Articles and Papers (most recently added first)
Widgets lecture. From Rodney Dangerfield's movie, Back to School. 3 minutes.
James Fallows, More on Google, Craigslist, and who's killing the newspapers, The Atlantic, 23 May 2009.
Jim Hendler, Web 3.0 Emerging, IEEE Computer, January 2009, pp. 111–113. Other articles in this issue edited by George Thiruvathukal might also be of interest. See his introduction, Web 2.0 Publishing and Happy 1.0.
Clara Shih, The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff, Prentice Hall, March 2009. Also see this article on the business use of Facebook and social networking: http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2007/09/from-facebook-t.html.
YouTube videos - early visions of the Internet:
Chapman, Cameron. Web Design Industry Jargon: Glossary and Resources, Smashing magazine, 21 May, 2009.
Chapman, Cameron. Non-Profit Website Design: Examples and Best Practices, Smashing Magazine, 14 May 2009.
Withrow, Jason. Competitive Analysis: Understanding the Market Context, BoxesandArrows.com, 27 Feb. 2006.
Slides and reference material from the Writing for the Web lecture by Chris Madison and Mike Hopkins from WiredMoon.
A recent NY Times blog on the subject of website design, courtesy of Prof. Feigenbaum. (available here)
Johnson, Steven. How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write, Wall Street Journal, 20 Apr 2009.
The Future of the Internet III, Overview and Full Report (pdf, 138 pages), Pew Internet & American Life Project, 14 Dec 2008.
Thompson, Clive. Brave New World of Digital Intimacy, New York Times, 5 Sept 2008.
Alterman, Eric. Out of Print: The death and life of the American newspaper, The New Yorker, 31 March 2008.
Mangalindan, Mylene, et al. Thinking About Tomorrow, The Wall Street Journal, 28 January 2008.
Gross, Robin. The Tragedy of the Commons: Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Age. MIT, 2006.
Wiederhold, Gio. Trends for the Information Technology Industry, Stanford University, April 1999.
Web sites
InternetMarketing.com -- web site has lots of free articles and statistics about business on the Internet. Subscribe to free daily newsletter!
Patent and Copyright Agreement for Stanford Personnel -- Stanford's intellectual property agreement for all students and staff.
Presentation Zen - Garr Reynolds' website, blog, and book about the do's and dont's of PowerPoint, etc.
Popular Books
NEW!! Shih, Clara. The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff, Pearson Education, 2009.
NEW!! Geoffrey Moore, Crossing the Chasm, Harper Collins, 1991.
NEW!! Smith and Alexander, Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer, iUniverse, 1999.
Zittrain, Jonathan. The Future of the Internet (and How to Stop It). Yale University Press, 2008.
Textbooks (not required)
Laudon, Kenneth C. E-commerce 2009: business, technology, society. Textbook from Pearson, Fifth Edition, November 2008.
Nielsen, Jakob. Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. Peachpit Press, 1999.
