TEL 555 – Economy and
Industry Standards
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Portal
Sites and Search Engines
Portal site
Metacrawlers (Meta Search
Engines)
Other issues:
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Search results and advertising
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Competition with Web retailers
Commercialization of the Internet
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Following traditional model of “selling you eyeballs”
Slides on Ecommerce and
Web Advertising (optimized for Internet Explorer)
The Long Boom…
The new economy involves
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Tech change
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Ethos of openness
Characteristics of the new economy
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Niche markets
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Loss of the physical
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Efficiency and productivity
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International competition
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5 tech waves
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Globalization (openness and restructuring – think glasnost)
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Shift to capitalism
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Openness to trade
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Market integration
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“Developed” areas “help” “Underdeveloped” get into the new
economy and,
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“Upper-class” helps the “Under-class” get connected
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Education - virtual books/libraries, more about learning to
think, not about what you know
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Multiculturalism – open to differences, globally too
Criticisms?
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What will happen to the world’s cultures?
The World’s Next Growth Economy
Economic power=Information power
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Adoption rates
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Competition
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Exporting
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U.S. Advantages
Impediments to the global
marketplace
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Connection costs
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Cultural values
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Language