Jeff Bezos: After the gold rush, there's innovation ahead

The dot-com boom-and-bust is often compared to the 1849 Gold Rush, and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos offers historical evidence showing how similar they were: from the riches made by pioneers to the media hype that attracted luckless speculators. But a better analogy can be found in the early days of the electric industry, he says. In the late 1800s, the U.S. was first wired to support lightbulbs; the following century saw a long procession of new appliances, life-changing advances, and of course some amusing failures. His conclusion in 2003: "I believe there's more innovation ahead of us than behind us."

Aptify provides e-business applications for member/customer relationship management

Aptify provides e-business applications for member/customer relationship management, education/certification, subscription and publication fulfillment, event and meeting management, along with a wide range of other applications. Aptify offers users the utmost in flexibility, rapid implementation time, scalability and a compelling total cost of ownership.

Aptify’s user community is truly global with users of the product operating across many continents and dozens of countries. Aptify’s international focus provides growing organizations a unique advantage through internationalized product capabilities and support offerings.

Rent, buy and sell video games and movies online with PlayInterChange

PlayInterChange is a powerful exchange platform where members can rent, buy and sell their movies and DVDs. Unlike other "trading" systems out there, our interactive trading/renting platform allows members to set their own prices for each listed item and allows the item to be either for rent or sale. Our low fee allows members to legally rent, buy and sell movies and video games.

Plus a portion of the fee will be donated to various charities via the Network for Good organizations (www.networkforgood.org). We have over 43,000 video games and 90,000 movies to choose from and members never pay membership fees plus all transactions are protected against loss, damage or theft. Give us a try, we guarantee you will lots of fun using our system and also will be helping a good cause.

osCommerce is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution

osCommerce is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

osCommerce has attracted the largest community for an e-commerce solution that consists of over 128,500 store owners and developers worldwide with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 3,800 add-ons available that have been created by the community to extend the features of an osCommerce online store.

osCommerce combines Open Source solutions to provide a free and open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language and the fast MySQL database server. With no special requirements, osCommerce is able to run on any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.

With over 6 years of operation, osCommerce has built a showcase of over 11,900 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the live shops section, and powers many thousands of more online shops worldwide.

MeCommerce : A new and easy way to earn money from your blog

A new and easy way to earn money from your blog or website by selling from a vast catalog of books, DVD's, CD's, and video games. For every product sold on your website, you earn 50% of the profit...and your customers never leave your site!

With MeCommerce you have total control over the kind of books, music, movies, and games you want to sell on your site. You can even customize MeCommerce to look and feel like a part of your website.

MeCommerce is entirely transparent to your needs: There are no hidden costs or obligations. Sell only products you want, in the precise way you want it to look, and we take care of the rest.


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online retail has provided a revolutionary new way to own a business

Starting a store with Flying Cart is easy and completely free. With no initial cash outlay, anyone with merchandise can start a store. All that is needed is a PayPal Business account (which is free). Transaction fees are deducted at the time of each sale, so owning the store remains free until products are selling. We believe that stores should be able to post an unlimited number of products, with no posting fees. This model truly strips away all the financial risks of owning a store.

The biggest challenge for online stores is gaining product exposure. The bottom line is that if customers do not know about the store, it doesn't matter how nice the store is. Partnering up with a variety of high-traffic shopping sites provides automatic product exposure. If a product from an online store is purchased through a third-party site, it provides a store with instant visibility. Next time the customer buys a similar product, there is a good chance they will go directly to the store site. By running these and other types of online marketing campaigns in the background, we can help to maximize product exposure and increase revenue.

Wosbee is a free hosted e-commerce solution with community support

Wosbee is a free hosted e-commerce solution with community support. Anyone can sign up for a Wosbee Merchant Account and start selling products on the internet within a few minutes. Smilehouse is responsible for secure and reliable hosting. Wosbee is based on Java technology and can also be installed on merchants own server.

Wosbee is very customizable and also supports multiple payment services such as PayPal, Google Checkout, ChronoPay and Ogone. Support to merchant is provided through Wosbee Community site. Members of the Smilehouse Partner Program also offer implementation services for merchants.