Best Commercial Sites on the Web

ColorBurst Studios Online Catalog

A simple, two-person business leveraging the internet to sell their wares internationally. This is an example of why the Internet is so important for business.

Downtown Anywhere

Uses a virtual city metaphore to organize numerous services. Attractive place for businesses to hang out a sign.

NetMarket

First place we know of to take advantage of Mosaic's support for PGP. Public Key encryption, and especially PGP, has been the obvious answer for secure transactions on the Internet for sometime. It's nice to see someone taking advantage of it, for a change.

InfoMart

Includes a well-done magazine.

Knowledge One

Customized information retrieval by mail. Includes a free trial.

QuoteCom

Nicely done fee-based service.

Red Sage

A food stop on the information highway.

Career Mosaic

Browse job listings, employer information, and other useful articles. Good use of the web for advertising.

Commercial Use

Excellent collection of resources for those considering the net for business.

Goldsite Europe

This has been around a while, but it is now getting very useful. With an offer of free advertising on the Internet, this is also the first place new businesses should check out.

Hewlett-Packard Co.

Good all-around site. Shows a good understanding about how a web site needs to be informative, not just mirrors of ads.

DigiCash

Digital cash is one of the most essential tools if we're to use the Internet for commerce. Here is where it's being developed.

IBM Corp.

Let CEO Lou Gerstner introduce you to the new IBM.

CommerceNet

Part of a growing trend toward providing havens for capitalism on the Internet.

Britannica Online

Most of the data is available to beta test sites only, but we can't help but mention it. Good example of a subscription (corporate or site-wide) service for the Web.

Cygnus

Possibly the future form of software companies, once we finally get it through our heads that software itself is just too damn easy to copy.

Internet Shopping Network

With tens of thousands of products for sale, this is one of the biggest Internet "malls" we've seen. Sort of like the Home Shopping Network of cyberspace.

Sun Microsystems

Maybe a bit heavy on the graphics, but it's one of the prettier pages we've seen on the Web.

Novell Inc.

One of the best examples of how to provide technical support and information over the Internet.

EINet's description of its services

This is a good example of a growing segment of Internet service companies.

Amdahl Corp.'s A+Texture

Amdahl is making good use of the technology behind the Web as the basis for a distributed, cross-platform internal information system product.

Digital Equipment Corporation

DEC is starting to help other companies get on the Web, as well as selling it's own wares.

Kaleidoscope Communications

Another haven for capitalism. Provides Web services to commercial companies and news to users of it's service.