Worksheet Questions: Ebusiness and the Web

Compare disruptive and sustaining technologies, and explain how the Internet and the World Wide Web caused business disruption.

• Disruptive technologies improve existing offerings for mainstream customers, while sustaining technologies create new markets; the Internet mainly strengthened traditional intermediaries.

• Disruptive technologies introduce new performance attributes that open new markets and can displace incumbents, while sustaining technologies enhance established products for existing markets; the Internet and Web lowered distribution costs and enabled new digital models that bypassed intermediaries.

• Disruptive technologies always emerge inside incumbent firms, while sustaining technologies come only from startups; the Internet primarily increased physical store traffic.

• Disruptive and sustaining technologies are identical in market impact; the Internet and Web had little effect on business channels.

Explain net neutrality and its potential benefits.

• Net neutrality requires internet service providers to treat lawful data traffic equally without paid prioritization or blocking, benefiting innovation, competition, and free expression.

• Net neutrality directs providers to prioritize emergency services and paid partners only, increasing revenues and reducing consumer choice.

• Net neutrality allows throttling of high-bandwidth sites so small sites load faster, improving fairness for startups.

• Net neutrality eliminates all network management, preventing providers from addressing congestion or security threats.

Describe Web 1.0 along with ebusiness and its associated advantages.

• Web 1.0 emphasized static, read‑only pages and company‑controlled content; ebusiness applies internet technologies to support business processes, offering advantages such as global reach, 24/7 availability, and reduced transaction costs.

• Web 1.0 centered on social networking and user‑generated content; ebusiness focuses on in‑store experiences, which primarily increase local foot traffic.

• Web 1.0 relied on real‑time collaboration tools like wikis; ebusiness advantages were limited to slower fulfillment and higher operating costs.

• Web 1.0 required dynamic personalization and crowdsourcing; ebusiness advantages were mainly reduced online security.

Compare the four categories of ebusiness models.

• The primary categories are B2B, B2C, C2B, and C2C, distinguishing transactions between businesses, businesses and consumers, consumers selling to businesses, and consumer‑to‑consumer exchanges.

• The categories are P2P, M2M, I2I, and G2G, focusing on technical network connections rather than market parties.

• The categories all involve only business participants and exclude consumers to avoid channel conflict.

• The categories emphasize supply‑chain tiers (tier 1, 2, 3, 4) rather than buyer–seller roles.

Describe ebusiness tools for connecting and communicating.

• Common tools include email, instant messaging, web conferencing/VoIP, and enterprise social networks that support real‑time collaboration.

• Primary tools include only data warehouses and batch ETL jobs for offline analytics.

• Ebusiness communication relies solely on printed catalogs and fax machines for reliability.

• Tools are limited to blockchain ledgers and 3D printing for supply operations, not communication.

Explain how Business 2.0 is helping communities' network and collaborate.

• Business 2.0 uses social networking, blogs, wikis, tagging, and RSS to enable user‑generated content, knowledge sharing, and collective problem solving across communities.

• Business 2.0 replaces all user content with centrally curated static pages to ensure uniform messaging.

• Business 2.0 limits collaboration to paid videoconferencing only, discouraging open participation.

• Business 2.0 eliminates networks in favor of one‑way email newsletters to reduce noise.

Explain how Business 2.0 is helping communities' network and collaborate.

• By leveraging platforms for crowdsourcing, social profiles, and shared workspaces that connect people with expertise and support co‑creation of content.

• By requiring strict hierarchies where only managers publish information and no peer interaction is allowed.

• By mandating anonymous forums without profiles so networks cannot form around interests or skills.

• By replacing collaboration tools with standalone desktop software that cannot connect to the internet.

Compare blogs and wikis.

• Blogs are usually authored posts displayed in reverse‑chronological order with comments, while wikis are collaboratively edited pages that evolve into shared knowledge resources.

• Blogs and wikis are identical in structure and editing rights, both allowing only administrators to post and preventing revisions.

• Blogs require many simultaneous editors on a single page, whereas wikis prohibit version history and discussion.

• Blogs are primarily database schemas, while wikis are messaging protocols.

Explain the terms misinformation, disinformation, and fake news and their differences.

• Misinformation is false information shared without intent to deceive; disinformation is false information shared with intent to deceive; fake news is fabricated news‑style content produced to mislead for political or financial gain.

• Misinformation and disinformation both require intent to deceive; fake news is any unpopular opinion.

• Misinformation is satire; disinformation is honest error; fake news is legitimate journalism.

• All three terms describe accurate reporting that is inconvenient for readers.

Describe Web 3.0 and the next generation of online business.

• Web 3.0 emphasizes semantic, machine‑readable data, AI‑driven personalization, context awareness, and often decentralized architectures, enabling smarter services and new business models such as automated, personalized, and trust‑minimized transactions.

• Web 3.0 returns to static pages with limited interoperability, reducing personalization to protect anonymity.

• Web 3.0 removes metadata and machine processing, relying exclusively on manual curation for relevance.

• Web 3.0 focuses only on higher video resolutions without changes to data meaning or business models.