The E-commerce Architecture Project at MIT is an initiative to explore the design, technical, legal and business inputs to information architecture in the virtual world.





Calender of Events

September 15: Run Through Example E-Commerce and E-Learning Sites: Discerning the Architecture and Business Model

READINGS (from the Course Reader):

Part 3:
USER CENTERED DESIGN
The Invisible Computer, Donald A. Norman
Web Navigation, O'Reilly
Part 5:
BUSINESS CONTEXT
The business plannig guide, David Bangs
Computer Related Risks, Neumann

Assignment:

Define an "exchange" and a "market" in e-commerce. Start by searching the web. Check out secondary sources too (magazine stands, text books, dictionaries, etc.).

Explain how and by whom these words are used differently and when they are used interchangeably.

An Exchange is:

A Market is:

(Extra Credit: A Business Model is: )



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