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Reply-To: "Steve Bennett" <steve@euronet.nl>
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September 1994
Volume 1 Number 1
Managing Editor: Steve Bennett
steve@euronet.nl
Publisher: innovation@euronet.nl
Information Innovation
Amsterdam and New York
(C)1994 INFORMATION INNOVATION
All rights reserved. All trademarks, and other intellectual property rights are
acknowledged. No part of this email may be forwarded, copied, faxed or otherwise
reproduced without the prior written permission of Information Innovation.
Abstracts may be taken provided full details of the source are included.
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Contents of This Issue
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New Sites
This Months Top Ten Sites and Users
Breaking News on the Web
Under the Microscope... Reuters New Media on the Web
This Months Interview... QuoteCom
The Detectives Guide to... Financial Information
How to use... a Web Robot
Getting Plugged in... Your Guide to WWW Software
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Introduction to The Web Word
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The Web Word is a service for people and organisations with a professional
interest in the worlds fastest growing information system - the World Wide Web.
The WWW is expanding and developing so fast (it is doubling in popularity every
4 months) that no one can keep up with the latest developments. That is where
The Web Word comes in!
The Web Word is published 10 times a year with a special bonus issue in January
of each year. It will keep you informed of:
- the latest services available on the WWW and
other interesting Internet services,
- a Top Ten list of Web sites and Web Users,
- Important, up to date news about the Web,
- publish interviews with prominent WWW
personalities (This months interview is with
QuoteComs Chris Cooper),
- look in depth at innovative WWW services
(This month its Reuters New Media),
- Keep you up to date on the latest WWW
software releases
The Web Word is available to subscribers in 3 forms:
1. A standard text email (such as this)
2. A html document ready for Web use (just load it into your
Mosaic client and go.
3. A searchable Web server of html documents incorporated into
our information bases on management and technology.
You choose what service you want.
The Web Word will live and die on its usefulness to you, the Web community. As
such we want and appreciate any feedback you can give us to improve ourselves.
Help us please. Send mail to webinfo@euronet.nl
The Web Word is not just an email service. Within the next few weeks Information
Innovation will be going live with a full Web server containing the Internets
largest repository of information for the manager, technologist, and finance
professional. Information bases already constructed for this service include:
The Management Guide
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A guide for managers in the information age. The Guide consists of 22 parts,
each concentrating on a particular technology or issue facing managers. Topics
range from Artificial Intelligence and Telecommunications to Finance and
Marketing. Each part contains references to additional valuable information,
including CD ROMs, conferences, magazines, articles and books. Hundreds of
illustrations are used. This is the Internets first professional encyclopaedia
of Management and technology.
The Hypergraphic Matrix
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Get lost in a hypergraphic matrix of hundreds of graphics discussing the
interrelationships between technology, change, business functions and specific
industries.
Dictionary
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The largest Internet dictionary on management and technology.
The Delphi Oracle
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A comprehensive guide to the latest management ideas and issues. Over 500
articles and books have been read, analysed, rated and catalogued from all the
major management and technology journals.
The Web Word
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An information service about the Web. It includes a regular newsletter (you are
reading the email version now) and databases about Web resources, news,
interviews with Web personalities and, of course, a comprehensive guide to
sites. This will include all of The Web Word information plus much more.
Web Bibliography
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A guide to the latest Web information printed. Over 150 articles, magazines,
market research reports and books are catalogued.
Other forthcoming Web services from Information Innovation will go much further
by providing extensive information bases on financial terminology, financially
engineered products, technology suppliers, print media and CD-ROM information
sources and more. For further information send mail to webinfo@euronet.nl
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Introduction to the World Wide Web
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Section 1: New Sites
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This section lists interesting and useful Web sites and other sources of
Internet information.
This Month:
Academic
Business
Community
Computing
Publishing
Further Web Information
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Academic
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http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/archnet/archnet.html
A database of information of interest to archaeologists.
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/searchmenu.html
Shakespeares plays and sonnets, Homers Iliad and Odyssey, Tacitus History and
Annals, and more searchable works.
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-Buddhism.html
Buddhist Studies Virtual Library at the Australian National
University.
http://envirolink.org/
A large environmental information archive.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders/
An inter-disciplinary team at the University of Southern California has a WWW
server that allows users to tele-operate a robot arm over the net. Users view
the environment surrounding the arm via a sequence of live images taken by a CCD
camera mounted on a commercial robot arm. The robot is positioned over a
terrain filled with sand; a pneumatic system, also mounted on the robot, allows
users to direct short bursts of compressed air into the sand at selected points.
Thus users can "excavate" regions within the sand by positioning the arm,
delivering a burst of air, and viewing the newly cleared region. To operate the
robot you'll need an ethernet link and a WWW client that handles forms.
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Business
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BUSINESS PAGES
http://pass.wayne.edu/business.html
A collection of information and site links of interest to business. Contains
some useful information about how to connect into the Internet.
gopher://refmac.kent.edu:70/1D-1:11404:Business Sources on the Net
This is a gopher directory of business resources on the Net. It contains
documents on accounting, computers, economics, finance, investments, location,
management, operations, personnel, and statistics.
OFFSHORE COMPANIES
OFFSHORE is an open, unmoderated discussion list which will focus on exchanging
information about offshore company and trust structures. Send email to Arnold L.
Cornez, J.D. at arniec@hopf.dnai.com. This is new to us, if anyone has more
information we will publish it next week.
SHOPPING
http://www.ip.net/shops.html
Email questions to: webdev@tcp.ip.net
Not another cyber mall I hear you cry? Well yes, but this one has some
interesting ideas and is trying to offer a cheaper alternative to the big boys
like CommerceNet.
STOCK QUOTES
http://www.quote.com/
QuoteCom are offering quotes on Internet. The stock prices are time-delayed by
15 minutes and you have to pay a modest amount for most of the information.
Check out our interview in Section 5 with QuoteComs founder, Chris Cooper.
STRATEGY
http://www.onramp.net/~atw_dhw/precom.htm
StrategyWeb provides question and answer hyperbook interactions with experts in
business strategy.
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Community
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VIEWS NEWSLETTER
seeviews@telecomp.com
This is a biweekly electronic newsletter about Community Networking. VIEWS has
its base in New England (the Upper Valley of the Connecticut River--where
Vermont and New Hampshire meet, home of Dartmouth College and the proposed Upper
Valley Community Network) but covers Internet and Community Networking issues in
general. Their goal is to provide a tool for electronic community. Free copies
are available by sending e-mail to seeviews@telecomp.com with the words:
get views nn
where nn is the day of the issue. For example get views 15 will get you the
issue for the 15th of the month.
VIRTUAL CITY
http://www.awa.com/
Exactly what it says, a Web city is being constructed, complete with all the
usual facilities of an American town, a main street, magazines, library,
financial services and a post office.
VIRTUAL COMMUNITY
http://sailfish.peregrine.com/WebWorld/welcome.html
Another virtual community, called Web World.
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Computer
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http://www.ziff.com/
Ziff-Davis now has two web servers containing information about PCs. One
includes a pointer to a new Hot Web site every week or so.
http://usenix.org/
The USENIX Association has a server for UNIX and advanced computing systems
issues.
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Publishing
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SELF PUBLISHING
http://sparc57.cs.uiuc.edu:8000/
This is a Web self publishing system which is an organised set of Web addresses
(URLs) which anyone on the Web can add to. This is an interesting idea which
reproduces the Web in the same way as the Internet grows - without central
control by any one body.
TidBITS
ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/
http://www.wais.com/wais-dbs/macintosh-tidbits.html
An interesting collection of information relating to the Macintosh cyberworld.
TidBITS is stored on a Connection machine and is WAIS searchable. Send email to
info@tidbits.com for further information.
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Further Web Information
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STATISTICS
http://www.gatech.edu:80/pitkow/survey/survey-1-1994/
James Pitkow and of the Georgia State Tech have conducted a survey of web use.
The results are on the web and include some interesting graphs which are
ftpable.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/stats/NSF/merit.html
Also by James Pitkow, this site serves statistics relating to the NSFNet
backbone, one of the central networks in the Internet. Statistics are published
monthly and illustrate the amount of traffic being generated.
gopher://akasha.tic.com/11/matrix/growth/internet
This is a gopher run by Texas Internet Consultants with maps of Internet growth.
NEWS GROUPS
comp.infosystems.www.misc
comp.infosystems.www.providers
comp.infosystems.www.users
These are the Usenet discussion groups about the WWW. Very popular and useful.
WIT - W3 Interactive Talk
http://info.cern.ch/wit
A Web collection of discussion groups anyone can participate in.
comp.groupware
comp.groupware.lotus-notes.misc
For those interested in co-operative work and distributed information systems.
WEB PAGES
http://www.digimark.net/wow/
The "Web of Wonder" home page has over 5000 links to Web sites.
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Section 2: The Top Ten
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Based on Steve Bennetts forthcoming MIT Working Paper - Recent Developments in
Business Use of the Internet - Emerging Uses of the World Wide Web by Lead Users
(catchy title!) the most visited Web sites are:
1. CommerceNet (51,000 requests made per week)
http://www.commerce.net/
2. Canadian Airlines International (33,000 requests
made per week)
http:/www.cdnair.ca/
3. Ericsson Netherlands Server (22,000 files accessed
per week)
http://www.ericsson.nl/
4. Securities Exchange Commissions Edgar Server at NYU
(8,000 accesses per week, serving 3.25 GB of
information)
http://town.hall.org/cgi-bin/srch-edgar
5. Internet Shopping Network (7,000 requests made per
week, serving 100,000 pages of information per week)
http://www.internet.net
6. Quote.Com (12,000 requests made per week)
http://www.quote.com/
7. GNN
http://nearnet.gnn.com/GNN-ORA.html
8. AT&T Bell Laboratories (5,600 files accessed per
week)
http://www.research.att.com/
9. Digital Equipment Corporation (5,000 ftps per week)
http:/www.digital.com
10. World Real Estate Listing Service (4,000 requests
made per week)
http://interchange.idc.uvic.ca/wrels/index.html
This report is expected to be published shortly. Details in next months The Web
Word.
CommerceNet, a leading commercial platform on the Internet made available to The
Web Word the list of the top 10 companies accessing their services for the
period April to June 1994:
(The companies own WWW server is also listed)
1. Hewlett Packard
http://www.hp.com
2. Silicon Graphics
http://www.sgi.com
3. Xerox
http://www.xerox.com/
4. Amdahl
http://www.amdahl.com/
5. AT&T
http://www.research.att.com/
6. Sun Microsystems
http://www.sun.com/
7. Digital
http:/www.digital.com
8. J.P. Morgan
no public WWW server
9. Network Computing Devices
http://www.ncd.com/
10. InterNet Shopping Network
http://www.internet.net/
The top seven users are both members of CommerceNet and independently provide
extensive Internet WWW services. This same service reports that the top three
categories of users are:
1. US educational
2. US commercial
3. US external networks such as CompuServe.
These figures are for the same period, April to June 1994. Over this period
requests were received from some 11,400 host computers for a total of 663,000
requests. They are currently averaging approximately 51,000 requests, and
between 100 and 150 new host computers are registered per week.
If you know of a Web site which should be on our list then please contact us and
well update.
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Section 3: Latest News on the Web
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This month:
Lotus and The Internet
Clearinghouse For Code
The Computists Communique
WAVE
The Internet Adapter
New Investment Fund
Embedded Program Objects In Distributed Hypermedia Systems
Lotus and The Internet
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Changing their marketing strategy, Lotus has announced that it is to market its
Notes groupware as a way to deploy and manage databases on the World Wide Web.
There is a stampede to put information on the Web, but it is not easy to set up
a Web server... We have the tools to make it easier, says Lotus chief technology
officer. It makes sense, says a Yankee Group analyst. By fashioning that kind of
function in Notes, Lotus becomes a kind of gatekeeper on the Internet.
(Refer to Information Week 8/29/94 p.31 for the full text)
Clearinghouse For Code
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Software Properties Inc. is a proposed Internet clearinghouse for code, or
software brokerage. Available code modules will be registered in a
database/catalog, for browsing by other developers or software managers.
Contact Ron Ferguson (spinc@metronet.com).
The Computists Communique
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The Computists Communique is an AI/IS/CS news service of Computists
International. Weekly issues of about 32KB(8 pages) include job ads, journal
calls, NSF announcements, grant and research news, on-line resources, and
business tips. You get a concise, time-saving summary from dozens of sources.
Two less-condensed digests are also available. One covers job opportunities
that are too applied to be summarized in the weekly Communique; the other
forwards research software announcements. These timely press release digests
are free if you want them, invisible if you dont.
Contact Dr. Kenneth Laws at laws@ai.sri.com for further details.
WAVE
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This is a new magazine which deals with technology and culture. It is a lot like
Wired but has a European viewpoint and is available in the Dutch and French
languages.
If you want to discover Wave, please ask us for a sample. The editor-in-chief is
Michel Bauwens; publisher is riverland
Publications. Contact imadmac@ub4b.eunet.be or michel.bauwens@adm.rs.ch for a
sample copy.
The Internet Adapter
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This is a new US25 dollar program which changes a Internet UNIX shell account
into a SLIP account. Produced by Cyberspace Development you can get a copy by
sending an email to tia-info@marketplace.com or by using the Web and going to:
http://marketplace.com/
ftp://marketplace.com/tia/
New Investment Fund
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Adobe Systems Inc. and Hambrecht & Quist Group Inc. have joined together to
form a fund to invest in software firms. The Silicon valley fund is called Adobe
Ventures and will invest in emerging companies and has already made its first
two investments. The first two investments of the fund are Cascade Systems
International Inc. and Electronic Submission Publishing Systems Inc.
Adobe has promised to provide $25m in investment funds and act as the exclusive
limited partner of Adobe Ventures. Adobe also transferred its shares in two
other companies, Crosswise Corp. and Saros Corp., into the Adobe Ventures
partnership. Cascade is developing technology for electronic pre-press and
electronic delivery systems for the newspaper and commercial publishing market.
Electronic Submission is a systems developer/integrator of comprehensive
electronic publishing systems for managing, publishing and distributing
regulatory submissions.
Embedded Program Objects In Distributed Hypermedia Systems
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Researchers at the U. of California have created software for embedding
interactive program objects within hypermedia documents. This UC software is the
first instance where program objects have been embedded in documents over an
open and distributed hypermedia environment such as the World Wide Web on the
Internet.
The researchers' first application, already ported to an X Window environment,
enhances NCSA Mosaic -TM- -a client program for the WWW- so that the user can
interactively control the display of a 3D medical image -generated from a
gigabyte-sized data set- on a window within a Mosaic document. The user can
rotate the object at will, zoom in or out, do oblique sectioning, highlight
hidden parts, alter the color mapping and image contrast, all under real-time
control. These capabilities represent a substantial improvement over current
image display applications in Mosaic, which are limited to display of static
images and non-interactive playback modes.
Many additional applications could include:
- internet accesible on-line databases, software libraries, and
software demos which involve large-scale data processing
- 'smart' documents for personal forms, financial or consumer
transactions, credit reports, confidential communications,
etc.
- real-time high-level information exchanges, such as multiuser
CAD
- multi-users 'groupware' programs
Inquiries to Martha Luehrmann, UC Office of Technology Transfer, 510-748-6611,
martha@ott.ucop.edu.
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Section 4: Under the Microscope...
Reuters New Media
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This month The Web Word takes a closer look at one of the giants of electronic
information, Reuters. Based in New York, Reuters NewMedia, Inc., a new business
unit of Reuters, has developed a reputation for aggressive moves in cyberspace.
RNI has taken positions in a number of cyber companies, notably Reality
Technologies, Inc., inGenius Inc., and Ad-Value, Inc. in the past year.
It is no exaggeration to say that Reuters, the parent company of RNI, dominates
many areas of electronic financial information and it will be interesting to see
if Reuters has just discovered a new data pipe for selling its information or is
embarking on a more radical change in strategy. Is the Web server a small
addition to its recent diversification<6F>s into cyberspace or something more
fundamental?
It seemed to be an inevitable step when RNI announced last month that it was to
open a WWW service. The Web Word interviewed Pierre Wolff of RNI (and the man
responsible for developing the planned service), what we can expect from this
move into the Web.
WWW Reuters has just announced its first move into the Web.
Why has Reuters done this?
PW Reuters understands the impact that the Internet could
have on its future and has made a conscious effort not to
be left out of the coming information revolution. As well,
it is important to begin to understand how this medium
might provide a useful platform for commerce in the
future, even if only as a prototype initially.
WWW What services are you planning?
PW Currently, two Web servers are being planned for release
in the short-term with other offerings coming in later
months based on the response we get from these first
trials. One will be primarily an information site,
providing those interested, with what Reuters NewMedia is
all about, and what services and products we offer. The
second server will enable users to search through archival
news information by a number of criteria including free
text searches. This site will also have some interesting
and "off-the-wall" stuff that we run into in the news
business all the time.
WWW What advantages does the Web have for you?
PW Various. Many people are getting access to the Web which
provides a large user base to provide services to. It
breaks down some of the restrictions that many of the on-
line service providers had on publishers. The Internet,
but especially the WWW, offers an open medium for anyone
to publish as they wish, what they wish. Though this
could be perceived as a risk for us, given all of the
"niche" publications that are resulting from this, we feel
that our content will remain strong enough to compete at
all levels. Here at NewMedia our mission is to look at new
media and new markets. Essentially (if you'll pardon the
pun) "go where no Reuters has gone before". We are
looking at how to leverage the parent company's
competencies and assets into new market areas. So far it
all looks very promising, and the Web offers some new
opportunities.
WWW What are the disadvantages?
PW Today, the disadvantages lie primarily in the security
issues, certainly as perceived by potential users, user
interface limitations, and speed and cost as functions of
each other. But these are all temporary states that are
being addressed by a number of dedicated companies and
individuals. We have a lot of confidence in what the
future will bear from all of their efforts. Having seen
some of the fruits of these efforts I'm very enthusiastic
as to the opportunities that will be emerging over the
next six months to one year.
WWW What equipment are you planning to use?
PW Digital Equipment Corp. is supplying us with our firewall
equipment and software and we will use Sun workstations as
our servers.
WWW How popular do you expect these services to be?
PW We really don't know, which is the biggest dilemma in
putting up a service on the Net today. Every major company
doing something in this area is having a tough time with
this same issue. I think its popularity will be based on
the quality of the content and the ease at getting at this
information. So far the average number of users that
subscribe to Net-based services, particularly those on the
WWW, is approx. 800 to 1000 users per month.
Unfortunately, even this figure isn't very consistent
across the same type of services.
WWW Are there plans to extend other Reuters software to take
advantage of the Internet? For example your personal
investment product Reuters Money Network?
PW Reality Technologies' products, Wealth Builder and Reuters
Money Network, are not scheduled to go on the Net in the
first phase of deployment. However, we plan on having a
Web server where information on their products will be
available as well as some useful investment news
information that applies to those interested in personal
finance matters.
As you might know, Reuters also has interests in the
education market which is led by a joint-venture with TCI,
called inGenius. Opportunities for developing software on
the WWW for this market might be considered as so many
schools currently have access to the Net. Other
opportunities exist in our vast video archives. Reuters
has many areas that it might be able to capitalize on the
Net but first we must see what results can be obtained
from those initial services that we launch.
WWW Does Reuters use the Internet internally for
communications within the company?
PW Not at this time. However, we are investigating the Net
by using individual accounts and getting familiar with the
possibilities that are available. We expect this activity
to grow and for NewMedia in particular, we expect to have
direct access to the Net in the short-term.
WWW How does the Web fit into Reuters other electronic
businesses?
PW Potentially quite nicely, but we must be careful not to
jump in too aggressively before all of the pieces are
there. Today, Reuters has one of the larger global public
data networks and it can guarantee performance and
security on it. These are tremendous selling points when
you are selling to the financial services industry, where
those features make or break their businesses. The
Internet is not up to that level of quality today, and so
it is not yet a real issue for those areas. However, the
accessibility extended by the Net is desirable which might
drive changes in the future.
WWW Reuters has a long tradition of innovation in delivering
information to its clients. What are the next steps for
the company on the Web?
PW Today, Reuters information can be found through services
such as PSI and Clarinet on the Internet and the various
on-line service providers such as CompuServe, America On-
line, Prodigy, and others. Today these are just
newsfeeds. The future for us here is one where we provide
value-added information products and not just commodity
news. After all, if its not targeted information in this
media rich world, its just a commodity. We are looking at
technologies that will enable us to provide the value-
added side of delivering quality and timely information to
the desktop of both business users and individual
consumers. The Web will provide for us the springboard to
more quickly deploy new technologies and see how they
impact our users. We are currently exploring technologies
that will help users get the most out of their search
beyond text matching. These technologies are easily
deployable over the WWW and can give us the insight for
our non-Internet based products.
WWW What do you personally think of the Web? The good aspects
and the bad?
PW I'm the wrong guy to ask, because I got a job out of
knowing my way around it, and being very enthused with the
opportunities it offers for commerce. However, I have
been most attracted to it because of the somewhat
self-deterministic nature of the beast. Though I feel
it's a good environment to conduct business, I don't want
to ruin it like all of our other mediums. After all,
commercialism has pushed things so far that people are
looking at the Internet as a way to start doing business
in a different and less intrusive way. I'm not in this
for "how can I take advantage of this virgin territory",
but more, "how can I facilitate how we do business over
this medium on a global basis without getting in each
others' faces". I also like the fact that now everyone has
the opportunity to be published without the need for some
massive printing press or a publisher to back you. It's
the spirit of capitalism all over again with everyone
having the opportunity to be heard and to do business on
fairly equitable level.
WWW Thanks for talking with us and letting our readers have an
insight into Reuters New Media.
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Section 5: This Months Interview...
QuoteCom
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This month The Web Word interviews Chris Cooper, founder and owner of QuoteCom.
This is a stock quotation Web service which has generated great interest both
within the Web community and in the financial services industry in general.
WWW What first made you think of offering this sort of
service?
CC I have a background in the both the financial markets
and in running a software company. Once I got involved
in the Internet and realized that a commercial quality
service to provide stock quotes and other financial
information to that community did not exist, I decided
to start QuoteCom. In that sense, you can say that I'm
an opportunist who saw an unserved market and rushed to
fill the void...I just happened to be well-qualified to
fill this particular niche.
WWW How popular is the service you currently offer?
CC We're doing quite well. We're adding subscribers at a
constant rate which shows no signs of slacking. Since
we've done no traditional advertising, I'm very
encouraged. In fact, if our growth was any faster, we
would be unable to handle it at the moment.
WWW When did QuoteCom <20>open its doors<72> for business?
CC July 1, 1994. I started the company in October, 1993
and it took 9 months of development and testing before
we were ready.
WWW What advantages does QuoteCom have over more traditional
stock services?
CC We try to capitalize on the advantages that the Internet
provides us. For example, this means that we don't have
to build a nation-wide dial-up network, and we don't
have to do technical support on modem problems. We're
able to develop using existing Internet tools, and when
we make a change in our service our customers see it
immediately -- they don't have to wait for us to ship
them a disk. It's easy and inexpensive to communicate
with our customers...we send them email once a week,
which would be prohibitively expensive to do via regular
mail.
WWW What are the disadvantages?
CC Not everybody has Internet access, and it's still not as
easy as it should be to learn how to use the Net. This
drives potential customers away before we even get to
see them.
WWW What has been the biggest challenge in making QuoteCom
a reality?
CC The learning curve is pretty steep and long. I've done
most of the programming myself, and I didn't know
anything about UNIX when I started. Since UNIX is still
the best way to make services like ours available to the
Internet community, I had to learn a lot.
WWW Who are your target markets?
CC Our appeal is especially strong to retail investors and
casual traders. Institutional investors and
professional traders are well-served by alternatives
that, while expensive, are reliable and comprehensive.
We prefer to take advantage of the cost savings that the
Internet provides and pass it on to the customers who
are the most cost-sensitive.
WWW How have you been marketing the service?
CC A combination of: 1) Posting occasional notices in the
Usenet investment newsgroups; 2) Traditional public
relations; 3) Pursuing site licenses with Internet
providers; 4) Word of mouth.
WWW What equipment are you using?
CC A network of Sun workstations and PC's. The PC's handle
the ticker feed and news feeds. The Suns handle the
interaction with the Internet. We have a high-speed T1
connection to the Internet.
WWW Are there plans to make alliances with other content
owners?
CC Absolutely. QuoteCom plans to become the center of the
Internet as far as financial information goes. We
expect to have everything here that is of interest to
investors...to be as close to a one-stop shopping center
as possible.
WWW Do you have new services planned?
CC We just added PR Newswire and BusinessWire. We have two
more business news services planned soon. We'll soon
add a collection of financial newsletters. A stock
screening and ranking program is in the works, and more
third-party content is under negotiation.
WWW What are the next steps for the company on the Web?
CC We would like to support secure transactions. Once
these are in place, we can add features such as on-line
trading. Of course it's only a dream right now, but we
would ultimately like to provide an electronic exchange
for traders that can avoid some of the inefficiencies
inherent in today's exchanges.
WWW What do you personally think of the Web? The good
aspects and the bad?
CC From a user's point of view, I love the variety and
richness of information that is available. I love the
tremendous ease of visiting places located anywhere in
the world. I dislike the buggy nature of many of the
Web browsers. I dislike the lack of sites that make me
want to visit them again and again.
From a provider's point of view, it is tremendously easy
to develop applications for the Web. We made the
decision early to support people without Web access. If
we hadn't done this, our development would have been
much easier, but our market would have been much smaller
initially. It is disappointing how much effort it takes
right now to get users connected and using a Web
browser.
WWW Thanks for talking with us and letting our readers have
an insight into your innovative business.
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Section 6: The Detectives Guide to...
Financial Information
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Contents of this Guide:
Introduction
The Good News
The Bad News
On-line Investment Services
How to Use the Web to do your Job
Roadmap to Finance
Main Topics
Sources by Topic
The A to Z list of important sites
Conclusion
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Introduction
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Interested in how your stocks and bonds are trading today? Looking for advice on
investments? Want to find out what a companies financial situation is? Cant
remember the title of that great paper on Stochastic Analysis and Japanese Stock
Exchanges? Want to talk to other people with similar interests?
Put as briefly as possible, this guide gives you:
1. Some encouragements and warnings
2. Tips on how to exploit the Web
3. Tells you what is available
4. Shows you where to get what you want
Good luck!
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The Good News
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The good news is that the Web can supply you with all of the above and this
month The Web Word shows you where to finds the best finance information using
the Web. Many people both new to the WWW and more experienced internetters are
often surprised at the detailed and diverse sorts of information which can be
reached using the WWW. Much of the information is completely free and sources
which charge are often cheaper to use than services not on the Internet.
The main part of this guide is an alphabetical listing of places which have
financial information. Like most Internet areas, the Web suffers from a lack of
organisation. The information you want is often available, but how do you find
it amongst the hundreds of thousands of other Internet sources?
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The Bad News
------------
There are some places which consist of lists of sites, they are often organised
by topic or subject area. None however are complete. There are now a large
number of books now published on paper which are designed to guide you, but as
the Web is changing and expanding so fast these are out of date before they are
on the shelves of your local book shop. The Web Word is a happy medium between
the printed word and the Web itself. It filters information for its readers and
removes a lot of the time wasting and boring searching of the Internet.
Efficiently getting what you want out of the Web requires experience which many
business professionals simply do not have the time to do. This is why The Web
Word publishes a guide on two levels. The A to Z listing is the raw information
for those who know exactly what they want.
The additional level of information is a roadmap to steer you through the
information overload of the Internet. If this is what you want then keep
reading, if not skip the following and go directly to the A to Z guide to
Finance.
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On-line Investment Services
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The Web is the worlds richest and most diverse source of financial information
but it is also not the friendliest. There are alternatives, all of them costing
more money but still popular with many people. Remember that these are mostly
only available within North America:
- America Online has Morningstar investment reports and a small portfolio
service.
- CompuServe has many discussion groups on investments and markets, including
the SEC filings service. Has world-wide coverage.
- Dow Jones News/Retrieval is an expensive (for the individual) specialised
service but they also have a service called Market Monitor which is accessible
outside of peak times at a cost of about US30 dollars a month.
- Quicken and Quicken Companion 2.0 for Windows lets you track stock prices via
CompuServe but this costs US1 dollar a minute.
- Reuters Money Network for Windows is a fixed price service which not only
gives you stock prices but also a personalized news service extracted from Dow
Jones News Wire. Prices per month begin at around US10 dollars plus US7 dollars
for the news service.
- StreetSmart from Charles Schwab deals only with your Schwab investments and is
charged for as you use it. The Dow Jones News Wire and Schwab company research
reports can also be used, but at a pay per view.
- Value Line Service lets you use the Dow Jones Retrieval Service but for about
US30 dollars a month.
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How to Use the Web to do your Job
---------------------------------
The Web is an asset which you can use to your benefit. If you know how to avoid
getting lost in an information overloaded Internet then it can be exploited in
unexpected ways. The purpose of this section is to give you some useful tips
about how to do this. First it is best to start with some business home truths
about the Web:
1. It is a huge collection of information stored in a number of electronic
formats and organised in a myriad of different ways. The Web itself provides
only primitive ways of searching for data. I say primitive advisedly. This is
because although incredible new facilities like natural language WAIS searches
are possible, and hypertext linking is a basic feature of the Web, the
implementations are haphazard. Using the Web effectively involves the user in:
- learning new software (usually your Mosaic client).
- accepting less than 100% availability of the
information.
- preparing to be surprised as new features are added
almost daily.
- learning to get the information you expected but not
having it packaged neatly in the form of a consultants
report.
This is not yet industrial strength software, but the information is real and
can be valuable to you.
2. The Web is not simply a passive repository of information. It has been built
by a great many people and these people are available to answer specific
questions, give clarifications, and are often very helpful sources of further
information.
3. The Web is an open asset for you and is only as good as the people using it.
If you have information which you think is interesting and worth publishing,
then find a way to put it on the Web. This helps everyone. Just think of the
information out there already, available free or at moderate cost.
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Roadmap to Finance:
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Main Topics:
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Topic Sub Topic
----- ---------
Academic Finance
Economics
Banking
Company
Country Austria
Germany
Sweden
USA
All
Finance
Government
Industry Mining
Rural
All
Insurance
Investment Advice Newsletters
Subscription Services
Discussions
General
Market Data Historical
Current
Market Advice
News Services
Law
Risk Issues
Technology
Trade
Sources by Topic:
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Category of Information Recommended Sources
----------------------- -------------------
Academic Finance FEN
FINweb
RiskNet
Economics Economics
FINweb
RiskNet
World Bank database
Banking Financial Services Mall
Financial Services Tech. Consortium
Interfinance
Warehouse Mortgage
World Bank database
Company Company Financial Information
Corporate Reports Stories
DowVision
Short On Value
New Patent Applications
SEC filings
MIT Experimental Stock Database
Country Austria Vienna Stock Exchange
Germany Germany
Sweden Sweden
USA Federal Reserve Board
US Commodities and futures
US Agricultural Dept statistics
US Commerce Dept statistics
All CIA World Factbook
ITU
Netnews Filtering Service
Trade Information
World Bank database
Finance Nasdaq Financial Executive Journal
Netnews Filtering Service
Nelson Capital Management
Paul C.Y. Huang
USENET Financial groups
Government CIA World Factbook
Federal Reserve Board
SEC filings
World Bank database
Industry Mining The Mining Channel
Rural US Agricultural Dept statistics
All SEC filings
QuoteCom
World Bank database
Insurance American Risk and Insurance Ass.
RiskNet
Investment
Advice Newsletters Internet Personal Finance Letter
Market Beat
The Mining Channel
NETworth
Nelson Capital Management
Colloquium
Corporate Reports Stories
Paul C.Y. Huang
Market Beat
Short On Value
Subscription
Services Netnews Filtering Service
DowVision
QuoteCom
Discussions Frequently Asked Questions
USENET Financial groups
General Personal Finance
Misc.invest Archive
Market Data Historical Dun & Bradstreet
Economics
SEC filings
MIT Experimental Stock Database
US. Commodities and futures
Misc.invest Archive
Current Dow Jones
Netnews Filtering Service
Nelson Capital Management
Colloquium
DowVision
Paul C.Y. Huang
Market Beat
Short On Value
Stock Quotes
Holts Stock Market Reports
QuoteCom
MIT Experimental Stock Database
Security APL Quote Server
Vienna Stock Exchange
Market Advice Market Beat
Markets and Investments
NETworth
Nelson Capital Management
Colloquium
Paul C.Y. Huang
Market Beat
Short On Value
Misc.invest Archive
News Services EDUPage
Netnews Filtering Service
DowVision
The Economist
Financial World
Inc.
Individual Investor
Worth
Holts Stock Market Reports
QuoteCom
Law Trade Information
World Bank database
Risk Issues American Risk and Insurance Ass.
RiskNet
Technology Wired
EDUPage
Products
Digicash
Software
Trade Trade Information
US Agricultural Dept statistics
US Commerce Dept statistics
World Bank database
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The A to Z list of important sites:
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American Risk and Insurance Association
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http://finweb.bus.utexas.edu/aria.html
ARIAWeb serves information concerning the programs and services offered to
members and friends of the American Risk and Insurance Association. This is a
very specialized site but if this is a area you need to know about then this is
the place to be.
CIA World Factbook
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http://www.stat-usa.gov/BEN/NTDB/Wofact.html
Facts and figures for just about every nation.
Colloquium
----------
Refer to the Newsletter entry.
Company Financial Information
-----------------------------
Both Lexis/Nexis and Dialog are accessible over the Internet. Contact those
companies for further details.
Country Information
-------------------
Most information on the Internet is US centred but information on other
countries can be obtained from the CIA World Factbook. the Vienna Stock
Exchange, the US Agricultural and Commerce Department reports, a number of other
government servers (to be found via http://www.xerox.com/), the World Bank, the
German Investment Club,
Digicash
--------
http://digicash.support.nl/
WWW service of DigiCash. a company founded in 1990, and has been involved in
smart cards, security, and electronic payments systems since then. The company
has developed ecash (electronic cash) for transactions over the Internet. The
Dutch office is at:
DigiCash bv
Kruislaan 419
1098 VA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel +31-20 665 2611
fax +31-20 668 5486
email info@digicash.nl
www http://digicash.support.nl/ or http://193.78.164.127/
anonymous ftp digicash.support.nl
Dow Jones DowVision
--------------------------------
http://dowvision.wais.net/
A restricted access service but you can talk further with Dow at
beta@dowvision.wais.net
The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
--------------------------------
http://www.corp.dnb.com/
http://www.corp.dnb.com/cgi-bin/imagemap/main
A demonstration service with searchable directories.
Economics
---------
There are a number of specialist sites of interest to economists.
http://www.einet.net/hytelnet/FUL043.html
Arizona State University server of economic development information.
gopher://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu
The agricultural economics database of Cornell University.
http://gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu
gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/11/ebb/
The University of Michigan has two servers. This one has academic papers and the
second has US. Dept. of Commerce Economic Bulletin Board information.
gopher://riceinfo.rice.edu/11/Subject/Economics
A server at Rice University.
gopher://niord.shsu.edu/11gopher_root%3a%5b_DATA.ECONOMICS%5d
Sam Houston State University economics server.
http://kiwiclub.bus.utexas.edu/finance/kiwiserver/kiwiserver.html
University of Texas server.
gopher://wuecon.wustl.edu:671/1
An economics server at Washington University.
ftp://info.umd.edu/info/EconData
Economic Time Series data and software.
http://www.einet.net/hytelnet/OTH101.html
The US Economic Development Information Network.
Refer also to RiskNet, FEN and FINweb entries.
EDUPage news digest
-------------------
Edupage, a summary of news items on information technology, is provided three
times each week as a service by Educom -- a consortium of leading colleges and
universities seeking to transform education through the use of information
technology.
To subscribe to Edupage: send a message to: listproc@educom.edu and in the BODY
of the message type: subscribe edupage Rufus T. Firefly (assuming that your name
is Rufus T. Firefly; if it isnt, substitute your own name).
For archive copies of Edupage or Update, gopher to educom.edu or look at our WWW
server: URL: http://educom.edu/. To communicate with Edupage or Educom, send
mail to comments@educom.edu or info@educom.edu.
Federal Reserve Board
---------------------
Refer to US Federal Reserve Board.
FEN
---
http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/meta/finance/feat/FEN.html
To obtain a subscription to the Journal of Financial Abstracts (JFA), send a
request to Professor Wayne Marr, JFA, 307 Monaco Circle, Clemson, SC 29631,
Phone/Fax 803-653-5516 or E-mail: Marrm@clemson.edu.
The JFA database can be accessed directly at
gopher://wuecon.wustl.edu:10672/11m/fen/absjfa
Financial Services Mall
-----------------------
gopher://financial.savvy.com:port 70/
A service aimed at the consumer with access to Chemical Bank loans information,
credit card offers, a number of publication subscription offers including the
Wall Street Journal and Barrons. Basically this is a marketing operation with
the exception that there is a database of Holts Stock Market Reports. Contact
Eliot Price at eliot@savvy.com for further information.
Financial Services Technology Consortium
----------------------------------------
http://www.llnl.gov:80/fstc/
The FSTC is a consortium of financial services providers, national laboratories,
universities, and government agencies whose goal is to enhance the
competitiveness of the United States financial services industry.
FINweb
------
http://finweb.bus.utexas.edu/finweb.html
A server of information of interest to economists and finance researchers.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
--------------------------------
Refer to the entry Personal Finance for the misc.invest.funds and misc.invest
FAQ addresses.
Futures Newsletter
------------------
Refer to the Newsletter entry.
Germany
-------
http://www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/AG/JWGI/JWGIhome.html
The German Investment Club.
Interfinance Limited
--------------------
http://intergroup.com:80/interfinance/
Financial Consultants to Commerce and Industry. They publish their newsletters
on the Web and have a forms application for applying for financing.
Internet Personal Finance Letter
--------------------------------
Refer to the Personal Finance entry.
ITU statistical database
------------------------
gopher://info.itu.ch/
Market Beat
-----------
Refer to the Newsletter entry.
Markets and Investments
-----------------------
http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Economy/Markets_and_Investments/
A server of investment information with many familiar links to services such as
Edgar and Newsletters. It also has links to Usenet investment groups.
The Mining Channel
------------------
http://www.wimsey.com/Magnet/mc/index5.html
Provides information about publicly quoted mining companies, mostly active in
the North American countries. A useful service which is destined to be copied
for many industries.
Nasdaq Financial Executive
--------------------------
http://www.law.cornell.edu/nasdaq/nasdtoc.html
A quarterly joint publication of the NASDAQ and Cornell University.
Netnews Filtering Service
-------------------------
A Stanford university database group provides an email service where you specify
the topics which interest you . A customised abstract is sent regularly to you.
Articles of interest can be retrieved using WAIS.
netnews@db.stanford.edu
NETworth
--------
http://networth.galt.com/www/home/start.htm
http://networth.galt.com/www/home/capital/captlst.htm
An electronic magazine which gives information on prospectuses, newsletters of a
few funds, and Morningstars fund analysis. Marketing information is also
included.
Nelson Capital Management
-------------------------
http://www.internex.net/NCM/home.html
The company manages fixed income portfolios.
Newsletters
-----------
Colloquium
----------
gopher://gopher.internet.com:2100/11/collected/colloquium
The Colloquium newsletter. This is a digest of stock tips for investment
managers.
Corporate Reports Stories
-------------------------
gopher://cns.cscns.com/11/News%20and%20Information/Corporate%20Report%20Online/
DowVision
---------
http://dowvision.wais.net:5554/dv.html
has articles from Dow Jones publications.
The Economist
-------------
gopher://gopher.internet.com:2100/11/collected/economist
More of an advertisement than a database. Only one or two articles are available
per issue. The table of contents is however published and stored so this may
prove of some use.
Financial World
---------------
gopher://gopher.internet.com:2100/11/collected/financial_world
More of an advertisement than a database. Only one or two articles are available
per issue. The table of contents is however published and stored so this may
prove of some use.
Paul C.Y. Huang
---------------
http://www.quote.com/newsletters/huang/
Paul C.Y. Huang publishes a short newsletter on futures markets.
Inc.
----
gopher://gopher.internet.com:2100/11/collected/inc
More of an advertisement than a database. Only one or two articles are available
per issue. The table of contents is however published and stored so this may
prove of some use.
Individual Investor
-------------------
gopher://gopher.internet.com:2100/11/collected/ii
More of an advertisement than a database. Only one or two articles are available
per issue. The table of contents is however published and stored so this may
prove of some use.
Market Beat
-----------
http://www.quote.com/newsletters/petruno/
The Market Beat newsletter.
NASDAQ Financial Executive Journal
----------------------------------
http://www.law.cornell.edu/nasdaq/nasdtoc.html
Short On Value
--------------
http://www.quote.com/newsletters/short-on-value/
The Short On Value stock tips newsletter.
Wired
-----
http://www.wired.com/
A Web server with all the articles which appeared in Wired. They are WAIS
searchable. Wired regularly has articles dealing with high technology and
finance.
Worth
-----
gopher://gopher.internet.com:2100/11/collected/worth
More of an advertisement than a database. Only one or two articles are available
per issue. The table of contents is however published and stored so this may
prove of some use.
Refer also to the NETworth and Personal Finance entries.
New Patent Applications
-----------------------
http://town.hall.org/patent/patent.html
A WAIS searchable database of 1994 US patents.
Personal Finance
----------------
http://gnn.interpath.net/gnn/meta/finance/index.html
GNN Personal Finance. A collection of information for the small investor. Also
has the Usenet group misc.invest.funds FAQ. Refer to the entry below.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/jdg/www/invest.html
A list of Web sites from John Greiner. Very extensive.
Internet Personal Finance Letter
To subscribe, send an email to pfl-request@umassd.edu with the message SUBSCRIBE
PFL <firstname> <lastname>
http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/meta/finance/res/mfq.html
The Usenet group misc.invest.funds frequently asked questions (FAQ) file is
available on the Web.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/investment-faq/general/top.ht
ml
The Usenet group misc.invest frequently asked questions (FAQ) file is available
on the Web. Refer also to the Misc.invest Archive in the Stock Quotes entry
below.
gopher://unbmvs1.csd.unb.ca/0INFO.MISC.INVEST.CANADA
The Usenet group misc.invest.canada frequently asked questions (FAQ) file is
available on the Web.
Products
--------
http://www.xerox.com/show/banking.html
Xerox Corporation series of documents on their products for the financial
industry
RiskNet
-------
http://finweb.bus.utexas.edu/riskweb.html
A Risk and Insurance information server.
SEC filings
-----------
http://www.town.hall.org/edgar/edgar.html
A WAIS searchable database of 1994 US Securities and Exchange Commission
filings. Also known as EDGAR.
Short On Value
--------------
Refer to the Newsletter entry.
Software
--------
Koblas Currency Converter
-------------------------
http://www.ora.com/cgi-bin/ora/currency
The Koblas Currency Converter converts many currencies using recent exchange
rates.
Misc.invest Archive
-------------------
ftp://dg-rtp.dg.com/pub/misc.invest
This is an archive run by Ed Savage and contains historical quotes on stocks,
funds, options, and exchange-rates. There are also documents and programs of
interest to investors.
Stock Quotes
------------
Holts Stock Market Reports
---------------------------
gopher://wuecon.wustl.edu:671/11/holt
telnet://guest@a2i.rahul.net/n/Current System Information/Market Report
These reports are generated at the close of business at the NYSE and you can
have them emailed to you automatically by George Holt (holt@pnet.com). An
excellent free service.
QuoteCom
--------
http://www.quote.com/
QuoteCom are offering free quotes on Internet. The stock prices are
time-delayed by 15 minutes and you have to pay a modest amount for most of the
information. A number of financial newsletters are provided. Check out our
interview in Section 5 with QuoteComs founder, Chris Cooper.
MIT Experimental Stock Database
-------------------------------
http://www.ai.mit.edu/stocks.html
This is an experimental page that currently provides a link to the latest stock
market information. It is updated automatically, usually between 10:00 p.m. EDT
and 1:00 a.m. EDT, from an email source in California to reflect the current
days closing information. It consists of general market news and quotes for
selected stocks. Not all stocks are included here.
ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/stocks/results/
You can also ftp a directory of historical datafiles extracted and used to draw
these graphs
Security APL Quote Server
-------------------------
http://www.secapl.com/secapl/quoteserver/sp500.html
Has quotes on most US. stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and some futures products.
It also graphs the S & P 500 and the DJIA.
US. Commodities and futures
----------------------------
ftp://192.100.81.119/pub/pierre/invest/data
A database of historical quote information. Refer also to the US Agricultural
Department statistics entry.
Misc.invest Archive
-------------------
ftp://dg-rtp.dg.com/pub/misc.invest
This is an archive run by Ed Savage and contains historical quotes on stocks,
funds, options, and exchange-rates. There are also documents and programs of
interest to investors.
Vienna Stock Exchange
---------------------
telnet://boerse@fiivs01.tu-graz.ac.at/
This exchange provides a series of historical quotes for the stocks traded on
the exchange.
Sweden
------
http://www.luth.se/~peppar/financial.html
Trade Information
-----------------
http://ananse.irv.uit.no/trade_law/nav/trade.html
Has a database of international trade law.
Refer also to the entry US Commerce Department statistics
US Agricultural Department statistics
-------------------------------------
gopher://calypso.oit.unc.edu/7waissrc%3a/ref.d/indexes.d/agricultural-market-new
s.srcCommodity reports can be obtained here.
US Commerce Department statistics
---------------------------------
http://www.doc.gov/
Contains information on Spot exchange rates, US and foreign CD and 3 month
interest rates, a lot of trade data, budget, census, NAFTA and GATT information.
NAFTA information is also available at:
gopher://wiretap.spies.com/11/NAFTA
gopher://cyfer.esusda.gov/11/ace/policy/nafta
GATT information is also available at:
http://ananse.irv.uit.no/trade_law/gatt/nav/toc.html
gopher://gopher.counterpoint.com:2003/11/
US. Commerce Business Daily has details of government contracts and sales
US Federal Reserve Board
------------------------
gopher://town.hall.org/1/other/fed, or
telnet://fedworld.gov/
Statistics on the US banking industry, Interest rate data and G series data. US
Government press releases
telnet://fedworld.gov/
FEDWORLD is a bulletin board provided by the US. government. It can also be
accessed by ftp://fedworld.gov/
gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/ebb/monetary/tenfx.frb
Contains US daily spot rates from the Federal Reserve Bank.
http://compstat.wharton.upenn.edu:8001/~siler/fedpage.html
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
USENET Finance, Economics and Investment groups
-----------------------------------------------
http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/meta/finance/res/mfq.html
The Usenet group misc.invest.funds frequently asked questions (FAQ) file is
available on the Web.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/investment-
faq/general/top.html
The Usenet group misc.invest frequently asked questions (FAQ) file is available
on the Web. Refer also to the Misc.invest Archive in the Stock Quotes entry
above.
gopher://unbmvs1.csd.unb.ca/0INFO.MISC.INVEST.CANADA
The Usenet group misc.invest.canada frequently asked questions (FAQ) file is
available on the Web.
Warehouse Mortgage
------------------
http://www.internex.net/warehouse/home.html
A US finance company. Serves information about their loan services.
World Bank database
-------------------
http://www.worldbank.org/html/PIC.html, or
gopher://gopher.worldbank.org/
Extensive economic information and reports on individual economies and
industries.
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Conclusion
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This is a brief introduction to the topic of financial information on the Web.
Our forthcoming Web services will go much further by providing extensive
information bases on financial terminology, financially engineered products,
technology suppliers, print media and CD-ROM information sources and more.
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