etc.)
- Compatibility between traditional processes and internet processes creates major difficulty
- Calculation of ROI very difficult for businesses looking to commit to new technologies
- Issues with technology and software that produce cultural and legal obstacles for business conducting electronic business.
Economic Forces Facing Electronic Commerce:
- Transaction Costs: total of all costs that a buyer and seller incur as they gather information and negotiate a purchase-sale transaction
- Markets and Hierarchies: market negotiated transactions
- Reducing Transaction Costs: improving flow of information and increasing coordination of actions
- Network Economic Structures: companies coordinate their strategies, resources, and skill sets by forming long-term, stable relationships with others based on shared purposes.
- Network Effects: as more people begin to use such networks, the value of the network increases to the individual.
International Nature of Electronic Commerce:
- Trust Issues on the Web: businesses on the web must establish trust relationships with customers in order for customers to feel secure when purchasing.
- Language Issues: to do business on a global level, businesses must incorporate multiple languages in their web pages.
- Culture Issues: an important element of business trust as the business must know how a potential customer will act in different cultural situations.
- Culture and Government: some countries’ governments put strict controls on what may or may not be communicated over the web
- Infrastructure Issues: dealing with inadequacies of infrastructures throughout the world.
Chapter 2 Key Concepts:
Technology Infrastructure
History of the Internet:
Started in 1960’s:
· Department of Defense wanted a safe server to protect data
· If one part hacked then the whole server would not go down
1969:
· ARPANet
1972:
· E-mail introduced
1974:
· TCP/IP
· Language used to send data back and forth (worldwide)
1979:
· Usenet
1980:
· NSF
· Educate students, teachers, etc. about the government….
1993:
· CBC Peter Mansbridge
1995:
· Privatized
· Multiple internet hosts (in the millions)
History of the Web:
1945:
· Vannevar Bush – Memex
1960’s:
· Ted Nelson – “hypertext”
1987:
· Ted Nelson – Xanadu
1989:
· Tim Berners-Lee – www
1993:
· Marc Andreesen – Mosaic
1994:
· Andreesen and Clark – Netscape
2004:
· Web 2.0
· 1.0 is passively consuming content
· 2.0 not only consuming but producing content
Web Languages:
SGML - STANDARD GENERALIZED MARKUP LANGUAGE
HTML – HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE
DHTML - DYNAMIC HTML
XML – EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE
XHTML – EXTENSIBLE HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE
CSS:
Style Sheets
Scripting and Programming:
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Javascript
AJAX
Client-side
Server-side
VBScript
Tutorials:
Web Software:
Web Servers:
Any computer connected to the internet could be a web server. All it takes is the ability to run one of the following programs (Web Server Software):
Apache
IIS – internet information server
HFS – Web Server that can run off your USB memory stick…. Wow amazing.
Server2Go
EasyPHP
XAMPP
Web Clients:
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Opera
Flock
Future of the Internet:
Internet 2: instantaneous
Semantic Web: Search, Retrieve, Link, allows you to click on anything on the page (words) and it is indexed. Basically like a link to information regarding that word.
Network Connectivity:
Public
Private
Bandwidth:
Telephone
Broadband
Leased-line
Wireless
Network Technologies:
Hardware:
Routers – allows you to connect two computers or messages (maps how message will get from a to b) Routers typically have four ports. Have the ‘brains’ to connect a system to the internet.
Hubs – extra connection points for a connecting computer to a router Multiply access to an internet connection
Switches – for larger companies that need to switch for longer distances
Gateway
Access Point
Modems
Protocols:
The rules and guidelines for transferring information over the internet
Internet
TCPIP – transmission control protocol/internet protocol
IP – internet provider – IP address made up of numbers from 0 to 255?
IP - 127.0.0.1 is the number for my individual computer
IP - 192.168.1x is usually the internal company local area network
Domain names
TelNet -
VOIP – voice over internet provider
Mail
SMTP – must download the message each time
POP3 – downloading the message to the computer with the option to store it in computer memory
IMAP – stores messages on the server
WebMail – google, hotmail, yahoo, etc.
Newsgroups
NNTP
Files
FTP – file transfer protocol (go get a file)
SFTP – Secure
Web
HTTP – hypertext transfer protocol (go get a web page)
HTTPS – HTTPSecure (do not give out a credit card number on a site unless it is HTTPS)
History of the Internet:
Started in 1960’s:
· Department of Defense wanted a safe server to protect data
· If one part hacked then the whole server would not go down
1969:
· ARPANet
1972:
· E-mail introduced
1974:
· TCP/IP
· Language used to send data back and forth (worldwide)
1979:
· Usenet
1980:
· NSF
· Educate students, teachers, etc. about the government….
1993:
· CBC Peter Mansbridge
1995:
· Privatized
· Multiple internet hosts (in the millions)
History of the Web:
1945:
· Vannevar Bush – Memex
1960’s:
· Ted Nelson – “hypertext”
1987:
· Ted Nelson – Xanadu
1989:
· Tim Berners-Lee – www
1993:
· Marc Andreesen – Mosaic
1994:
· Andreesen and Clark – Netscape
2004:
· Web 2.0
· 1.0 is passively consuming content
· 2.0 not only consuming but producing content
Web Languages:
SGML - STANDARD GENERALIZED MARKUP LANGUAGE
HTML – HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE
DHTML - DYNAMIC HTML
XML – EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE
XHTML – EXTENSIBLE HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE
CSS:
Style Sheets
Scripting and Programming:
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Javascript
AJAX
Client-side
Server-side
VBScript
Tutorials:
Web Software:
Web Servers:
Any computer connected to the internet could be a web server. All it takes is the ability to run one of the following programs (Web Server Software):
Apache
IIS – internet information server
HFS – Web Server that can run off your USB memory stick…. Wow amazing.
Server2Go
EasyPHP
XAMPP
Web Clients:
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Opera
Flock
Future of the Internet:
Internet 2: instantaneous
Semantic Web: Search, Retrieve, Link, allows you to click on anything on the page (words) and it is indexed. Basically like a link to information regarding that word.
Network Connectivity:
Public
Private
Bandwidth:
Telephone
Broadband
Leased-line
Wireless
Network Technologies:
Hardware:
Routers – allows you to connect two computers or messages (maps how message will get from a to b) Routers typically have four ports. Have the ‘brains’ to connect a system to the internet.
Hubs – extra connection points for a connecting computer to a router Multiply access to an internet connection
Switches – for larger companies that need to switch for longer distances
Gateway
Access Point
Modems
Protocols:
The rules and guidelines for transferring information over the internet
Internet
TCPIP – transmission control protocol/internet protocol
IP – internet provider – IP address made up of numbers from 0 to 255?
IP - 127.0.0.1 is the number for my individual computer
IP - 192.168.1x is usually the internal company local area network
Domain names
TelNet -
VOIP – voice over internet provider
SMTP – must download the message each time
POP3 – downloading the message to the computer with the option to store it in computer memory
IMAP – stores messages on the server
WebMail – google, hotmail, yahoo, etc.
Newsgroups
NNTP
Files
FTP – file transfer protocol (go get a file)
SFTP – Secure
Web
HTTP – hypertext transfer protocol (go get a web page)
HTTPS – HTTPSecure (do not give out a credit card number on a site unless it is HTTPS)
Monday, January 7, 2008
About me
My name is Mike Shaw.
I am a skier who does business. My passion is skiing and I am the head coach of the Silver Star Development Freestyle team. I also like to compete in multiple skiing disciplines.
Other than skiing, I do school, work, and enjoy the excellent nightlife in Vernon, BC.
What's your story?
I am a skier who does business. My passion is skiing and I am the head coach of the Silver Star Development Freestyle team. I also like to compete in multiple skiing disciplines.
Other than skiing, I do school, work, and enjoy the excellent nightlife in Vernon, BC.
What's your story?
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