Price fixing on travel sites
I love searching online for travel deals. But what if the biggest travel sites have become so powerful they can force hotels never to sell their inventory to competitors at a lower cost? Then online…
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Enterprise Systems are entering a new phase – Join our AMCIS 2012 Seattle mini-track
Wait…don’t we already know everything about Enterprise Systems adoption? Why would I want to submit a paper by March 1st, 2012 to the Enterprise Systems Adoption and Business Models track (Call for Papers here) at…
The IJEC journal gets a new board member, and a new website
I recently joined the International Journal of Electronic Commerce as an editorial board member, and its new web editor. Which is cool, because IJEC is still the #1 rated e-commerce journal in the universe. But…
Mr. Jobs – a revolutionary who embodied the American dream – design was his weapon
The Steve Jobs story has something for everyone. He was a revolutionary who embodied the American Dream; design was his weapon. He was a self-made man whose success came from building products, not by gaming…
Happy birthday to me, the atomic bomb, and the web
Strange coincidence: The two technologies that influenced my life the most were born on the same day. As me. On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb attack was unleashed on Hiroshima. Nuclear weaponry, and…
Internet Marketing for Small Business
Compared to old school Yellow Pages and newspaper ads, local businesses are facing a confusing new world of marketing across Google, Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, Groupon, email, and tons of other online services. I gave a…
Becoming an online millionaire (and other partially misleading titles)
Perhaps the correct title is more like Your 30 minute introduction to Online Business, but below are the slides for this morning’s talk on Becoming an Online Millionaire (and Other Fantasies Partially Based in Reality)….
Social media risks
Thanks to social media, any clear separation we might have once had between technologies of intimacy, and technologies of broadcast, is gone. Lured at first by the promise of exclusivity, then by the efficient management…
Defensive Teaching
Building a culture where faculty share teaching tips is one of the goals of USF’s new Center for Teaching Excellence. (Why I would be invited to help build such a center is a source of…
“The Future of Open” seminar
Why is everyone in the tech industry claiming they are ‘open’, and their competitors aren’t? Is this merely a war of buzzwords and PR? Or is building proprietary products on top of open technology, while…