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Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:49:27 -0500
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 07:32:26 -0500
To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu, dcsb-announce@ai.mit.edu
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: DCSB: Fred Hapgood; Product/Price Comparison in Digital Commerce
Cc: Chris Wysopal <cwysopal@skywriting.com>,
Ron Rivest <rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu>
Sender: bounce-dcsb@ai.mit.edu
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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The Digital Commerce Society of Boston
Presents
Fred Hapgood
Author, Analyst
The Race to Get In-Between: The Struggle over Control
of Product Comparison Presentation Information
Tuesday, April 6th, 1999
12 - 2 PM
The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston
One Federal Street, Boston, MA
Arguments can -- and will -- be made that, by the nature of
the internet, ecommerce is likely to aggregate around vendors
providing the most comprehensive and flexible tools for
comparing the largest number of products. If this is right,
several questions arise: Who is in the best competitive
position: Distributors, who can use their market role to compel
participation by vendors; portals, who start with traffic
but who need the tools; or specialty catalogers, which have the
tools but need the traffic? What is the most plausible business
model for such a service? What sort of business, if any,
might continue to be handled directly from the sites of
individual manufacturers and merchants? Will the advantages
accruing to the control of product comparison presentations
endure or is this a passing phase? Might the vendors seize
control back with a system of distributed agents?
Among others.
Fred Hapgood is a freelance writer, i.e., intellectual property
provider and buzz vector, with a special interest in ecommerce.
He has written for almost everyone at least once.
http://www.pobox.com/~hapgood
This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held
on Tuesday, April 6, 1999, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of
the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for
lunch is $32.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V
hardware, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club *does* have
dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and
"appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair
warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be
unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in
violation of the dress code.
We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we
*really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of
Boston", by Saturday, April 3rd, or you won't be on the list for
lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston
will have to be sent back.
Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston,
Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The
Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $32.50. Please include your
e-mail address, so that we can send you a confirmation
If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements
(We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for
instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can
work something out.
Upcoming speakers for DCSB are:
May Chris Wysopal L0pht Client Security
June Ron Rivest MIT Deep Crack = MicroMint?
July TBA
We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston
on the first Tuesday of the month, and you are a principal in digital
commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society,
please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert
Hettinga, <mailto: rah@shipwright.com>.
For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston,
send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto:
majordomo@ai.mit.edu> . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail
list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto:
majordomo@ai.mit.edu> .
We look forward to seeing you there!
Cheers,
Robert Hettinga
Moderator,
The Digital Commerce Society of Boston
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:49