In just a few short years, the World Wide Web has turned traditional business models upside down. Killer Content describes how to adapt business, application, and network topologies to meet the needs of the most important new breed of customer — the online consumer. A well-rounded guide for IT students and professionals, this book defines the changing models for Web-based commerce and shows how to correlate the demands and rewards of digital commerce and adapt them to different business environments. In addition to providing details about the emerging digital assets and consumer communities, the author examines a series of case studies from Internet ground breakers such as Priceline.com, TheStreet.com, Salon, Yahoo!, and Amazon.com.