General Topic: 
    Business Applications and Models
   Topics Covered
   • [Discussion of Miniproject as Needed]
   • Ingredients for a successful eBusiness startup
   • Sample eCommerce business ideas
   • Ingredients for extensions of established business
   • Ingredients for an eBusiness Plan
      Some Ingredients for 
   a Successful eBusiness Startup (1)
  Match Technology and Market
  • Great technology without a large market 
   potential fails
  • Great market opportunity without requisite 
   reliable technology also fails
  • The absence of both fails gloriously 
   (Pets.com, Webvan.com, …)
        Some Ingredients for a 
     Successful eBusiness Startup (2)
   B2C and C2C eBusiness Examples
   • Searching and browsing the web
    search engines, Yahoo-like-taxonomies, locators, ...
   • On-line trading
    eBrokerages, eAuctions, eMiniMalls, ...
   • People-to-people
    chatrooms, email, instant-messaging, peer-to-peer...
           IR-Related eCommerce 
            Business Ideas: eCLIP
     eCLIP: Adaptable Electronic Clipping Service
     • Goal: Personalized eNewspaper
       (weekly, daily, hourly)
     • User sets interest profile
       YES:     "finance>eCommerce>technology"
       "science>astronomy"
       NO:      "sports" "politics>scandals"
       KEY-TERMS: "ecommerce" "search engine"
       "IPO" "Hubble"
       IR-Related eCommerce 
      Business Ideas: eCLIP (2)
   • Multiple news-feeds are categorized on entry 
     ...and filtered by user profiles
   • Maximally-relevant & novel news is included
     Next most relevant or less novel is summarized
     Rest is ignored.
   • User feedback automatically adjusts profile
     (e.g. thumbs-down on more Amazon.com news 
     thumbs-up on news about new search engines)
   • Revenue models: subscription, advertisement, ...