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Pittsburgh Solutions provides its clients with up-to-the-minute, leading-edge research and information as it occurs in Internet time. Pittsburgh Solutions has listed below some of the best sites to understand the dynamic shift that is occurring in the new Digital Economy. The links are segmented into e-Research, e-News, e-Commerce, e-Marketing, e-Tailing, e-Statistics, the Agony and the Ecstacy and 100 Numbers You Need to Know.
In the United States Internet commerce will reach $851.4 billion by 2003
Source: eMarketer 2000



























 
 























e-Research Links
ActivMedia Research
Syndicated and custom
research along with free newsroom www.ActivMediaResearch.com
CorporateInformation
Company profiles and research reports on 20,000 companies
www.corporateinformation.com
EDGAR Online
Companies SEC filing information
www.edgar-online.com
Forrester Research
Research impact of technology on business, consumers and society
www.forrester.com
Gartner
Research for IT decision makers and providers by industry
www.gartner.com
Hoover's Online
Information on over 50,000 companies and organizations
www.hooversonline.com
Jupiter Media Metrix
Jupiter Communications and Media Metrix recently merged to form Jupiter Media Metrix. Jupiter Communications provide paid research on marketing, operations, infrastructure, technology, platforms and executive management
Media Metrix provides market intelligence, measurement, analysis and events for advertising agencies, media companies, e-commerce marketers and advertisers
www.mediametrix.com
and
www.jupitercommunications.com
IDC
Research for the eBusiness executive, IT professional and suppliers
www.idc.com
Lexis-Nexis
Information on business, law, government and academia
www.lexis-nexis.com
Meta Group
Paid and free research on the Digital Economy
www.metagroup.com
Yankee Group
Paid and free research on IT
www.yankeegroup.com
Worldwide Internet commerce will reach $1.44 trillion by 2003
Source: eMarketer 2000





















 
 
 

































e-News Links
Business 2.0
Aggregator of news worthy articles on eBusiness
www.Business2.com
eMarketer
Leading aggregator of e-commerce news and statistics www.emarketer.com
Free News Feed
Free daily news link for your web site to assess ecommerce and technology articles
www.FreenewsFeed.com
Harris Interactive
General daily news and results of polls
www.harrisinteractive.com
Information Week
Latest news and company stories on information technology www.informationweek.com
Internet Week
Weekly news on leading edge Internet technology www.internetwk.com
Media Grok
Press coverage on the Internet Economy
www.thestandard.com
The Industry Standard Internet daily news and articles on eBusiness
www.thestandard.com
e-Commerce Links
Doctor eBiz
Provides brief no-nonsense answers to questions that help businesses succeed in the online world
www.doctorebiz.com
eCommerce Times
Wealth of information on industries, CRM, small business advisor, cartoons, stock and advertising
www.ecommercetimes.com
Wilson Commerce Today
Sound eCommerce research and advice in the form of a
newsletter for selling over the Web
www.wilsonweb.com/commerce/


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source: NUA

e-Marketing Links
Internet Marketing Center
Internet marketing and web promotion tips - Monthly newsletter
www.marketingtips.com
eMarketer
Leading aggregator of e-commerce news and statistics
www.emarketer.com
Larry Chase
Digest and short write-ups on marketing on the web
www.larrychase.com
PromotionWorld
Tutorials, articles, interviews and resource information on promoting web sites
www.promotionworld.com
Wilson Marketing Today
Sound Web Marketing advice for small and mid-sized businesses in the form of a newsletter
www.wilsonweb.com/marketing/

76 percent of online users belong to at least one Loyalty Program
Source: Jupiter Communications






 
 
 
 
 
 










e-Tailing Links

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source: Jupiter Communications
BizRate
Retail consumer store
ratings aggregator
www.bizrate.com/
ratings_guide/
guide.xpml
E-BuyersGuide
Scorecard of consumer retail sites
http://www.e-buyersguide.com/
Gomez Advisors
Consumer shopping advisor and merchant performance rater
www.gomez.com
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source: Jupiter Communications

By 2002, 63 percent of all US firms will be engaged in eCommerce
Source: eMarketer 2000


















 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
e-Statistics
NetValue
Consumer measurement on a quarterly and monthly
basis that tracks Internet activity
www.netvalue.com
NUA
Textual and graphical industry statistics based
on surveys about the Internet
www.nua.ie/surveys
Nielsen//NetRatings
Statistics on Internet audience
www.nielsen-netratings.com

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source: Internet Software Consortium



source: Jupiter Communications

source: Online Computer Library enter


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100 Numbers You Need to Know
Source: The Standard

 

100 NUMBERS YOU NEED TO KNOW

INTERNET USAGE

POPULATION

E-COMMERCE

ADVERTISING

E-mail messages sent worldwide in 1995: 101 billion. In 2000: 2.6 trillion. In 2005: 9.2 trillion.1


Number of people who have personalized a Web site: 34.4 million. Registered at a site: 47.1 million.2


27.4 million Americans used chat and instant messaging from home in March. 6.5 million used it from work.3


Americans who had access to the Net, but no longer plan to surf: nearly 12 million.4


In April, more than half a million porn sites lured nearly 18 million Americans.5


44 million Americans watch TV while surfing the Web.6


70 percent of people online seek out entertainment-related content.7


People who will purchase music on the Net in 2000: 20.7 million, or 17 percent of Net users. In 2005: 76 million, or 39 percent of Net users.8

Global population in 1999: 6 billion. Net users: 300 million. Percent online: 5.9


Americans online in 2000: 122 million, or 44 percent. 2005: 194 million, or 68 percent.10


80 percent of people in households earning more than $75,000 have Net access, but just 31 percent of those in homes that earn less than $30,000 have access.11


50.4 percent of the U.S. online population is female.12


U.S. workers with Web access at work in 1999: 63 percent. 2000: 70 percent. 2004: 85 percent.13


98 percent of people in Asia, 98 percent of people of Latin America and 99.5 percent in Africa are not online.14


Number of U.S. home customers of high-speed DSL or cable modem access: 3.1 million.15


The number of global wireless surfers in January 2000: 6 million. In 2005: 484 million.16

E-commerce represented 1.4 percent of total retail sales in 1999 and will be 2.4 percent in 2000.17


U.S. business-to-business e-commerce will rise to $6.3 trillion in 2005, from $336 billion in 2000.18


U.S. consumer e-commerce is expected to reach $45 billion this year. In 2005: $269 billion.18


U.S. online adults who shop on the Net: 56 percent.19


E-commerce this holiday season may hit $11.6 billion in the U.S., up 65 percent from $7 billion during the 1999 season.20


Without e-commerce taxation, 5 percent of U.S. sales tax revenues in 2003 may go uncollected. 21


Online small businesses with e-commerce in 2000: 34 percent. In 2003: 49 percent.22


Kids and teens are expected to spend $4.9 billion online in 2005.23

Over the past four years, Internet ad spending has grown to 23 times 1995 levels. In the early days of TV, ad spending grew only five times over its first five years.24


Net ad spending in the first half of 2000: first half of 2000: $4.1 billion. 2000 total: $8 billion.25


Internet ads will be 4 percent of total ad spending this year; 10 percent by 2004.26


Almost 4,600 sites and networks sell ad space.27


About 5,700 companies are advertising online. An estimated 75 percent of these are Internet firms.28


Most ad spending - 71 percent - goes to the top 10 sites. The top 100 sites net 91 percent of total spending.25


Half of Net ad spending went to banner ads in the second quarter of 2000. That's down 57 percent from 2Q99.25

 

NET FINANCE

NET WORKFORCE

WEB GROWTH

The Standard 100
gained 28 percent
between Jan. 1
and March 9, its high. From
January to November, the index was down
69 percent.29


In 1999
Internet
companies
had revenues of
$524 billion, up from $323
billion in 1998. 37


Of the 2.6 percent increase in U.S. labor productivity between 1996 and 1999, 1.5 percent was directly
related to information technology.30


There were 220 Internet-related IPOs in the first three quarters of 2000, which
raised $32 billion.31


Out of a 5
percent
improvement
in
U.S. production of
goods and services
in 1999,
1.6 percent was attributable to information technology.30


Amount of venture capital raised by Internet-related companies in 2Q00: $22.7 billion; in 3Q00: $18.3 billion. Decrease: 19 percent.32

E-commerce is
expected to represent 4.4 percent of the U.S. gross domestic
product
by 2002.34


Number of rounds of venture funding
raised by Net companies in
the second quarter of
2000: 1,266;
in 3Q00:
1,182. Decrease: 7 percent.32


25 percent of U.S. online
adults have Internet
banking
accounts and
21 percent
have Internet brokerage accounts.35


Median prevaluation
of e-commerce companies receiving
venture capital
in the fourth quarter of
1999: $108 million; in
2Q00: $21.5 million. Decrease: 80 percent.32


This year 35 million
Americans filed
their income taxes electronically. That's up 17 percent from
the 29 million who
did so
during
1999.36

19,953 employees
lost their jobs from 220 Internet companies from January through
October. 39


There were
2.5 million Internet Economy workers
in 1999. The
Internet Economy workforce grew 36 percent from 1998
to 1999.37


The 5.3 million
people
working in the
information
technology
industry in 1998
earned almost
double

the salary of non-IT workers.38


Jobs that are
currently
found through the
Internet: 4
percent.40


Median cash compensation
(salary plus bonus
and commission)
for an Internet Economy worker: $83,000.41


Average cash
compensation
(salary plus bonus
and commission) of
a CEO at a public Internet company: $325,861.
Average percent
ownership: 9.4
percent.42


Net economy
workers with
stock options:
55 percent. Median
number of stock options
owned:
6,000.41


Internet Economy
workers who are very satisfied with their
jobs: 51 percent.41

Number of
Web pages: 2.7
billion.
Growth rate:
5 million pages
per day.
Estimated number of Web servers: 6 million.43


New domain names
registered each
week: 368,200.44


Number of
computer security break-ins reported in 1996: 2,573. Number reported in
first three quarters
of 2000: 15,167.45


33 percent of the 51 million ISP accounts held with the top 10 U.S. providers are free.46


Only 66 percent of
Web addresses
lead to live
sites.47


Number of
streaming-media
links in Dec.
1999: 1 billion.
In June 2000:
2.8 billion.48


69 percent of all
domain names
have been registered
through the
U.S.49


Number of Web
pages indexed by
the most comprehensive
search engine:
1.6 billion.50

1IDC, SEPT. 2000; 2CYBER DIALOGUE FROM A SECOND-QUARTER SURVEY, 2000; 3MEDIA METRIX, MARCH 2000; 4PEW INTERNET AND AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT, SEPT. 2000; 5NIELSEN NETRATINGS, APRIL 2000; 6DATAQUEST, JUNE 2000; 7CYBER DIALOGUE, JUNE 2000; 8JUPITER RESEARCH, JULY 2000; 9ANGUS REID, APRIL 2000, AND THE UNITED NATIONS POPULATION DIVISION, 1998 REVISION; 10JUPITER RESEARCH, SPRING 2000; 11PEW INTERNET AND AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT, OCT. 2000; 12MEDIA METRIX AND JUPITER RESEARCH, JULY 2000; 13CAHNERS IN-STAT GROUP, AUG. 2000; 14WORLD BANK, SPRING 2000; 15TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPORTS INTERNATIONAL, JUNE 2000; 16OVUM, APRIL 2000; 17COMMERCE DEPARTMENT AND THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP, SPRING 2000; 18JUPITER RESEARCH, OCT. 2000; 19ROPER STARCH, OCT. 2000; 20JUPITER RESEARCH, SEPT. 2000; 21GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE, AUG. 2000; 22IDC, MAR. 2000; 23JUPITER RESEARCH, SEPT. 2000; 24THE STANDARD BASED ON DATA FROM JUPITER RESEARCH, INTERNET ADVERTISING BUREAU, MCCANN-ERICKSON, NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH, VERONIS SUHLER, FORRESTER RESEARCH AND RADIO ADVERTISING BUREAU; 25INTERNET ADVERTISING BUREAU; OCT. 2000; 26VERONIS SUHLER, JULY 2000; 27ADKNOWLEDGE, SPRING 2000; 28ADRELEVANCE, OCT. 2000; 29BLOOMBERG; 30COMMERCE DEPARTMENT, JUNE 2000; 31THE STANDARD BASED ON DATA FROM IPO.COM; 32VENTURE ECONOMICS, AUG. 2000; 33WEBMERGERS.COM; 34UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FROM THE KEENAN REPORT AND MORGAN STANLEY DEAN WITTER, SPRING 2000; 35JUPITER RESEARCH, SEPT. 2000; 36IRS, OCT. 2000; 37UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; 38COMMERCE DEPARTMENT; 39THE STANDARD'S DOT-COM LAYOFF TRACKER, OCT. 2000; 40FORRESTER RESEARCH, FEB. 2000; 41THE STANDARD'S INTERNET WORKFORCE COMPENSATION STUDY, SEPT. 2000; 42PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, JULY 2000; 43NEC RESEARCH, OCT 2000; 44NETWORK SOLUTIONS, NOV. 2000; 45COMPUTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (CERT), 3Q00; 46TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPORTS INTERNATIONAL, JUNE 2000; 47NETWORK SOLUTIONS, OCT. 2000; 48ALEXA INTERNET, JUNE 2000; 49NETWORK SOLUTIONS, AUG. 2000; 50SEARCH ENGINE WATCH, JULY 2000

 



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