1. Ron van Rooij Matthijs Steen Seminar Advances in e-Business 12-02-2010

2.  22nd Bled Conference:  e-Enablement: Facilitating an Open, Effective and Representative eSociety.  General topics:  e-Health: possibilities and CSF’s  Knowledge mobilization: open innovation, e- Knowledge  Global e-Business: challenges, supply chains  e-Enabling for disaster recovery Source: http://domino.fov.uni-mb.si/proceedingshttp://domino.fov.uni-mb.si/proceedings

3.  Proceedings ECIS 2009 (Verona, Italy):  Information systems in a globalising world: challenges, ethics and practices.  General topics:  e-Health  SOA  e-Government  Web 2.0  Knowledge mobilization: open innovation, open source  Green IT  Social networking / collaboration Source: http://www.ecis2009.it/allegati/ecis2009_proceedings_public.pdfhttp://www.ecis2009.it/allegati/ecis2009_proceedings_public.pdf

4.  Some overlap between Bled Conference and ECIS 2009:  e-Health  Knowledge management  The general term e-Business is not hot anymore.  However, derived terms are hot: e-Anything.

5.  Two White papers:  ‘Current eBusiness Trends. An Aalpha Information Systems India Pvt. Ltd. Perspective’  enhance value for customers  increase operational efficiencies  ‘What drives e-business trends?’  trends:  customer oriented trends:  personalize and customize, seamless service  service digitization  from paper based to a real-time digital information business model  customers as trends to focus on, as well as drivers behind these trends Source:  http://www.aalpha.net/white_papers/Current-eBusiness-Trends.pdf (2006) http://www.aalpha.net/white_papers/Current-eBusiness-Trends.pdf  http://hj.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:3668 (2008) http://hj.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:3668

6.  Functionalities:  Find new products online  A clear overview in nested categories  Product info, comparisons, reviews, where to buy  Front-end: website for end-users  Back-end: single input required: where can the spider find the data on the retailer websites?  After this: self-updating spider.  Key innovations:  Quick overview of what’s new; self-updating; user- friendly interface (no information overload).

7.  Business model:  affiliate model: earn commission when visitor buys from retailer through our application  sell spider harvest to retailers: competition tracking  Market:  People who don’t know what’s hot, trendy, new: family users, non-technical users, elderly.  Competitors:  Tweakers.net PriceWatch: not self-updating, no clear overview.  Other product overview applications: need to be updated manually, no focus on what’s new. More details in our detailed product definition document