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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:39:53 -0400
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DCSB: Hapgood and Johansson; Post-Napster Models for Digital
Commerce (and a special announcement!)
Cc: "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Fred Hapgood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Zulfikar Ramzan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nicko van Someren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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[Please note the special DCSB 5th Anniversary announcement at the bottom
of this message. --RAH]
The Digital Commerce Society of Boston
Presents
Fred Hapgood
and
Eric Johansson
presenting
"Post-Napster Business Models for Digital Commerce"
Tuesday, September 5th, 2000
12 - 2 PM
The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston
One Federal Street, Boston, MA
The Club's Dress Code is Business Casual
Fred Hapgood and Eric Johannson will examine various
ideas claiming to represent "online business models for the post-
Napster music industry." These include paid admission to
interactive online performances, an "official Napster", and
systems based on voluntary payments.
Attention will be given to how systems based on voluntary payments
might work, what kinds of business models make sense in a
voluntary payment context, and the implications of voluntary
payment structures for other intellectual property issues.
Fred Hapgood is a free lance writer specializing in business
technology issues and trends.
Eric Johansson has over 20 years of high level system and software
design experience, with particular emphasis on Internet system design.
For the past five years, Eric has headed Internet Guide Services,
specializing in the design, configuration, and remediation of complex
Internet-based systems. Among others, his clients have included EG&G,
BBN, AllMedia Solutions, ZipLink, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. He
has extensive experience with UNIX systems, Internet server
configuration/design, and communication architectures. Prior to
founding Internet Guide Service, Eric held senior-level engineering
positions with Polaroid Corp., Wang Laboratories, Ziff-Davis, and
Computervision.
This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on
Tuesday, September 5th, 2000, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of
the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is
$35.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if
necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its
dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans.
Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be
unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in
violation of what's left of its dress code.
We need to receive a company check, or a money order, (or, if we actually
know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by
Saturday, September 2nd, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks
payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be
sent back.
Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston,
Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard
Club of Boston", in the amount of $35.00. Please include your e-mail
address so that we can send you a confirmation
If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've
had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance),
please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something
out.
Upcoming speakers for DCSB are:
October Birthday Cake and Champagne DCSB 5th Anniversary
November Zully Ramzan and
Nicko van Someren "A Micropayment Shootout"
As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If
you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in
digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society,
please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert
Hettinga, <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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Special Announcement!
DCSB Turns Five on October 3rd
When we started the Digital Commerce Society of Boston (originally the
Boston Society for Digital Commerce, we made the name more, um,
instantiable, a couple of months later) at lunch on Tuesday, October 3rd,
1995 it was barely proper to consider actually *selling* anything on the
internet at all.
In the beginning of 1995, most of us figured that *maybe* a few tens of
millions of dollars in transactions would be executed on the internet
that year. Of course, we all know what happened: at least $150 million
was executed on the net in 1995, billions within a couple of years, and
now that amount is approaching trillions of dollars, in the fastest act
of economic "exploration", if not absolute economic transformation, in
human history.
The internet is soon to be the most important sector of the world economy
- -- if it isn't already on discounted cash flow alone. :-). The issue of
*whether* to do commerce on the net, and how it might be possible, is, of
course, a non-issue to any business in the industrialized world anymore.
And, every month at DCSB, we consistently come up with fascinating talks
from principals and researchers at the frontiers of digital commerce,
people who just email us out of the blue, saying they want to do a talk
about something completely new and interesting, and that alone speaks to
the fundamental changes the internet and cryptography have made on the
economic life of this planet.
Next month begins is our fifth year of lunch, high-quality speakers,
clueful conversation, and an excellent monthly schmooze at the Harvard
Club, and we'd like to celebrate a little bit.
So, if you were there in 1995 at the founding of DCSB, we'd love to have
you there again for the October 3rd meeting. We'll have the original
membership book, some birthday cake and champagne, and lots of memories
from people who were there at the beginning, and, of course, all the
people who've been to DCSB meetings since then. And, of course, we'll not
only talk about the last amazing 5 years, but, as we always do, we'll
talk about the next 5 years, and the next 50 years, of commerce on the
internet.
Cheers,
Robert A. Hettinga
(still) Moderator,
The Digital Commerce Society of Boston
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forward to seeing you there!
Cheers,
R. A. Hettinga
Moderator,
The Digital Commerce Society of Boston
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
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