Date | Topics, Assignments, etc. |
1/10 | Business: Introduction & Course Overview, How the Internet Works, Internet History, Some E-commerce definitions, An E-commerce Definition.
Technical: Internet Basics, FTP Check hardware requirements & download & install software required for this course. |
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1/17 | University Holiday First Assignment is due. |
1/24 | Business: The Information Economy (S&V Ch. 1), Pricing Information (S&V Ch. 2), Driving Principles of the New Economy. Interorganizational Commerce slides, IT & firm strategy slides. Technical: Building Web pages: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, What E-business sites keep getting wrong.
Basic HTML slides. |
1/31 | Business: Information Technology: Transforming our Economy, Understanding the Net Economy Revolution, Harnesing the Internet to your Customer Strategy (This is a large powerpoint file that you should view.)
Watch this video (14 minutes) Technical: Building Web pages: Introduction To Forms and Cookies. Advanced HTML slides & HTML
Form example slides. |
2/7 | Business: Internet Business Models
Business Model Slides Technical: Building Dynamic Web pages: What we know about site visitors and how this information can
be used. Online transaction processing slides. Second Assignment is due. |
2/14 |
Business: Internet Business Models (continued), The truth about Internet Business Models. Technical: Download & read Getting Started with Cold Fusion. Try out this Cold Fusion Example. Cold Fusion Documentation (reference throughout the semester). |
2/21 | Business: Versioning Information (S&V Ch. 3), Rights Management (S&V Ch. 4), Recognizing Lock-in (S&V Ch. 5), Managing Lock-in (S&V Ch. 6)
You should come prepared to discuss the implications of these readings on the work you are doing in your project. Technical: A brief introduction to database technology & database design. Download Database slides |
2/28 | Business: E-commerce Differences: Pricing & long-term competitiveness: Auctions, Brokering, Going, going, gone, Group Buying discounts. Come prepared to discuss these models from a pricing perspective. Technical: Cold Fusion: updating a database & generating dynamic pages. Download More Advanced Cold Fusion Tags. Third Assignment is due.Here is a solution to the third assignment. |
3/6 | Guest Speakers: Vidya Ravichandran (CEO) & Vik Chadha (CIO) of passion4art.com. Business: Networks & Positive Feedback and Cooperation (S&V Chs. 7 & 8)
Business: Hypermarkets: Three Emerging Strategies, Value-oriented Electronic Commerce Team Project Progress Report is due. |
3/20 | Business: The Goldman Sachs pesrpective on
Ecommerce. Technical: Security: Introduction to Public Key Cryptography, Using PGPKey software. Security slides. |
3/27 | Business: Security & Privacy: Internet Commerce, Securing Trust, Surfer Beware, Cutting out e-fraud. Technical: Web site Design Guide, AskDrWeb's Website Design guide, Free Book on Website Design, Web site building guidelines Fourth Assignment is Due.Here is a solution to Assignment 4. |
4/3 | Business: Standards & Information Policy (S&V Chs. 9 & 10),
Electronic payment systems, Mondex (come prepared to discuss the potential of the Mondex type of system on the Web) Technical: Servers: Web, Mail, Ftp, Streaming, etc. |
4/10 | Guest Speaker: Mr. Steven Paradis, CEO, Ironmax.com. Business: Legal & ethical issues Technical: Technical: Graphics, Use Cases Fifth Assignment is due. |
4/17 |
Make up & Summary |
4/24 | Project Presentations (attendance mandatory)
Project Reports are Due. |
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5/1 | Project Presentations (attendance mandatory) |
