IBM's Next Generation Internet Site
Information about future technological developments

Institute for Technology and Enterprise
A research and learning hub devoted to understanding the impact of technological innovation today on people, firms and markets and discerning the resulting managerial implications

Next-Generation Internet
From the White House

Internet 2
From higher education

The building of the Internet: Implications for the Future of Broadband Networks, by Jeffrey Hart, Robert Reed and Francois Bar.
This paper was published in Telecommunications Policy, November 1992



Cognitive and Psychological Sciences on the Internet


Society for Consumer Psychology


Resources on Internet Survey Methodology


FlowNet
-- the global internetwork established to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences associated with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow theory.....

VRFlow
-- the research project of the economic effects of virtual reality and hypertext functionality enhanced webflow for consumer behavior in electronic commerce networks...

Project 2000 (Vanderbilt University)

I/PRO
Web reporting delivering numerous measures of activity such as banner ad impressions and other web measurements

WebTrends
Statistics, marketing and traffic reporting for Web servers

WebWatch
Web Watch: The number of visits the entire site received. The length of time visitors spent on both the site and the individual pages. The number of times visitors responded to a specific advertisement or link. Comprehensive and verifiable reports on web site visitor activity. The Beta version of WebWatch is now available. Report demos are also on display.


The Conaghan Report -- links to tracking audience and advertising on the Web

Audit Bureau of Circulations
Description of service which audits/verifies print vehicle audience circulation figures.

Internet Audit Bureau
The number of visits (hits) Independent count of multiple pages in a Web site for the record of unique access.

Audit Bureau of Verification Services (ABVS)
Interactive Auditing Service: Subsidiary of Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC); working with MarketArts WebFacts (formerly WebTrack)

Better Business Bureau
Online program (1997 launch) operates as a seal of approval for Web sites in compliance with traditional BBB standards for customer service and marketplace ethics (BBB Code of Advertising)

BPA International
International board of directors comprised of advertisers, agencies, and publishers in the purpose of setting standards for Web advertising

Interactive Alliance
Founders: Arbitron Company (Arbitron NewMedia) and Next Century Media, Inc.

Newspaper Association of American (NAA)
The Conaghan Report: Tracking Audience and Advertising on the Web

Internet Advertising Resource Guide (Michigan State University)

Banner Ad Placement Study

Advertising on the World Wide Web



What is Electronic Commerce?

A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce

Electronic Commerce and Web Research Report

Economic Paradigm for Information Systems and Networks

Measuring Electronic Commerce

The Economic and Social Impacts of Electronic Commerce Preliminary findings and Research Agenda


Virtual Institute of Information
The source for telecommunications, cybercommunications, amd mass media research

Internet Economy Indicators

The Internet Economy Indicators are such measures, designed to quantify the sales volume and employment in various groups of Internet-related products and services.

The Economics of Networks (by Nicholas Economides)

The Emerging Digital Economy
Report from the US Department of Commerce

The Information Economy (by Hal R. Varian)

Information Economy (OECD)

Internet Economics Workshop
Journal of Electronic Publishing Special Issues


USC Digital Commerce Center
Part of EC^2, a business incubator and media research center associated with USC

CREC
Center for Research in Electronic Commerce at the University of Texas at Austin

Competence Network
Resources on electronic commerce

eCommerce Info Center
Lots of links to ecommerce materials on the Internet

Wharton Forum on Electronic Commerce
(The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania)

NetAcademy on Business Media
Provides a global knowledge medium for researchers in the field of EC to exchange ideas, conduct collaborative research, and serve as a digital library for that domain

Online Commerce and Models for the Future
Collection of links related to digital commerce