Electronic Commerce Categories & Tools
with examples

Auctions and Exchanges

• Guaranteed Electronic Markets 

Book: Net Benefit
• DoveBid (B-2-B auctions)
• ebay (personal auction)
• Efirms (contract/contractor  marketplace)
• e-STEEL (industrial steel)
• FreeMarkets (business-to-business reverse auction)
• imandi (reverse auction)
• InsWeb (reverse auction for insurance)
• IPNet  (private trading exchanges)
• Knexa (knowledge marketplace)
• MetalSite (industrial metal)
• mobshop (demand aggregation)
• Monster Talent Market (services marketplace)
• PlasticsNet.Com (industrial plastics)
• PointServe (local services)
• Priceline (limited reverse auction)
• SkillsVillage.com (IT contract/contractor  marketplace)
• Yet2.com (R&D Intellectual Property Exchange)
• ValueStar (local services - see SmartShopper feature)

Agent-based Markets

• BuyPath.com

Customer Interaction Center

• Blue Martini  (brand management)
• eGain (hosted solutions)

eSourcing (web-sourced business functionality)

• Agillion  (electronic retail)
• Anacom  (electronic payment)
• Citadon  (construction project management)
• Construx  (construction project management)
• E-Commerce Exchange  (electronic retail)
• eGain  (customer support)
• FairMarket  (auction management)
• FingerHut (order fulfillment) "Corporate Information" / "Fingerhut Business Services"
• FLS  (payroll taxes)
• Gamma Burst  (electronic retail)
• GRS-Software  (recruiting)
• HireSystems (recruiting)
• Impressa  (electronic retail) 
• LinkShare  (affiliate marketing support)
• Marketing Central (collaboration/scheduling) 
• PicoSearch (site-specific search engine) 
• Placeware  (collaboration/electronic meetings)
• ProBusiness(employee administration)
• ProcureNet  (Procurement)
• SecureTax  (personal & indiv owned business income tax)
• seeUthere (event planning)
• Tradec  (procurement)
• vBulletin  (web discussion)
• WorldCrossing  (web discussion)
• WebEx  (collaboration/electronic meetings)

Exchange Software

• @themoment
• BizBots.com  (JAM server)
• TradingDynamics

Hosting Services (global, mission critical)

• AboveNet
• Digex
• Exodus
• Quadrix

Legally Binding Forms and Documents

• Electronic Signature Legislation  (comprehensive overview U.S. and International)
• eOriginal
• UWI.com

Open Buying

• OBI Consortium
• CommerceOne
• MRO.COM
• Networld Exchange

Standards

• Standard for Internet Commerce (draft)

Targeted Selling

• Broadvision
• InterWorld

Tracking Visitor Trends

• Accrue
• net.Genesis
• WebTrends