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eStats
* Facing Up to Online Fraud
* Explosive eRetail Growth in UK
* Web's Convenience an Advantage
to Business Women
* 9 Million Homes with DSL by 2003
* New eAdvertising Report
eNews
* The Top 10 Online Toy Stores
* Traffic to Toy Websites Double
Last Year
* Trouble in eToyland
* Online Holiday Shopping: Blowing
Hot and Cold
* Web Ad Spending Will Increase 329%
to $13.3 Billion by 2003
* Ten Steps to Make eCommerce More
Eco-friendly
* Internet and eCommerce Unleash Major
Environmental and Energy Savings
* E Gets No Respect
* The Latest from StrategyWeek.com
Kevin O'Connor Interview
News from Around the Net
- U.S. Takes Aim at "Digital Divide"
- Copyright Decision Threatens Freedom
to Link
- Online Privacy Protection Gets
International Rules
- VA Linux Rockets on Debut
- eBay Says Law Discourages Auction
Monitoring
- Made-to-Order eCommerce Could Be
the Key to Success
- Where Can eCommerce Customers Go
to Complain?
- A Dose of Reality
- Shakeout Ahead
- Whither the Banner?
- The Emergence of the Wireless Web
* 2000 Trends
- Ten Trends 2000
BizBits
- Virus No Joke
- "I Want My MeTV!"
- Ad-ing It Up
- Ad-ing Higher Online
- Agency.com IPO Socko
- Advertising Plays
- WSJ.com Sneaks Into the Black
- NFL Tackles Cybersquatter
- Go Online, eYankee!
- eConsulting eXploding
- Elves Take It In the Neck
- A Sign of the Changing Times
- Good News: eBay Only Out an Hour
- Is Barter Better?
- Murdoch Puts Money Where Mouth Is
- All Work and No Shopping Makes Jack
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* FACING UP TO FRAUD ONLINE
Three-quarters of online merchants are concerned
about credit card fraud, according to a recent
survey of more than 100 online businesses. The
study, conducted by CyberSource, also revealed
that despite these concerns a significant 41%
of merchants do not realize that they are
financially responsible for fraud. The merchants
polled estimated that approximately 5% of total
online transactions are fraudulent and 72% of
them thought that online sales would increase
if shoppers were not concerned about it. The
most common form of online fraud is stolen
credit cards followed by use of false identities,
which includes posing as the owner of another's
card. FOR BIG PIE CHARTS AND MORE, CLICK:
http://www.emarketer.com/estats/121099_fraud.html
* EXPLOSIVE eRETAIL GROWTH IN U.K.
Verdict Research predicts online consumer
spending in the UK will grow over 1,100%
between 1999 and 2004. Current-year spending
of $943 million will reach $12 billion by
2004. It will still be only 3.05% of total
retail spending, up from a current .29%.
The largest growth will occur in the computer
software sector with over a third of the
items being purchased online. FOR GRAPHS
AND MORE, CLICK:
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* WEB'S CONVENIENCE AN ADVANTAGE TO
BUSINESS WOMEN
Business women are frequent net users,
so says the National Foundation for Women
Business Owners (NFWBO). According to their
new report, entitled "Women Business Owners
as Consumers: Transforming the Marketplace,"
60% of US business women are online often.
Women business owners, moreover, differ in
their shopping habits from women employees.
Women entrepreneurs buy more online: 57%
compared to 40% of women employees have
bought products or services online. FOR
GRAPH AND MORE, CLICK:
http://www.emarketer.com/estats/120899_buswomen.html
* 9 MILLION HOMES WITH DSL BY 2003
According to IDC, the market for Digital
Subscriber Lines (DSL) is getting ready for
a big surge forward. Starting from a small
installed base of 50,000 in 1998, US households
will adopt these lines at an increasing pace,
reaching 9.3 million in 2003. This equals a
220% Cumulative Average Growth Rate(CAGR).
Quite clearly, residences are leading the way
in DSL adoption. "Work-at-home users as well
as power users are quickly becoming frustrated
with slow dial-up speeds," said Amy Harris,
research analyst for IDC. FOR GRAPHS AND MORE,
CLICK:
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* THE TOP TOY STORES ONLINE
Hohoho! It's that time of the year. Everybody
is shopping for toys. And where is the best place
to shop online for Pokemon and Nintendo 64?
eMarketer braved the virtual toy aisles to
find out. One thing is certain -- selling toys
online is a serious business. No expense has
been spared this holiday season to pump up the
online toy market with bigger sites, bigger
advertising budgets and better deals. See who
we rated the top toy seller online -- CLICK:
http://www.emarketer.com/elist/t10ty_lead.html
* TRAFFIC TO TOY SITES DOUBLE LAST YEAR
Last week Media Metrix released its first
"Year-To-Year Comparisons for Holiday Shopping"
and found that during the week of Thanksgiving
bricks-and-mortar websites increased their traffic
45% over last year -- and toy websites increased
99% from year to year. This week they jumped
even more. MORE:
http://www.emarketer.com/enews/121399_toys.html
* TROUBLE IN eTOYLAND
In a dispute that has many Europeans and free-
interneters protesting, eToys, the U.S. online
toy store -- valued at some $6 billion -- went
to court in Los Angeles to close down a small
art site, etoy.com, operated by a group of
Europeans that has created anti-corporate art
projects since 1994. eToys won, and now a major
boycott is threatened. MORE:
http://www.emarketer.com/enews/121399_etoys.html
* ONLINE HOLIDAY SHOPPING: BLOWING HOT
AND COLD
This year's online shopping season not only has
something for everyone -- already everyone seems
to have a different opinion on whether or not it
is going to be a success. An icy report from
Jupiter Communications says, "Bah, humbug!" While
new data from PC Data indicates that shoppers
are "turning up the heat." MORE:
http://www.emarketer.com/enews/121399_bahyah.html
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* WEB AD SPENDING WILL INCREASE 329% TO
$13.3 BILLION BY 2003
According to eMarketer's newly released 1999
eAdvertising Report, Volume II -- presented by
Advertising Age -- U.S. web advertising spending
will grow from $3.1 billion this year to $4.82
billion in 2000 and $13.3 billion by 2003. While
that may sound like a lot, it will only represent
4.7% of the total ad media spending for that year.
MORE:
http://www.emarketer.com/enews/121399_xx.html
* 10 STEPS TO MAKE eCOMMERCE MORE
ECO-FRIENDLY
On the cusp of the new millennium, as the world
giddily prepares to enter the Century of the
Internet and a world of "e-commerce everywhere,"
Nevin Cohen, eMarketer's global analyst, reminds us
that all this virtual activity may profoundly affect
the future of the physical environment -- for better
and for worse. Fortunately, he recommends ten easy
ways you can conduct your e-business to make it
better. MORE:
http://www.emarketer.com/enews/121399_green.html
* INTERNET AND eCOMMERCE UNLEASH MAJOR
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY SAVINGS
In related news, Cool-Companies.org, the official
site of the Center for Energy & Climate Solutions,
just released a study which shows how the emerging
New Economy created by the internet is producing
more than just a business revolution -- it is
also generating enormous environmental benefits.
See the benefits e-commerce can bring to the
environment, CLICK:
http://www.emarketer.com/enews/121399_cool.html
* E GETS NO RESPECT
Last week, when the Financial Times announced
this year's selections as the "World's Most Respected
Companies," Rodney Dangerfield didn't make the list.
Of course, neither did any internet companies -- or
a single woman. General Electric and Microsoft topped
the company list. Fittingly, Jack Welch and Bill Gates
headed the accompanying list of the "World's Most
Respected Business Leaders." MORE:
http://www.emarketer.com/enews/121399_respect.html
* THE LATEST FROM STRATEGYWEEK.COM
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on any halfway relevant site and hoped surfers
would click. Most didn't. The ads weren't reaching
out to grab the customers. But you can hit customers
where they live -- find out how with Kevin O'Connor,
the CEO of DoubleClick, CLICK:
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- U.S. TAKES AIM AT "DIGITAL DIVIDE"
Flanked by business leaders, including AT&T's
Michael Armstrong and AOL's Steve Case, last
Thursday President Clinton urged federal agencies
to "slam shut the digital divide" and make computers
and the internet as common as the telephone for
all Americans. The Commerce Department report,
"Falling through the Net," showed that in 1997
20% of whites were connected to the internet, but
only 7.7% of black families and 8.7% of Hispanic
families were connected. CLICK: MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/news/344607.asp
- COPYRIGHT DECISION THREATENS FREEDOM TO LINK
Anyone who understands the basic workings of the
internet has to be worried about the decision
by a federal judge in Utah to temporarily bar
the posting of internet addresses to sites with
pirated copies of a disputed Mormon Church text.
Supporters say Judge Tena Campbell is upholding
copyright laws. Critics argue that the action sets
a dangerous precedent that could inhibit one of
the most fundamental features of the internet.
"If that decision ultimately holds up, then
linking is definitely dead," Jeffrey Kuester,
a copyright lawyer, told the Times. "Without
linking, there is no web." CLICK: New York
Times (Reg. req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/cyber/cyberlaw/10law.html
- ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION GETS INTERNATIONAL
RULES
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) issued a new set of guidelines
late last week. By improving international
consumer confidence in online transactions, the
rules are designed to promote e-commerce trade and
development. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission
(FTC) was one of 29 international government
organizations that worked to forge the guidelines.
"Online shoppers should be afforded effective
protection that is not less than protection afforded
offline," said an agency release. The principles
are not legally binding, but do provide a blueprint
for governments to use in formulating protections.
CLICK: E-Commerce Times
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles/991210-5.shtml
- VA LINUX ROCKETS ON DEBUT
The first-day IPO record stood for over a year,
but on Thursday of last week shares of VA Linux
Systems (LNUX) broke the record set by theglobe.com
in November '98. After climbing to 320 shortly
after it began trading, the company that provides
products and services for the Linux operating system
ended the day 690% up at slightly over 239. Theglobe.com,
the previous most successful debut, gained 605% in
its first day of trading. CLICK: CNNfn
http://www.cnnfn.com/1999/12/09/technology/linux/
- eBAY SAYS LAWS DISCOURAGE MONITORING
Is there more than madness behind eBay's badness?
Anyone who has watched the giant auction site stumble
through repeated embarrassing revelations -- from
selling slaves to guns to marijuana to human organs
-- has to wonder. But Brad Handler, counsel for eBay,
told the New York Times that the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act of 1998 is the cause. He says that
under the law, monitoring transactions would leave
the site open to lawsuits -- so it doesn't. Companies
are protected from liability if they are not aware
what it is going on on their sites. eBull. What
happened to "Ignorance is no excuse"? CLICK: New
York Times (Reg. req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/cyber/articles/10ebay.html
- MADE-TO-ORDER eCOMMERCE COULD BE THE KEY
TO SUCCESS
According to the Wall Street Journal's John Dodge,
Burger King may have been ten years early with their
line, "Special orders don't upset us," because it
could be become a mantra for online service. A
growing number of e-commerce sites are offering
customized products and services to attract and
hold on to customers. Sites as diverse as Reflect.com,
a women's beauty site, to Chipshot.com, which sells
golf clubs, are singing the "Have it your way"
jingle to stand out from the competition. CLICK:
WSJ.com (Sub. req'd)
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- WHERE CAN eCOMMERCE CUSTOMERS GO TO COMPLAIN?
It could be the Achilles' heel of e-commerce.
While e-tailers may have more selection and
lower prices -- they don't have stores where it
is easy to return merchandise to or seek redress.
"I was jerked around," said an e-customer
interviewed by C/NET, who didn't get an expected
delivery. "They didn't return my phone calls,
they didn't call me back, the whole thing was
so, so frustrating." CLICK: C/NET
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1485107.html?tag=st.ne.1002.bgif?st.ne.fd.gif.k
- A DOSE OF REALITY
Why are online pharmacies looking so poorly?
After all, as the Economist notes, "Pills are
small, light and pricey. Purchasers do not need
to touch them or try them on. Getting them from
pharmaceutical company to consumer, via wholesaler,
distributor and pharmacy is expensive. Sick
people are reluctant to queue in a shop, or to
discuss their herpes in public. So hurrah for the
Internet, which cuts out middlemen, saves costs
and eliminates the trudge down to the local drug
store." Yet the category is suddenly poison. Share
prices have halved. Business 2.0 recently called
drugstore.com "one of the ten least-trusted sites"
online, and Forrester analysts reportedly refer
to the segment as "drugstore-dot-toast." CLICK:
Economist
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_wb2916.html
- SKAKEOUT AHEAD
Dot-com's are spending a bundle to drive customers
to their sites this holiday season, but after the
last note of "Jingle Bells" fades, bells may begin
tolling for the e-commerce companies that didn't
"ring up" big sales numbers. InteractiveWeek says
that while web stocks won't necessarily decline,
as many as three-quarters of today's public and
private internet firms may be acquired by rivals
or forced out of business in the early months of
the new millennium. CLICK: InteractiveWeek
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2403659,00.html
- WHITHER THE BANNER?
The debate is almost as old as the web, but
since no one has resolved it rages on. Business 2.0
asked two online marketing pros -- Scott Heiferman
of the popular bulletin board bannerssuck.com
and Michael Lubell, marketing director for WinStar
Interactive -- the vexing question: "If banner ads suck,
why can't we get rid of them?" CLICK: Business 2.0
http://www.business2.com/articles/1999/12/content/market_2.html
- THE EMERGENCE OF THE WIRELESS WEB
Finally moving from hype to mainstream, mobile data
communications products are about to become real.
Richard Shaffer of Fortune says, "Your next computer
probably won't be a computer. It'll be a phone, an
organizer, or a pager. You'll use it for communications:
to read e-mail on the go, to find the nearest gas
station, to check your bank balance, to buy groceries.
And it will connect to the Internet wirelessly."
For a good introduction to the next web wave, CLICK:
Fortune
http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/technology/shaffer/1999/12/20/
* 2000 TRENDS
Every year about this time, major publications try
to see into the future. Fueled by Millennium Mania,
the activity is particularly frenzied this year. But
they are fun, thought-provoking articles, so now through
the end of the year eMarketer will round them up for you.
- TEN TRENDS 2000
Webmarketers will find these predictions exciting.
Half of them -- including the first four -- have to
do with the internet, and the subjects are near and
dear: online retailing, B2B, personalization, access
and hackers. As Red Herring says, "Our more highfalutin
trends describe how the technology industry, the
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- VIRUS NO JOKE
David Lee Smith, the man who created the Melissa
virus, the most wide-spread, disruptive and costly
computer virus in history, pleaded guilty to state
and federal charges -- but insisted he had "no
idea" that he would cause $80 million in damages.
He claimed his only intent was to circulate "a
harmless, joke message." Ha, ha? Uh, uh.
- "I WANT MY METV!"
In a demonstration hailed as "hastening the convergence
of the web, PCs and television," MeTV.com introduced
the first internet direct-to-PC/TV movies-on-demand
pay-per-view service at Streaming Media West. The
technology delivers broadcast quality, full-screen
movies to a 4-inch PC video window, then -- using
a patent-pending wireless transmitter/decoder process
-- sends movies from the PC to any television set
within 150 feet. "MeTV.com offers what you want to
watch, when you want to watch it," says the company's
Martin French.
- AD-ING IT UP
According to Robert Coen, Interpublic Group's ad
prognosticator, driven by dot-com spending, election
campaigns and the Summer Olympics, advertising
spending in the U.S. will grow 8.3% to $233 billion
in 2000. "New technologies are helping all media,"
he says. Online he predicts that advertising will
rise 75% next year to $3.2 billion.
- AD-ING HIGHER ONLINE
According to eMarketer's 1999 eAdvertising Report,
Volume II -- which was released just last week --
U.S. web advertising spending will grow from $3.1
billion this year to $4.82 billion in 2000 and
continue climbing to $13.3 billion by 2003.
- AGENCY.COM IPO SOCKO
Agency.com (ACOM) delayed its IPO by a week and
doubled its price. Shares rose to $92.50 when it
went on sale Thursday -- up 256% from its initial
offering price. It ended the first day of trading
at $76 per share with 8 million shares traded. That's
192% over its $26 opening level and gives the online ad
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- ADVERTISING PLAYS
The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition will
kickoff its network TV campaign during Super Bowl
XXXIV. The 30-second spot is designed to create
awareness and brand recognition. The campaign --
begun in the second half of 1999 by WSJ.com -- has
already resulted in a doubling of new subscription
orders in the fourth quarter of 1999.
- WSJ.COM SNEAKS INTO THE BLACK
Editor & Publisher reported that the Wall Street
Journal Interactive Edition, the nation's only
subscription-based website for a large newspaper,
has turned a monthly profit for the first time.
Actually, the milestone occurred in September, but
Tom Baker, WSJ.com's GM told E&P that they didn't
report it because "we didn't want everybody to assume
we were into the black permanently." The site, launched
April 1996, now has over 330,000 subscribers.
- NFL TACKLES CYBERSQUATTER
Moving quickly on the heels of the Anti-Cybersquatting
Consumer Protection Act signed by President Clinton
last week, the National Football League filed suit
against the operator of nfltoday.com, nfltoday.net
and nfltoday.org -- sites which offer gambling tips
on pro football games. The league is seeking to bar
the owner from using the NFL or associating it in
any way -- plus it is seeking the usual "unspecified
damages" and wants the domain addresses transferred
to its possession. No fumbling around.
- GO ONLINE, eYANKEE!
Nobody ever accused the Yankee Group of being dumb.
As the research and consulting firm approaches its
30th anniversary, it is expanding its ability to
serve clients in the new e-business economy. "Our
clients are facing the most significant economic
transformation since the industrial revolution.
All business will be e-business in the new millennium,
so we're structuring our existing planning services
around the globe and developing new services to
provide all the critical tools business leaders
will need to manage this evolution," says new
CEO Berge Ayvazian.
- eCONSULTING eXPLODING
The future looks rosy. According to the Kennedy
Information Group, the e-consulting market will
reach $28 billion in revenue by 2003. "eCommerce
has all the makings of a windfall for consultants,"
says Tim Bourgeois of KIG. "Organizations facing
massive changes in the face of e-commerce require
consultants with vision and ideas on how e-commerce
is emerging, what it may look like in the future,
and how to implement solutions that will capitalize
on the trends." Who's got the e-crystal ball?
- ELEVES TAKE IT IN THE NECK
This week eMarketer features the Ten Top Toy Store
Sites, and forecasts predict red-hot toy sales both
online and off this holiday season. So why did Hasbro,
the second-largest toy maker in the U.S., announce
it was cutting 2,200 jobs -- 19% of its workforce --
last week? Say it ain't so, Santa.
- A SIGN OF THE CHANGING TIMES
Moving from the standard of print to the action
of streaming media, Christopher Neimeth, senior VP
at The New York Times Company digital unit, was
named President and CEO of Real Media. An internet
industry pioneer, Mr. Neimeth founded Grey Interactive
and The New York Times on the Web. "Chris Neimeth is
practically a brand unto himself in the new media
industry," says Dave Morgan, Real Media chairman.
Things -- including job positions -- change fast online.
- GOOD NEWS: eBAY OUT ONLY AN HOUR
The billion-dollar auction site goes offline so
often that outages aren't really news. Users must
see them as inevitable as rain storms on garage
sales. So last week eBay managed to make new by going
off and coming back on in near-record time. Tuesday
eBay suffered a one-hour outage, just a day after
launching 23 new local auction sites. That's better
than last month when the site had four outages in
five days. It's a good thing Pokemon cards have
a long shelf life.
- IS BARTER BETTER?
As civilization goes, cash is a fairly new concept.
But barter is, well, almost as old as time. And now
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which has funded
leading-edge internet firms @Home, Excite, AOL and
Healtheon, is betting that it's barter time again.
According to sources the firm is backing a B2B-barter
play code-named Doublebill. Another new e-barter
firm, BarterTrust.com, is funded by VCs Vector
Capital, El Dorado and Draper Richards. Despite
the excitement for barter operations, however,
C/NET reports that the stock of Ubarter.com, which
began in 1996, is languishing in single digits.
Time to trade up?
- MURDOCH PUTS MONEY WHERE MOUTH IS
Long-time web curmudgeon Rupert Murdoch spoke at
Eton last week and waxed eloquent on the opportunities
presented by the internet. This week he showed he
wasn't just paying lip service to e-commerce. His
News Corp announced that it was making a $1 billion
investment in Healtheon/WebMD. Reportedly, News Corp
will promote the healthcare site's services through
its many media outlets.
- ALL WORK AND NO SHOPPING MAKES JACK
AN UNCONNECTED BOY
Tracking the buying habits of shoppers on its more
than 400 affiliate merchant sites, LinkShare found
that more than 88% of all online purchases in November
were made on weekdays. In fact, over 52% were made
on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The explanation? Workers
are taking advantage of high-speed internet connections
at the office to do their shopping chores. The study
also found that shoppers were spending less time
browsing and more time buying. Probably don't want
the boss to catch 'em.
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