Fifth International World Wide Web Conference

May 6-10, 1996, Paris, France

Audio/Video Sequences of Invited Prensentations

[ WWW5 Conference Audio/Video Sequences ]

[ Steve Fink | James Gosling |
| Steven McGeady | Mark Pesce ]

Steve Fink
Internet Market Development Manager - Digital Equipment Corporation

Thursday, May 9, 1996
9:30 - 11:00

Tracking The Small Business Internet Explosion: The Basis For Global Leadership

[ Bio | Abstract | Audio & Video Clips ]

Bio

Steve's focus on business use of the Internet began 2 1/2 years ago with work leading to the establishment of Digital's Internet Business Group. Among his past responsibilities have been developing and marketing a range of solutions linking customers and suppliers for finance, health care and telecommunications firms. Steve is currently involved in developing next generation Internet opportunities for Digital, focusing on collaboration, electronic commerce, multi-media, and communications. This work has brought him in touch with a wide range of projects in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia/Pacific region. Steve is regularly asked to speak on the Internet, including a presentation to the World Wide Web Consortium Conference in Boston last fall.

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Abstract

Small Internet businesses are now playing the leading role in driving change in the marketplace. Innovative use of Internet technologies and rapidly emerging business models are challenging entrenched businesses and redefining the global playing field. This presentation will use live customer examples from around the globe to illustrate how new technologies and business models are driving change at an unprecedented pace. These examples will be used to develop a model for the global marketplace, highlighting issues small businesses, their suppliers, and their competitors must consider.

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Audio & Video Clips

Title: Private Virtual Network

Description: But what we're now doing is giving our partners tunnel software that allows them to traverse the internet connected through our firewall to a special site we created for our partners so that we can all work together as a virtual organization. This kind of technology is changing Digital forever. There is a whole group of staff functions that are no longer in our company. Particularly the creative and artistic world. Our actual websites many of them are done by outside partners, and we communicate with them through a private virtual network shared over the internet. What this means is the internet becomes the infrastructure for a small business. Which allows them to service a company the size of Digital on a global basis. It's changing everything.

QuickTime - audio & video, 1.5 meg, 42 seconds, 4 frames per second

QuickTime - audio only, 468 K, 42 seconds

AIFF, 468 K, 42 seconds

Title: That's the Site in My Bedroom

Description: I think most of you know Alta Vista, most of you use have it. The reason I throw in Alta Vista, is because of a meeting we had down in our [WWW5 Conference] booth. Boris are you in the audience? I have a consultant who actually works for a university in Sweden who showed up in our booth yesterday. We checked Alta Vista - we typed in his name , he's from Czechoslovakia, I'm sorry Boris I not going to try to pronounce your last name because I know I won't do it justice, and three sites came up with his name on it and he looked very shocked at one of them - and he said "I was expecting the first two", [Steve said], "Well what are they?", [Boris replied], "Well that's my university site [pointing], and I was expecting you to find that, and that [pointing] is my consultantcy [sic] site, and I was expecting you to find that one, but that's the site in my bedroom [audience laughs]. The point is - as a small business you can be found anywhere, even in your bedroom.

QuickTime - audio & video, 2.1 meg, 56 seconds, 4 frames per second

QuickTime - audio only, 618 K, 56 seconds

AIFF, 618 K, 56 seconds

Title: The Internet will Change Everything

Description: Helping people, figure out what their needs are, helpin' them figure out what their options are, help them negotiate deals and actually fulfill the deals all over the Internet. If you can get your small business site to operate that way, your customers will not be able to live without your Internet connection and you will not be able to live without your Internet system - It will change everything.

QuickTime - audio & video, 2.4 meg, 22 seconds, 12 frames per second

QuickTime - audio only, 363496 K, 22 seconds

AIFF, 250 K, 22 seconds

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Created: 10 July 1996
Last updated: 10 July 1996

Title:	Private Virtual Network
Description:	But what we're now doing is giving our partners tunnel software that allows them to traverse the internet connected through our firewall to a special site we created for our partners so that we can all work together as a virtual organization. This kind of technology is changing Digital forever. There is a whole group of staff functions that are no longer in our company. Particularly the creative and artistic world. Our actual websites many of them are done by outside partners, and we communicate with them through a private virtual network shared over the internet. What this means is the internet becomes the infrastructure for a small business. Which allows them to service a company the size of Digital on a global basis. It's changing everything.
		QuickTime - audio & video, 1.5 meg, 42 seconds, 4 frames per second
		QuickTime - audio only, 468 K, 42 seconds
		AIFF, 468 K, 42 seconds

Title:	That's the Site in My Bedroom
Description:	I think most of you know Alta Vista, most of you use have it. The reason I throw in Alta Vista, is because of a meeting we had down in our [WWW5 Conference] booth. Boris are you in the audience? I have a consultant who actually works for a university in Sweden who showed up in our booth yesterday. We checked Alta Vista - we typed in his name , he's from Czechoslovakia, I'm sorry Boris I not going to try to pronounce your last name because I know I won't do it justice, and three sites came up with his name on it and he looked very shocked at one of them - and he said "I was expecting the first two", [Steve said], "Well what are they?", [Boris replied], "Well that's my university site [pointing], and I was expecting you to find that, and that [pointing] is my consultantcy [sic] site, and I was expecting you to find that one, but that's the site in my bedroom [audience laughs]. The point is - as a small business you can be found anywhere, even in your bedroom.
		QuickTime - audio & video, 2.1 meg, 56 seconds, 4 frames per second
		QuickTime - audio only, 618 K, 56 seconds
		AIFF, 618 K, 56 seconds

Title:	The Internet will Change Everything
Description:	Helping people, figure out what their needs are, helpin' them figure out what their options are, help them negotiate deals and actually fulfill the deals all over the Internet. If you can get your small business site to operate that way, your customers will not be able to live without your Internet connection and you will not be able to live without your Internet system - It will change everything.
		QuickTime - audio & video, 2.4 meg, 22 seconds, 12 frames per second
		QuickTime - audio only, 363496 K, 22 seconds
		AIFF, 250 K, 22 seconds