Ecommerce Technology Links

The links below provide a broad supplement to the MSEC technology program. They will lead you to articles, tutorials, product information and software downloads.  This page should be particularly useful for the course 20-751, Ecommerce Technology.  It can provide endless hours of exploration and discovery.  For unfamiliar terminology you may also want to consult the Hyperdictionary of Ecommerce Technology.  This page is maintained by shamos+@cs.cmu.edu and is still under construction.  Please report omissions and dead links to the author.  © 1999, 2000 Michael I. Shamos.

Topics covered:

Biometrics
Computer Security
Content Delivery

Data Interchange
Data Mining
Databases
Electronic Payment Systems
General
Intelligent Agents
Internet
Mass Personalization

Middleware
Mobile eCommerce
Multimedia
Networks
Programming
Search Engines
Transaction Processing

Web Architecture
Web Programming

Biometrics

Companies
Biometric companies (Netscape)
Biometric companies (Univ. of Vermont)
Biometric organizations (Biometric Consortium)
Biometric organizations (Netscape)

Fingerprints
Biometry (Thomson-CSF)

Iris Scan
How Iris Recognition Works (John Daugman)

Primary Iris Recognition Links (iris-scam.com)

Lists of Links
Biometric links (COMSEC Solutions)
Biometric links (Michigan State University)
Biometric links (Open Directory Project)
Biometric publications (Connecticut Department of Social Services)

Computer Security

CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)
CERT Advisories (warnings about Internet intrusions, CMU)
CERT Coordination Center (CMU)

FAQ
Internet Firewall FAQ
Intrusion Detection FAQ (Robert Graham)

RSA Laboratories FAQ
Unofficial Cookie FAQ
World Wide Web Security (W3C)

General
Book: Trust in Cyberspace (National Academy Press)

Glossaries
COMPUSEC Glossary (very detailed; also treats hardware)
Glossary of Computer Security Incident Handling (DFN-CERT)
Security Glossary (From George Mason Univ. Extremely detailed)
SecurityInfo Glossary

Lists of links
COAST Directory of Computer Security Resources (Purdue)
Cookie Central (fine source of information about cookies)
Crypto Links (Bruce Schneier)
Crypto Related Links (UCSD)
Cryptography and Security (Rivest's huge list)
Internet Guide to Cryptography

Network Security (From Telecom Information Resources on the Internet)
PKI Page (Stefan Kelm's list on digital signatures and certification authorities)
pki world (info on security products)
Security, Privacy and Encryption (Varian's list)

Security Related Tools and Archives (Neil Johnson)

Software downloads
Antivirus Downloads (Mining Co.)
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy. Free download from MIT)

Tutorials
Cryptography A-2-Z (SSH Communications Security Ltd. Excellent)
Digital Signatures (David Youd)
IT Security Cookbook (1999 book-length treatment of computer security by Sean Boran)
Privacy and Secure Transactions (introductory-level slides by Jason O'Grady)

Viruses
Computer Virus Information Page (extensive list of links)
Glossary (Dr. Solomon)

Glossary (IBM)
Symantec Encyclopedia of Viruses
Virus and Antivirus Information (Disaster Center)
Virus Encyclopedia (AVP)
Virus Glossary (AVP)
Virus Information Center (McAfee. Find viruses by name)

Virus Primer (Trend Micro)

Content Delivery

Caching
Caching acronyms (networkmagazine.com)
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters (Mark Nottingham)

General
List of links (web-caching.com)

Tutorials
Ins and Outs of Content Delivery Networks (stardust.com)
Introduction to Content Delivery and Distribution (cddcenter.com)
Introduction to IP Multicast Routing (IP Multicast Initiative)
streamingmedia.com

Data Interchange

Automated Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
Brady AIDC products (extensive list from one vendor)
What is AIDC? (Automatic Idenification Manufacturers)

Tutorials
ASN.1 (Boots Cassel)

ASN.1 book chapter (Univ. of Salford)
ASN.1 Overview (OSS Nokalva) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Layman's Guide to a Subset of ASN.1, BER, and DER (Kaliski) 36-page .ps fileASCII version

XML
Doing It With XML (internet.com. Tutorial)
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (W3C)

Free XML Tools and Software (Lars Garshol)
XML & Web Standards Archives (earthweb.com)
XML FAQ (HTML Writers Guild)
XML for All (Pittsburgh company offering full  programmability for XML)
XML for the Absolute Beginner (JavaWorld)

Data Mining

Articles
Publications by Data Distilleries (follow "Data Mining" links)

Downloads
Gemstone (object-oriented DBMS) for Linux
ITASCA (object-oriented DBMS from Ibex)
Jeevan (object-oriented DBMS from w3apps.com)
ObjectStore (object-oriented DBMS from Object Design)
Ode (Windows version from Lucent)
Versant (object-oriented DBMS)

Glossaries
Glossary of Data Mining Terms (Pilot Software)
OLAP and OLAP Server Definitions (OLAP Council)

Lists of Links
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Resources (Knowledge Discovery Nuggets)
Data Mining Information (MIT)
Data Mining Links (Univ. of Helsinki)
DBMS Guide to Data Mining Solutions
OLAP Resources (up-to-date list by Simon Groves)
Selected Data Mining Products (DBMS Online)
Tools (Siftware) for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Knowledge Discovery Nuggets)

Products
Data Mining (links to products, by Netscape)
Data Mining: An Overview from a Database Perspective (J. Han, Simon Fraser Univ. 90 PowerPoint slides.)
Data Mining Central (product links from DataFlux)
Data Mining Product Features (Exclusive Ore, Inc.)
Data Mining Suite (Information Discovery, Inc.)

Software demos and downloads
(Note: Many of the free downloads require you to obtain a password via email that may not arrive for a few days)
Clustan (cluster analysis)
Data Mining Downloads Page (U. Texas)
Hit City (data visualization tool)
MasterMiner (Aptron's hybrid approach)
NeuNet Pro (CorMac Technologies neural network software)
Neural Parts (BlueCrest neural network mining tool. Vince: It includes real estate valuation!)
NOeSYS (visualization demos)
Spotfire (Spotfire, Inc.)
SPSS, Inc.
SuperQuery (from AZMY. Analyzes Excel and Access files)
WizRule (rule induction demo from WizSoft)
XpertRule Miner (Attar Software)

Tutorials
Data Mining and Advanced DSS Technology (K. Thearling)
Databases Introduced (by Krishna Sankar)

Visualization
Inxight Hyperbolic Tree demo
Visualising Information Spaces

Databases

Articles
A Data Warehouse Evaluation Model (M. Demarest)
Middleware (Datamation)
Relational versus Object Databases - Contention or Coexistence? (by L. Maciaszek, Sydney Univ.)

FAQ
Database Servers FAQ (Illinois Inst. of Technology)

Glossaries
Database Marketing Technology Glossary (Ground Zero)
Data Warehouse Glossary (Computers by Design)
DataWarehouse Glossary (Software AG and Meta Group))
Industry Jargon Glossary (D2K, Inc. On data warehousing

Lists of links
Data Warehousing Information Center (Larry Greenfield)
Data Warehousing Knowledge Center
Database Jump Site (Erik Jones)
Database Resource Centre (by Brian Spencer, Univ. of Brighton. Excellent. Links to several courses and tutorials)
Database Resources (extensive list from UNIF/X)
developer.com (databases resources page)
Distributed Objects and MicroKernels (Univ. of Illinois)

Products
Data Warehouses (Datamation's llist of warehousing products)
DataWarehouse Software Demonstration Lab (try out warehousing products)

Tutorials
Access 97 Tutorial (J. Armbruster)
Cold Fusion Frontier
Data Warehouse Tutorial (BOMA)
Database (Univ. of Central Oklahoma)
Database Systems (textbook by Connolly et al. as PowerPoint slides)
Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases (Hand & Chandler, Univ. of Portsmouth)
Introduction to Structured Query Language (James Hoffman)
Managing Data for Electronic Commerce (IBM Centre for Advanced Studies)

Electronic Payment Systems

Articles
Credits and Debits on the Internet (M. Sirbu, CMU)
Electronic Payment Schemes (Hallam-Baker)
The Millicent Protocol for Inexpensive Electronic Commerce (Glassman et al.)

FAQ
E-money mini-FAQ (Jim Miller)

Glossaries
Automated Teller Machines (Mellon Bank)
Terminology of International Banking (Transaction Net)

Languages
ECML (Electronic Commerce Modeling Language)

Lists of links
CIO's Electronic Commerce Page (State Govt. of Utah)
Digital Cash, Network Payment, and Online Banking (Varian's list)
Digital Currencies and Related Information (From Telecom Information Resources on the Internet)
Digital Money (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Electronic Commerce (Univ. of Utah)
Internet Commerce Protocols and Standards (Varian's list)
Network Payment Mechanisms and Digital Cash (M.E. Peirce)
Payment Mechanisms Designed for the Internet (M.E. Peirce, VERY comprehensive; lists about 80 systems)
Payment Methods (Transaction Net)
Smart Cards and Electronic Payment Systems (UCL Microelectronic Laboratory)

Systems
CyberCash
CyberCoin (micropayments)
DigiCash
eTRUST
Mark Twain Banks and ecash
Mastercard
Millicent (micropayments)
NetChex
Payment Net (outsourcing vendor)
VISA Cash

Tutorials
Electronic Payment Systems (slide show by Clifford Neumann)

General

Articles
Electronic Commerce (K. Höglund, Helsinki Univ. of Technology)
Models of Electronic Commerce (P. Aukia)

Glossaries
Commonly Used Acronyms (Microsoft)
Electronic Commerce Glossary (brief)
EPHOS Open Systems Glossary (very broad info processing glossary)
Glossary of Computer Oriented Terms (R. Scullion)

Microsoft Glossary
NetDictionary (Albion.com)

Professional Web Technology Reference Dictionary (Craig Hulbert, Inc.)

Lists of links
Ecommerce Directories (From Telecom Information Resources on the Internet)
Electronic Commerce (El.pub)
Electronic Commerce (Varian's list)
Electronic Commerce Guide (internet.com)
WebTools (Sun)

Periodicals
AltaVista MarketSpace

CNET news.com (E-Commerce)
Digital Direct Marketing Letter (says a password is required, but apparently not)
e commerce news (daily developments from News Lynx)
e-commerce news (internet.com)
e-commerce report (NY Times)
em Electronic Markets (The International Journal of Electronic Commerce and Business Media)
IBM e-business and Software News Alert (biweekly)
Industry Standard (IDG.net)
internet world daily (internet.com)

Tutorials
Electronic Commerce (George Washington Univ. slide presentation)
IBM Electronic Commerce Tutorial

Intelligent Agents

Agent Construction Tools
Agent Construction Tools (long list of links from Reticular Systems)

Articles
An Examination of Agent Technologies (Kory Hopkings, Simon Fraser Univ.)
Collection of Articles on E-commerce (P. Scaruffi)
Ethical Web Agents (D. Eichmann, Univ. of Houston)
Software Agents: An Overview (H. S. Nwana)

Auctions
Auctions and Computational Markets on the Network (length list of links from Telecom Information Resources on the Internet)
Michigan Internet Auction Bot
Survey of Auction Types (Agoics, Inc.)
Web Portal to the Auction Community (USAWeb)

General
Intelligent (Internet) Agents (A. Geyer-Schulz)
Intelligent Software Agents (CMU)
Intelligent Software Agents (Dick Stenmark)
Intelligent Software Agents (UMBC)

Glossaries
Agent Technology Glossary (Craig Thompson et al.)

Lists of links
Agent BibTex (online bibliography)
AgentWeb (UMBC)
AmEC Initiative (MIT)
BotSpot (internet.com. Incredibly comprehensive)
Intelligent Agents (VAST. From Telecom Information Resources on the Internet)
Intelligent Software Agents (Dick Stenmark's links to articles)
Negotiation and Collaboration in Electronic Commerce (Berkeley)
NetWatch Top Ten - Intelligent Agents/Information Agents
Network Commerce and Intelligent Agents (From Telecom Information Resources on the Internet)
NewsAgents (South Bank University, UK)
Softbots (Univ. of Washington)

Negotiation
Berkeley Negotiation Links (U.C. Berkeley)
Negotiation Between Intelligent Agents (Univ. of London)

Shopping bots
bonweb.com (en français)

BuyersZone
CompareNet
Comparison Shop
Fido: The Shopping Doggie
mseek.com (price comparison)
MySimon.com
netmarket (name brands at warehouse pices)
PriceScan
RoboShopper

Schnäppchenjagd im Internet Electronic Shopping (deutsch)
Shop Best
Shopfind
Shopping Explorer

Tutorials
Intelligent Agents and Multi Agent Systems (Vasant Honavar)
Intelligent Agents and the Internet (Neal Harper)

Internet

Browsers
BrowserWatch (intermet.com)

E-journals
Internet Telephony

InternetWeek
NetworkWorld Fusion

Foreign (Non-US) Backbone
Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
CA*net3 (Canada)
European Exchange Points
NORDUnet (Scandinavia)
Renater2 (France)
Singapore Network Configuration
Submarine Cables of the World (Total Access Networks)
SURFnet (Netherlands)
Taiwan Network (TANet/I2)

Glossaries
Glossary of Internet Terms (Matisse Enzer)

Lists of links
Internet Resources (information, plug-ins, tutorials, from Mike Dashner)
Internet Service Providers (internet.com)
InterNet Technologies - Web Resources (diffuse list of introductory material)
thedirectory (10,000 Internet access providers)

Navigation
Atlas of Cyberspaces (utterly fascinating; prepare to spend hours)
Backbone maps (Boardwatch)

ESnet Backbone Maps
Geography of Cyberspace (University College, London. Large collection of Internet maps and statistics)
Global Web Explorer (Internet sites in every country, updated constantly)
Internet Connectivity

Mapping the Internet with Traceroute (by Jack Rickard)
MapNet (visual Internet backbones from CAIDA)
NetCraft (finding websites)
Pennsylvania Technology Atlas Mapping Service (draw your own maps of technology in Pennsylvania)
Russ Haynal's ISP Page (loads of maps)
TraceMap (visual Traceroute service from MIDS)
vBNS Logical Network Map

World Map of the Internet

Privacy
See how much a website learns about you when you visit.

Products
Internet Product Watch (internet.com. Descriptions of new products)

Servers
Explanation of server log files.
ServerWatch News (from internet.com)
WebServer Compare (internet.com; comparisons of web server products)

Software downloads
GeoBoy from NeoTrace from NeoWorx (global visual TraceRoute)
Internet Cartographer (Inventix. Visualize your browsing habits)
Internet Downloads (CNET)
Site Visibility Software (Global Tech 2000)
VisualRoute from Datametrics Systems Corporation (visual TraceRoute). You can try a demo at Datametrics.
WinMag Cookie viewer (free download)

Statistics
Backbone Status (NetStat)

CyberAtlas (internet.com)
Find popularity of a domain name (link.popularity.com)
How Many Online? (Up-to-date population stats from NUA)
Internet Information Presentation (CAIDA)
Internet Measurement Tool Taxonomy (CAIDA)
Internet Surveys (statistical information from NUA)
Internet Traffic Report
(global Internet status from  Andover News Network)  EXCELLENT
Internet Trends (From General Magic. Dated but impressive slides of Internet growth through 1997)
Matrix Information and Directory Services (Internet maps, stats, Requires subscription, but some free samples)

Media Metrix 500 (top 500 sites monthly by unique visitors)
Measuring Link Popularity
NetCraft Web Server Survey (up-to-date stats on who uses what type of server)

NetSizer (daily growth of the Internet, Telecordia Technologies)
Network Wizards Internet Domain Survey
RIPE Network Coordination Centre statistics

Statistics Toolbox (internet.com)
Top Rankings (sites by unique visitors, monthly.  Media Metrix)
Traffic Patterns (recent Internet usage stats. Scroll down on page)
Tutorial on Internet traffic workloads (NLANR)

Tutorials
Domain Name System (DNS)
How the Internet Works (what?is.com)   For beginners
How Web Servers and the Internet Work (howstuffworks.com)
Polaris Tutorial -- How to Navigate the Internet (about.com)
webTeacher (webteacher.org)
Your On-Line Guide to the Internet (NUS)  For beginners

Mass Personalization

Articles
What is Personalization? (builder.com)

Data Mining
see links above

Demos
moviecritic.com
Personalogic
webgroove.com

Lists of Links
Analysis & Personalization Software Sites (Univ. of Ulster)

Presentations
Incorporating Personal Information (Brent Chun)
What is Personalization? (Infoimage.com)

Products
Microsoft Personalization System (Microsoft)

Middleware

CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture (Univ, of Sheffield)
CORBA (links from Software Technologies)
Detailed Comparison of CORBA, DCOM and Java/RMI (Gopalan Raj)
developer.com (resources page)
Electronic Commerce with Java and CORBA (A. Vogel)

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
Connecting Enterprise Data to the Web (IBM)
Enterprise JabaBeans Developer's Guide (SUN Microsystems)
Enterprise JavaBeans Technology (SUN Microsystems)

General
Look at Internet Commerce Standards.  Part II: Middleware (Sukan Makmuri)
Making the Most of Middleware (data.com)
Middleware (SEI)
Sorting Out Middleware (Judith Hurwitz)

Message-Oriented Middleware
IBM MQSeries Family
Message-Oriented Middleware (SEI)

Products
Middleware Products (DBMS Magazine)

RPC Middleware
RPC Middleware (SEI)
RPC Middleware Vendor Lists (middleware.org)

Transaction Processing Middleware
Transaction Processing and Middleware (links from Software Technologies)
Transaction Processing Middleware Vendor Lists (middleware.org)

Mobile eCommerce

Articles
Bluetooth Technology: The Convergence of Communications and Computing (A. Seybold)

Bluetooth
Bluetooth Homepage (bluetooth.com)
Bluetooth Technology (Intel)
Bluetooth Architecture Overview (James Kardach, Intel) pdf file -- Excellent

Global Positioning System (GPS)
Global Positioning System Overview (P. Dana, U. Texas)
Glossary (GPS World)
GPS Primer (Aerospace Corp.)
GPS Resource Library (K. Nakamura)
GPS Tutor (Quest Ltd.)
GPS World (periodical)
How GPS Works (Trimble)
Practical Gude to GPS-UTM (D. Bartlett)

Tutorials
Background of Quality of Service (IPHighway)
Internet Protocol/Intelligent Network Integration Tutorial (IEC)
Mobile Networking Through Mobile IP (Charles Perkins)

Multimedia

Audio
About Digital Audio
Audio Concepts (Chuck Allen)
Audio Formats (Antex Electronics)
How Compact Discs (CDs) Work (howstuffworks.com)
MPEG Pointers and Resources (mpeg.org)

Cams (live Internet Cameras)
GoHip WorldCams

Glossaries
Audio Glossary: General Terms and Definitions
Film, Audio & Video Terminology (Filmland)
Film & Video Glossary (Visual Effects Resource Center)

Graphics
ColorMaker (add colors to your web pages. Worth a visit.)
RGB Color Chart (converts between RGB and hex)

Glossaries
Microsoft NetShow Glossary

Multimedia (from NAPL)
Video on Demand Glossary (Concurrent Computer Corp.)

Lists of links
Computer Networking (Mining Co, guide)
JPEG Information Links (jpeg.org)

Streaming Media (TechWeb)

Multicasting
Internet Multicast Backbone
Introduction to IP Multicast

Periodicals
Streaming Media World (internet.com)

Plug-Ins
RealPlayer Plus (RealNetworks)

Software downloads
GIF Construction Set (Alchemy Mindwork. Build animated GIFs)
Multimedia (CNET)

Tutorials
Fundamental Introduction to the Compact Disc Player (Grant Erickson)

Video
RealVideo - Waiting on Broadband (internet.com. Tutorial)
Truevision Technical Support Glossary (Pinnacle)

Videoconferencing
Introduction to Videoconferencing and the MBONE (C. T. Larsen)

VRML
developer.com (resource page, free downloads)
VRML FAQ
VRML for Rocket Scientists (internet.com. Tutorial)
VRML homepage (NCSA)

Networks

Ethernet
Ethernet Technical Summary (TechFest.com)

Find the address of your Ethernet card
Gigabit Ethernet (Gigabit Ethernet Alliance)

Glossaries
ATM Glossary
Business Data Communications Glossary (Addison-Wesley)
Common Cable and LAN Terms and Abbreviations (Wavetek)
Data Communications Glossary (Torrens Valley Institute)
DSL Networks Glossary (DSLnetworks)
Glossary of Fiber Optic Terms (FORCE, Inc.)
Glossary of Fiber Optics Terms (Telecom Global Mall)
Internet and Data Communications Terms (D. Canino, CNUCE-CNR, Italy)
Multihousing Glossary of DSL Technology Terms (multihousing.com)
Networking Essentials

Lists of links
ATM Related Documents (Indiana University)
Cable Modem Resources on the Web (by David Gingold)
Computer Networking (Mining Co. Pointers to a vast number of resources)
Intranets (U. Mich.)
Introduction to Computer Networks
ISDN (Dan Kegel)
Local Area Networks (John Wobus)
Network Plumbing, Software and Firewalls (SVSU)

Optical fiber
Corning Optical Fiber Library
Fundamentals of Fiber Optic Transmission Systems (LANart Corp.)

Introduction to Fiber Optic Networking (AMP)

Presentations
TCP/IP (MIT)

Protocols
Darryl's TCP/IP Primer

Introduction to TCP/IP (H. Gilbert)
Introduction to the Internet Protocols (Rutgers. Old but good.)
TCP/IP (Cisco)

TCP/IP Tutorial (thorough treatment from IBM)
TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview (IBM)

Understanding IP Addressing (Chuck Semeria, 3Com)
What is TCP/IP?

Routing
Routing white papers (Torrent)

Tutorials
ADSL Tutorial (ADSL Forum)
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (Technology Web Knowledgebase)
ATM Basics (Lauren May)
ATM Tutorial (M. Subramanyan, Syracuse Univ))
Basics of IP Network Design (IBM)
Capacity Planning (Jim Foxworthy, Landmark)
Capacity Planning Whitepapers (CSS)
Computer Networking and Internet Protocols (Ross & Kurose, highly recommended)

Frame Relay Tutorials
Internet Telephony Tutorial (MicroLegend)
Internetworking Basics (Cisco Press)
Introduction to the Internet Protocols (Hedrick.  Old but good)

ISDN Primer (PacBell)
Networking: A Primer (mid-level from Bay Networks. Very clear)
Networks for Dummies (basic and kind of fun)
Telecommunications Technical Fundamentals (Moulton Co., long and basic, and with music!)
Understanding OSI (complete tutorial by John Larmouth)
Virtual Private Networks Resource Guide (Ascend Communications, Inc.)
What is a VPN? (by Paul Ferguson et al. in PDF format)

Satellite Communications
Glossary of Satellite Terms (International Satellite Directory)

Wireless Networks
Wide Area Wireless Computing (Peter Rysavy)

Programming

Cascading Style Sheets
CSS Frequently Asked Questions (HTML Writers' Guild)

CGI
CGI and Scripting (ArcWeb)
CGI FAQ (HTML Writers Guild)
CGI for Server-Side Processing (internet.com. Tutorial)
Common Gateway Interface (overview)
developer.com (resources page)

Ecommerce
Electronic Commerce Modeling Language

General
15 Seconds (internet.com. Practical articles on Web programming.)
Webreference (internetcom. Web programming tutorials)

HTML
Bare Bones Guide to HTML (K. Werbach)
Dynamic HTML (internet.com. Tutorial)
HTML Quick Reference (Univ. of Kansas)
HTML - The Hypertext Markup Language (internet.com. Tutorial)
idocs Guide to HTML (Tutorial)
Introduction to HTML (Case Western Reserve)

Java
gamelan: The Official Directory for Java (Download thousands of applets. Maintained by Sun)
Java Boutique (internet.com. News, free applets)
Java Development Environments (downloads, some free)
Java Repository (exchange Java objects)
Java ScriptSearch (internet.com. Free Java code)
JavaWorld (magazine)
Learning to Write Java (internet.com. Tutorial)

JavaScript
Authoring JavaScript (internet.com. Tutorial)
JavaScript ScriptSearch (internet.com. Free JavaScript code)
JavaScript Source (internet.com; cut-and-paste JavaScript examples)
Software (Hundreds of scripts)

Objects
Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series
ADT's, Modules & Objects - Terminology (D. Rees)
Business Objects
CORBA (Software Technologies)

History of Distributed Object-Oriented Technologies
Inside CORBA Services (Software Productivity Group)
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Languages (Hand & Chandler)
Issues in OO Technology

Java Beans FAQ (JavaSoft)
Journal of Object-Oriented Programming
Object Database Management Group (ODMG)
Object FAQ
Object Lesson (Ken Lunn)
Object Management Group (OMG, promotes CORBA)
Object-Oriented Computing (links list from KAIST)
Object-Oriented Programming Concepts: A Primer

Object-Oriented Programming Glossary
Semaphore Glossary of Object-Oriented Technology
Your Object-Oriented Library
What Are Objects?

Perl
developer.com (resource page, scripts available)
Perl FAQ (HTML Writers Guild)
Perl Journal (EarthWeb)
Perl ScriptSearch (internet.com. Free Perl code)
Perl You Need to Know (internet.com. Tutorial)

Software downloads
Development Tools (CNET)

Java IDEs (internet.com)

XML
developer.com (resource page)
Doing It With XML (internet.com. Tutorial)
XML FAQ (HTML Writers Guild)

XML for All (Pittsburgh company offering full  programmability for XML)

Search Engines

Articles
Automated Categorization: Where & Why? (Antonio Gullì)

Building and Maintenance of Robot Based Internet Search Services (Koch et al.)
Efficient Crawling Through URL Ordering (Cho et al., Stanford)
How to be a Web Hound (finding material on the Web)
Internet Information Retrieval - The Further Development of Meta-Searchengine Technology (Sander-Beuermann et al.)

Mercator: A Scalable, Extensible Web Crawler (Haydon & Najork)

Glossaries
Search Engine Features for Webmasters (internet.com)
Web Search Tools (Carleton Univ.)

Lists of links
Search Engine Watch (edited by Danny Sullivan; large number of links)
Searching 4 Pointers (North Carolina State Univ.)
Webliography of Web Search Tools (Carleton Univ.)

Photo Search
AltaVista Photo & Media Finder
AP Photo Archive (available only with CMU IP address)
Corbis Images search page

Ranking
Rank This! (Service that shows website rankings by various search engines)
Ranking (Tutorial by Dirk Van Eylen on how engines determine the order in which to display hits)

Registration Services (informing search engines about a site)
PostMaster, RegisterIt!, SubmitIt!

Search Engine Sites
RealNames (robust website name search)

Spies
MetaSpy

Tutorials
Introduction to WAIS (December & Ginsburg)

Transaction Processing

Articles
Middleware (Datamation)

CORBA
developer.com (resources page)
Electronic Commerce with Java and CORBA (A. Vogel)

EDI
ABC of EDI (Jim Smith)
EDI (Univ. of Central Oklahoma)
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Information (From Telecom Information Resources on the Internet)
EDI on the Internet (U. Texas)
Electronic Data Interchange (tutorial by A. A. Verstraete)

Glossaries
Concepts and Facilities (IBM transaction processing products)
IBM DB2 Universal Database
Microsoft Glossary of Transaction Processing
SmartScape Glossary of Transaction Processing (Elucidate Technologies)
Transaction processing terminology (Talarian Corp.)

Shopping Carts
Shopping Cart Comparisons (Mountain Network Systems)

Tutorials
Transaction Logging Concepts (Progess Software)
Transaction Processing Concepts and Techniques (WICS. Full course by Jim Gray et al. with PowerPoint slides. Starts from the beginning. Highly recommended)
Transaction Processing Systems (U. of Central Oklahoma)

Web Architecture

Articles
Connecting Enterprise Data to the Web (IBM)

Client/Server Architecture
Client/Server Software Architectures -- An Overview (SEI)
Client/Server Fundamentals (Network Computing)

Web Programming

Cascading Style Sheets
CSS Frequently Asked Questions (HTML Writers' Guild)

CGI
CGI and Scripting (ArcWeb)
CGI FAQ (HTML Writers Guild)
CGI for Server-Side Processing (internet.com. Tutorial)

CGI Links
Common Gateway Interface (overview)
developer.com (resources page)

Ecommerce
Electronic Commerce Modeling Language

General
15 Seconds (internet.com. Practical articles on Web programming.)
Webreference (internetcom. Web programming tutorials)

HTML
Bare Bones Guide to HTML (K. Werbach)
Dynamic HTML (internet.com. Tutorial)
HTML Quick Reference (Univ. of Kansas)
HTML - The Hypertext Markup Language (internet.com. Tutorial)
idocs Guide to HTML (Tutorial)
Introduction to HTML (Case Western Reserve)

Java
gamelan: The Official Directory for Java (Download thousands of applets. Maintained by Sun)

Inside the Java Virtual Machine (Bill Venners)
Introduction to Java (Course from Univ. of Basel)
Java Boutique (internet.com. News, free applets)
Java Development Environments (downloads, some free)
Java Links

Java Repository (exchange Java objects)
Java ScriptSearch (internet.com. Free Java code)

Java Tutorial (SUN)
Java Virtual Machine Specification (Lindholm & Yellin)
JavaWorld (magazine)
Learning to Write Java (internet.com. Tutorial)

JavaScript
Authoring JavaScript (internet.com. Tutorial)
JavaScript ScriptSearch (internet.com. Free JavaScript code)
JavaScript Source (internet.com; cut-and-paste JavaScript examples)
Software (Hundreds of scripts)

Objects
Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series
ADT's, Modules & Objects - Terminology (D. Rees)
Business Objects
CORBA (Software Technologies)

History of Distributed Object-Oriented Technologies
Inside CORBA Services (Software Productivity Group)
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Languages (Hand & Chandler)
Issues in OO Technology

Java Beans FAQ (JavaSoft)
Journal of Object-Oriented Programming
Object Database Management Group (ODMG)
Object FAQ
Object Lesson (Ken Lunn)
Object Management Group (OMG, promotes CORBA)
Object-Oriented Computing (links list from KAIST)
Object-Oriented Programming Concepts: A Primer

Object-Oriented Programming Glossary
Semaphore Glossary of Object-Oriented Technology
Your Object-Oriented Library
What Are Objects?

Perl
developer.com (resource page, scripts available)
Perl FAQ (HTML Writers Guild)
Perl Journal (EarthWeb)
Perl ScriptSearch (internet.com. Free Perl code)
Perl You Need to Know (internet.com. Tutorial)

Scripting languages
Python Tutorial (van Rossum)
Tcl/Tk Cookbook (Sastry & Sastry)
Tcl Tutorials (links)

Software downloads
Development Tools (CNET)

Java IDEs (internet.com)