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To: 24601 who wrote (1248)	3/2/1998 12:15:00 PM
From: FiberOptic	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11417

I have been a wave investor for a long time now- and I have heard a lot of positive news but have not seen SHIT! wave has to release more information on the IBM agreement and others in the working- getting very tired of guessing their next move- FO

To: 24601 who wrote (1248)	3/2/1998 2:33:00 PM
From: Paul Schmidt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

I think the tax man would be very interested in this technology. At this stage there is no way to tax e commerce fairly and across national boundaries. If they are switched on, they would realise that the Wave Meter system gives them instant access to this flow of revenue to various companies, especially if wave becomes the de facto standard. This could again create a problem though with companies who want to evade tax. They may not want to use the meter, because suddenly the Internet could become a taxable domain.....the solution therefore!!!: each company and person wanting to do E business has to have a Wave Meter on BY LAW!!!! :> Any support for such a bill??? Any ideas how monopoly laws would apply to Wave if it is as successful as we all hope it will be. Just having fun. Paul

To: 24601 who wrote (1248)	3/3/1998 11:40:00 AM
From: 24601	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

Just a word about Wave on the web. I think of content distribution on the internet as involving Wave's "software" solution. The chip-based, "hardware" solution is a much bigger deal, but the software side is doing good work. This is especially true when one considers that -- being something of a testbed operation -- the software side is not adequately funded for marketing. Down the road, when broadband connections to the internet are ubiquitous, maybe that will change. The brands we first encountered as "WINPurchase" and "WINPublish" are defunct. They have been repositioned as "Wave accounts" and "WaveCommerce," respectively. WaveCommerce is launching new tools to enable publishers to prepare content for sale on the web. The Great Stuff Network is becoming a download superstore for WaveEnabled content. Wave's manager of Internet Sales & Marketing has described to me the company's approach to the electronic software distribution market with its new secure wrapper for the web, the Self Merchandising Object (SMO). The process is managed by Wave's integrated Electronic Content Distribution (ECD), which ties together the three major components necessary to deliver digital content to a consumer's desktop: (1) the secure wrapper -- Wave's SMO; (2) the clearinghouse -- WaveNet; and (3) the distribution channel -- the Great Stuff Network or the content partner's web site. Wave's message about digital commerce: transactional efficiency. The consumer finds the content she wishes to purchase on the web, enters her Wave account user ID and password, and -- with a click -- takes delivery of the content at her desktop. The consumer experiences the kind of convenience and service that result in a new level of customer satisfaction and loyalty. Transacting directly from the consumer desktop to the publisher facilitates a real one-to-one marketing relationship. WaveCommerce provides the ECD tools optimized for merchandising content at the point-of-purchase and -- more importantly -- the point-of-consumption. Today. The SMO is created when a Wave content partner (such as a software publisher) uploads its software "executable" to the WaveMeter Server (the back-end of the WaveEnabling Tool interface on the web). The WaveMeter server creates Wave's proprietary SMO, an electronic representative of the product that facilitates customer convenience. The SMO contains not only the encrypted "executable" but also all of the point-of-purchase tools a seller would present in a physical merchandising environment: title, price, package copy, graphics, content rating, system requirements, estimated download times, and end-user licensing agreement. Once the SMO is created it is portable. It can be placed anywhere on the web. For example, the SMO can be placed on the Great Stuff Network or on the publisher's own web site. The SMO is very strong commerce technology for selling electronic content on the web. Naturally, my real attraction to Wave is on the "hardware" side. But I think the "software" side aptly demonstrates the versatility and convenience of the Wave system, generally, and the advantages it poses for publisher and consumer, alike. Best wishes.