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E-commerce and other useful links

E-News

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Research and consultancy

Online journals

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Standards on the Web

• http://www.w3.org
• The authority for web standards

• http://www.wapforum.org/
• The mobile web (WAP)

• http://www.openbuy.org/
• The Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) Consortium

• http://www.rosehill.net/XML-accounting.htm
• A very comprehensive glossary of terms, acronyms and links

• http://www.ucc.ie/xml/
• An XML FAQ

• http://www.ebXML.org
• XML for E-business Initiative

• http://www.xml.org
• XML information from OASIS group

• http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgml-xml.html
• Very comprehensive SGML/XML resources

• http://www.biztalk.org/
• The BizTalk site

• http://www.rosettanet.org
• The RosettaNet site

• http://www.e-speak.hp.com/
• HP Middleware

• http://www.edi-info-center.com/
• A collection of EDI, XML, Internet, CALS and Security Info

• http://www.eccma-unspsc.org/
• Universal Standard Products and Services Classification Code (UNSPSC) site

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E-commerce resources and link collections

• http://ecommerce.internet.com/resources/
• A wide range of resources (reference, articles, software, news)

• http://www.b2business.net/
• Large collection of B2B resources

• http://dmoz.org/Business/E-Commerce/
• E-commerce in the Open Directory project

• http://www.bpubs.com/Internet_and_E-Commerce/
• The business publications search site

• http://www.merchantworkz.com/glossary.asp
• An E-commerce glossary

• http://www.ecomfocus.com
• The Internet One-Stop Information Shop for ecommerce info

• http://thewebcowboy.com/
• News sites (tech and general), Download sites, 'HowTos & Tutorials' and Programmers Corner

• http://www.ecnow.com/resources.htm
• A wide selection of links at Ecnow.com

• http://www.ecominfocenter.com/
• The Ecommerce information centre

• http://www.doc.gov/Electronic_Commerce/
• US Govt guide to ecommerce.

• http://cyberatlas.internet.com/
• Internet Statistics to add verisimilitude to your presentations

• http://www.communityb2b.com/
• Free membership site -B2B information and resources

• http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2b/main.jhtml
• B2B info and articles

• http://www.ebizquadrant.com/
• E-biz info and articles

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E-News

• Northlight's news page
• Selected newsfeeds on this site

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/
• All the latest news and gossip

• http://slashdot.org/
• Techy news and views

• http://www.internetwk.com/
• Internet week online

• http://www.ecommercetimes.com/
• E-commerce Times

• http://www.thestandard.com/
• theStandard: "Intelligence for the internet economy"
  
• Now an archive of articles charting the 'Dot Com Bubble'
• From January 1998 through September 2001

• http://www.ecompany.com/
• Ecompany news

• http://www.moreover.com/onlineportals/
• Gateways to news about almost everything

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Company specific information

Note: The inclusion or absence of any specific company in this section does not reflect Northlight's view of that company's products

• http://www.microsoft.com/business/
• The view from Redmond

• http://www.ibm.com/e-business/
• The view from IBM

• http://www.commerceone.com/
• The future with Commerce One

• http://www.ariba.com
• The future with Ariba

• http://www.purchasesoft.com
• The future with Purchasesoft

• http://www.intradeonline.com/
• The future with Infobank (CANCELLED)
• Now its the future with Izodia http://www.izodia.com

• http://www.elcom.com/
• The future with Elcom

• http://www.mysap.com/
• SAP and the 'City of E'

• http://www.softco.com/
• The future with Softco

• http://www.biomni.com
• The future with Biomni

• http://www.marakech.com
• The future with Marakech

• http://www.btignite.com/application-services
• BT E-commerce

• http://www.ec.ups.com/ecommerce/home.html
• UPS E-commerce info

• http://www.microsoft.com/business/vision/netvision.asp
• Read this and you too will fully comprehend .NET

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Research and consultancy

• http://www.se-com.com/
• The Se-Com Project, an intelligence briefing on secure electronic commerce An extensive collection of White Papers and resources

• http://www.ascet.com/resources.asp
• Improving the supply chain through technology (ASCET)

• http://mckinseyquarterly.com
• The McKinsey Quarterly

• http://www.forrester.com/
• Research from Forrester

• http://www.gartner.com/
• Info from the Gartner Group

• http://www.idc.com/
• IDC Research

• http://www.yankeegroup.com/
• The Yankee Group

• http://www.metagroup.com/
• META Group Inc

• http://www.mriresearch.com/
• Montgomery Research

• http://www.kpmg.com/
• KPMG

• http://www.pwcconsulting.com/
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers (becoming part of IBM)

• http://www.gigaweb.com/
• The Giga Information Group

• http://www.atkearney.com/main.taf?site=1&a=5&b=0&c=0&d=0
• 'Thought leadership' (:-)) and info from ATK

• http://www.amrresearch.com/
• AMR Research

• http://www.accenture.com/
• Accenture (not Andersen Consulting anymore)

• http://www.jup.com/home.jsp
• Jupiter Research

• http://www.cbi.cgey.com
• The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation

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Online journals/magazines

• http://www.cio.com/
• CIO magazine's on-line edition

• http://www.cfo.com/cfo_home
• CFO magazine's on-line edition

• http://www.kmmag.com/
• Knowledge Management magazine

• http://www.line56.com/
• Online edition of Line56 B2B magazime

• http://www.business2.com/
• Business 2 magazine

• http://www.upside.com/
• Upside

• http://www.competia.com
• Competitive intelligence information and wide range of links

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Web design and usability guidelines

• http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/AHTutorials/interface.html
• Web design guidelines from Cornell University

• http://cybermed.ucsd.edu/Web_design/SMA.html
• Some basic guidelines for Web design

• http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/
• A guide to writing styles, for web use

• http://www.iarchitect.com/
• A guide to usability from Isys (check out the hall of shame!)

• http://www.interfacemafia.org/
• Good collection of interface design articles and info

• http://www.hcibib.org/
• The HCI bibliography- very large collection of resources

• http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/cat_0.txl
• Usability glossary, from Usability First

• http://www.hcirn.com/
• The HCI resource network

• http://dmoz.org/Computers/Human-Computer_Interaction/
• The open directory (DMOZ) HCI collection

• http://www.nickfitz.idps.co.uk/
• Some useful design tips and apposite observations

• http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
• The title says it all...

• http://www.cwd.dk/
  
• 'Cool Web design' - links for inspiration

• ttp://www.wpdfd.com/
• Web pages for designers - tips/tricks

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Other Net-info and aids to thinking

• http://www.dilbert.com/

• http://www.davinci-institute.com/links.htm
• The daVinci institute's links to future technology

• http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate?
• Translate English into other languages and vice versa (produce your own printer manuals :-))
  
  
• http://www.omniglot.com/
• Provides a guide to over 200 different alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems
  
  
• http://www.megaconverter.com/mega2/
• Converts units of measure into others (US-UK, Imperial-metric and many more)

• http://www.howstuffworks.com/
• The web guide to how things work

• http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/
• Netsurfer digest

• http://www.netsurf.com/nss/
• Netsurfer Science

• http://www.bartleby.com/
• Books on-line, Bartlett's Quotations

• http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
• Listing of over 17000 'books on-line'

• http://www.AcronymFinder.com
• Over 242,000 acronyms

• http://www.faqs.org/
• All the newsgroup FAQs (far far more than you ever wanted to know)

• http://www.worldskip.com/
• All kinds of information on just about every country in the world

• http://www.refdesk.com
• Superb source of facts and information on the web

• http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
• How to find things on the web - a tutorial

• http://www.internets.com/
• http://www.searchengineguide.com/
• http://www.invisibleweb.com/
• http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/index.html
• http://www.ixquick.com/
• http://www.searchability.com/
• http://www.metor.com/
• Collections of collections of search engines

• http://www.losers.org/
• http://www.crank.net/
• Just when you thought you'd seen everything

• http://www.Northlight-images.co.uk
• The Northlight Images Gallery -B&W landscape photography