Chapter 6: Online Auctions, Virtual Communities and Web Portals

1. Web Portals

1.1. Advertising Supported

1.2. Mixed Revenue

1.3. Intranet Portals

2. Building Long-term Customer Relationships

2.1. Blogs

2.2. Wikis

2.3. Forums

2.4. Facebook, Myspace, etc.

3. Virtual Comm's and Web Portals

3.1. Mobile Communications Technology

3.2. Mobile Business

3.3. Intelligent Software Agents

3.4. Virtual Communities/Web- Online-Communities

3.5. Web Community Consolidation

4. Types of Auctions

4.1. English (ascending in price)

4.2. Dutch (descending in price)

4.3. Sealed-Bid auctions

4.4. Open-Outcry Double

4.5. Sealed-Bid Double

4.6. Reverse (seller bids)

4.7. General Consumer Auctions

5. Online Auctions

5.1. C2C

5.2. C2B

5.3. B2B

5.4. B2C

5.5. Resources