Scripting News said "The purpose of workflow is to keep content off the web." while talking about all that expensive content management software. Absolutely Yup, the emperor's wearing no clothes.

Research Says P2P Will Lead B2B. line56 Jan 24 2001 6:12AM ET
JBRates:7 That's more like it. Somebody's thinking for a change.


P2P survival hinges on Napsters fate. CNET Feb 16 2001 9:15PM ET
JBRates:1 I suppose this is inevitable. Since half the world seems to think that P2P = Napster, Napster's demise will be seen as P2P's demise. Come on guys. Go and read the Intel defintion of P2P, take a look at Peertal and read the de-centralization list. Then come back and look me in the eyes as you tell me that P2P is dying.

This Virtual Life with Danny OBrien. Sunday Times Feb 25 2001 5:48AM ET
JBRates:9 It's well worth while seeking out other stuff by Danny O'Brien including Need to Know. He's one of the good guys.

http://www.nulldevice.net/images/saddam.gif
ALL YOUR NO-FLY ZONE BELONG TO US

OReilly P2P Conference Coverage. OpenP2P.com Feb 22 2001 12:08AM ET
JBRates:8 Here's the more official P2P conf coverage.

Useit.Com: From August 15, 1997; Community is Dead; Long Live Mega-Collaboration

JBRates:3 Another Jakob Nielsen rant. The problem with Jakob is that while he has some good points, there's really only one idea there. Reminds me of the Chasm group.

Wired: "'Moreover sees cybersleuthing in the same continuum as headline news delivery,' a company spokesman said.

I'd been wondering what they did with all that data. It's not just the news they capture and syndicate, it's every clickthough as well although this doesn't necessarily give any clues to the identity of the clicker.

CNN: Nifty one-ounce robot (w/pic)
JBRates: 8 I love this stuff. Never mind nano machines, let's have hoards of robots in the 1-10mm range. I want little ant things that creap out from the corner of the monitor and clean the screen when I'm not looking...

In article , Luis I Cortes
(Biz2Peer) writes
Hi Adrian,
 
P2P is not only about file sharing! True it is about communication between people (absolutelly agree) but also about managing decentralised systems. You can have P2P applied to e-commerce, supply chain management, knowledge management... and you can share not only files but real-time information about inventories
position, access your remote PC via your web-enabled PDA, content from distributed databases... Hope this help "enlightens" your business people!
 
By the way, Prof. Lessig made a very clear point ( http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/02/16/lessig.html) that
either the right to innovate or the copyright (that is, the way to incentivate innovatioin) will have to change, being that (and only
that!) the underlaying reason for the jury not shutting down Napster right away.
 
Luis I. Cortes
Biz2Peer Technologies


Notes from the O'Reilly P2P Conference. Collated by Gary Bolles (gary@gbolles.com). Full text at http://www.conferenza.com/ArtDsp.asp?file=200102/demo_intro.htm

THURSDAY (panel): "The New Collaborative Journalism" --

Of all the individual sessions I observed (i.e., those other than the general or keynote sessions), this one was *by far* the best attended and most animated discussion--with the most audience reaction and questions. It featured moderator Katie Hafner, a writer from the NY Times (see her January 18 story on "Self- Organizing Web Sites"), and panelists (1) Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury- News, (2) Dave Winer of Userland Software, and (3) the two creators and editors of famed hacker hangout SlashDot.org, Rob Malda and Jeff Bates.

"Using the Web for a 'write' medium as well as a 'read' one -- that's the interesting technical part for me....Journalism is turning into a conversation. It's making my job easier." -Dan Gillmor, Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury- News

"Journalism has gotten to be a lazy practice--they rarely challenge those they cover. There's a huge integrity issue...But there are many 'disempowered voices' out there that have a lot to say...I think writing without an editorial process is liberating--telling the unadulterated, unaltered truth...We saw a lot of this happening around the newspaper strikes in San Francisco and Seattle." -Dave Winer, CEO, Userland Software

"Ours is now one of the largest systems out there where users are creating the content...Anyone can post, anonymously if they want... [those doing so are given the label "Anonymous Coward"]...We try to amplify as much signal as possible, and filter as much noise...Obviously, it's a very flawed system--there are people who'll piss in the public pool...I wouldn't go so far as to say it's P2P." -Rob ("CmdrTaco") Malda, co-creator, SlashDot.org

"How do we pick our 15 stories a day? It's simple--if we like it! For example, Linux. We don't care about Microsoft!" -Rob ("CmdrTaco") Malda, co-creator, SlashDot.org

"I wouldn't call myself a journalist--a bunch of links is all we are. Some call us 'The Town Hall.' I prefer 'The Village Pub'." -Jeff ("Hemos") Bates, co-creator, SlashDot.org

"I shut down my discussion board, because I found I was deliberately avoiding posting things that would draw flames...A lot of these 20-year olds just want to fight." -Dave Winer, CEO, Userland Software

"Moderation is useful...If I care about a topic, the 'collective voice' is more intelligent than me, or anyone for that matter." -Dan Gillmor, Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury-News

"You look at the comments and opinions of 10 to 15 people you respect." -Rob ("CmdrTaco") Malda, co-creator, SlashDot.org

"It's the reputation of who you trust. But then, how do you find Joe Schmo, who's 15 and really smart?" -Jeff ("Hemos") Bates, co-creator, SlashDot.org

"All the web logs should be able to work together intelligently." -Rob ("CmdrTaco") Malda, co-creator, SlashDot.org

"The basic problem all of us in this room share is that we don't have enough time! ... I'll often do a search on SlashDot when I'm working on a story--read the threads, get the gist. I operate on the assumption that the people who read what I write know more than I do ... We're just at the start of all this. It'll work in any kind of journalism." -Dan Gillmor, Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury-News

"The narrower your niche, the more passionate you're likely to be ... At some point, a meta-system will emerge." -Rob ("CmdrTaco") Malda, co-creator, SlashDot.org

"A user should be invited to every press conference. Why don't companies do that? Users don't have an ingrained point-of-view!" -Dave Winer, CEO, Userland Software

"Everyone's tainted! The only way to get the real idea is to look at what, like, 40 people say." -Rob ("CmdrTaco") Malda, co-creator, SlashDot.org

"Yeah, like who cares what a financial analyst thinks? He's just looking for his next interview with a CEO." -Jeff ("Hemos") Bates, co-creator, SlashDot.org

Moderator question: So how does this make money?

"Ads--SlashDot pays for itself." -Jeff ("Hemos") Bates, co-creator, SlashDot.org

"A lot of people are getting value from all this. But the tools aren't there yet...more is needed." -Dan Gillmor, Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury-News

Audience question: What happens when story submitters are just parroting what the PR-hype stories are saying?

"Then we call 'Shenanigans' on them! But we operate on the assumption there are more good people than bad... Moderation is essential." -Rob ("CmdrTaco") Malda, co-creator, SlashDot.org

Audience question: People want the opinions of others, but don't they tolerate journalists just because they'd rather not talk to hundreds of others?

"Manufacturers of news are less important. And email isn't the answer, because it's not totally P2P. The problem is, the guy who everyone wants to talk to isn't responsive, because he's too busy--has too many emails!" -Dave Winer, CEO, Userland Software

"I don't know if there's a new model for journalism because of all this." -Dan Gillmor, Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury-News

Audience question: Why isn't collaborative filtering the answer to all this? And to the anonymity question?

"Computers don't solve everything! People make good judgements. People *want* that!" -Dave Winer, CEO, Userland Software

Audience question: What about fact-checking -- all the disinformation out there? Even SlashDot has been taken in.

"The rules don't exist for this yet. But we don't worry too much about fact- checking--because, in minutes, there'll be hundreds of comments!" [to an erroneous post] -Rob ("CmdrTaco") Malda, co-creator, SlashDot.org

"Making a mistake is not bad. ALL publications do it." -Dave Winer, CEO, Userland Software

Audience question (from a European): Couldn't we combine all this with a micropayments system, to aid Third World countries?"

"Yes, but not me. I'm busy." -Rob ("CmdrTaco") Malda, co-creator, SlashDot.org

Audience question: Readers trust the NY Times, the Merc-News, etc, vs. a SlashDot moderator--it's a social thing. But, at the technological level, we also trust the back end. What about the trust issue?

"Well, we all have to trust something. People themselves just have to be filters." -Rob ("CmdrTaco") Malda, co-creator, SlashDot.org

"People don't get--shouldn't get--all their news from one source." -Dave Winer, CEO, Userland Software



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FRIDAY (keynote): Larry Lessig, Stanford Law Professor, and author, "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" --

"Legislation should not destroy this revolution! There's something extraordinary about this architecture."

"The architects of the Internet had no idea what this network would ultimately be used for. It was architected so their ignorance wouldn't stop it from developing. This principle is the foundation of what made the revolution possible!"

"The idea was decentralized control, to empower ordinary users--all of whom have different ideas about how the Internet will work."

"The issue for lawyers is how do we deal with the confrontation that's inevitable: What gets built?"

"Six years ago, the Supreme Court ruled to let it alone--let it work out, before we send in the lawyers! But, during the last three years, some Hollywood lawyers have began trying to regulate the Internet. And the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was Congress' response."

"Now, lawyers around the world are trying to protect existing powers--to enable them to *control* the Internet...Take the recent message that Hillary Rosen of the recording industry association had for VCs: 'Unless we approve, your ideas will not be permitted.' "

"When we learned the lesson of the Supreme Court six years ago, to leave the Internet alone, it didn't mean porn and other bad things were okay. It meant we didn't want to stall innovation!"

"The idea is not to g

Just ever so slightly off topic, but this week I have been mostly watching memes travel round the noosphere.

This one turned up sometime last week. See my blog for details. http://www.microsoft.com&item=q209354@www.hwnd.net/pub/mskb/Q209354.asp RTFM, Lamer! Then it made it onto slashdot. Shortly after it was on all the usual suspect's weblogs. Today it made it to NTK (www.ntk.net). I get this feeling that next week it'll be in The Times Interface section before turning up on the BBC Radio 4 news quiz.

Then we get a bizarre animated gif taken from an ancient vid game with wonderful Japanese-English translations. "All your base are belong to us", "THEY SET US UP THE BOMB. NOW WE SET THEM UP IT" and so on. Again the meme is drifting around from memepool to the kitty porn page. The gif gets posted to half a dozen edgy hobby sites. People start quoting "All your base are belong to us" on IRC. Next week it'll be gone.

If you think too hard about this stuff, you can begin to divine the waves of attention of the collective net as this site then that site gets hit by the Slashdot effect and collapses under the weight of hitrate. I'm sure people are trying but I'm not at all sure it can be deliberately directed. Maybe one day the collective hive mind will start chanting OM and relax into rhythmic alpha waves.

B2B Mailing lists. A listing of Mailing Lists focussed on B2B trade

B2B Markets and Exchanges: FreeMarkets Launches ASP Auctions

ZDNet: ASPs turn to B2B marketplaces for growth. There's a rash of stories about B2B markets becoming ASPs, ASPs running B2B markets, Software vendors turning to the ASP model. What noone can tell me is where all the customers will come from...

ZDNet: Oracle offers new business portal. Oracle's latest one size-fits-all, all-inclusive offering includes an ASP option.

Commerce One, SAP take aim at i2 with a direct goods and supplier collaboration system

Commerce One Readies MarketSite Upgrade. C-1 and SAP are bullish about B2B

CRN: Microsoft's Dragonfly for B2B. "Dragonfly" is part of Microsoft's goal to make bCentral a major Web service hub for all businesses, ISVs and channel partners. bCentral, Great Plains, UDDI, .Net, dragonfly, Commerce Server, etc etc. Here they come...

line56: AMR says Private E-Hubs to Dominate. Says Fortune 500 companies expected to spend $50M to $100M to build a private e-hub

UpsideToday: Deep pockets can't save b-to-b marketplaces. A growing number of industry-led marketplaces are shutting down, proving that deep corporate pockets don't guarantee success in the turbulent business-to-business sector.

ClickZ Today: Crafting an Effective B2B Subject Line.... How to make your email SPAM more effective.

B2B Markets and Exchanges : Up 2 Speed on Euro B2B?. Attacking an analysis company with a meat axe.

B2B Markets and Exchanges: Aucxis and EDS Target $100 million in B2B Revenue. With a product to solve the B2B Payment and risk problem

B2B Markets and Exchanges : B2B BizBuyer Snapped up by smarterwork. Smarterwork are a major European success story

Business 2.0: eBay Acquires France's iBazar.... Will eBay end up owning the whole online auction space?

Business 2.0: eBay Acquires France's iBazar.... Will eBay end up owning the whole online auction space?

B2B Markets and Exchanges: e-Marketplace Pioneer Band-X Moves Uptown. Another European success story expands into the USA.

vnunet.com: Intel opens B2B e-marketplace. Do they know something Dell doesn't?

TheStreet.com: Stick a Fork in Ventros Exchange Business, Its Done. COO, CFO, VP Marketing all leave. Zero revenue in the 4th Qtr. So long Ventro, it was nice knowing you.

Nua Internet Surveys: Asia the exception in B2B forecasts

Newsbytes : One Quarter Of Firms Will Bill B2B Online By 2003

Inside China: B2B Transactions Dominated China's E-Commerce in 2000, with more than 99 percent of China's e-commerce volume for 2000

IDC: "As worldwide B2B e-commerce grows from $212B to $2.2T in 2004"

Bloomberg: Europe Internet Trade Growth Outstrips U.S. in 3rd-Qtr, FT Says.. Of course! The USA just didn't get it!

ROI #11 - Last Page. Netmarket Myths: Dis-intermediation

ROI #11 - e-Sales and e-Distribution. B2B Integration

Psst! If kitty porn is too tame for you, try payphone porn. With the right friends, it's awfu...
JBRates:10 Had me rolling on the floor and coughing on my sandwich.

All your base are belong to us.. The Register: All your base are belong to us. Now the truth can be told.
Zig!

Notes from the O'Reilly P2P Conference.
Take the
recent message that Hillary Rosen of the recording industry
association had for VCs: 'Unless we approve, your ideas will
not be permitted.' "

Wow! Thought Crime! Doesn't she know that everything not compulsory is permitted? Sorry, that's everything not ... Such a shame Frank Zappa didn't live long enough to see this. "In the future music will be illegal, and then everyone will be a criminal".

I've reached the conclusion that all we're doing now is playing out the hand. The RIAA and Music industry *have* to behave like this because that's what they do. The Government/judicial system will do what they do. And frankly the populace, coders and market will do what they do. Napster should just wind themselves up and deny them the pleasure. And tomorrow something even stranger will take it's place and we all start again.

This conversation is taking place all over the web and in most cases it dissolves into some sort of morality slanging match "It's wrong to steal", "It's not stealing", etc. As ever Senor Barlow has the quip.

"If you steal my horse, I can't ride. But, if you steal my
song, I can still sing."
-John Perry Barlow, Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Yes! But can I afford to eat?


Europe Internet Trade Growth Outstrips U.S. in 3rd-Qtr, FT Says. Bloomberg Feb 21 2001 10:42PM ET
JBRates:9 Of Course! The 'merkins just don't get it!


eBay agrees to pay up to $112 mln for European online auctioneer. Reuters via iWon Feb 21 2001 10:51PM ET
JBRates:8 eBay bags another one. "One day there will only be eBay"

Webvan Pulls Out Of Dallas; 9 Markets Left. BizReport.com Feb 22 2001 2:22AM ET
JBRates:5 What is this 10 green bottles? Yesterday Webvan had 12 markets left.

One Quarter Of Firms Will Bill B2B Online By 2003. Elcom UK Feb 21 2001 9:59PM ET
JBRates: 3. And in 10 years time, 95% of all B2B trade will be online. Hey, My crystal ball works too.

Italian Tech Volcano Set to Erupt. Rural Sicily, in the shadow of Mt. Etna, is where Italian technology and Web firms are looking to settle. In fact, the government is pinning its hopes for the region's economic recovery on the 'Etna Valley.' Mila Fiordalisi reports from Rome.
JBRates:5 How appropriate. Tech communities should always be located in earthquake zones...

Robot Pets Monitor Their Masters. Aibos are cute interactive pets that can provide hours of entertainment. But can they also be used to keep tabs on children and seniors? Leander Kahney talks with human-robot experts.
JBRates: 6 I'd love to have a robot dog to play with and to be able to stick Schwa stickers on its head to confuse the cat, but this story just strokes me as incredibly sad.

Mike Hogan writes:-

Adam Feurstein's article in Upside today points out that the Industry Sponsored eMarketplaces (ISMs) are not immune to the B2B shake-out. He provides a list of shuttered ISMs that includes Silicon Valley Oil, FreightWise and eMarketplaces run by Dell and Telefonica. He makes the point that these were all eMarketplaces built, funded and run by a single "sugar daddy" company.

UpsideToday: Deep pockets can't save b-to-b marketplaces
http://www.upsidetoday.com/Ebiz/3a93025b1.html
Does this mean "Private Markets" are doomed as well? Or is a Single Sponsor ISM, not what people mean by a private market?

Tiptoeing toward B2B. Institutional Investor Feb 21 2001 3:13AM ET
JBRates: 8 Rentaquote does it again. "Market makers are necessary to tamp the volatility and create liquidity by bridging the gaps in supply and demand and counterparty risk," says Julian Bond, chief technology officer at Netmarkets Europe, a London- based research and
education group for e-marketplaces. "Chasing disintermediation is a mistake in most Net markets. In fact, they would do well to create systems that actively support the middlemen."

Internet Advertising : the SSP Protocol. One of the most recent changes to Internet advertising has been the rampant proliferation of the SSP protocol, and I think it will be around for the duration.
JBRates:7 SSP is vitally important.

Gay, Lesbian E-Commerce Activity Leads The Market - Harris. Newsbytes Feb 20 2001 9:03AM ET

No idea what it's about, but it's a good headline.

Inside: Source Philosophy Lies at the Heart of Media Businesses. Jason Chervokas and Tom Watson. Just because the law ignores reality doesn't mean reality is going to change, and as a result media business will continue to be under assault from new technologies until we develop some consensus based not on stop-gap approaches to specific technologies, but basic principles.
JBRates: 8 This one's key as well.

Industry Standard: The Lonely Crowd. Of course, as media distribution migrates to the digital world, companies will want to charge for something. So the question remains: If distributing conventional media online doesn't work, what will? How do you create successful media products for a hypernetworked audience?
JBRates:9 This one's key to the new economy.

Gigaideas: SOAP Client for PHP.

Yo! How about an XML-RPC client for PHP? Oh, there is one.

Http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=23972

"According to Microsoft information available on the Internet, Microsoft is trying to evolve e-commerce and B2B services into a highly customizable SmartWeb that end users, businesses and channel partners can leverage to increase the use of business-based Web services and exchanges. "

"Several sources familiar with Dragonfly say the product is part of Microsoft's goal to make bCentral a major Web service hub for all businesses, ISVs and channel partners. Microsoft executives refused to comment on this story."

bCentral, Great Plains, UDDI, .Net, dragonfly, Commerce Server, etc etc Here they come...


ASPs tapping into lucrative B2B market. ZDNet Feb 16 2001 1:56PM ET
JBRates:7 There's a rash of stories about B2B markets becoming ASPs, ASPs running B2B markets, Software vendors turning to the ASP model. What nobody will tell you is where all the customers are going to come from...

They Reveal Hidden Messages. U.S. government agencies, including the NSA and the Pentagon, are quietly funding research into steganalysis: the study of detecting hidden messages inserted into MP3 or JPEG files. What have they found? Current steganography programs don't work that well at all. Declan McCullagh reports from Fairfax, Virginia.

JBRate:5 Bet you thought you could hide those instructions to your spies in Spam about "Meeting Russian Ladies". No Mr Bond, I expect you to die.

Can Ariba pull out of its slump?. UpsideToday Feb 20 2001 4:26AM ET
JBRate:7 Adam Feuerstein on the money again. "The widely held view is that Ariba no longer defines b-to-b."

Up 2 Speed on Euro B2B?. B2B Markets and Exchanges Feb 20 2001 5:24AM ET
JBRate: 8. Great. Somebody laying into an analyst and analyst company with a meat axe.

DaveNet: Internet 3.0. Internet 3.0 will realize the groupware vision of the late 80s which was really Doug Engelbart's vision of the 60s and 70s.
JBRating: 10. This one's key.

The Aggravation of Aggregation. Cold reality is hitting those in the B2B trenches: Aggregating product data, inventory information, and pricing is no easy task. JbRating:8 I've been ranting about catalog aggregation and how hard it is for ages.

Interesting Dave W article about adding metadata to html content.

"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."

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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

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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.

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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