I bet you can’t wait for this site to go live: Coca-Cola has a Web strategy and will launch its site this summer. “The new site will allow visitors to view branded Coke products in various indoor and outdoor settings.” Be still, my heart!… Story continues … “I bet you can’t wait”

Oops — so much for that trend! Investors are getting spooked about B2B e-commerce now, too.
Analysts see hard times for e-commerce firms

The Washington Post published a nice history of B2B e-commerce this week, tracing its roots back to EDI:
B2B: Almost as Old as the Internet

A panel at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference agreed: Broadband opens a can of security worms for unsophisticated home users.
Panel: Broadband security threat no exaggeration

Web sites are becoming obsolete, as I’ve long argued. This article by Harvard Business Review editor Nicholas G. Carr makes the point convincingly. He points single-function applications like Napster, interactive email tools like Zaplets, and mobile/wireless commerce tools — all of which utilize the Internet without requiring the user to “go” to a Web “site.”… Story continues … “Web sites are becoming obsolete,”