"Now I had a great talk with Anne Thomas Manes after the panel, which lead me to say late last night on SN that we had won with Sun. In version 3.0 of the Internet the developers are independent. No concentration camps. No big lies. Come play with us, even lead us, but we stay free, as we always were, imho."

Dave's right on. Now if we can just make a little money too.

Line56. Europe B2B to hit $1.4 trillion. Europe heading for explosive growth in B2B to 2005 with France leading the way. This may be limited by security issues and multiple languages.

Line56. Prospects Bright for B2B, says AMR

InfoWorld. Gartner cuts its forecast for growth of b-to-b

Internet News. Japan B2B Market Forecast to Grow 500% by 2005

E-Commerce Times. Report: Most European B2B Marketplaces to Fail. A Jupiter report predicts 4/5 of exchanges will fail, but lists the likely survivors.

TheStreet.com. Goldman Conference: FreeMarkets Says Greenspans Remarks Validate B2B. If Greenspan is talking about B2B, it must be real!

Financial Times. Just2Clicks comes under pressure to return cash. They're not closed yet, but it's looking increasingly rocky

Line56. GXS, CGEY in Alliance. GE Global eXchange Services (GXS) and management consulting firm Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Form have allied in a quest to bring liquidity to B2B e-commerce marketplaces.

Line56. Manugistics alliance with product lifecycle management specialist Agile Software, recently bought by Ariba for $2.55B

IDG. Manugistics have been busy; teams with Microsoft, KPMG Consulting

Europemedia.net. First Italian manufacturing B2B portal launched

Purchasing Network. JP Morgan, Chase, Metiom Launches bPurchase.com, The First open, Bank Sponsored e-Marketplace Dedicated To Small Business,

CNET. FreeMarkets bags e-commerce software maker. Buys Adexa, a maker of collaborative e-commerce software, for approximately $340 million.

B2B Markets and Exchanges. From Punishment 2 Praise (P2P). Maybe there is something in this P2P thing after all.

Europemedia.net. German B2B market places need to look about. Transaction fees don't cut it.

B2B Markets and Exchanges. When Private goes Public. Good interview with Ventro that exposes a few myths

Line56. Real B2B - AutoMapping Your Future. Cool auto-translation software to convert between standards

internet News. One more example of why software patents are wrong. But then Amazon may lose their One-click battle

Line56. Internet EDI Patent Looming. England's CI Software Solutions is claiming that they have a patent that affects passing EDI information over the internet. This could have implications for all B2B.

The Napster ruling and new EU laws on online copyright may
significantly change the nature of the net. Or not.
http://geeknews.net/article.php?sid=515
http://www.toad.com/gnu/whatswrong.html
http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?r15424735

Europe as well...
Europe Passes 'Napster' Law

Line56: GXS, CGEY in Alliance GE Global eXchange Services (GXS) and management consulting firm Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Form have allied in a quest to bring liquidity to B2B e-commerce marketplaces. http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?NewsID=2176

Line56: A 2nd Look at e-Procurement
Sometimes you have to understand the very big picture, including what most other people, such as your trading partners, are doing—and then decide which, if any, of their reasons you will adopt as your own. http://www.line56.com/articles/deault.asp?NewsID=2174

Rating:7 Catalogs are hard...

Rating: 9. An excellent paper from the EFF on why Copy Protection is wrong.

John Gilmore: What's Wrong With Copy Protection. Copy protection pretends that the law and some fancy footwork with industrial cartels can maintain our current economic structures, in the face of a hurricane of positive technological change that is picking them up and sending them whirling like so many autumn leaves.

Rating:5 Interesting, there's going to be a temporary pool of workers available, but only for funded believable projects.


Layoffs Galore in Silicon Alley, but Many Find a Traditional Net. For Silicon Alley, the week started with Razorfish announcing that it would lay off 400 workers. On Wednesday, Barnesandnoble.com cut 350 jobs, Bluefly said it had agreed to be taken over by the billionaire investor George Soros, and GoRefer.com, an online marketing concern, said it was going out of business.

Resolving the consultant clash. A recent study by IT consultancy Forrester Research confirms the sorry state of e-consultancy. Forrester ranked the top 40 e-consultants: the best, Sapient, scored only 35 out of a possible 50 points. Surprise.com, of Palo Alto, California, and its consultant, Roundpeg, of San Francisco.
Rating: 9

KnowNow. In that world, every client -- that is, every PC and other device connected to the Net -- should also be a server. Lots of people are working on this, but a Menlo Park startup called KnowNow has figured out something that just might set off a new Net revolution.

Commentary: Record labels in denial about peer-to-peer. CNET Feb 14 2001 6:03PM ET

European Record Industry Goes After Personal Computers
Rating: 9

The O'Reilly Peer to Peer conference, taking place today through Friday in San Francisco, is highlighting some of the key issues surrounding the technology. No one doubts the potential of P2P, but anyone who thinks it's going to flower sufficiently in today's copyright regime is deluded.

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