Topic 9 - HI2

The aim of this section of the course is to illustrate some of the concepts discussed in the previous topics in a particular setting: Electronic Commerce.

See both local and general links below.

Some local Links

Internet Cafés

• Internet Café - http://www.commsport.com/
  Costa Coffee, Coney Street.

• The Gateway- http://www.ymn.net/gateway/
  Barleycorn Yard to a more central location in Swinegate

• City Screen - http://www.picturehouse-cinemas.co.uk/yk/index.html
  Tickets, prices and reservations.

Community

• Unofficial York City Fan Club - http://www.spho.demon.co.uk/
  Exactly what it says

• The York Minster Society of Change Ringers - http://www.btinternet.com/~ymscr/
  includes a virtual tour of the bell towers, visitor information, photographs, and sound.

• York Minster - http://www.yorkminster.org/
  official site of the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe.

• On Line York - http://www.martyrs.co.uk
  This White Rose Web ring site owned by On Line York.

• York Millennium Mystery Plays - http://www.mysteryplays2000.org
  a special millennium production of the York Mystery Plays, to be performed in the Nave of York Minster

• The Lesbian and Gay Guide to North Yorkshire - http://gouk.about.com/travel/gouk/library/blgaynyork.htm
  From about.com Part of larger guide with consumer reviews.

E-Commerce - Tourism

• The York Tourists guide - http://www.york-tourism.co.uk/
  getting to York, attractions, shopping and dining, tours, events, this month in York, entertainment, conferences, accommodation, links, search, contact us, York screensaver.

• This is York - http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/
  Electronic newspaper + tourist information. (Frames)

• York Gateway - http://www.yorkgateway.co.uk/
  WHAT'S ON in York: City of York Council, Chamber of Commerce, North Yorkshire TEC, Science City, This is York / Evening Press, University of York, York Inward Investment Board, York Minster, York Multimedia Network, York Tourism Bureau (First Stop)

• City of York.Com - http://www.cityofyork.com/
  Tourist Information (pages about Travel, Maps, Accommodation, Shopping) + Economic Facts (local employment and population Statistics, etc). Includes business guide.

There are also a large number of pages on Hotels, accommodation, bed and breakfast, etc. A number of these are parts of larger travel guides. In addition there are number of personal pages about visits to York

E-Commerce - (Small) Businesses

• Fibbers - http://www.fibbers.co.uk/
  Music listings, mailing list + message boards.

• Impressions Gallery - http://www.impressions-gallery.com/
  Site for Impressions Gallery Coppergate, York

Local Government

• Local Government sites - http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/northyorkshire.htm
  Includes links to other local areas.

Some general links

• AlertBox - http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
  Current Issues in Web Usability. Lists issues related to web usability in order of the most popular columns according to the log file statistics.

• Better Address Your Customers - http://www.business2.com/articles/2000/01/content/market_4.html
  Addresses some issues of Web Usability and e-commerce - "It's hubris to expect customers to imagine themselves as just cogs in your Web machine ... most sites don't offer enough immediate value to overcome the inertia (or patience level) of a casual consumer".

• The Strategic Challenges of Electronic Commerce - http://www.enix.co.uk/electron.htm
  This paper, by Derek Miers and Graham Hutton of Enix Consulting, investigates payment systems, process support and customer information and the way in which they are all affected by the extraordinary growth of Electronic Commerce.

• On the Road of Electronic Commerce - http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~mbloch/docs/roadtoec/ec.htm
  This paper addresses the issue of understanding the components of the business value an organization can derive from using electronic commerce.

• Electronic Commerce: A Special issue of JCMC, Vol. 1, No. 3 - http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol1/issue3/vol1no3.html
  Contains several interesting articles on Electronic Commerce.

• Roger Clarke's Electronic Commerce Definitions - http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/ECDefns.html
  In any rapidly evolving field, terms are used in ways that can vary subtly or even substantially. The definitions here are those that I currently find to be most effective in analyzing and communicating about electronic commerce.

• International Journal of Electronic Commerce - http://www.cba.bgsu.edu/ijec/
  The International Journal of Electronic Commerce is a referred quarterly devoted to advancing the understanding and practice of electronic commerce. It serves the needs of researchers as well as practitioners and executives involved in electronic commerce.

• Electronic Commerce: Effects on Electronic Markets - http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol1/issue3/wigand.html
  The authors draw upon research based on previous studies focusing on transaction cost theory and electronic markets, suggesting that due to efficiencies gained intermediaries between the manufacturer and the consumer may be threatened as more and more electronic commerce manifests itself and as the NII reaches out to the consumer.

• Commercial Scenarios for the Web: Opportunities and Challenges - http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol1/issue3/hoffman.html
  In this paper we propose a structural framework for examining the explosion in commercial activity on the Web ... This analysis leads to a new classification of commercialization efforts that categorizes commercial Web sites into six distinct types.

• Economics of Content Provision on the Internet by Claudia Loebbecke - MIS course notes
  This paper outlines the economic impacts upon organizations of offering content on the Web. Currently many companies, whose Internet activities are not their core business, often do not generate sufficient profit from providing this content and discusses four ways for companies to profit from having an Internet presence.