Internet Chokes on Own Growth. For all its growth, the Internet hasn't proven to be the killer business platform... yet.

Gartner cuts its forecast for growth of b-to-b. InfoWorld Feb 14 2001 4:43PM ET

Why We Need Extensible B2B Infrastructures. sapinfo Feb 14 2001 4:10PM ET

P2P takes the spotlight this week. ZDNet Feb 14 2001 4:00PM ET

Rating:3 A superficial view of the issues of linking exchanges.

Merger of the MetaMarkets. B2B Markets and Exchanges Feb 14 2001 2:55AM ET

Some B2B European news for a change

Fish, Phones and Construction...Leading B2B Marketplaces. uk.internet.com Feb 14 2001 6:34AM ET

Rating: 6 What a cool idea, 3D maps of Uusenet activity

Wired News: From March 5, 1998; Mapping Anarchy on Usenet

Rating: 9

O'Reilly Conference Opens To Packed House

There's no money in Syndication anymore??

Red Herring: iSyndicate blames layoffs on expansion.

Winamp 3 alpha 4 and Winamp rumors

Rating:5 Pick your own Buy.com ending.

Conflicting standards. The day the subs were out to lunch

Rating: 7 LOL!

Sex ads on police computer case goes to tribunal. TV says Met isn't PC

Rating 7: Metiom are involved and somebody's got to bring in the SMEs

JP Morgan Chase Launches bPurchase.com, The First Open, Bank Sponsored e-Marketplace Dedicated To Small Busine. Business Wire Feb 14 2001 10:20AM ET

From BetaNews.com: Napster 2.0 Beta 9.6 Released The technies just keep it rollin' regardless of the suits :-)

Commerce One passes Ariba. UpsideToday Feb 14 2001 7:13AM ET

Rating: 8

DaveNet: How to Make Money on the Internet v2.0.

Rating: 6

B2B Software Demand Will Soar In Recession

Damn Clever

Rating: 4

Interactive Week: Peer Pressure. "I don't think Microsoft cares about 'providing leadership' so much as becoming a player over time," said Clay Shirky, partner at investment firm Accelerator Group, who has been monitoring P2P companies. "At a guess, Microsoft will buy whoever's good when the smoke starts clearing."

DaveNet: Desktop Websites.

Rating:4

W3C unveils Semantic Web Activity. The W3C have officially commenced an Activity to pursue the vision of
the Semantic Web, under the leadership of Eric Miller.

Paul Andrews: "I'm getting the impression we may be entering a new phase of Blog evolution."

Rating:8

O'Reilly: The
Parable of Umbrellas and Taxicabs

Napster 2.0 Beta 9.6 Released

The Upshot: Small Conference Crowd Shows Aribas Box Office Draw Dwindling. TheStreet.com Feb 13 2001 5:27PM ET

Startup bringing P2P technology to B2B transactions. ZDNet Feb 13 2001 7:27PM ET

DaveNet: How to Make Money on the Internet v2.0 ".....what's to stop the users from becoming vendors? Further, if journalists won't write from a users' perspective, what's to stop the users from becoming journalists? With the Web, in computer and software products, not a whole lot. Could the users make the products they want for themselves? Yes they can. And can they make a profit doing it? Of course."

ROI #9 - SMEs and e-Commerce. B2B Integration

Cool Newsletter

How to RTFM

Essential reading for Newbies

vnunet.com. IBM links SMEs to online exchanges - We spoke about SMEs and B2B in last week's ROI. Good to see IBM is listening!

Biz2Peer's CEO talks about P2P architectures in marketplaces

Rating:4

ZDNN: Netdocs: Microsoft's .Net poster child? According to sources, Netdocs is a single, integrated application that will include a full suite of functions, including e-mail, personal information management, document-authoring tools, digital-media management, and instant messaging.

Rrating:6

Web Informant: How to make money with an online news web site. Robin Miller, editor-in-chief of OSDN.com. The best way to make money with an online news site is to use a revenue model closer to those used by free alternative newspapers than to those used by large-circulation dailies. This is not a bad thing, since many small weekly papers produce excellent journalism.

Vodafone, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young B2B venture named Terenci. European Investor Feb 13 2001 2:44AM ET

Rating: 4

Rating: 0 For tired bullshit

The real B2B and P2P. Europemedia.net Feb 13 2001 10:27AM ET

Rating 6: (for humour)
I picked up an awesome link from Geek-Goddess ("smarter than you are")that reallyt made my morning. Router-God has multiple celebrity interviews. My fave for today: Anna Nicole Smith talks about the Cisco Catalyst 1900 series.

Reverse-Engineering The Creative Nomad Jukebox

Blair photos ruled out by Hercules penis. Spin doctors decided no pictures should be taken of Tony Blair with paintings at an exhibition opening.

One painting was ruled out because Hercules' penis would have appeared just above Mr Blair's head.

European B2B markets due for rationalization. Nua Internet Surveys Feb 14 2001 4:38AM ET