ECnow.com's predictions for 1998's top 10 e-commerce/e-business trends

Trends Book by CEO Mitchell Levy

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1998's Top 10 Trends

1998's Top 10 Trends

NOTE: Mitchell Levy has put more details about the predictions into a book called "Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2006". Read more about the book, or buy it in pdf or paperback formats.

NOTE: The italics represent the accuracy of the predictions as of 12/31/98
#01 - Other forms of currency take focus [Time, Attention, Trust] (Wrong, not as much focus in '98 as expected)
#02 - Consumer acceptance of SSL security (Correct)
#03 - Login/password authentication will start going away (Wrong, not yet)
#04 - XML will start to replace HTML (Partially, most vendors have XML implementations, slower than expected)
#05 - Too many solutions, particularly point solutions, will be consolidation, but... (Correct)
#06 - Continued price transparency (Correct)
#07 - "True" eCommerce implementations will be driven from the top-down (Correct)
#08 - eCommerce implementations will focus on meeting business needs (Mostly, still a ways to go)
#09 - eCommerce implementations will be more than pretty pages (Correct)
#10 - The definition of eCommerce will expand (Mostly, still a ways to go)

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