eComWatch archive
eComWatch archive
ECW was a free but infrequent online magazine of comment and analysis about electronic commerce. I published it with my colleague Chris Ogg (see below) from August 1999 to March 2002.
This was a period of high energy and hopes for ecommerce, a time when IT departments' obsession with ROI (return on investment) was weakened, when users had the power to start and run their own ecommerce sites and when people were thinking about IT's effects on strategy. It was also, of course, a period of ludicrous valuations, impossible expectations and many a lost fortune.
Much of this anarchic atmosphere is reflected in what we wrote at the time, as you can find out. You can get to all the issues of eComWatch from the list below. Just click on the relevant link or links below. Since the magazine is now defunct, some of the hyperlinks within issues may be broken.




Chris Ogg runs several operations from his base on Prince Edward Island, Canada, including Wireless Island, a company pioneering low-cost broadband wireless networks. More details here.