The Software Brokers

• Commodity-mediation
• Food to electronic components to PCs
• Business-level sophisticated versions of existing "shopbots"
• Internet auctions
• Automatic search and translation
• "Friction-free" for big value
• New industry of specialized brokers
• Waiting on emergence of XML, RDF and business "ontologies"

This looks like the big opportunity for agents.
E.g.,

• Fishmarket
• HP Labs Agents

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cjp

Last modified: Wed Jul 15 04:43:44 PDT 1998