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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF10301</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1999-10301</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>A Dynamic Growth Model for Focused Broadcasting over the Internet</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Ho</surname><given-names>James K.</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:jimho@uic.edu">jimho@uic.edu</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, m/c 294, 601 South Morgan, Chicago, IL 60607, USA</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>1999</year></pub-date><volume>10</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>275</fpage><lpage>288</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>03</month><year>1999</year></date></history><abstract><p>As a significant segment of the Information Industries, classified advertising can be a prime example of how conventional businesses, rather than being simply transplanted to the New (digital) Media, may indeed be transformed for future growth. To be successful, such transformations must be able to take full advantage of the defining features of the emerging information infrastructure for innovative creation of economic value. Focused Broadcasting, a class of service for matching classified and want ads using the World Wide Web, is an approach that balances the push-pull dynamics of information over the Internet. Applying the concept of product introduction with complementary network externalities, a dynamic model is formulated to simulate the potential growth of such business in cyberspace. Robustness of the model is demonstrated.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>information dynamics</kwd><kwd>economics of information</kwd><kwd>network externalities</kwd><kwd>dynamic growth model</kwd><kwd>classified advertising</kwd><kwd>World Wide Web</kwd><kwd>diffusion of innovation</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>