Web Service System Design - Homework (March 1st 2008)

Q: According to the book by Treese and Stewart, what is the commerce value chain? Why not see them on an individual basis?

A: Commerce value chain: the chain of adding value in creating and delivering a product.
It can be depicted as in Fig.1.

Fig.1. Commerce Value Chain

In an individual basis usually some component of the value chain won't be founded, since each individual basis company will just emphasize in one or two components and omitting the others, due to cost or human resource consideration.

Q: Is the Internet different from other media? Why?

A: Yes, Internet is different from any other conventional media (e.g. TV, newspaper, radio, etc.). The major difference is that Internet can make the user (or customer) to choose their own interests of information (through browsing and clicking the topics of information they want to find), while other media will make their user to consume the information which they provided already at that time.

Q: Convert one of your Word document using Google docs.

A: Example of document - "Enjoy your coffee".