Cliff Tsai Homework 03-15-2008

1. Read Paper 1 & Paper 2. Provide a summary for each of the paper.
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Reading ….

2. Read Chap. 4 of the textbook. What is the Business-to-business model?
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Business to business(B2B) is the Businesses modal using web internal or any kinds of electronic commerce transactions. With online catalogs to provide option on the merchandise of any kind selling products to others. Using this modal, building many kinds of commerce transactions to sell any kind of we want to sell. These commerce are characterized by high-volume, low-value purchases, repeat business from the same customers, and high order processing costs for both buyers and sellers.
B2B catalog online are immediate cost savings and an ability to provide better service. --Reduced cost of selling
Reduced order processing costs
Improved service levels for low-volume customers
Higher-quality information for customers
Accurate information
B2B is also used as an adjective to describe any activity, sales, or e-commerce, that occurs between businesses and consumers.

3. Digital goods can be distributed over the Internet but physical goods have to be delivered logistically. What are digital goods? What are the differences between the two?
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What are the digital goods ?, for example like adobe photoshop(software),kkbox(online music),the warcraft(online game)....etc.
Digital goods include:
documents
data
reference information;
sound
video
images
software
Different between digital goods and physical goods. Digital goods can be transfer by internet or not real but physical goods must be transfer by human or contact. And The digital goods can be play or performs on physical goods.

4. Using RSS to track many blogs at one time.
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RSS stands is a easy way to publish some topics, update notices via the other blogs, for example, refer the weather status I link. RSS content can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader" or an "aggregator". The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds.!